Whats making you happy right now

#10961 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 05 June 2014 - 04:19 PM

I went to a symposium today on how to translate UK space technology into new innovations in Healthcare and medical devices. It was really cool.

I'm not sure what I think about the alleged coming revolution in iHealth - using phones, apps and consumer devices to track key biometrics throughout peoples lifetimes to predict diseases that have lifestyle factors. Combined with genome sequence knowledge the whole personalisation of healthcare is going to become a mixture of awesome and terrifying......

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#10962 Modest Learner

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Posted 05 June 2014 - 05:38 PM

What's making me happy right now??

Umm...remaining 60 holidays.

#10963 Puck

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Posted 05 June 2014 - 05:48 PM

Mezla PigDog, on 05 June 2014 - 04:19 PM, said:

Sounds terrifying and, indeed, groove messing. What if I am forced to work jobs that don't allow the lifestyle that would prevent this and that? Eh? If the implications of that technological possibilities are followed through, not being able to afford that will result in having to pay MORE for, say, healthcare than people who can afford the 'good' lifestyle. I can't afford healthcare as it is. These new apps and whatnot TERRIFY me.

But that's the wrong thread. Making me happy is.. uh.. tea. I have tea. Also, thinking about people important to me makes me more motivated and happy.

This post has been edited by Puck: 05 June 2014 - 05:50 PM

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#10964 Dolmen 2.0

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Waiting till jean gets here.

Posted 05 June 2014 - 06:27 PM

Dresdencrack :wallbash:

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#10965 Macros

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Posted 06 June 2014 - 09:05 PM

this, legend

2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"

#10966 High House Dark

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Posted 08 June 2014 - 01:05 AM

Met a wonderful person last Sunday

aaaaaaaaaaaand we've been fucking like rabbits already, making me very very very happy.

..........y'all know by now that when i'm writing in small font, it's definitely TMI.

Currently re-reading the entire series and waiting for Fall of Light. You can catch me in the chat to win a drawing request!~MISANDRY FOR LIFE MUAHAHA~

#10967 worry

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Posted 08 June 2014 - 01:36 AM

Kids these days! Back in my day we made love like rabbits. More specifically, like Jessica Rabbit. I guess what I mean to say is we played patty cake. But lovingly. And a lot. Come to think of it, we never did have children and I'm the last of my line. Never occurred to us to do anything else. But now Martha's in the grave these 30 years come December. So I guess that's it. The end of us. Huh, go figure.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#10968 Gnaw

Recovering eating disordered addict of HHM

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Posted 08 June 2014 - 03:11 AM

Saturday night 'gonna get you some' or Saturday night 'took the weekly shower'?

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#10969 Puck

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Posted 09 June 2014 - 07:26 PM

There's a storm outside and that is AWESOME. Wish I could open the window and let the air in, it's been 35°C and humid as hell for days! But my desk is heaped with uni stuff, so eh, no open window for me.. Still, storm! Fresh air!

Puck was not birthed, she was cleaved from a lava flow and shaped by a fierce god's hands. - [worry]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]

#10970 Ukjent

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Posted 09 June 2014 - 09:41 PM

35°C.. Damn I'm its about 12 °C here.

#10971 Solidsnape

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Posted 09 June 2014 - 10:26 PM

Herself just phoned the local taxi company to complain about our Sky going off.
She actually got through her first line, before being told that she had the wrong number.
She's still laughing now.
And she wonders why I've never put a ring on that finger....

"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.

#10972 Gothos

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Posted 12 June 2014 - 07:05 AM

The SE Q&A made me think ever so briefly back to Dust of Dreams and The Crippled God and... it's all here inside. Sometimes I just forget how ball-shittingly brilliant the Malazan books are, how insolently ambitious, how galling the authors' design. It's like today I had a shift of perspective - I used to think of the Malazan books as:
GotM - DHG - MoI is the main course, then some other stuff happens, and now it's like someone switched the light on and now all the books' storylines are relentlessly clicking into place. And I'm finding myself sinking in it. I can feel a full reread of books 4-10 incoming...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#10973 worry

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Posted 13 June 2014 - 12:12 AM

The Onion's take on Buzzfeed/Upworthy type sites went live today. Five gold stars: http://www.clickhole...-good-point-264

But then also there's this: http://www.theonion....-figures,36266/

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#10974 Solidsnape

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From good 'ol Newcastle upon Tyne.