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

BadKen wrote:

How presidential!

And CONGRATULATIONS YOREEL! Are you planning on continuing in the future so we will have to call you Dr. Yoreel?

The PHD is a possibility. I think after moving to a new state, finding a new job, and finishing grad school, a break is in order.

That koala photo is funny. I remember when they first put Drop Bears into Path of Exile, they were just an annoyance and I loved to trigger them just to see them run around. Then they patched at some point, and suddenly they were deadly like everything else (if you let them live long enough, of course). That was kind of a cute momentary panic before I realized I needed to actually deal with them.

I wasn't really aware of the Drop Bear phenomena.

I do remember stroking the head of a Wombat at Brisbane Zoo. I keeper came up to me and said, calmly, "wombat teeth are designed for biting through tree roots. They could easily take a finger or two off. On the plus side, their reaction time, from sensing they are being stroked to attempting to bite you is about a minute and a half." I stopped stroking the wombats head and went to look for the Platypuses.

Having just got a subscription to Hulu, I found out that all the British shows I loved that left Netflix pretty much all moved to Hulu. Time to binge Father Ted and Spaced for the millionth time!

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Just paid off one of my student loans. Two down and one to go!!!

Group of friends and I watched The Hateful Eight Sunday night for our Halloween get together. This line had us all laughing like hell and now we are constantly saying it to each other.

Swiss Army Man. I'm watching it for the first time and I'm about halfway through, and it is just delightful.

BoogtehWoog wrote:

Group of friends and I watched The Hateful Eight Sunday night for our Halloween get together. This line had us all laughing like hell and now we are constantly saying it to each other. :P

Awesome. Now that I think about it, that would totally make a great Halloween movie. I got to see that when it came out a couple times in 70mm at The Hollywood Theater. It was absolutely amazing and a blast.

It was a blast! We had about 10 people watching it. Very fun and thrilling movie to watch when you've got people joking around.

BoogtehWoog wrote:

It was a blast! We had about 10 people watching it. Very fun and thrilling movie to watch when you've got people joking around.

Nice. Those are the best types of movies. I haven't had a movie night like that in awhile and I miss it!

Pomegranates back in the store!

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
BoogtehWoog wrote:

Group of friends and I watched The Hateful Eight Sunday night for our Halloween get together. This line had us all laughing like hell and now we are constantly saying it to each other. :P

Awesome. Now that I think about it, that would totally make a great Halloween movie. I got to see that when it came out a couple times in 70mm at The Hollywood Theater. It was absolutely amazing and a blast.

Saw it in 70mm, too! It was cool that it also had an intermission and came with a booklet on the film.

And yeah, I can see it for Halloween. My favorite comment on the film was this from a writer at the WSJ:

@Michael_Calia wrote:

'The Hateful 8' is nasty. It's mean. It isn't cathartic by any stretch. It's bloody. It's secretly a horror film. I'd watch it again now.

My psychiatrist/therapist, who I've already had help me by using video game concepts to understand fine points of my mind's inner workings, today helped me work through some stuff using a few different tracks and characters from Hamilton as metaphors.

Nice, Tanglebones!

Randomly buying headphones I don't need and the anticipation waiting for them to arrive.

My grocery store now lets you order online and pickup curbside. I'm trying it out for the first time tomorrow, but since I usually do my shopping with a special needs kid in tow, this is potentially an amazing new service.

Turns out Dark and Stormy is a great, simple cocktail to enjoy the night before election day.

Robear wrote:

Turns out Dark and Stormy is a great, simple cocktail to enjoy the night before election day. :-)

It's one of the best there ever was

I qualified for Half Fanatic #15500 this weekend. And had a lovely FREE beer after the race!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

My grocery store now lets you order online and pickup curbside. I'm trying it out for the first time tomorrow, but since I usually do my shopping with a special needs kid in tow, this is potentially an amazing new service.

That is super cool, Clock. Have you tried any of the home delivery services? I know Safeway does it, and their surcharges aren't too horrible. The main reason I don't use home delivery is that I need an excuse to regularly get me out of the house and surrounded by people. Otherwise I would quickly become even more agoraphobic than I already am.

My neighbor uses Peapod from Giant and they like it a lot.

'The Memory Palace' podcast, narrated by Nate DiMeo.

I love the stories he chooses to tell, and how he chooses to tell them. A particularly favourite is 'Local Channels', but 'Oil, Water' and 'The Wheel' are also great.

I expect someone else has mentioned this already.

Asterith wrote:

My neighbor uses Peapod from Giant and they like it a lot.

Peapod is great! Good prices and good stock. Also, they screwed up once and accidentally gave me an extra ribeye and just told me to keep it, lol.

BadKen wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

My grocery store now lets you order online and pickup curbside. I'm trying it out for the first time tomorrow, but since I usually do my shopping with a special needs kid in tow, this is potentially an amazing new service.

That is super cool, Clock. Have you tried any of the home delivery services? I know Safeway does it, and their surcharges aren't too horrible. The main reason I don't use home delivery is that I need an excuse to regularly get me out of the house and surrounded by people. Otherwise I would quickly become even more agoraphobic than I already am.

I haven't, for similar reasons. I've been trying to work on taking my son out into public, day-to-day places as much as possible to help him develop the skills to navigate those spaces. I don't want to set him up to have difficulty with places like that later in life because he hasn't had exposure to them.

But when we do our shopping, we tend to hit multiple stores to get everything we need for the week, and by the time we get to the last store, he's done, I'm done, and that shopping just ends up not happening. If we could schedule it for curbside pickup, that opens up a lot of options and a lot of time that we can use for other things.

I was thinking about the GWJ Game of the Year voting mostly because I was feeling bad about how many games I haven't finished, and I feel like I want to try and finish several games before the end of the year. I went through all my systems, and I've actually completed at least 14 games and partially completed at least 18 games. That's a pretty good number for me, and I think I can mange to complete at least 5 more including the addition of Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian which are going to be must plays for me.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I was thinking about the GWJ Game of the Year voting mostly because I was feeling bad about how many games I haven't finished, and I feel like I want to try and finish several games before the end of the year.

I on the other hand have these games to choose from:

Spoiler:

Megadimension Neptunia VII
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart
Yomawari: Night Alone
War of the Human Tanks - ALTeR
XCOM2
Overwatch
Four Sided Fantasy
Reigns
Solitairica

I probably should start up something else, but then I'd have to choose something to not include in my top ten!

I love that I don't have (pretty sure it's) TheHarpoMarxist's job - Dispatches From the Day Job. Nigh saintly levels let it be"ness is on display there.

I'd be a little more: No beer, no TV make Homer something something... "Urge to kill - rising..."

Jeebus. The stupid, it burns!

This is why I love NPR.

On Here and Now today, they introduced a story about the election, and what a horrible campaign it had been. One candidate, a senator, accused of crooked business dealings. The other candidate accused of sexual misconduct. The Republican party split in two, half supporting the Democrat. Supporters of each side were saying horrible, nasty things about the other side.

They were talking, of course, about the 1884 election between Grover Cleveland and James Blaine.

Walt Whitman wrote a poem about it.

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/...

You remember that election from your childhood?