What made you smile today?

[Assertn]

Recieved a call that my Jury duty was canceled.

WOHOOO!!! No more of that for the rest of my life.
(until next year)

[python862]

I smiled today more because I was forced to than anything. The reason why would be getting owned in the face with a hockey stick, breaking apart one of my teeth.

[Animeniax]

You play hockey? Pretty f*cking cool man. D-man, forward, or goalie? Please don't tell me you're a waterboy or score keeper.

[python862]

Actually it was gym class floor hockey, but I was playing D.

[Xelbair]

I just received key to Resistance 2 beta. Is it awesome?

[animus]

Oh? You guys are getting the beta now? I just bought a copy of Resistance 2 like 2 hours ago. I should've gotten my Valkyria Chronicles pre-order also, but apparently they ship today and will be there tomorrow. Gayyyyy, what a false release date.

[complich8]

Bongos.

I have bongos.

..... that is all.

[darkshadow]

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3189/pic0016ft6.jpg
=D

[Sapphire]

http://www.hulu.com/channels/Animation-and-Cartoons/Anime I think it's amazing that Hulu streams anime! And anime that isn't half bad, at that.

[Buffalobiian]

In my test today, there were two pharmaceutical calculation questions where the answer to the first question is used to work out the second. Both were multiple choice. I got an answer to the first, and when I worked out the second, the answer was complete nonsense. Obviously I was wrong. I didn't have any idea on how to go about the first question anymore.

Then I used all the possible answers provided for Question 2, worked backwards and got all the possible values of "k", which is the answer to Question 1. Only one set of answers matched.

Reverse Engineering FTW!! :D

[Nadouku]

I found money on the ground. I thought it was a trap at first, but... :D

[XanBcoo]

I finally got to see Buckethead live last night along with That One Guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHlDfejCHkc). As I was looking for things for my Halloween costume last month, I found out that he was going to be playing in Austin, so I've been looking forward to that ever since.

It was a pretty exciting show, and he played my favorite song of his! I also got a pumpkin mask from him when he handed out presents mid-show. I should have brought a present for him :(.

Edit:
Hah, this makes me smile too. Less than 24 hours later, there's already loads of youtube videos up from last night:
Bucket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeM7VC4wEyI)
That One Guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlADBE_PITI)

[saman]

i made chocolate chip pancakes today. oh so yummy

[Assertn]

This video makes me smile (http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/11/11)

[XanBcoo]

I just bench pressed my current weight for the first time ever today. Also I now weigh 176-177 pounds.

I impressed an Asian kid in the gym.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta :cool:.

[Animeniax]

Damn that's impressive Xan! What were you benching when you first started lifting?

I weighed myself at the gym last week and found out I've dropped 6 lbs in the last month and a half. Kind of disappointing since I've been trying to get to 170lb. At least it's all fat that I'm losing. I'm back down to a 31-32 waist and all my pants sag.

No one else is impressed because everyone else around here is in top physical shape (from PT) or on steroids.

[Buffalobiian]

No one else is impressed because everyone else around here is in top physical shape (from PT) or on steroids.

They know steroids turn men into women, right?

[XanBcoo]

Damn that's impressive Xan! What were you benching when you first started lifting?
Probably about 115-125. I actually don't remember very well since I used to lift kind of haphazardly. I know that before I started my current routine I was doing about 135 consistently.

I can also squat and deadlift more than my bodyweight now, but I'm not happy about those because they've been stagnating lately. No gains for about 4 weeks :(.


[No one else is impressed because everyone else around here is in top physical shape (from PT) or on steroids.
I wouldn't feel discouraged. Every small improvement is worth celebrating. Many people would think my minor accomplishments are nothing, but I'll pat myself on the back anyway. Keep a positive attitude about it.

[Xelbair]

It not made me smile today.. but today i'm able to post it. i had to sleep for not having any in this weekend.
I was at anime convention this weekend. It was awesome, there was cosplay(only 2 good costumes, rest were typical death note misa-misa or L), Rock Band(guitar hero got better guitar line and easier to read than RB - but still it was awesome. I won one h-manga as the best band(i was only player that could handle expert without any problems)), AMV room, all narutards were in separate naruto room, Soul Calibur IV competition(I had 5th place from 20 people), Taiko(best game ever - its stupid, weird, and idiotic when you look at it - but try to play it and you are instantly hooked up), UltraStar(not my fav - but some girls were awesome, by looks and singing :]), DDR/PIU(there were some techical problems with PIU(fried ram) but it started up late in night(like 2am), by friend won bishounen contest(he had got pantsu as reward).
So i wasted 2 days playing Rock Band, Taiko, Soul Calivbur IV, watching cosplay, having fun, watching anime, having fun, and did i mention the having fun?
Well there were 2 weird things:
1) Relligion classroom - instead "Confesion is the way to heaven" there is now "Naruto is the way to hell" and some satan and dead pikachu pics on the blackboard.
2)one guy had epilepsy attack - he have been playing tekken 5, 0,5m from 17' TV for 10 hours - freaky.

Overall: Awesome

next year i will cosplay a rape-monster, and if the ask me why i choose it i will anwser "Because i feel that we are alike" - can't wait to see their faces!

[Kraco]

by friend won bishounen contest(he had got pantsu as reward).

... The MC gave her pantsu to your friend as the prize?

[Buffalobiian]

... The MC gave her pantsu to your friend as the prize?

That would have been memorable :o

[XanBcoo]

next year i will cosplay a rape-monster, and if the ask me why i choose it i will anwser "Because i feel that we are alike" - can't wait to see their faces!
I do not want to ever understand what you meant by this.

[animus]

I do not want to ever understand what you meant by this.

You lie. You already understand him all to well.

[Buffalobiian]

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/2322/pb250247bn4.jpg

Happy Bill. Very Happy Bill :D - may take a while before I start to make, let alone finish it, but it'll get there.

For size comparison, here's a 1/144 Gundam:
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/2667/pb250249qg2.jpg

[Xelbair]

The Pantsu were prepared as a reward.
I never understood Gundam, but this stuff looks awesome.

[darkshadow]

The first one is a macross, and it looks aaawwwesoome bill ;P, I want.

[rockmanj]

Hmm...I dont know if i should photograph it, but I got a really nice package from in the mail ^^.

[Kraco]

Hmm...I dont know if i should photograph it, but I got a really nice package from in the mail ^^.

Sounds very suspicious...

[Buffalobiian]

Hmm...I dont know if i should photograph it, but I got a really nice package from in the mail ^^.
Sounds sexual.

[rockmanj]

next year i will cosplay a rape-monster, and if the ask me why i choose it i will anwser "Because i feel that we are alike" - can't wait to see their faces!

Sounds like we may have another Gnompf on our hands..., and


Sounds very suspicious...

Sounds sexual.

Oh get your minds out the gutter! It was just like a gift from my gf...and its nothing sexual. I'm just not sure how to explain what it is. Its like these things she made for me that are like laminated....:confused:

[animus]

Sounds like we may have another Gnompf on our hands..., and




Oh get your minds out the gutter! It was just like a gift from my gf...and its nothing sexual. I'm just not sure how to explain what it is. Its like these things she made for me that are like laminated....:confused:

She laminated naked pictures of herself? NICE.

[Death BOO Z]

I wish some girl will walk to our store and give me a naked picture of her to laminate..

[rockmanj]

...Like I said, not sexual...like hmm she made these things that like have words and photos that she cut out. That's all.

[Animeniax]

Like a ransom note??

http://danielcohen.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/scarf-ransom-note.jpg

[Nadouku]

That's pretty clever. I've seen a lot of those somewhere else too. Nice. :)

[Death BOO Z]

I used to those in the guard post when I was bored in the middle of the night.

I think the officers were pretty pissed off, they knew we were reading newspapers, but that was pissing from the springboard. or whatever english expression that fits.

[rockmanj]

Like a ransom note??

http://danielcohen.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/scarf-ransom-note.jpg


Actually, yes, its something like that...but not like scary :o

[fahoumh]

I guess I should have posted this yesterday but whatever:

I finally got a wool coat yesterday and an awesome parka so I can retire my 6-year-old winter coat. I also got together with 2 friends later in the evening. It really was a good day and totally put a smile on my face.

Actually, thinking about it now is making me smile, hahaha.

[Board of Command]

I did great on my circuits exam this morning. Then in the afternoon, I found out I passed the exam that I thought I failed last Friday.

Today was a good day :) Now back to studying...

[Animeniax]

Congrats man. When I was in school, I found that I'd always pass the tests that I thought I had failed and failed the tests that I thought I had aced. Stupid murphy's law.

Last night I did a net search for some buddies from high school to see what they were up to. One buddy was recently arraigned for battery charges when he attacked a guy who was cheating with my buddy's girlfriend. Another buddy is a manager for financial services for a major airline, the last guy I'd ever expect to be a manager, especially for an accounting department. I spent the next few hours thinking about how my life in the past 7 years stacks up to theirs.

[Psyke]

I just got my 1/60 Perfect Transformation VF-1J Valkryie (http://www.yamato-toys.com/items/detail.php?gid=1212) today. Something which I've wanted for over 2 decades. :)

[Xelbair]

I finally got my Koss SB45 Headphones back from repair!

[Uchiha Barles]

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis:

http://gizmodo.com/5061632/steelseries-world-of-warcraft-mouse-destroys-orcs-your-last-shreds-of-dignity-with-15-buttons

*drool*

Yeah, I bought it specifically to play World of Warcraft. But, at it's core, it's the MX-518 mouse with a few pricegrade upgrades. Add to that a D-pad on the left side of the mouse, two buttons on the right side (though it looks more like 1, if you find a picture of it), and two mousewheel flanking buttons. All this, without disturbing the MX-518 design and functionality. This mouse is damn near perfect for just about any game. Definitely put a smile to my face.

[XanBcoo]

I love the comments on that page. They're almost as good as the "wolf shirt" comments.


All it needs is to be slightly larger so you can insert Hot Pockets inside the mouse and let the heat from your sweaty palm warm your post-raid snack.

[Xelbair]

This mouse looks bad, cost much and i prefer my G5 - still - have fun if you like it - its your choice.

[Buffalobiian]

I thought it looked pretty cool on the outside. I don't have use for a 15 button mouse though.

[Board of Command]

My term's over! I'm free!

[Xelbair]

New trailers of Final Fantasy XIII and versus were released. I have only link to the polish site where they are hosted but if you want I can post it here.

[Psyke]

It's up on the gametrailers site too. Just one more year to go people.

[animus]

Tiny tiny trailer for God of War 3 that finally showed a bit of actual in-game footage. I'm a huge fan of the games.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43622.html

[Xelbair]

I and my friend finally have found out what has fu***d up our Distortion circuit. We connected jack ground to grounding of whole circuit. nNxt day - working distortion booster!

[Nadouku]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFOB77jLaE) made me smile today (make sure to turn your volume down a little). :D

[LaZie]

When I took my final today and I knew most of the questions and answers :p

I just checked my grade in the class and I have an A. Moohahaha!!

[The Heretic Azazel]

I just got a quarter pound of lime green bud. I'm smiling from ear to ear.

[Ryllharu]

Throwing a five-foot icicle into a snow drift like a spear, and pulling out a piece to find an end covered in dirt.

[Xelbair]

Lucky bastard - there is snow in your area!
I with my parents have finished all Christmas shopping... now only cooking this stuff is left.

[salmonman78]

Found 2 new Transformers I've been lookin for, that and I had Wendy's nuggets for lunch :D

[Lyzuu]

Receiving a letter from my family, saying that they're alright made me feel warm. :)

[Psyke]

Found 2 new Transformers I've been lookin for.....

Oh which ones?

[salmonman78]

Oh which ones?

Animated Swindle and Blurr, shelves were a mess and someone tucked them into the back.

My son opened his Blurr and hes awesome, but Swindle is just as well. I am still amazed by how they're getting this line to be so much like the show.

Now if I could find those Universe 25th anniversary ones.

[Xelbair]

\m/ Guitar Hero 4 \m/
will be mine on Christmas

[Psyke]

Animated Swindle and Blurr, shelves were a mess and someone tucked them into the back.

My son opened his Blurr and hes awesome, but Swindle is just as well. I am still amazed by how they're getting this line to be so much like the show.

Now if I could find those Universe 25th anniversary ones.

I'm not too keen in the new animated series, since they're following this style which so many other cartoon series have adopted. But I'm glad your son likes it! For me, I wanted to get the movie version of Prime, since they were going for really cheap discounted prices, but it seems that he got so cheap I couldn't find him anymore...... :(

[Xelbair]

I never get the hype of action figures. I won one figure in contest(Templar from Hellgate: London - limited edition) but well, I'm not going to get another one.

[darkshadow]

Figures cater to the needs of us man-children ;o

[Assassin]

got term 1 marks back. passed everything, and with pretty decent grades :D. this just made my day.

[Psyke]

I just celebrated the 1st month of my daughter with a Baby Shower kind of party at my place. To commemorate the event, we showed daily pics of her from day 1 to 30, since people kept saying infants' facial appearance changes very fast. You can see the pics here (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90360&l=a5709&id=536385288). :p

[Nadouku]

I just celebrated the 1st month of my daughter with a Baby Shower kind of party at my place. To commemorate the event, we showed daily pics of her from day 1 to 30, since people kept saying infants' facial appearance changes very fast. You can see the pics here (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90360&l=a5709&id=536385288). :p

Nice one, Psyke! Keep it up! ;)

[Buffalobiian]

I love day 14 and 16. Awesome comments too :D

I think it's Bali where 1 month after birth, a baby is allowed to touch the ground with his/her feet for the first time.

Don't think it's so sacred in Chinese culture. It's celebration!! Congrats again :)

[salmonman78]

Grats Psyke, cute baby.

As for me smiling, I found the whole first series of Naruto I burnt to DVD(the first 135, none of the filler) that when I moved I thought I lost. Decided to go through a box today I aint touched, just kept shuffling around the garage, and there they were right on top.

This year is ending well.

*Edit* Upon cleaning and trying to begin to rip them back onto my computer, i am discovering disc 1 out of 9 isn't wanting to play nice, looks like it has a small scratch right by the outside of the disc, looks like i gotta find a resurfacer. damn it

[Animeniax]

Cartoon Network has been showing all the classic Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Tweety cartoons that I haven't seen aired in a while. This is what kids need more of today, less MTV and crap. I still crack up at these cartoons from the 70s and 80s.

[saman]

sad for you that only canada has teletoon retro. they air the bugs bunny and tweety show, along with others like the smurfs and woody woodpecker, like twice a day.

i smiled when i checked my bank account this morning and discovered that i have more money at the moment than i know what to do with. it's a good thing everything was closed today or a good portion of it would've been gone already

[salmonman78]

Wife let me order Revoltech 2G Sabre, gonna look nice on my shelf when it arrives.

Sadly I have to wait on trying to get EVA units.

[Buffalobiian]

Installed XP on a laptop today. Had to download like a million security updates. For some reason that made me smile. :o

[Xelbair]

Installing XP made you smile? that is one of most boring things to do ever... excluding GenToo stage 1 install...

[Buffalobiian]

It was more a sad smile at just how many fixes it takes to make XP "safe". Otherwise, yes, XP was a pain. Especially working with laptop companies who haven't streamlined their driver-update service. That wiped the smile off my face.

[dragonrage]

What made me smile today? Today just waking up made me happy, but knowing that I had to get out of bed made me kinda sad. But I was smiling once again when I came out and saw that the sun as out and the it was a very nice day, a bit cold but nice nevertheless; even the cold can be nice when it is constant and appreiate .

Today I was just in a good mood I guess, just know that it was a new year another day i get to live; not that i am dying or anything, was a good thing.

Does it sound weird, that I am actually happy that i am approaching an age closer to the way that i feel. Does it sound weird that I am conversing and interacting with people that i consider to be worthwhile, at the same time i am not considered a kid at the same time.

It's a new year another day and my thoughts are a bit more clearer than they were a year ago.

I am finally waking down a path that i consider to be one that i actually want travel and not one that i am force to drag my feet on.

[Buffalobiian]

Bought a second-hand Dell Inspiron 1501 (dual core version) for $300. Good-bye to queuing for (and often unsuccessfully for) laptops/desktops at the Uni IT desk :D

Battery's shot though, so I'll have to bid a 9-cell one off eBay for <$100. Still a pretty good buy IMO. Came from a friend too, so I'm confident it's in working condition, and it looks like the widescreen is keeping me from my more powerful desktop :)

[Nadouku]

I finally got around to learning kendo. Vigorious training and steady stances are very aching, not to mention the teacher that gives out the lessons is very harsh and professional.

Someone challenged him to a one on one, to which the challenger got beaten in about a minute. Needless to say, nobody else dared to fight him again. :p

[Buffalobiian]

Was he aggressive? Or the quiet type who nails you in one strike before you know it? (This ain't the Anime Recommendation thread, but seeing you enjoy Kendo, I suggest Bamboo Blade :))

[Nadouku]

Was he aggressive? Or the quiet type who nails you in one strike before you know it? (This ain't the Anime Recommendation thread, but seeing you enjoy Kendo, I suggest Bamboo Blade :))

Thanks, but I watched Bamboo Blade before, and I quite enjoyed it.

As for the fight, it started off as the teacher just quietly nails him in one strike. The guy tried to attack the teacher from the side, but he blocked it and countered, which is why countering has become one of my favorite moves. :D

[Xelbair]

And i still prefer feints, and for real fights - i heard that sword brotherhood guys are a lot better than kendo guys, even if kendo guy is 1 year of training ahead of them.

[Nadouku]

And i still prefer feints, and for real fights - i heard that sword brotherhood guys are a lot better than kendo guys, even if kendo guy is 1 year of training ahead of them.

Kendo is different from real sword fight, as you practice on the grace of your sword's movement rather than the brute force. Agility is required for kendo, as well as stamina.

[Xelbair]

It was battle to the first hit with marked attack(so no brute-force) and no piecing attacks only slashes.

[KitKat]

Bought a second-hand Dell Inspiron 1501 (dual core version) for $300. Good-bye to queuing for (and often unsuccessfully for) laptops/desktops at the Uni IT desk :D

Battery's shot though, so I'll have to bid a 9-cell one off eBay for <$100. Still a pretty good buy IMO. Came from a friend too, so I'm confident it's in working condition, and it looks like the widescreen is keeping me from my more powerful desktop :)

Hey, that's the lappy that I have! I just reinstalled xp on mine yesterday. Nice clean reformat makes for a happy computer.

I was so very happy today when I found out I wouldn't have to fail my course. Due to a long complicated situation, I still have 4 papers left to hand in for a course from last semester, and I thought for sure that I'd just have to re-take the course this semester. However, my professor and my department have been lovely and understanding, and given me an extension until the end of January. Huzzah!

[Psyke]

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/9531/renastompkh5.jpg
My video on Rena won a JVC Handycam on a online website which gives out prizes for top DIY videos. I also just made a new one today, which you can check out here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26VQheNTo4). Remember to watch in high quality. Makes a big difference. :D

[Xelbair]

I was on place called "Forts" here - series of old fortifications inside small mountain, there were physics experiments and invention presentations, guitar effects, simulation of nuclear reactor(hydro), hologram, spherical screen for showing planets etc. totally awesome!

[Nadouku]

My video on Rena won a JVC Handycam on a online website which gives out prizes for top DIY videos. I also just made a new one today, which you can check out here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26VQheNTo4). Remember to watch in high quality. Makes a big difference. :D

Wow, congratulations!

This made me smile, in fact. :D

[Marik]

Kurt Warner and The Cards, going to the NFC Championship game. :D

[Animeniax]

Kurt Warner and The Cards, going to the NFC Championship game. :D
Wow that's awesome for Kurt Warner. I always felt the Rams discarded him too easily after he brought them so much success.

[Xelbair]

I've finally got strategy to beat Kilik with Siegfried or Nightmare in SC4. Call me now Kilik-Slayer.

[Edit]
I've rediscovered joy of jacuzzi and hydro massage. It's awesome.

[Abdula]

Kurt Warner and The Cards, going to the NFC Championship game. :D
You're not going to be smiling next week.

[Marik]

We'll see. No one gave them a chance the past 2 weeks, either.

[Kakashi_Solo]

Discussing what me and my friends are going to do after we take over the world :p

[Xelbair]

I and my friend are greeting ourselves "All hail Excalibur!" - the look of the bystanders' faces was awesome!

[Buffalobiian]

Freudian slip of the day: (me to my brother)


brother: "mumble....mumble...mumble...."
me: "Put a sock cock in it!"
..........
brother: "What?!"
me: "Nothing."

I'm just glad I didn't say "put my cock in it." :o

[XanBcoo]

Awesome. One of my Spanish professors made a similar slip last semester. He was explaining how English speakers can hear the difference between certain consonants, regardless of whether or not they are aspirated. He gave the following three examples:

Top
Tot
Tock

When he said them out loud with his back turned to us, it came out differently than he intended:

Top
Tot
Cock

He made that mistake 3 times within a span of 10 minutes. My chest hurt so much from holding in the laughter.

[Nadouku]

I watched Asterix and Obelix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix) cartoon in my French class (in English language) and I must say: the dub is beyond terrible. They even made the announcement at the beginning, "When you are watching this cartoon, the lip-syncing might not match the words that we speak..." My French teacher later showed us the Asterix and Obelix movie, which was way better than the dub of the cartoon. That just made me smile.

[Killa-Eyez]

I work as a projector operator in a movie theatre and today me and my colleague got the instructions to montage a couple of trailers before the Bollywood movie Chandi Chowk To China. My colleague did the montage on the movie whilest I went checking on other rooms. Suddenly we recieved message that the wrong movie was being shown... A grave mistake for a almost full room of 495 seats. We swiftly stopped and started the right one. Later on, when I was on my way to do some tech solving, our theatre manager called me to him and asked me if I was the one who arranged the Bollywood movie. I replied; "Nope, it wasn't me!" innocently, with my hands up.

I turned around and he pushed me in the back, aggravated, while I walked away, smiling... :)

[Kagemane_no_Jutsu]

walking around my backyard, a golf course, looking at the stars.

[Nadouku]

The infamous "pause" hack in Warcraft III has been around for quite some time. Even though Blizzard is trying their best at fixing it, many people are still victimized by this lethal hack. It pauses the game three times in the beginning, then all of your commands and graphics are "locked" on screen, meaning they stay there forever. You can't move your screen with your mouse, but you can move it with your keyboard; you can't drag a box around to select units, but you can click them individually; you can't right-click on items, but you can use your keyboard. I managed to beat someone with "pause" hack, and that made me smile.

[Marik]

Warner and the Cardinals beat the Eagles 32 - 25, going to the Super Bowl. :)

[XanBcoo]

This video made me smile this evening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjRRswSEgE

Reminds me of my sister when she was little. I hope I have a daughter like that someday :o.

[Kraco]

This video made me smile this evening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjRRswSEgE

Reminds me of my sister when she was little. I hope I have a daughter like that someday :o.

I wish she had been hired to write Naruto fillers. They would have been so much better. Especially with the... Crocodile!

[salmonman78]

Well I talked to a AT&T truck a mile or so down the road working on the phone box junctions for the area, they're prepping for DSL in my area finally....should be here before summer....thank god I can drop satellite internet.

[XanBcoo]

I finally saw the last of a very bitter break-up today. I hadn't spoken to or seen my ex-girlfriend in over a month, until last night. I tried to confront her to make peace, to no avail. She told me to go away and cursed me out.

After it became painfully obvious that she hated me now and wanted absolutely nothing to do with me, I sent her a facebook message telling her I'd like to be her friend again some day. A word of warning: Never do that. Now she's severed all contact with me and resents me for being annoying.

The smiling part comes in just after I went through this. My favorite roommate who had moved out at the end of last semester came in at 3 in the morning to get the rest of his stuff. He was just the person I needed to see. I nearly cried.

It's quite bittersweet, feeling absolutely alone and lost, and at the same time knowing that you have mountains of friends who care about you and you can talk to. Makes me smile. The healing begins now.

[Kensee]

My girlfriend saw an out of state license plate, ran over to me, and punched me in the arm.

:D :D :D :D :D :D

[itadakimasu]

new car :)

WOOOOT.

I got a 2007 Honda Accord coupe. Haven't driven it alot yet but i'm loving it.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/bbaucom/Accord.jpg

Old car :

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/bbaucom/100_0721-1.jpg

[Nadouku]

Garden Spiders are pretty cool to have around, mainly because they do helpful things like protect your plants from other insects. We have about six-eight Garden Spiders that have taken up residence within our garden, and it's fun to see them devour the pests. They hardly bite humans, but if they do, it's usually harmless. :p

[Xelbair]

They are spiders, so i will keep away from them...
I just got great news for me - tomorrow i wont have Chemistry and German lessons! 1h late to school, and 1h sooner at home.

[Nadouku]

Well, it started to snow after the icy rain let up. So far, we have about two to three inches of snow. Not enough to build a large snowman, but it's something, I guess.

[Xelbair]

Instead of not having 2 lessons yesterday i only had 2 lessons.
Tomorrow is gonna be another great day(no polish (boring as hell) lesson)

[Buffalobiian]

Sushi 3pack (12 rolls) = $10 :D:D:D

[Psyke]

Just completed subbing and timing for the latest Ultraman movie "Great Decisive Battle! Super Ultra 8 Brothers". Uploaded the srt file and knowing that the rest of the non-Japanese fans can enjoy the movie too made me smile.

[darkshadow]

Psyke a fansubber! Thats pretty cool, on that note, the preview of kamen rider decade you have on your blog looks badass, is it subbed already? Even though I understood them just fine in the video, i'd like to have subs anyway.

[Assertn]

Sushi 3pack (12 rolls) = $10 :D:D:D
For prepackaged sushi? ehhh.....
There's a chain by me that serves awesome, fresh sushi for about that same price.

[LaZie]

Or you can pay an extra $2 and you can go to an all you can eat Sushi Buffet, over here anyway. Pretty good sushi too!

[Psyke]

Psyke a fansubber! Thats pretty cool, on that note, the preview of kamen rider decade you have on your blog looks badass, is it subbed already? Even though I understood them just fine in the video, i'd like to have subs anyway.

I've been subbing for quite a few Ultraman mini series and movies till now, but nothing major as I'm slow in translating... :p

As for the latest Kamen Rider series, Decade, the 1st episode has already been subbed by TV Nihon (http://www.tvnihon.com/). Totally awesome show since it's a 10 year anniversary special with past riders, actors and characters making cameos. Check it out!

[Buffalobiian]

For prepackaged sushi? ehhh.....
There's a chain by me that serves awesome, fresh sushi for about that same price.

It's "fresh sushi", prepared on the day. It was just getting to the end of the day, so they packed it all into containers and wanted to get rid of them. They were of okay quality, though the stuff wasn't really that "fresh" for fresh sushi. I've had better.


Or you can pay an extra $2 and you can go to an all you can eat Sushi Buffet, over here anyway. Pretty good sushi too!

Aye, that was the case around here too, until a few years ago. Then they bumped it up to $15AUD. It's on the other side of town....probably 40 minutes drive from my place, so don't visit it often at all.

[Animeniax]

I've been playing video games at work, specifically Gears of War 2 on insane mode, so I have to repeat levels a few times before I can beat them. So lately I've been turning away user requests for help and just generally being belligerent to people, mostly because they keep interrupting me when I'm on my 5th attempt trying to kill some grub boss, and partly because their requests are not following procedure and are usually idiotic support requests ("my computer won't turn on, even if I keep pressing the [on] button on the monitor" type questions).

Today some managers asked me if I was stressed out, looking for reasons for my recent antisocial and unprofessional behavior. I got a good laugh out of that. If only I could tell them the real reason.

[Munsu]

Today some managers asked me if I was stressed out, looking for reasons for my recent antisocial and unprofessional behavior. I got a good laugh out of that. If only I could tell them the real reason.

Similar things happen to me when I start laughing out loud while watching The Office in the office (get it?).

[Marik]

Hearing "Final Countdown" on the car radio, while driving around in Saints Row 2. It kinda caught me off guard, as it's not the type of song I expected to hear in this game. Hearing it brought a smile to my face though.

[Animeniax]

Similar things happen to me when I start laughing out loud while watching The Office in the office (get it?).Oh the irony..

A few years back I was the guy at the office who would borrow your DVD and return it the same day. Not sure why people got upset, it had to be better than getting your DVD back a month later or never seeing it again.

edit: I just saw an episode of Family Guy where they have a commercial parody for Double Mint gum using conjoined twins instead of regular twins. Freaking hilarious.

[Nadouku]

I was playing my games when I suddenly recieved a message. I asked who he was and it turns out he was my long lost friend from five-six years ago. Much rejoicing and smiling was done, as well as some kick-ass gaming. :p

[Xelbair]

My father stopped using his laptop, so i got it. Its 3 years old one, but its enough for music, net and old RTS and RPG, and of course for 3d studio and similar programs. Now for LAN-parties i wont have to take my big box of doom that is big and heavy(with monitor of course)

[itadakimasu]

only leet people show up to a lan party with a 20 inch, 50 pound crt monitor strapped to their back.

[Xelbair]

Who uses CRT? i take mine 22 widescreen LCD. CRT are damn heavy(I know from experience)

[Nadouku]

Three friends (two real life and one online) came and cheered me up. So, I'm pretty much myself again. I don't know what happened to me when I broke down, but I guess it probably won't happen again in a long time. :p

[darkshadow]

Who uses CRT? i take mine 22 widescreen LCD. CRT are damn heavy(I know from experience)
I do, why wouldn't you use CRT? >_>

[Xelbair]

LCDs take less space, there are no widescreen CRTs.

Crucis Fatal Fake - finally patch worked!

[darkshadow]

there are no widescreen CRTs.


GDM-FW900 would like to have a word with you...
http://www.gamepc.com/images/labs/rev-fw900-screen.jpg

[itadakimasu]

I've seen people go on and on about how CRT's are superior to LCD's for gaming because they can display higher resolutions and different attributes... but I don't want a huge 30 pound screen taking up my whole desk, nobody does.

if you're gaming and somehow you have a lag or something its most likely going to have nothing to do w\ ur nice lcd screen.

[Xelbair]

I take back that there are no widescreen CRTs, but there are no widescreen CRTs in Poland.
And if i had something like that on my desk i would be sitting 10cm from the screen.

[darkshadow]

Playing burnout paradise like this made me smile ;o, never knew ati cards had the stretch-into-single-huge-monitor option aswell:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/479/image3de3.th.jpg (http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image3de3.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6EI15wFnM ( yes the audio is very low i know.)

[Xelbair]

I just got a Behringer V-ampire LX110 guitar amp. Awesome sound, brb guitar.

[Nadouku]

In an attempt to cheer me up from my days-old depression, one of my friends thought it would be funny to "give a virus" to my other friend. They basically did the Windows Shutdown Virus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgY0rNDg8w0) and it produced some hilarious results, since my other friend ran a virus scan on it and no results came up. He was flipping out til we told him, and he scolded us. :D

[XanBcoo]

I just got a Behringer V-ampire LX110 guitar amp. Awesome sound, brb guitar.
My bass amp is a Behringer. I thought it was pretty good at first but now it crackles and pops whenever I play too loud using the neck pickup.

I guess it is just a practice amp though. Maybe I just need more wattage if I want to get a deeper sound.

[Xelbair]

My fingers are sore from guitar, and i learned some useful things on guitar. awesome day.

[itadakimasu]

Getting to find and buy stuff off ebay for work... I could do this every day : )

we needed a 1u server, and I just bought an auction for $370+30 shipping for 2 dell poweredge's w\ dual core xeons, 2gb ram, and 160gb hard drive.

We were quoted $850 for a similar server from this company and it had a 1.8ghz celeron 330, 2gb, and 2x 80gb hd (no raid)

Will be kindof funny when they're like... we only needed one server! you bought 2 ! lol

[Buffalobiian]

Keep 1 for yourself :p

[Stitch]

What made me smile today is that my ex-girlfriend made it obvious that she's not over me yet, and probably never will be.

We broke up a month ago. I didn't call her on V-Day and now she's acting batshit insane again. Maybe she expected that I would want to get back with her?

Goddamn, all the more validation for how good I am in bed.

[Abdula]

Today has so far has been mostly pain free. Its rather surprising, I'd forgotten what it felt like to be normal. Of course I'm not completely pain free but its nowhere near the level of pain I'm used to dealing with, of course that too is likely to change as the day progresses but its been a good day so far so I'm grateful.

[Animeniax]

What made me smile today is that my ex-girlfriend made it obvious that she's not over me yet, and probably never will be.

We broke up a month ago. I didn't call her on V-Day and now she's acting batshit insane again. Maybe she expected that I would want to get back with her?

Goddamn, all the more validation for how good I am in bed.
Well it was Valentine's day so she's probably just lonely. It's not necessarily that she's still hot for you or that you're particularly good in bed.


Today has so far has been mostly pain free. Its rather surprising, I'd forgotten what it felt like to be normal. Of course I'm not completely pain free but its nowhere near the level of pain I'm used to dealing with, of course that too is likely to change as the day progresses but its been a good day so far so I'm grateful.The day is young my friend. Except where I'm at it's 8:33PM.

[Nadouku]

The rash that I acquired a few days ago is clearing up, thanks to the medication that my doctor prescribed to me. Although there are some itchiness here and there, it's mostly contained with the help of anti-itch creams.

[Xelbair]

I just received my order of T-Shirts, and soon i'll get my Ez Flash 3in1 for Ds.

[Psyke]

Just received my JLPT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jlpt) 2 results in the mail, and I passed! :p

[Xelbair]

Grats man, there is still long time before i can take even the 4th level(lowers one).

oh and me and my family won auction for a Bass guitar(Ibanez SRX595 TGF), my father wants to play it, but it'll end that i'll play it along with guitar.

[XanBcoo]

oh and me and my family won auction for a Bass guitar(Ibanez SRX595 TGF), my father wants to play it, but it'll end that i'll play it along with guitar.
I looked up this model, and it seems to be almost identical to the bass I have, only it's a 5-string. That's pretty cool.

I still have dreams of saving up for a Fender J-bass or a Stingray.

[Xelbair]

I can't way to lay my fingers on it.
Also i found out that my family is not only Computer-freakish(and Tech-freakish) but Instrument-freakish too...my parents just ordered a set of drums.

[Nadouku]

I finally got around in finding a suitable job: a deskroom clerk. The job pays well despite the fact that I spend most of my time surfing on the internet and occasionally helping other people out. Other than that though, I do help reorganize files and do other tasks for other people when I have the free time, which is always.

[Buffalobiian]

Do you wear makeup to work?

[Nadouku]

I already look ackward in a suit and a pair of black pants with it. Fortunately, that was only the first day of work, so I'm allowed to wear anything after that, albeit without the emotional makeup.

[darkshadow]

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6026/pic0040.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9797/pic0041.jpg
:D

[Xelbair]

3h guitar jam with friend, that made me smile!

[xiarary]

My niece started walking today
She's been taking mini-steps, but this time she was all business.

[Xelbair]

Finally after great epic battle of wits with damned DHL(arrogant bastards - treating customers like trash - i don't know why they survived on the market) Ibanez bass guitar arrived. after changing strings, tuning truss rod and fine tuning it works perfectly!
Back to playing bass and guitar.

[Nadouku]

The mail order that I placed recently arrived today. I was bewildered when two packages came on the same order. At first, I thought it was a mistake, but I signed for both when he showed me the label and it clearly said my name on it. After tearing through the boxes, I was surprised to see that it was a gift sent by my relatives overseas. It was a brightly colored sweater with unique zigzag designs and a letter, describing their well-being.

[fahoumh]

Someone wrote "ha love it" with an arrow pointing to a crude drawing of Spongebob I doodled in one of the carrels in the library. I couldn't help but smile at the written approval.

[Buffalobiian]

My neighbour was calling I.T. technicians ' "it" people ' . I did my best to hide my smirk.smile. I even threw in I.T. in my sentences afterwards, but she insists on calling them "it". :)

[Psyke]

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5062/07032009001.jpg

Got this today! :D

[darkshadow]

Way too sexy, ill have to wait a while longer till i get mine ;P

[Xelbair]

Damnit, RE5, Valkyria Chronicles, Killzone2, EndWar, and not enough cash for all. It will be hard choice.

[darkshadow]

My mom just came back from vacation and got some goodies for me ;P
She got me these:
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8619/pic0040c.jpg

Whilst my dad got me these:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4913/pic0041j.jpg

So yeah, that made me smile :D

[Assertn]

Damn DS, you must be the coolest kid on the block

[darkshadow]

*man-child ;o

[Death BOO Z]

aren't you a bit old for having your mom buy you action figures?

on the very least, you should be getting them yourself.

[darkshadow]

I didn't have them buy anything, thats why it made me smile.

[Xelbair]

I've just got my guitar case. My Valkyria chronicles' awizo(notice that i can pick it up at local post office - i've got no idea what its called in English) just arrived, and it seems that tomorrow gonna be another guitar jam.

[darkshadow]

ITEM GET! :D:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5227/itemget3.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8871/itemget2.jpg
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5691/itemget1.jpg

Now it's just waiting on the JPN e-CE that is still on its way from Psykeland.

[Psyke]

Now it's just waiting on the JPN e-CE that is still on its way from Psykeland.

Not much more waiting to go:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3829/transac.jpg

:D

[Konohamaru!]

going through the whole Fanart section of the forums today...

[darkshadow]

Not much more waiting to go:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3829/transac.jpg

:D

Yeah it arrived today, seems it was stopped at customs anyway, thus delaying it.
Anyway ITEM GET #2:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9021/pic0022e.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5582/pic0023o.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9697/pic0025.jpg
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/723/pic0027lin.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3981/pic0028e.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1003/pic0030.jpg

KUKUKU :D.
This really feels like a collectors edition, everything is feels sturdy and high quality, again my utmost thanks to you Psyke =D!

[Paulyboy]

Nice darkshadow, seems you like to collect limited edition and bundle packs, especially since you got the Killzone 2 with the hat :).


What made me smile today was when my little baby niece was talking, of course it was 3 month baby talk which consisted of "Gahs" "Aahs" and finally she can say "hi"

[Kraco]

What made me smile today was when my little baby niece was talking, of course it was 3 month baby talk which consisted of "Gahs" "Aahs" and finally she can say "hi"

Make sure her fourth word is "gotwoot".

[Ryllharu]

I ordered some loose leaf tea three days ago, it arrived yesterday because the import company is about a two hour drive from me, and I brewed them at work today.

I got a special gunpowder green tea (had it before, needed more), an oolong, and a darjeeling sampler. I tried one of the darjeeling in the afternoon, and it was very good.

A small thing really, but it made the day a lot better.

[Animeniax]

Gunpowder tea balls smell like shit and look like shit pellets, but tastes pretty good when brewed. Go figure.

[Psyke]

Itadakimasu's avatar made me smile today :)

[Buffalobiian]

I went for our national medical school admission test today. A 2.5hr component followed by an hour of lunch, then another 3hrs of testing....

I wouldn't call it "satisfactory", but I guess I won't know till results come out. I might have done fairly well after all. But since I can't use these scores to apply as it's a graduate entry thing anyway, today was more of a practice run, so I kind of winged it without preparation.

One of my weakness was my vocabulary, which kind of shows in the humanitarian section - but there's not terribly much I can do about that unless I read (and use, or I'll just forget) some really obscure and often long words.

The more important thing I should work on would be essay writing. Not having done stimulus-plan-write-STOP essays for a good few years, I suck at it now :o. It won't be too hard to brush up on this though, and next year when it counts, it'll just be like essay preparation in my highschool days.

Science was the part I loved. Of the topics and types of questions tested, I either did it in first year Pharmacy, second year Pharmacy, highschool chem/physics, or 3rd year pharm... In fact, the first question on the paper was something we just did....2 days ago? :D (Heart valves/sound and their impairments, for those interested).

Study wouldn't be necessary for that part, unlike those who are doing law, working, or something non-biochem based. The only things I can think of that I should read up again would be some rules/concepts on lenses/light/real-or-virtual images, and alpha-beta-gamma radioactive decay.

Anyway, now that that's finished, I topped off the day with some CSS fragging and Hellsing Ultimate 5 (now that Anon's the only choice). THAT made me smile :)

[Buffalobiian]

I got on the bus today, and instead of setting my laptop on hibernate like I usually do, I decided to put it on standby instead. Since I've never really tested how much power standby mode drains compared to hibernation (zero minus the small amounts needed to maintain the clock etc), I initially wanted to check the power level after my 1hr bus trip.

I got off the bus and went to work afterwards and went to work, came home and what not.
9 hours later, I finally remembered to turn it on again to find a 10% decrease in battery charge.

It greatly exceeded my expectations, so it made me smile.

[XanBcoo]

Talking to career advisers through my university is helping me relieve some of the worry of graduating and finding a job. Right now I'm seriously considering teaching English abroad. I'd love to go to graduate school, but as it's too late to apply for any for this next school year, my next year will be spent working. I can only hope I find something that interests me.

Also there's a guy sitting next to me who sounds exactly like Noam Chomsky. It's making me sleepy.

[Buffalobiian]

Following up from this post:

http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread.php?p=423630&postcount=2602

I did some more searching to find a store that sells that heatsink for $56. It incurs a $20 delivery charge though, bumping the gross cost to $76.

I then checked another site I was getting some Nexus 120mm fans from, and they had a $10-off special going that I wasn't aware of.

So now buying 3 of these fans like I intended covers the delivery charge and then some.:)

[Psyke]

My daughter celebrated her 4th month last week, and I made this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_hYP2ZCQ0k&hd=1) for her yesterday. :)

And yeah remember to watch in HD. Anyone knows how to directly link to the HD version of a video in youtube?

[Nadouku]

I think if you add this tag at the end of the YouTube link, it'll set it to High Quality: &fmt=18

So basically, for those that want to watch the video in High Quality (I recommend that you should), use this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_hYP2ZCQ0k&fmt=18.

Other than that, kudos to Psyke for the awesome video. Very cute, indeed. :p

[XanBcoo]

Nice video, but man, I forgot how top-heavy babies are. That child is about 2/3 head.

I love the last second of the video where she slaps her head on the mattress after flipping over.

[Buffalobiian]

The last few seconds just made my day. :o

[Marik]

Aww cute vid, congrats!

[Junior]

Washing my dogs made me grin. =D And smile.

Man, I love dogs. Also...my dad received expensive chocolate and shared it with me.
Chocolate. Guaranteed smiles.

[Ryllharu]

Reading the summary of how godawful Queen's Blade is going to be.
(and by that I mean horribly awesome)

The kind of series that makes Ikkitousen look like a History Channel documentary on nuns, Berserk look like a high intellectual thesis on the politics of the Medieval Era, and Bleach an instructional video about sword combat.

(NSFW)
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2009/04/02/queens-blade-01/
(NSFW)
(Not safe while anyone is looking over your shoulder either)

[Nadouku]

I couldn't stop laughing and going "what the hell?" at the screenshots. Seriously, can they think of something else that can't be purely perverted and strange, like Sekirei?

[Killa-Eyez]

http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2009/04/02/queens-blade-01/


Ya know what, THAT made me smile too. :o

[Buffalobiian]

I have no idea what that is right now. And maybe I never will, but suffice to say that the first episode has been so ridiculous and so over-the-top that I will probably continue watching every week just to see what kind of crazy shit they’ll pull.

That's probably what I'll be doing. If not, then at least the first episode to see what this Boob Cannon is all about :o

[itadakimasu]

I found out that tomorrow is a half day ! WOOOOT

[Buffalobiian]

I found out that tomorrow is a half day ! WOOOOT

I've got today (Friday) fully off, and work tonight is at either 1.5 or 2x my normal rate :D

[itadakimasu]

Tax Refund ! ZOMG!

I got $1623.51 ^^

Last year I got $50, and the year before that I let my parents talk me into having the H&R block people do my taxes, I got a refund but the fees they charged were more than my refund.

[Assertn]

Pssshhh sucka....I got $5700 back from my refund!
Although that's not why I'm smiling...that just means I overpaid in the first place...

I'm smiling because of an awesome girl that likes to call me on her way home from work to just chat. :]

[Animeniax]

Had a huge smile after beating serpent Irving on professional in RE5. Died 75 times to this boss, and still got a B score for the level. Ahh, 8 hours of my life spent on this one level.

[Psyke]

And I thought you hated the game. :p

[Nadouku]

I'm smiling because of an awesome girl that likes to call me on her way home from work to just chat. :]

You player!

We had an Easter Egg hunt for children and we guided them around. It was pretty fun trying to locate all the eggs, but it wasn't fun when the eggs were near rivers and was partially wet, or in other areas that couldn't be reached. Still, was fun.

[Xelbair]

I had only 3 lessons in school and they were 35min each instead of 45, and i had today extreme luck in quakelive(random rocket hitting guy that just passed through corner or lucky rail shots)

[Konohamaru!]

I'm smiling because it's day two of the special A State of Trance Episode 400! 72 hours of bliss instead of 3! =)

[Nadouku]

When you become a regular (like frequent visits and buying their product) of any store, do you get anything extra like more food or another product? Since I became a regular at this Chinese restaurant, they've given me discounts and other special offers.

[XanBcoo]

I'm usually a giant loser in public, so I'm happy tonight that 2 random girls finally danced with me when I was at a nightclub. That's honestly the first time it's ever happened and it feels like a breakthrough for me.

But damn, one kept grinding against my wallet which I keep in my front left pocket and I was totally afraid she thought it was erection. I didn't know what to do...

Edit to below: No, I get that. It was just weird because eventually my wallet was the only thing I could think about. I obsess over strange things.

[Buffalobiian]

Perhaps she was grinding it because she thought it was an erection ;)

[Assertn]

Perhaps she was grinding it cause she wanted your money :cool:

[Xelbair]

Or it was a suggestion what you could get for that money.

[Death BOO Z]

I got my self this thing

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41F9C6374PL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

my camera isn't working right now, so I can't put up a pic of it in my room, but it's pretty neat.

after spending six months fixing all the shit I've messed up in highschool, I have a few months to try something new, so I'm going to try out the keyboards.

I'll consider it a success if in three months (the minimum allowed time of rent) I'll be able to play the mario theme.
does someone has a site that features simplified versions of popular songs (rock, pop, hip hop, what comes by)?


edit: sorry, I was too busy being my own buzzkill that I forgot to say it's a Casio CTK 496 model, and that I'm practicing 'marry had a little lamb'

[Assertn]

My company will be meeting with some big investors next week. Possibly some huge partnership opportunites. Should be exciting :]

[Xelbair]

Today at Japanese lesson we had a real Japanese teacher! he was very stressed -it was his first lesson ever and he came to Poland yesterday. If he gets visa we'll have one hour with him and one with our teacher(she will cover grammathic and he will cover speaking and words)


EDIT
day after the text above:
I've just received my Killzone2 Collectors Edition(metal box) - and i bought it much cheaper than in normal store(at Empik - 220 PLN for normal edition, I've got mine for 140 PLN from allegro(polish equivalent of ebay, much more popular here)

for reference 1 USD is now like 3,6PLN, 1 euro is near 4PLN

[itadakimasu]

This asian guy off craigslist sold me 2 dell systems for $260 and then threw in 2 new packs of ram... didn't see if they were 2gb or 4gb packs because I was in a hurry... said he was getting rid of all his pc stuff because he's switched to mac.

Works for me !

[Nadouku]

I didn't know your Wii and Friend Code Number change every time you reformat the Nintendo Wii. I'll have to keep my friends updated when I reformat my Nintendo Wii. :p

[kAi]

That made you smile, Nadouku?

What made me smile? Got my Kevin Rudd economic stimulus money.

[Nadouku]

Yea, it did. I was gonna play with my friends, then I saw that my Friend Code list was wiped out. My friends were telling me "where are you?" and I replied "oh, yea... I reformatted my Wii." They laughed at me and I smiled a bit.

[Assertn]

First weekend fully-moved into my new apt and I'm loving it. I feel like so many burdens have been lifted by some of the zen changes I've made with my life, also somewhat made possible by moving. Kinda hard to believe that next weekend is going to be even better!

[Assertn]

My soon-to-be roommate is pretty fucking awesome.
Flying to WI tomorrow to pick her up!

[darkshadow]

So you are finally going to live together with your wife eh? ;P

[Animeniax]

My soon-to-be roommate is pretty fucking awesome.
Flying to WI tomorrow to pick her up!
Don't overhype it, or you'll ruin it. It's Murphy's Law.

[Cal_kashi]

This morning I left for work to add an extra 10 mile loop to my commute. This morning was incredibly beautiful and despite this being my fifth straight day riding I felt very strong today. My average speed was over 20 and I got to take a 30mi route to work.

\I rode 250mi in the last 5 days. I'm so happy.

[Death BOO Z]

Remember all those tests I've done months ago?
I finally got the results back this week.

Math I: 91/100
Math II: 92/100
{equivalent of GMAT} - 750/800 - which is actually alot better than it seems, it's more close to 99.5% of total population.


I'm frickin' awesome.

[Cal_kashi]

Congratufuckinglations! man good work.

[Xelbair]

This week I've had a 2 tests math one and polish one, they were just to prepare us for the real deal next year, I'll have to write Physics(advanced), Polish(basic), Maths(advanced), and English(Advanced), Although the tests I've written were basic level they were very easy, and passing percentage is 30%(just like on real deal). When i write them next year marks from those test will be used to determine if i get to the university i want. I'm thinking on Gdansk's Technical University on IT course. I was thinking about Polish-Japanese High IT school - but it'll be too hard for me(it is one of best in Europe).
And that they were easy made me smile - if i have such tests next year I'll pass without any doubt.

[XanBcoo]

I am just floating on air.

Went to a party last night, mostly to say goodbye to a bunch of people from my art club who I'll never see again. Halfway through the night, instead of giving a cliche goodbye speech, I made everyone get in a circle and say nice things about everyone else. It was a great bonding experience, and everyone talked openly and sincerely. Apparently I myself spoke quite eloquently, despite my drunkenness, and the whole thing has given me a high that's been able to battle a hangover.

I also confirmed for myself that, despite what I feel when I'm lonely and being pathetic, I have made a few very good friends here. Graduation sucks.

[Xelbair]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm3jzR1Yw-U&NR=1
this video made me smile.

[Nadouku]

Reading this (http://www.scribd.com/doc/28415/Why-I-fired-my-secretary-today) made me smile today. :p

[Buffalobiian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm3jzR1Yw-U&NR=1
this video made me smile.

That was pretty cool. I still hate the song though.

Reading this made me smile today.

Now THAT was funny :D

[darkshadow]

Haha, yeah that was pretty good.

[enkoujin]

Okay, so there was this perverted guy in my Physics class and he's a pretty funny and outgoing guy.

So there we were in Physics class learning about atoms, lights and whatnot when he puts up his hand and sets up his question:

"Teacher, this is regarding our last unit about light and vision. You know how clothing can absorb most of the lights and the color of a shirt is typically the color that is reflected back into our eyes, right? ..."

He continues:

"Well, what is the science of light involved in when you can see through a white t-shirt when it gets wet? Is there refraction of light involved in any way?"

After such words were spoken, the entire class succumbed into a roar of laughter. They were laughing at this guy who just asked a suggestively sexual question to the teacher that has somehow infused science and humor together in a perfectly legitimate question for physics.

I was laughing pretty hard myself. But then...

I realized I WAS that guy who asked the question.

I also did not realize my teacher was wearing a white shirt herself.

God damn it!

[XanBcoo]

there was this perverted guy in my Physics class and he's a pretty funny and outgoing guy.

I realized I WAS that guy who asked the question.
You try way too hard. None of that was funny after I read this.

[Kraco]

Yeah. It might be better to try to get your dissociative identity disorder fixed.

Like Xan said, it was a pretty funny story before that line.

[Buffalobiian]

Landline internet is back up!

Meaning:

-I can torrent and irc again!!.....
-I can play games with ping<200 make that <100 :D, and latency <1600ms....:D:D



I'll see how stability measure up. It seems there's no option back down onto G.dmt (ADSL1) for improved stability though....we'll see.

[Kraco]

-I can torrent and irc again!!.....

Welcome back to the unlife, Bill.

[Xelbair]

I went to school at 7:45AM, and on the information table there was note "Class 2F(my class) 3rd and 4th lesson are called off, students must go on 5th one" the funny part is now:
-1st and 2nd lesson should happen but thanks to this notice we didn't had them and when i went on the 5th lesson 5th was called off too, and 6th was a open one too... only 7th one German was left - but guess how many people came(including me)? zero. great day.

[Buffalobiian]

I checked my connection after it connected, and I was getting 7000kbps downstream with a noise margin of 4dB.

I emailed my ISP and told them I had some dropout issues with my previous provider, and I said I would be willing to sacrifice a bit of speed for a higher noise margin.

30mins later, I noticed my connection went to shit. When I checked my connection afterwards, I see I'm connected at 1400kbps now with a 30dB noise margin.

I was expecting them take no notice, or try something a little lower, but not this........extreme...p.

In any case, that made me smile.

I've sent them an email asking them to change me to a "list of preferred settings", or if that's too demanding, then just put me back on what I was before. That connection was just a bit TOO stable ;)

[darkshadow]

My snr-margin is 12dB(close), 10dB(far).
I never really knew what this meant though. In what way does it impact the connection?

[Buffalobiian]

SNR = signal-to-noise ratio, aka Noise Margin.

For every meter of phone line, joints, interference etc, there's noise on the line. If the cable passes underneath a road or someone's house, trucks passing and partying causes interference noise on the line.

For ADSL modems to function, they have to send their signal ABOVE the background noise of your line so it can be heard above all other interference at the other end, the phone exchange.

SNR is the margin for error that either your service provider, or your modem decided on when it makes a connection. The higher the SNR, the more gap there is between the signal and the noise, reducing the less likely it is that the SNR will drop to zero.

For example:
If your connection specified an SNR of 4dB. If there was any outside inteference, like the sources I said above, or a phone rang, etc, the noise increases from earlier (when we established a connection). If the accumulative noise rose by 4dB, say, the result is that the modem notices it can no longer differentiate between noise and signal. It compensates for that by adding more power into the signal.

(A good analogy is like shouting louder at a gathering when the music turns up).

There a limit to how much power the modem can put out though, and when that limit is reached, background noise drowns out signals. CRC errors occure, packets arrived screwed up, and you lose synchonisation. The result is a disconnection.

Why not just jack up SNR as high as it can go?

That's because the higher the margin you set, the less frequency bandwidth you have for your ADSL connection. By increasing the "gap" between noise (the lower frequencies) and signal (the higher frequencies), you sacrifice a larger frequency range in the middle as a bigger safety margin for you connection, meaning it takes greater noise to rise up to your signal and drown it out. By doing that, you can no longer use those frequencies for your ADSL traffic.

I think I read somewhere that 3dB of margin is equivalent to about 1000kbps of bandwidth.

Some people with short lines, or great quality lines can sig with low SNRs and enjoy great speed, because their line isn't subject to any big sources of interference.

Other people who live really far from exchanges, or have a bad quality line, will be more likely to suffer from noise interference, and thus have to sacrifice some speed for a bigger noise margin, and better stability.

[Assertn]

Don't overhype it, or you'll ruin it. It's Murphy's Law.
Things pretty much worked out about as well as I hoped it would, so fuck Murphy's Law :]

[Buffalobiian]

Things pretty much worked out about as well as I hoped it would, so fuck Murphy's Law :]

And hope Murphy's Law doesn't come back to fuck you ;)

[Buffalobiian]

Got my score for the Graduate Australian Medical School Admission Test.

Ranked on ~92nd percentile!! :D

Too bad it doesn't count since I'm not actually graduating till next year.
I'll give it another shot then with actual preparation :p

Anyway, big smile on me :)

[Cal_kashi]

HOORAY for Bike to work day!

On this one glorious day they set up 'energizer stations' along the most traveled routes. These stations have juice, coffee donuts, bagels muffins fruit and assorted goodies; as much as you want. They also hand out musette bags
http://www.marinbike.org/Events/BTWD2007/Photos/Bag.jpg
which have in them cycling goodies: cliff bars, patch kits, gels etc. and tehy have coupons for awesome stuff, X% off at shops, free burritos and the like. I even got a coupon book for tons of stuff that usually sells for $25. On top of all that I don't have to make breakfast or coffee so bed to bike is like 10 minutes instead of 30. Finally, and best of all, I'm less alone riding to work.
Today though bike to work day was a trap. The afternoon winds were much worse than typical for May, sustained winds of 20, gusts up to 30. I felt so bad for the people that don't ride regularly and who surely didn't realize what there ride home had in store for them. I tried to help a number of people to get down the road by having them sit on me but the people that needed the help weren't able to hold my wheel and the ones that could hold my wheel didn't need help. After spending several miles constantly slowing back down to 16 so some peeps could catch back on to me, and then get lost again I just gave up and brought my speed back up to my normal 21-22 (fucking winds, so slow). I DID however teach one guy how to track stand. If he heeds my advice, and practices for a year or two he'll be awesome. Ahhhh, riding my bike makes me happy.
On a side note I looked up the DSMV iV for addiction and I'm pretty sure cycling counts. Joy!

[Assertn]

Went to a totally swanky house party up in the hills in Bel-Aire last night. The place was huge...they had a room with a giant TV, a room with workout equipment, and a room with just furniture and art. The backyard looked like a tropical jungle with a waterfall, a pool and a firepit in the corner, and a gazebo-looking structure that was a hot tub. There was also a trail in the back that led up the hill with various furniture scattered along the way to just lay down on and look up at the sky or look down at the neighborhood. There was also a band playing there and a bartender serving free drinks.

I think I know what my next purchase is gonna be.

[itadakimasu]

My instructor finally posted my grade for the Sociology class I took online, and I got a B !!!!

Smiling because I stopped doing the assigned reading after the third or fourth chapters and I was extremely cynical about the whole class w\ the teacher on several occasions. Probably the most pointless class ever all of it based on what some random guy thinks, and not about facts.

So, now I just need one more class to complete my associates degree !

[Cal_kashi]

On Tuesday my bike finally destructed in a sudden blaze of glory that stranded me 10 mi from home and 20 miles from work.But I got my new frame in, swapped out my grupo. They even upgraded me (a BIG upgrade too) to a Full carbon bike.
Gentlemen behold!
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq238/user0_cool/P1000641.jpg
my new baby. I'm gonna ride her hard, put her away wet and hopefully tear her apart.

[Buffalobiian]

I'm no bikie, but that looks like a nice ride. Perhaps even nicer still when it gets a seat in place.

[Cal_kashi]

That's how I roll, I'm kinky that way

er...

The picture was taken after she was half built, but before I had found a solution to the seatpost/saddle issue. On wed I rode my mtn bike to work, did a sprint ride too b/c I was late; went to some shops on my way home and found the bolts I needed to finish her. Stayed up all night wrenching. Did a test ride at 3am for 40 minutes. Found more issues, kept working till it was time to go to work. MY GOD THAT BIKE IS FAST. My average speed, (pure distance over time) was 21. covering 22 miles. after having not slept and done a sprint ride the prior day. When she was moving she was going over 20. If she had long enough w/o interruption from intersections and lights, she was holding 25+. You know that feeling when you are driving for hours and hours in the middle of nowhere and look down and realize you are accidentally going over 100. The ride to work was like that; at one point I looked down and said holy shit! I'm going 30. The bike is possessed by some wicked fast evil speed demon, and I like it that way. All I have to do is think about pedaling and she does all the work. It's the fastest bike I've ever owned.

....and it's time to go to work. toodles!

[Buffalobiian]

Sounds like great fun. I envy you for having a passionate hobby. Really. There's like nothing that motivates me anymore.

[Cal_kashi]

why not? how can I/we help?

[Buffalobiian]

why not? how can I/we help?

Why should there be anything I care about? Sure, give it a try. Maybe I should make a new thread or something for it.

[Psyke]

Knowing another Metal Gear (http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/index.html) game is on the way. :)

[itadakimasu]

Knowing another Metal Gear (http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/index.html) game is on the way. :)

hmmm.. that page has a 79 hour countdown?!

[Nadouku]

Well, if it starts off fresh and has a solid gameplay system, then I won't resist buying it. :p

[darkshadow]

The next countdown clock has a one eyed Cyborg raiden, putting 1+1 together, the new game must jump between time periods. I am actually expecting more of an expansion instead of MGS5
Or its something completely different and kojima is just being a bitch (letitplzbezoe3kthx)

[Killa-Eyez]

I would like a 3rd generation Zone of the Enders. That'd be awesome! :eek:
What made me smile today is all the female attention I'm getting lately. :p