Whats making you happy right now

#11141 Andorion

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Posted 19 August 2014 - 03:57 AM

Got Assail at last, finished Assail immediately... fastest Malazan read ever........... Posted Image

#11142 Spoilsport Stonny

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Posted 19 August 2014 - 04:10 PM

At the last minute I got on the guest list for a Guided by Voices show on Thursday that is doubling as a release party for a beer they are teaming up with Dogfish Head Brewery to make and sell.

Theorizing that one could poop within his own lifetime, Doctor Poopet led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM POOP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Poopet, prematurely stepped into the Poop Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own bowels was made through brainwave transmissions, with Al the Poop Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Poopet could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Poopet finds himself pooping from life to life, pooping things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next poop will be the poop home.

#11143 worry

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Posted 19 August 2014 - 10:16 PM

Beer sponsor and GBV. That sounds like a glorious disaster in the making.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#11144 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 19 August 2014 - 11:13 PM

Going to Disneyland tomorrow!

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We all Scream
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#11145 Spoilsport Stonny

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 02:05 AM

worry, on 19 August 2014 - 10:16 PM, said:

Beer sponsor and GBV. That sounds like a glorious disaster in the making.

I'm counting on it.

#11146 Andorion

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 03:31 AM

I got a day off Posted Image

#11147 Ukjent

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 09:44 AM

Woke up and found out that I had won Mastodon's new album from a radioshow, not a bad start.

#11148 Solidsnape

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 10:06 AM

Had some bloody good jams with our very own Studious Lock these last 2 days.
Believe me when I say he's as good a mandolin player as he says he is.
Awesome.

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gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.

#11149 Gust Hubb

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 01:24 PM

Electron microscopy.

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~Abyss

#11150 Gust Hubb

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 01:27 PM

Traveller, on 14 August 2014 - 11:32 AM, said:

The ongoing mystery of my two year olds whiffy breath was solved this morning... when a Dr hooked a piece of bath sponge out of his nose.

It looked and smelled like it has been there for weeks!

Nasty. Reminds me of that House episode.

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#11151 Lizradusa

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 06:16 PM

Gust Hubb, on 20 August 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

Electron microscopy.

Scanning or transmission or something else? And which methods are you using?

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#11152 Gust Hubb

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 06:27 PM

mostly TEM but right now just learning ultrastructural morphology. Going to start hanging in the lab tomorrow morning (they get in at 4 am)

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~Abyss

#11153 Lizradusa

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 06:30 PM

Cool, I have only once used a TEM so far, but it was awesome. 4 am!? O_o Thatwould be way to early for me. :rolleyes:

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#11154 Abyss

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 07:16 PM

This...

http://theoatmeal.co.../bobcats_monday

(worksafe unless you work for, i dunno, PETA... or maybe the Vatican... )

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#11155 HiddenOne

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 07:16 PM

Time is meaningless to the Necromancer

HiddenOne. You son of a bitch. You slimy, skulking, low-posting scumbag. You knew it would come to this. Roundabout, maybe. Tortuous, certainly. But here we are, you and me again. I started the train on you so many many hours ago, and now I'm going to finish it. Die HO. Die. This is for last time, and this is for this game too. This is for all the people who died to your backstabbing, treacherous, "I sure don't know what's going on around here" filthy lying, deceitful ways. You son of a bitch. Whatever happens, this is justice. For me, this is justice. Vote HiddenOne Finally, I am at peace.

#11156 Gust Hubb

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Posted 20 August 2014 - 11:25 PM

HiddenOne, on 20 August 2014 - 07:16 PM, said:

Time is meaningless to the Necromancer

True dat yo

"You don't clean u other peoples messes.... You roll in them like a dog on leftover smoked whitefish torn out f the trash by raccoons after Sunday brunch on a hot day."
~Abyss

#11157 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 21 August 2014 - 07:32 AM

Abyss, on 20 August 2014 - 07:16 PM, said:

This...

http://theoatmeal.co.../bobcats_monday

(worksafe unless you work for, i dunno, PETA... or maybe the Vatican... )

So that was freaking hilarious!

Disneyland (California - the one in Florida is Disney World I believe) was flipping incredible! Too much to write about now but it was such a great day.

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I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#11158 DeadHedge

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Posted 22 August 2014 - 10:13 AM

It looks like im going to Legoland next month

.

Im like a kid at christmas (note I'm 26), I can make it sound less weird by informing you I have a 3 year old son. (although I have always wanted to goto Legoland so I'm well chuffed)

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#11159 Gothos

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 06:37 AM

Amazon just told me my copy of Assail has shipped. Should be here by the end of the week. Yay!

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.

#11160 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 25 August 2014 - 06:45 PM

Today, we had our first teacher meeting for the upcoming semester. I'm truly excited to start teaching again, after a couple of months with just research. (I know, I'm atypical, most of my colleagues would rather spend their time doing research than teaching, but I love the teaching part of my job.)

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'