Re: 2010
Peter H. Coffin
> Just a quick, late post to say Happy Hogmanay to everyone.
> This is me now only just back at the computer after taking most of the
> day off (practically unheard of).
> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of
> 2010?
Not at the time. I've been focusing the weekend on playing video games
and generally reveling in not having a real schedule whatsoever. I have
in front to me, now, a wedge of Wendslydale and a box of nice crackers.
I can strongly recommend Torchlight for entertaining, especially to any
other poor fools pining for the release of Diablo III. The designers of
the first couple of Diablo games knocked together an interim thing,
added some cartoony artwork not entirely unlike Phil Foglio's work, and
ended up with a very playable, fun, game. The requirements are limited
enough that it can be run on Windows netbooks, and if you get it through
Steam, there's also an editor that allows you to make your own content
for it as well. And, currently, it's only US$10, so.. yeah, cheap.
--
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their advice.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
TenshiKurai9
> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of
> 2010?
12.29 was spent at the storage locker before going to Poly Boston and a
last-minute couch crashing at a friend's house.
12.30 was at a 12th Annual Bacon Day Party at some friends of my ex's.
There was a show connected to the party. I threw-up a bit before 12.40
AM from eating too much bacon (even before the show, I had 15.5 pieces
of bacon.)
12.31 I got-up from sleeping over and had more bacon because I didn't
know whose food was whose and most of the housemates were asleep. On my
bus trip to New Bedford, I felt sick and only felt a little bit better
after using the bus' toilet (which can't flush for shit.) Then I
stayed-over at a friend's place and met her newborn, the niece that
stayed-over, and a friend of hers.
1.1 I went back to the storage locker and arranged a last-minute couch
crashing at a friend's place that I had never stayed-over at before.
(oonh, he was the guy from Utica.) Met my friend's room mate and got
introduced to Portal. They got to see what a newb I am in a 3-D
environment.
1.2 Got-up, had breakfast of scrambled eggs and Morningstar patties with
coffee, got dropped-off at Harvard Square to catch a shuttle bus and
then walked to the storage unit. Later my friend came back to help me
take trash away and drive to my friend T--'s. T-- had some laundry from
the unit that he had let me use his washer and dryer to wash. The
friend drove me home after we detoured to the Tennessee BBQ in
Braintree, MA. Now I'm spending time online, IMing people (hi Maeve),
and then packing to go back to Job Corps.
-TenshiKurai9, conversational material IRL included, sexual frustration
when I seem unlikely to ever get involved with vanilla and anything
not-vanilla takes some extra time to get. *sigh*
moonglow minnow
> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of
> 2010?
On NYE day, we made a 3-hour-each-way trip to give some college educated
rats a forever home. They're absolutely darling and well worth the trip.
Even the one who's convinced she hates people decided she liked me
within about 15 minutes.
On the way home, I accidentally triggered a manic episode with a latte,
and was glad for my general inability to do damage thanks to being away
from a computer and having my husband there to babysit. I was rather
unhappy that I didn't have any effective outlet like painting, as I was
really feeling like repainting the house at the time, but riding the
high was enough to keep me happy.
By the time midnight rolled around, we were both fatigued from the trip,
and I managed to get about a 3 hour nap in before bouncing off the walls
again.
Okay, maybe not so interesting.
minnow >^..^<
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Joseph Brenner
Jennie Kermode <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of 2010?
Well, I was trying to house manage an event at Cellspace. We had a
visit from the fire marshall early on, the bar staff were breaking rules
all night long, and refused to listen to me, security decided to shut
down the party when the bar was caught serving after hours, and the
promoter tried to tell me I wasn't allowed to tell his DJ to quit and
started screaming about how he was going to break my head.
Peter H. Coffin
First rule of running the house: know where the circuit breakers are, and
what feeds what gear.
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just one thing I want to know."
Joseph Brenner
"Peter H. Coffin" <hel...@ninehells.com> writes:
> Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> Jennie Kermode <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of 2010?
>>
>> Well, I was trying to house manage an event at Cellspace. We had a
>> visit from the fire marshall early on, the bar staff were breaking rules
>> all night long, and refused to listen to me, security decided to shut
>> down the party when the bar was caught serving after hours, and the
>> promoter tried to tell me I wasn't allowed to tell his DJ to quit and
>> started screaming about how he was going to break my head.
>
> First rule of running the house: know where the circuit breakers are, and
> what feeds what gear.
Yeah, I know. Hitting the circuit breakers would've been less trouble
in some respects, but they were further away than the DJ (and I wasn't
pissed off at the circuit breakers).
Peter H. Coffin
Only thing you can't shut off that way is the beer lines...
--
I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that
fish follow migrating caribou.
-- Paul Tomblin in the Monastery
whisky-dave
"Jennie Kermode" <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Just a quick, late post to say Happy Hogmanay to everyone.
> This is me now only just back at the computer after taking most of the
> day off (practically unheard of).
> 2010?
I beat 3 friends at Kerplunk(original version), well more of a complete
thrashing really :-)
But they beat me at "pass the pig" but that's just a game of luck so doesn't
count.
Kerplunk takes skill, judgment and nerves of steel.
Endymion
> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of 2010?
I went to a machine gun shoot at a private gun club on the afternoon
of the 1st. Got to shoot an MG34, a PPSh-1941, a Thompson, an Uzi, and
an MP5, in addition to the more pedestrian stuff I brought. Most fun
I've ever had on New Year's by far.
- Endymion
TenshiKurai9
> On 2010-01-03, TenshiKurai9 <ten...@abyss.ninehells.com> wrote:
>> I threw-up a bit before 12.40 AM from eating too much bacon (even
>> before the show, I had 15.5 pieces of bacon.)
>
> netgoth bacon consumption, though, which leads me to wonder who holds
> that (Erith, maybe?). Hope you didn't lose all of it.
Who knows how much I consumed during the show when I kept-on taking
bites to satisfy my curiousity about things like bacon cheese cake.
(Not good, btw.)
There was one piece of bacon consumed after the show because it was
straight and stiff, the ex was joking around by holding it in front of
him like a penis and I got down on my knees to eat it.
It was a few hours after the last piece of bacon eaten before I
upchucked so my body at least got to digest some of the nutrition and
fat out of it first.
>> 12.31 I got-up from sleeping over and had more bacon because I didn't
>> know whose food was whose and most of the housemates were asleep.
>
> Hair of the dog, I guess.
Since I was cooking it in the pan and the ex wasn't eating his share
quickly, I cooked the entire package only to find-out he didn't quite
want half a package of bacon. I had what he didn't and definitely felt
ill on my bus ride to New Bedford. Next time I should stick to the dog
and not the hair.
-TenshiKurai9
~Fianna
"Jennie Kermode" <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Just a quick, late post to say Happy Hogmanay to everyone.
> This is me now only just back at the computer after taking most of the
> day off (practically unheard of).
> 2010?
Went to Sintra, PT. It was awesome.
Ob Goth Points: Stayed at the hotel where Byron wrote a bit of Childe
Harold.
~Fi, didn't wanna come back
Rob
>
> "Jennie Kermode" <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:slrnhjt1ev.5ar...@laocoon.triffid.demon.co.uk...
>> Just a quick, late post to say Happy Hogmanay to everyone.
>> This is me now only just back at the computer after taking most of the
>> day off (practically unheard of).
>> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of
>> 2010?
>
> Went to Sintra, PT. It was awesome.
Was that your second visit to Sintra? I seem to remember recommending
Quinta da Regaleira when you were planning a previous trip.
Rob
~Fianna
"Rob" <dbr...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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It was. And this time we actually made it to Regaleira. It was very
awesome. The well was very, very wet - it rained just about every day we
were there, except for the day we spent on the train coming back down to
Lisboa from Porto.
~Fi, ready to move any second now.
Rob
>
> "Rob" <dbr...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> ~Fianna wrote:
>>>
>>> "Jennie Kermode" <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> wrote in
>>> message news:slrnhjt1ev.5ar...@laocoon.triffid.demon.co.uk...
>>>> Just a quick, late post to say Happy Hogmanay to everyone.
>>>> This is me now only just back at the computer after taking most of the
>>>> day off (practically unheard of).
>>>> Did anyone do anything interesting to celebrate the start of
>>>> 2010?
>>>
>>> Went to Sintra, PT. It was awesome.
>>
>> Was that your second visit to Sintra? I seem to remember recommending
>> Quinta da Regaleira when you were planning a previous trip.
>
> It was. And this time we actually made it to Regaleira. It was very
> awesome.
I think it's one of the best examples I've ever seen of what you can
achieve if you're slightly mad and have unlimited cash.
> The well was very, very wet - it rained just about every day
> we were there, except for the day we spent on the train coming back down
> to Lisboa from Porto.
I was wondering what the weather would be like there at this time of
year. I suppose the rain makes a change for you, at least.
Rob
~Fianna
> ~Fianna wrote:
>> It was. And this time we actually made it to Regaleira. It was very
>> awesome.
>
> I think it's one of the best examples I've ever seen of what you can
> achieve if you're slightly mad and have unlimited cash.
Yup. The amount of decorative detail work was just amazing. They just
don't build things like that anymore.
> I was wondering what the weather would be like there at this time of year.
> I suppose the rain makes a change for you, at least.
Generally rainy and warm in the south (between 13 and 17) and rainy and cool
in the north (between 7 and 9, although it dropped down to 5 soon after we
left Porto). The Duero is currently starting to flood... there's been so
much rain that the dams are overrunning.
~Fi
Joseph Brenner
Jennie Kermode <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> writes:
> TenshiKurai9 <ten...@abyss.ninehells.com> wrote:
>> I threw-up a bit before 12.40 AM from eating too much bacon (even
>> before the show, I had 15.5 pieces of bacon.)
>
> netgoth bacon consumption, though, which leads me to wonder who holds
> that (Erith, maybe?). Hope you didn't lose all of it.
I was at a cocktail party brunch not long ago where someone brought a
huge tray of bacon I kept nibbling away at. I'm not sure if I managed
16 pieces of it...
I didn't want to eat any meat for an entire week afterwards.
(Dangerbaby stuck a piece of bacon in a cocktail... our host
regarded this as a genius move, and took a photograph of it.)
There appears to be something of an up-swing in baconism going on,
by the way... e.g. a big seller at the Pirate Cat Cafe is the
Bacon Maple Lattes (which are perhaps unfortunately. made with
a shot of bacon grease).
I was over at Pirate Cat one day when a woman was there pimping
her new website:
Cet, Talon Lieutenant
> (Dangerbaby stuck a piece of bacon in a cocktail... our host
> regarded this as a genius move, and took a photograph of it.)
At the Rainy Lake, they serve delicious Bloody Marys with a large
jumbo shrimp and something else, I think celery in it.
Julian
Elder
54b102...@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, nochs...@yahoo.com says...
> At the Rainy Lake, they serve delicious Bloody Marys with a large
> jumbo shrimp and something else, I think celery in it.
>
So you had Bloody Mary with a shrimp then.
Celery is an essential part of a Bloody Mary.
But it is a nice play on cocktail though.
Drinking cocktail and Shrimp Cocktail in one.
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Cet, Talon Lieutenant
> In article <8e725a0f-8dd6-45c6-b5b5-
> 54b1029d6...@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, nochsfen...@yahoo.com says...
>
> > At the Rainy Lake, they serve delicious Bloody Marys with a large
> > jumbo shrimp and something else, I think celery in it.
>
> So you had Bloody Mary with a shrimp then.
> Celery is an essential part of a Bloody Mary.
>
> But it is a nice play on cocktail though.
> Drinking cocktail and Shrimp Cocktail in one.
You act like shrimp do not compare to bacon. But I would rather have a
year's supply of shrimp than a year's supply of bacon.
I did not ask for the shrimp. It came with it.
Julian
Elder
@q22g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, nochs...@yahoo.com says...
> You act like shrimp do not compare to bacon. But I would rather have a
> year's supply of shrimp than a year's supply of bacon.
>
No, I was stating that the celery isn't an extra, it is an essential
ingredient.
Shrimp are good, but they have to be very good to replace bacon.
Now Shrimp, wrapped in bacon and cooked in foil, over coals, then
exposed to the direct heat out of foil to crisp the bacon, that is
heaven.
TenshiKurai9
>
> Jennie Kermode <"Jennie Kermode"@triffid.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> TenshiKurai9 <ten...@abyss.ninehells.com> wrote:
>>> I threw-up a bit before 12.40 AM from eating too much bacon (even
>>> before the show, I had 15.5 pieces of bacon.)
>>
>> That's a lot of bacon. I suspect it's not the record for
>> netgoth bacon consumption, though, which leads me to wonder who holds
>> that (Erith, maybe?). Hope you didn't lose all of it.
>
> I was at a cocktail party brunch not long ago where someone brought a
> huge tray of bacon I kept nibbling away at. I'm not sure if I managed
> 16 pieces of it...
>
> I didn't want to eat any meat for an entire week afterwards.
I vowed to not touch bacon for a minimum of six months. There was a
slice of pizza where I did not notice the bacon with the assorted meats
on it until it was too late. Otherwise I held to my vow till a bit over
six months later.
I can't go back to a bacon-eating lifestyle now.
I'd like to reduce my meat-eating. Most of the time the quality of my
food isn't good enough for me to feel it was worth the kill.
-TenshiKurai9, but most Brazilian places do make the kill worth it.
Black Sunshine
> I can't go back to a bacon-eating lifestyle now.
>
> I'd like to reduce my meat-eating. Most of the time the quality of my
> food isn't good enough for me to feel it was worth the kill.
>
> -TenshiKurai9, but most Brazilian places do make the kill worth it.
I am the opposite.
--
Julian