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Things that give you great pleasure

All Acting Regiment

05:26 / 23.03.06

For example, I've just built, from a cardboard kit, a medieval street. It's great. It's got little roofs and windows and squires and people throwing buckets of piss out on to the street. I was sent it as a joke, but you know what? I had a great time with it. And I normally wouldn't admit to that.

So share, share, share similar little moments.

05:36 / 23.03.06

I don't watch things on television much— not that I object to the medium as a general rule, only I don't have a television— but friends have been renting old episodes of West Wing and I've fallen into watching them.

And it's incredible. It's the greatest alternate history story I've ever heard. You don't understand; it's set in this fantasy world where the administration actually cares about being good guys, and they're all human and not bastard cabbage people from planet DestroyAllFreedomAndBeauty... It's so addicting.

I just finished watching three episodes in a row with my mates and sometimes it makes me want to sit and weep and write poetry. Pure escapism.

No, it's okay, I can quit, really. It's only when the stress gets too much.

De Selby

06:18 / 23.03.06

I love colouring in with coloured pencils. You know those colouring in books that kids get when they're pretty young? Having masses of colours and staying inside the lines is the best (non-chemical) stress relief that I know of.

Its especially effective when colouring in with little kids - although they're generally pretty shite at choosing colours and staying within the lines.

"Look, give it here, you're doing it wrong!"

hehe

BlueMeanie

10:59 / 23.03.06

I use Mac OSX mostly, but I love mid-90's operating systems, such as Windows 95. There's something lovable about simple, clunky graphics and unaliased text. I also love early web-pages that were very simple and all seemed to be hosted on university servers and have seem to have the same GIF for a mailbox.

Back then, the web was less flash, but much more exciting.

Here's an example page

But for really old and clunky, check out this one!

Mistoffelees

11:15 / 23.03.06

"Balsbaugh LD-3 liquid (and solid) dielectric sample holder $1250

Biddle model 17000 corona set, new (like a model 27000
or Hipotronics CDO77A without a noise processor) $4200

General Radio 1621 capacitance measurement system with 1616
bridge, 1238 quadrature detector, and 1316 oscillator $4000

Hartmann & Braun Oscillographischer Nullindikator, one of
the most sensitive line frequency null indicators for
capacitance & power factor bridges, with manual $1500

8080A dual output 1 GHz pulse generator with 8091A/
8092A/(2) 8093A, variable delay, 300 pS rise time, for
testing the fastest integrated circuits & components $400"

What is that stuff? Looks like a Ghostbusters shopping mall.

Jub

13:15 / 23.03.06

Barbelith gives me great pleasure

Slim

13:17 / 23.03.06

Keep it in your pants, Jub.

Shrug

13:28 / 23.03.06

This terrible, terrible RPG for the Sega Genesis gave me many hours of pleasure marred only by the fact that I was missing a map which came with the catridge and really was integral to gameplaying.
This unfortunately left many hours of random and often fruitless searching.
Link

Jub

13:57 / 23.03.06

...but I love it, Slim.

Spyder Todd 2008

19:02 / 23.03.06

I have to say, I've been playing Final Fantasy X recently. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun simply leveling up...

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