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Tsuga
22:49 / 25.03.09
Congratulations are in order, all around. I'm happy for you guys!
 
 
Liger Null
03:24 / 26.03.09
Voluntary redundancy, Stoats? Is that what they call a "buy-out" over here in the states? If so, a friend of mine got himself one of those at the newspaper where he works and has decided to take it easy and concentrate on his carving. He's churned out some pretty cool stuff so far, including some awesome wooden zombies. I'm so jealous.

Anyway, congratulations!

And congrats to Kali and Matt as well!
 
 
Poke it with a stick
17:56 / 26.03.09
A pretty, pretty toy for creating your own solar system or, if you prefer, what Kandinsky playing with a spirograph would look like.

"Orbitals" - from the guy who brought you etsy, apparently.

This is currently my desktop:

 
 
grant
03:09 / 27.03.09
Wanna visit Florida, Stoatie?

Hell, you could probably buy a house here. For *pocket change*.

I'll mow the lawn for cheap....
 
 
Closed for Business Time
10:11 / 27.03.09
Times that bad, grant?

Me I'm happy cuz it's Friday, I've had some good ideas lately for work - think VR earthquake simulation with semantic/task priming, EEG, galvanic skin response, eye-tracking++; Easter hols is only a week away, and generally just being in a good mood.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:05 / 27.03.09
grant, that sure is tempting...
 
 
grant
16:38 / 30.03.09
I imagine folks in LA, Phoenix and Las Vegas could make similar offers, but they're not as *pleasant* as here, are they.
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:58 / 30.03.09
What is the price for such a cheap florida house?
 
 
iamus
08:41 / 09.04.09
A while ago in this very thread, I said...

I work on a Sexual Health line for teenagers.

This usually involves sordid tales of my mother's nightly exploits, or loud exclamations of the word "GAY!" followed by hysteric laughter and a dial tone.

But some wee guy just told me a minute ago that he had "heard I liek mudkipz".


He was not wrong.



And Stoatie replied...

Fucking WIN!!! Although what he SHOULD have done was ask if you had Battletoads.



It happened again, only this time a different group of kids (I assume) did indeed phone up to ask if we had Battletoads on the Wii. Quick as a flash, I told him that we didn't but I had herd that he lieked Mudkipz.

There was a moment of mutual win.
 
 
Ticker
13:43 / 09.04.09
AW! AW!

That's a wicked fucking fluffy interwebs huggy anon tale right there!
 
 
iamus
19:25 / 09.04.09
Yeah!

The job, for however tiring it can get (and the several lunkheaded and in-my-opinion-immoral management decisions being made at the moment) does have it's perks!
 
 
grant
20:37 / 09.04.09
What is the price for such a cheap florida house?

You know, it's hard to say. But there are foreclosure auctions every weekend now, and it's possible to get a bank-owned 3-bedroom for, like... well, here's one in a decent enough neighborhood for $100.

That's not 100k, that's $100. Less than an Asus netbook.

Oh, here's a 5/4 in what looks like a gated community for the same price.

Taxes would be a bit higher than that, and I'm sure these are just opening prices for auction, but sometimes *that's all the bank can get*.

---

Also, Stoatie, real estate aside, if you feel like visiting the (sub)tropics, lemme know. You can sleep on my couch! Which is also a bed! (We got rid of the sofa when downsizing, so it's a proper bed, not the fold-out kind.)
 
 
Mistoffelees
20:39 / 09.04.09
And Stoatie or I could by houses and land despite us being foreigners?
 
 
Tsuga
22:05 / 09.04.09

I think so. Some laws may vary by state, though. The US is like that, sometimes.
 
 
Mistoffelees
22:12 / 09.04.09
Cool, thanks! I could buy a dozen houses and have someone manage them for me, then enjoy all the rent coming in.
 
 
Poke it with a stick
15:28 / 10.04.09
Meet the Dalekettes.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
02:14 / 11.04.09
Yesterday, I finally 'caught my neighbour on the stairs', and exposed myself. I felt like a god.

I guess that happiness takes many forms.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
02:18 / 11.04.09
Dd you speak of was and when?
 
 
grant
16:25 / 13.04.09
Sometimes I think most of Florida has been bought by foreigners. Seriously, it's like a gateway to Latin America - there are lots of wealthy people from places like Argentina and Honduras who have homes here.
 
 
Ruobhe
19:37 / 13.04.09
But of course, Miami is the biggest hispanic settlement of the world.
(I cannot verify that as a fact, but I can back that as a joke done in South America)
 
 
Quantum
16:30 / 14.04.09
My mum and dad were walking on the beach and rescued an adder which had fallen down the cliff. They left it alone initially, it was still there on the way back, they poked it into a sack carried it up the steps and released it in the grassy bit atop the cliff.

Here it is-

 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
21:06 / 22.04.09
My favourite wedding photo (from my wedding, that is):



Kali's on the left.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
22:08 / 27.04.09
Shouldn't this be in the Miserable thread? I'm sure the love in question's strong, but that's not a good photo. Why inflict it on the general public? What have they ever done to you?
 
 
Tsuga
01:15 / 28.04.09
Why try to make someone feel bad when there's no apparent reason that they deserve it? Why be a dick? These are the burning questions we should be asking ourselves, besides "where did I contract that?"

But for some reason, we don't ask those questions.

Why is that?

Seems a sweet photo to me, I'm happy when people get to feel happy, even for a brief moment, in this occasionally nice, occasionally hell-hole-ish life.
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
09:45 / 28.04.09
These are the burning questions we should be asking ourselves, besides "where did I contract that?"

Hampsters can carry all sorts of nasty bugs. I'm afraid that human-hampster love is not meant to be, given that one can contract all sorts of diseases, both physical and mental...
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
10:30 / 28.04.09
On behalf of all in the dramatic professions I would like to say shut up you bitter old crone.

You both look lovely and madly cheerful and I hope you had a wonderful day!! It's nice to see things work out and hopefully they'll continue on and just get better!
 
 
grant
18:53 / 29.04.09
1. Picture is win, crone commentary notwithstanding.

2. Friend of family is buying a 4/2 with a pool for $17,000, I believe.

Dead serious, Stoatie - if you want to invest, this is the rock-bottom time to do it (just buy a house old enough that it doesn't have funky Chinese drywall in it).
 
 
imaginary mice
07:11 / 30.04.09
I have a quick look on Barbelith every morning and every morning for the last seven days the wedding photo has given me a massive happy. Total awesomeness.
 
 
Triplets
08:13 / 30.04.09
Yay for domino mask wedding!

Did you guys fight some crime afterwards?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
02:10 / 02.05.09
Tsuga;

It's a question of taste, maybe. Obviously, it's great that Matt and Kali have found each other, in this vale of shadowy mist that we call life.

But, I don't know, call me a sour, life-hating, Calvinist old bat - I still think it's a bit ill-advised to post wedding shots on the web. Fate-wise.

I'm getting married quite soon myself, actually. My partner-to-be is ... not English. It's an arranged thing, partly to do with Father's business. Or mainly to do with that, I guess. Ze, my partner, is from the moon, I'm told.

I'll admit to being nervous.

But, whatever happens I won't be posting the pics on the interweb, and not just because my glamorous lunar spouse will be so beautuful as to not necessarily show up on an earthling camera. Or because Father's miscalulated, and a 5th dimensional entity is eating my soul, at the altar, live on DVD. Or because of being sectioned, exclusive rights with 'Hello' mag, etc, or related.
 
 
Tsuga
20:12 / 02.05.09
Darling:
I don't know what kind of response you'd like to that...post. Except, perhaps it is a question of taste; but that still doesn't address the questions posted above.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:32 / 03.05.09
Snugglebun;

A)I hate everything and b) I want to murder the world.

That's it, I suppose.
 
 
sTe
00:33 / 03.05.09
Just seeing Happy on the tip top Barb threads makes me happy as I'm not here so often and usually is more downer stuff. I would like to offer my exceeding and heartfelt congratulations to the happy couple of Kali & Matt - long may you reign (exclamation)[my 1 on the real keyboard has been broken for some time and I can't find an easy one, to copy and paste there] I hope that we can all honour you by partying the night away as bod intended - I shall certainly have one for you both(exclamation)

And in other good news - I've not got flu yet, hurrah
 
 
A fall of geckos
11:19 / 04.08.09
I just got back from Fightcamp where I took part in the Eggleton cup - a HEMA fencing tournament.

The Eggleston cup is fought using weighted shinai with crosspieces and covers longsword, sword and buckler, sword and dagger, double sword or sword alone, the cut off being basket-hilts and other post-medieval hilts.

I study early 15th Century longsword, from the Italian style (Fiore dei Liberi). Opponents were drawn at random, and I was matched to fight my teacher...

It was a good fight - very quick, but seemed a lot longer when were were on the mats. The final result was three-all, and as it was a double touch on the final point we were both eliminated (a peculiarity of the scoring system).

The fight can be seen on Youtube -
here.

My tutors the one in the scary clown fencing mask.

I've just been back long enough to have worked the adrenalin out of my system and for my muscles to start aching properly and I feel great.

And I got to try out Bartitsu and fence with blunted steel longswords.

When I get a chance I'll post in the martial arts threads in Games & Gameplay about studying a historical martial art - the advantages and disadvantages of trying to resurrect a system with no direct historical tradition etc...
 
 
imaginary mice
17:29 / 07.08.09
I think I've just found a grammatical error in the Cambridge dictionary. This should be "three hours' worth", right? Right?

This makes me happy.
 
  

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