Whats making you happy right now

#14961 Loki

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Posted 16 May 2017 - 03:05 AM

My son just ran into the room, yelling:

"Mummy!!! The past is coming back to haunt you!"

Before running back out of the room.

That's right, my son is a harbinger of Doom, apparently.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#14962 Silencer

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Posted 16 May 2017 - 11:09 AM

Considering the depressing nature of the data, this could just as easily go into the Groove thread - but, because of potential positive changes on the horizon, and well, SCIENCE!, it's going in here:

Machine Learning and Gender Equality in Films

While it doesn't address, for obvious reasons, the potential causes of the data, or its effects, it does provide a truckload of incontrovertible data on representation.

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

#14963 Loki

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Posted 16 May 2017 - 02:51 PM

I've been blocked by so many people on twitter tonight. XD

Apparently, Zach McGowan's fans don't like it when you call him out for whitewashing.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#14964 Kruppe of Darujhistan

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Posted 16 May 2017 - 02:57 PM

Loki, on 16 May 2017 - 03:05 AM, said:

My son just ran into the room, yelling:

"Mummy!!! The past is coming back to haunt you!"

Before running back out of the room.

That's right, my son is a harbinger of Doom, apparently.

My son came into the Delivery Room and said (non-verbally

), "The past is coming back to haunt you!"

Yep. Nine months past... :shock:

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#14965 Stormcat

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Posted 16 May 2017 - 08:54 PM

Dr. Pepper is making me happy right now.

#14966 Traveller

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 07:38 AM

Day off. So dropped the kids off at preschool club as I usually do when I'm at work, and headed into town.

Just having a coffee now while I decide what to do with the day. And hoping that the temp my boy had last night doesnt result in a call from school just as I've decided on something.

Also, finally reading some Neil Gaiman is making me happy. I can't believe I haven't read any of his stuff before. Just finished American Gods, now into Anansi Boys.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 17 May 2017 - 07:41 AM

So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.

#14967 Silencer

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 08:04 AM

Briar King, on 16 May 2017 - 10:39 PM, said:

Owl is now getting medical care. I wasn't going to risk putting my phone any closer to get a better pick because I didn't want it to panic in the cage and break it's wings. It's eyes were locked on to me any time I made eye contact from various positions. So what appears to have happened was someone had their line snap after getting tangled up in branches and couldn't retrieve the lure(a nice one so it probably wasn't just discarded). The owl became interested and swooped on it hitting it just right the hook set in completely straight through one side of its leg and out the other side. It was really swollen. Glad we could help it.

Even better news the little boy has survived surgery and pics of him giving the rock n roll hand sign have gone on social media. Nothing about the investigation had been released yet but the tyke living is welcome news for me and will go a long way to help heal the mental damage the accidental shooter will go through.

Sounds like two silver linings. Good stuff!

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

#14968 Coltaine -

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 09:51 AM

Just back from a bicycle tour through the Palatine vineyards, to meet with some winemakers and talk about our current projects. Definitive the good sides of my studies

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#14969 Loki

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 01:18 PM

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Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#14970 QuickTidal

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 02:31 PM

Loki, on 17 May 2017 - 01:18 PM, said:

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Soo....CBS thinks Star Trek should look more like Star Wars and Tatooine? Sand Goggles and all?

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#14971 worry

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Posted 17 May 2017 - 07:06 PM

It's canon. Star Trek V's opening scenes look like Star Wars.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#14972 Loki

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Posted 18 May 2017 - 02:40 AM

THOSE UNIFORMS!!!

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Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#14973 Slow Ben

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Posted 18 May 2017 - 02:46 AM

Found a stack of mixed cd's from college.

Nostalgia Hooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#14974 Mentalist

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Posted 19 May 2017 - 09:55 PM

long weekend. Done packing, picked up booze, gonna enjoy 3 days @ the cottage, chilling with friends, drinking tons, and not thinking about work, life or any other crap.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#14975 Solidsnape

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Posted 19 May 2017 - 10:14 PM

Stewart Lee gig Tonight.
Was immense!

Also a weekend off!

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#14976 JPK

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Posted 21 May 2017 - 06:40 AM

There has finally been an announcement from Carlos Ruiz Zafon about the fourth Cemetery of Forgotten Books novel The Labyrinth of the Spirits will be translated and released in 2018. This makes me stupidly happy. It just might be time for a reread of the first three.

#14977 Gust Hubb

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Posted 21 May 2017 - 01:09 PM

Oldest boy is still sleeping, so only my youngest is awake. It is so much easier with just one to focus on, no competition for attention, no squabbles.

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#14978 Slow Ben

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Posted 21 May 2017 - 05:45 PM

Amen Gusty

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#14979 Tsundoku

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Posted 24 May 2017 - 07:27 AM

Sad to find out we also lost Roger Moore, but here's a nice story about him:

http://www.news.com....acbf7f68bd10f5f

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#14980 Morgoth

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Posted 24 May 2017 - 11:51 AM

I'm taking the next two days off, and it's finally like summer here in Oslo. By Norwegian standards at any rate.

So I'll be lounging on my new balcony with beer in an ice bucket and a pile of books :wallbash: