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2017-10-15, 12:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
When I was breaking in my hiking boots (I have the kind for serious backpacking because I actually wear them for daily ankle support in lieu of medical ankle braces), I wore an outer layer of hiking socks with an inner layer of sock liners (which are basically really thin socks made for this specific purpose). I also taped my heels with duct tape and used anti-chafe stuff for runners over the duct tape. It was quite a process for a month or so (I was walking several miles a day in them at the time). Now that they're broken in, I just wear a single pair of hiking socks with them and it's fine even if I'm hiking all day. Buying all of those socks and sock liners was an investment, but I've found that good hiking socks last for over a year of once-a-week wear so over time it's less than it seems like it will be up front.
When I bought the second identical pair of boots a year later, I did at least get to satisfy my curiosity about whether it's the feet or the boots that really break in, though. It's the boots, and I got to go through the whole thing again with the second pair.
(Re-soling, however, is fine and does not require much in the way of a breaking-in period. I will not buy new boots until these two pairs disintegrate completely.)
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2017-10-15, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Shriveled feet hurt? I must not have experienced true shriveling...
"Have you tried turning your computer off and not turning it on again?"
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I'm using Firefox Developer Edition, because it was the first to have multithreading, and, well, I kept using it. However, the latest version completely remakes how plugins are made, and this means all old plugins are broken. This includes Greasemonkey, so now my Nallesmilies script isn't working, and wow did using custom smilies become a hassle. It doesn't help that Imgur doesn't handle albums of really small pictures either...Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2017-10-15, 08:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-16, 01:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-16, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-16, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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My thesis is killing me. Just wrote three-ish crappy pages and sent them to my supervisor.
This perfectionism thing isn't really helping me...Originally Posted by LaZodiac
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2017-10-16, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Okay, so my car got hit on my way to class. Front bumper on the passenger's side was twisted partway off, and we traded paint. Got his insurance info, license plate, and pictures of my car's damage.
Not a whole lot to say about it, honestly. Just needed to say it. Don't worry, I'm fine, just a little shaken.Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
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2017-10-16, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-17, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Scientific Name: Wombous apocolypticus | Diet: Apocolypse Pie | Cuddly: Yes
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Magic: The Stuff of Sentience | Fate: The Fabric of Physics | Luck: The Basis of Biology
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Annotation of the Comic | Magic Compendium of the Comic | Transcription of the Comic
Dad-a-chum? Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek? Did-a-chick?
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(you can't take the sky from me)
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2017-10-17, 07:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
On Sunday night, I saw a real UFO. I'm not making this up. I even draw the Real UFO that I saw that night. Here's the video version of my drawing of the real UFO. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVGnw08wtvU
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2017-10-17, 08:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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T R A N S- someone who knows what's up
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2017-10-20, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hm... I noticed something strange:
I learned the Bavarian dialect before I learned "Formal German".
I learned both, the Venetian and Sicilian dialect before I learned "Formal Italian".
Growing up next to an U.S. Army base, I picked up ... some sort of US English ... before learning "Oxford English" in school later on.
Never bothered to find out what "sort" it is, but people somehow tend to think I´m Irish from the way I speak english. Now the way I´ve learned "spoken english" is very close to my native Bavarian idiom (I ain´t done nothing wrong my whole life...), but as estranged to the written form.
That's very weird. Someone got a clue what english idiom I actually learned first?
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2017-10-22, 07:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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A young man who worked the counter at "Red's Jsvs House" in San Francisco said he was from Germany but sounded "Irish" to me, others from Germany have sounded exactly like "Hollywood German" or had accents I couldn't place.
Maybe a Bavarian accent just sounds "Irish"?
But if I have to guess a "Hollywood German" accent, crossed with a Appalachian Mountains accent might sound "Irish" to me.
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2017-10-23, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have been sitting on a mountain top for four days now. I have twenty to go. There are only five other people up here with me, one of whom I'm already almost fighting with. I think I might completely lose my mind. Oh well at least the views are nice.
The problem here is that people in the military come from all over the US. You would have gotten exposed to a bunch of different American dialects. Worst of all, the US military has its own weird way of talking, and this varies by branch. Here in the Marine Corps is the only place I've seen it acceptable to answer a question with "ERRRRRR", or to refer to certain kinds of legal punishment as a "ninja punch" . No doubt the Army also has its own idioms, though I'm not familiar with them. So basically, you got a strange mix of almost every American dialect that exists, sprinkled with the odd slang that comes with military culture.Avatar by Serpentine.
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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2017-10-23, 05:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
When Gods Go To War comes out March 8th
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2017-10-23, 08:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hoping it goes well!
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2017-10-24, 12:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, now I'm in equal parts curious and concerned. Exactly what strategic value does that mountain top have to warrant such hardships?
Our military isn't particularly large, and more important, I've never been in it, so I can't speak about how language works inside of it (despite working for the defense industry). I did, however, grow up (and still live in) what could be considered the cooking pot of Swedish accents, and interestingly enough, that means I'm in the fairly unique position to be able to claim I speak Standard Swedish without anyone contesting me. It's actually pretty funny to see, because when I do so, people do want to contest me, but then realise they have no examples to bring up.
Oh dear, that sounds scary! Here's hoping for a complication-free surgery and a swift recovery!Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2017-10-24, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm making sure that communications keep running. High places are good for that. So long as nothing goes wrong up here, I have nothing to do, so I've mostly been listening to audiobooks and doing some writing. And enjoying the gorgeous views. Hopefully the 110 kph winds don't come back. Now that really sucked.
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2017-10-24, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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The backyard of my new house is like a giant Myst puzzle. So far, I've found two things that have both timers and switches involved, one of which the previous owner told me did not work so she apparently never figured out (cabana lights - she'd strung Christmas lights in the cabana because she could not get the built-in lights to work).
The "fun" part of the timer/switch combo is that they are generally not on the same panel or obviously related, so to figure this out you have to try flipping switches that do not appear to do anything, then either leave it that way and check back regularly to see if anything changed, or find something that might be a timer and play with it while the switch is on.
Next, I aspire to figure out how to turn on the water in the cabana. I suspect it's one of the forest of knobs under the sink in the utility room in the main house.
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2017-10-24, 11:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Well, at least for as long as we're talking electronic communications. Other infrastructure generally avoids mountain tops.
Do you have some kind of building up there, or do you live in a tent? Also, do you overlook a mountain range or lowlands?
Hehehe, this description is glorious!
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Strange as it may sound, I actually enjoy a little bit of hardship in my life. Yesterday, my bus broke down on my way home. It had been feeling jumpy whenever it accelerated, and it rapidly got worse, so after just a kilometer, it did some final shakes and came to a halt right at the mouth of a one-file bridge, just past a red light in a slight incline. Without knowing too much about busses, I suspect the transmission broke down, as the engine kept running afterward, it just failed to provide any power to the wheels. The bus driver tried to use the slope to roll back down from the bridge an let the meeting traffic through, but unfortunately, he was in an a bit too sharp turn, and managed to hit a traffic sign, which bent under the bus until it wedged itself stuck under one of the wheels, just a metre before the gap would be wide enough to let cars through.
Luckily for me, this somewhat strange bridge also serves as the entrance to the closest train station (that's part of the reason why it's but a single file), so after we got let off the bus, I just had to walk a hundred metres to catch the train which just happened to roll in a minute later. Better yet, this train would normally be two minutes too late for me to transfer over to the train back to Uppsala I was aiming for, but that train happened to be three minutes late, so I actually made the transfer. Now, this train in turn got even more delayed, so I got back to Uppsala ten minutes later than normal, and I had to stand for most of the journey too, but given the circumstances, that barely even felt like a bother. And when I finally got back home, I actually felt a bit invigorated by it all.Last edited by Teddy; 2017-10-25 at 12:30 AM.
Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2017-10-25, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
I'm back from my time off in this forum because of my friends situation that I posted in Personal Woes and Advice 5 a few days ago.
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2017-10-25, 08:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, so earlier today I had brain surgery to remove a mass from my head. (Since it would have been just as invasive to get a biopsy). We won't know what kind of mass for a few days, but I've been recovering well, at least
Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
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2017-10-25, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-25, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-25, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
When Gods Go To War comes out March 8th
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2017-10-25, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Hypothetical over-the-top romance thingy"They say that your heart beats faster when you see someone you truly love.
They also say it only has so many total beats, and that when it runs out, you die. If these were true, being with you would take decades off my life... but be worth every minute."
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2017-10-26, 02:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Was the tumour a meningioma? If so, it means it was growing from the meninges (the membrane covering the brain) rather than the brain itself, so would presumably be easier to get at. Anyway, fingers crossed that the tests come back good and you don't have anything to worry about going forward!
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2017-10-26, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Vitruvian Stickman avatar by linklele.
I have an extended signature now. God knows why.
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2017-10-26, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
When Gods Go To War comes out March 8th
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2017-10-26, 02:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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I live under cammie netting. As for the view, in some directions I look out at flat desert, in some I see mountains, and in some I see both. I'd post pictures, but my reception up here is garbage and I have a hard time uploading photos from my phone.
ION: I have little to do up here, so I've taken to writing a commentary on one of the books I brought up here, the Tao Te Ching. This would be a fine way to pass the time if it weren't for the fact that the translation I bought is...bad. If you've ever read the Tao Te Ching, you'll know that it can be cryptic enough on its own without a bad translator fouling it up. I can look up superior versions online, but cell phone reception here is dodgy, so sometimes I need to wait an hour before I can google a single thing. It is a tedious process. 17 verses down, 64 more to go. *sigh*Avatar by Serpentine.
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
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