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[anzki4]

Just had a nice walk on the countryside (well part of it was countryside anyway).

AND tomorrow a CD I ordered should have arrived. (But goddamn I wish I didn't have to wait for a week for my new MP3-player...)

Still, things are nice

[Pnx]

Today I learnt that éclair is French for a flash of lightning. Now I'm wondering how it became the name for a cream filled pastry.

[RedWarrior0]

I'm about to start reading a book about time travelling nazis looking for the ark of the covenant. The plot is so dellightfully absurd, at least in the synopsis, that it MUST be so bad it's good

Edir: "they breathed with difficulty, as the concentration of oxygen was very high" *facepalm*

I think the guy got confused with high O₂ causing health problems due to increased blood pressure, and thought 'oh, high oxygen concentrations cause health problems? must be breathing difficulties. it's a gas!'

Hm... If it's the element, rather than the compound, then I can think of many scenarios where the oxygen concentration is high and and there is breathing difficulties. For example, if ambient conditions were about 1/3 oxygen by (sub)atomic particle count, (Water/dihydrogen monoxide/hydrogen hydroxide/hydroxic acid) or even 1/2 or 2/3 oxygen (carbon (di/mon)oxide). Alternatively, if oxygen were entirely in the triatomic form rather than diatomic, it would be entirely reasonable to say oxygen concentration was up.

[Bauglir]

Pasta sauce, flavored with dates. Not too bad. I can make this work even better next time - less banana, less habanero tabasco sauce, a little more ginger and yogurt.

[MaximumZero]

MaximumZero used SUMMON PIZZA!

It's super effective!

Bank Account has sustained injury.

[kaenneth]

Today I learnt that éclair is French for a flash of lightning. Now I'm wondering how it became the name for a cream filled pastry.

They were invented before refrigeration. They were named after what they did to your digestive tract after sitting for half a day.

[penguinofhonor]

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is entirely too hilarious.

[Trapezohedron]

I finished accepting the games I acquired from this giveaway.

Once again, many thanks, Naxza and Freeformschooler!

[Mego]

I've got the entire freaking house to myself for pretty much the rest of the week. Cue classic rock marathon (now playing: "Jump" by Van Halen) while cleaning house and learning how to use Python. Good times 

I heartily approve of this. I'm doing Project Euler problems with Python while listening to classic rock. I read this post right as Jump started playing.

This, my good sir, is a sign. A good sign.

[Sirus]

I've got the entire freaking house to myself for pretty much the rest of the week. Cue classic rock marathon (now playing: "Jump" by Van Halen) while cleaning house and learning how to use Python. Good times 

I heartily approve of this. I'm doing Project Euler problems with Python while listening to classic rock. I read this post right as Jump started playing.

This, my good sir, is a sign. A good sign.

Clearly the gods of Rock & Roll are smiling upon you. Make the most of it!

[Korbac]

I've got the entire freaking house to myself for pretty much the rest of the week. Cue classic rock marathon (now playing: "Jump" by Van Halen) while cleaning house and learning how to use Python. Good times 

AWESOME DUDE!!! I do this quite often at nights just using mah headphones. ROCK ON BRO

MaximumZero used SUMMON PIZZA!

It's super effective!

Bank Account has sustained injury.

Bank account used loan!

Maximumzero has been bankrupted!
the bank has been bankrupted!

...

gained £3534 from the government.
sent some home to mom.

Hahaha!!! XD 

[Tellemurius]

well applied to UVU, after $35 bucks disappeared from my wallet my app was sent in, hopefully i can get some good classes before the deadline.

[Sirus]

More good news! I go to a community college, reasonably cheap for the quality of teachers and campus they have. I applied for some student aid that would reduce the cost of classes to just $1. I got it.

Sure, books will still cost most of my left arm, but that's a significant chunk of change to not worry about.

[lemon10]

I am now downloading the TED talks.
Yes, all of them, on high-quality.
All 100 gigs.

[lemon10]

In other exciting technology news, I love TED talks, and I am excited for the future. And not in the "Oh wow, that's cool" way. In the way that gives me hope, and for a second there actually made me teary-eyed. It's this ever-growing realization that we're on the cusp of big change... bigger than anything yet. Bigger than people or nations, but something global. I can't wait to see where we'll be going in my lifetime, and want nothing more than to work to make it happen.

It was a pretty awesome video, and the end packed quite a punch, the murmuration combined with what he was saying and the music (which had a especially large impact because I learned that Vivaldi piece years ago when I was still playing/learning piano as a kid).

I can't wait to see what the future holds, hopefully he is right and it is amazing, and it probably will be, but I just can't shake my core of pessimism about things.

The entire concept of murmarations is entirely amazing, and to see it played out writ large in the sky, a hundered starling swatting a eagle away in a wave is just breathtaking, and just a little terrifying.

EDIT: I might be wrong, and it could be a different song, but I do think it was a vivaldi song.
EDIT2: How embarrassing, I was completely wrong, it was Pachelbel's Canon.