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

Quintin_Stone wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

At $230.00 USD it’s more than I would want to spend on Lego or an NES that doesn’t play games. Sure is cool though.

Insert a Raspberry Pi & monitor, boom, it's an NES that plays games!

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/co...

Ooooh. If you could fit a display within the Lego TV that would be incredible!! I’m not going to do it, but I have a friend who might.

Folks on my Twitter have been posting about the new Grateful Dead Dave's Picks. Vol. 36 from Hartford, CT in 1987. These just happen to be my first shows, and I missed the pre-order of the limited number they made.

I lamented my blunder to a friend on Twitter and someone I do not know messaged me and said he pre-ordered two, and I could have one for the price he paid.

I literally burst into tears.

IMAGE(https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/v1533097092/180801-kirell-grateful-dead-hero_ldspb1.gif)

I need a miracle every day

The Watchmen TV show.

I've been pretty down on TV series for a year or two now. I haven't had the time or energy to invest in shows that take 30 episodes to unspool but spend most of that time treading water. But I started into Watchmen recently, and it's been smart, focused, and brilliantly paced. Of the show's nine episodes, only one felt like padding, and even it was decent.

It's been a nice reminder that TV sometimes can actually be good.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

The Watchmen TV show.

I've been pretty down on TV series for a year or two now. I haven't had the time or energy to invest in shows that take 30 episodes to unspool but spend most of that time treading water. But I started into Watchmen recently, and it's been smart, focused, and brilliantly paced. Of the show's nine episodes, only one felt like padding, and even it was decent.

It's been a nice reminder that TV sometimes can actually be good.

Yeah!

Yep.

Now watch Sharp Objects. You won't regret it.

And while I'm recommending outstanding HBO limited series: The Night Of, John Adams, and Mildred Pierce.

Time Team is on Amazon Prime, too, if you need something to really chill you out.

So it's not a HUGE thing, but seeing my name in a Giant Bomb article regarding Extra Life is pretty cool. I wasn't interviewed or anything, just listed with a few of the top fundraisers on the Giant Bomb team.

Still though, I can say that my name is a part of an official Giant Bomb post now

CptDomano wrote:

So it's not a HUGE thing, but seeing my name in a Giant Bomb article regarding Extra Life is pretty cool. I wasn't interviewed or anything, just listed with a few of the top fundraisers on the Giant Bomb team.

Still though, I can say that my name is a part of an official Giant Bomb post now :)

I still have the letters I had printed in Your Sinclair circa 1991 cut out and framed.

My son has been playing my XB1X on the 4K monitor so much that I haven’t been able to get much time on that machine. The reason it’s a love is that I’m happy to see him enjoying himself. He has some OCD issues that can sometimes make it incredibly difficult for him to find joy in anything. He’s finished the story missions in both GTA V and RDR2. These are two games which use to trigger his OCD issues, so I’m really grateful for him being able to make progress like that.

Anyway, I’ve been more than happy to just play CoD Mobile and Slay the Spire on my phone.

There has been a lot of family drama, especially over the last weekend. I had a meltdown because basically I was worried that I was going to lose touch with a family member. This family member and I don't talk often, but they are pretty much the only one from my generation who does speak to me. When it happened I had a huge panic attack and lashed out at my parents because of it. Luckily it was resolved quickly. Keep in mind I haven't seen this family member in over 15 years, more than half my life. I can't even remember what they looked like. Well, after the situation was resolved (they had a panic attack, and that caused me to have one as well) we started chatting. Turns out that not only are we both quite similar in hobbies and medical situations, but we both dislike most of the same family members. After hearing about their situation, we decided to do what we could to offer some help and act like a family again, for the first time in about 15 years. We got them some stuff to help with work and they tried to offer a form of reimbursement for it. We kept turning it down (politely) and they said they were "speechless", when told it's what family does they "weren't used to it". I was both very sad that they had been pushed away from the family like we had been, but at the same time, very happy because now they have at least some family who will care and look out for them, as much as we can, anyway. I'm kind of broken emotionally rn, but I'm happy. I think.

Through a book I'm currently reading I was introduced to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and I think they are rad and I'm interested to learn more about them. Certainly better than the MDGs were.

Just got my latest order from Current Catalog and I just love their stuff! I'm kind of nostalgic about it though because I remember looking at their catalog when I was a small child and loving the focus on nature and animals for their stationary. So I got some note cards and stickers from that same artist with bunnies and deer and frogs and raccoons and other lovely critters. I also got some large snowman sticky notes, some magnetic seasonal list pads with songbirds, and I've been using their checks for a while now, again with various songbirds as well as some calendars. It's just STILL my favorite catalog company, even now with Amazon and all the other online retailers.

It's silly, really, but random reminiscing brought my thoughts to Annie Lennox and so too to Cyndi Lauper. I followed to music videos, to live performances, and to interviews. Annie Lennox, and Cyndi Lauper, other than their substantial artistic talents, have always held awesome outlooks that bolster my faith in humanity. This in turn staved melancholy and sharpened focus to turn around a spiral I felt coming on.

Not silly at all. Annie and Cyndi are huge part of my musical heritage.

I still have the Newsweek from March, 1985 with Cyndi on the cover. I clearly remember putting it in a plastic sleeve soon after it arrived at our house.

[quote=bekkilynn]Just got my latest order from Current Catalog and I just love their stuff! I'm kind of nostalgic about it though because I remember looking at their catalog when I was a small child and loving the focus on nature and animals for their stationary. So I got some note cards and stickers from that same artist with bunnies and deer and frogs and raccoons and other lovely critters. I also got some large snowman sticky notes, some magnetic seasonal list pads with songbirds, and I've been using their checks for a while now, again with various songbirds as well as some calendars. It's just STILL my favorite catalog company, even now with Amazon and all the other online retailers.[quote]

Aww, I always loved Current too. Thanks to your reminder, I just placed an order and got some good prices on Holiday cards. I figure this would be the year to actually mail some out! Like you, I especially loved their cute woodland critters when I was a kid, and I ordered a couple of sets of notecards featuring those. So cute!

SillyRabbit wrote:
bekkilynn wrote:

Just got my latest order from Current Catalog and I just love their stuff! I'm kind of nostalgic about it though because I remember looking at their catalog when I was a small child and loving the focus on nature and animals for their stationary. So I got some note cards and stickers from that same artist with bunnies and deer and frogs and raccoons and other lovely critters. I also got some large snowman sticky notes, some magnetic seasonal list pads with songbirds, and I've been using their checks for a while now, again with various songbirds as well as some calendars. It's just STILL my favorite catalog company, even now with Amazon and all the other online retailers.

Aww, I always loved Current too. Thanks to your reminder, I just placed an order and got some good prices on Holiday cards. I figure this would be the year to actually mail some out! Like you, I especially loved their cute woodland critters when I was a kid, and I ordered a couple of sets of notecards featuring those. So cute!

So... would you say that their inventory never goes out of style?

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Never mind

merphle wrote:
SillyRabbit wrote:
bekkilynn wrote:

Just got my latest order from Current Catalog and I just love their stuff! I'm kind of nostalgic about it though because I remember looking at their catalog when I was a small child and loving the focus on nature and animals for their stationary. So I got some note cards and stickers from that same artist with bunnies and deer and frogs and raccoons and other lovely critters. I also got some large snowman sticky notes, some magnetic seasonal list pads with songbirds, and I've been using their checks for a while now, again with various songbirds as well as some calendars. It's just STILL my favorite catalog company, even now with Amazon and all the other online retailers.

Aww, I always loved Current too. Thanks to your reminder, I just placed an order and got some good prices on Holiday cards. I figure this would be the year to actually mail some out! Like you, I especially loved their cute woodland critters when I was a kid, and I ordered a couple of sets of notecards featuring those. So cute!

So... would you say that their inventory never goes out of style?

Some things, such as woodland critters, are just timeless!!

MaxShrek wrote:

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THX

Current remains timely.

The forum is listening.

Robear wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

This is close to page 1138.

THX

Why aren't you at your post?

e: oops that was TK-421. Can't trust my Star Wars memories anymore.

JLS wrote:
Robear wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

This is close to page 1138.

THX

Why aren't you at your post?

Prisoner transfer from cell block 1138?

JLS wrote:
Robear wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

This is close to page 1138.

THX

Why aren't you at your post?

e: oops that was TK-421. Can't trust my Star Wars memories anymore.

TK-421 was THX-1138 in the movie novelization that Lucas wrote. I thought it was an impressive deep cut.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
JLS wrote:
Robear wrote:
MaxShrek wrote:

This is close to page 1138.

THX

Why aren't you at your post?

e: oops that was TK-421. Can't trust my Star Wars memories anymore.

TK-421 was THX-1138 in the movie novelization that Lucas wrote. I thought it was an impressive deep cut.

I read that when I was ten. George Lucas was trying really hard to be Isaac Asimov. Very different narrative feel than the movie.