What made your day today?

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Re: What made your day today?

#1801 Post by wally » Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:54 am

It's been a few years but I FINALLY managed to get some new cymbals and get my drums set up again, and in a spot where I can play them regularly. I have a renewed vigor in attacking those motherfuckers. :cool:
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#1802 Post by perkana » Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:52 pm

Got news today that I'm finally going to Teotihuacán in a few weeks (crossing my fingers about getting inside the tunnel I've analyzed and have been fed up with it lately)

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Re: What made your day today?

#1803 Post by farrellgirl99 » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:04 am

I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

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#1804 Post by krakle » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:25 am

farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

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oh sweet! I have family & friends there too. I visit Edinburgh once a year or so, too bad I missed you. what other destinations do you have on this trip?

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#1805 Post by Hype » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:51 pm

Visit Hume's Grave in Old Calton cemetery downtown!

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#1806 Post by nausearockpig » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:28 pm

Watching some idiot trying to get the attention of a passing cab by clicking his fingers. then shaking his head in disgust as the cab continued on its way. With its passenger..

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Re: What made your day today?

#1807 Post by farrellgirl99 » Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:58 am

krakle wrote:
farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

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oh sweet! I have family & friends there too. I visit Edinburgh once a year or so, too bad I missed you. what other destinations do you have on this trip?
It's a very short trip bc I'm in the middle of my school semester back home. But I'm doing a day trip to Dublin and then unfortunately flying home Sunday. This city is simply gorgeous.

And Hype, I did visit that graveyard and saw his grave although I can't say I know much about him.

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Re: What made your day today?

#1808 Post by guysmiley » Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:36 am

wally wrote:It's been a few years but I FINALLY managed to get some new cymbals and get my drums set up again, and in a spot where I can play them regularly. I have a renewed vigor in attacking those motherfuckers. :cool:
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I'm jealous that you have a spot to play. I end up playing for studio time just to practice these days.

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#1809 Post by Hype » Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:13 am

farrellgirl99 wrote:And Hype, I did visit that graveyard and saw his grave although I can't say I know much about him.
He was a big fat jolly Scotsman philosopher in the 1700s who never got a job as a teacher, but did get a job as a librarian and historian. He wrote one of the most comprehensive histories of the British Isles, and he published his most famous work when he was only 24 years old (A Treatise of Human Nature, which he had started writing at age 16!)

Dude was the one to say that metaphysics should be "consigned to the flames", and basically jump-started British Empiricist philosophy. Kant famously said that it was David Hume who "awoke me from my dogmatic slumber" (and thus Hume is to blame for German Critical Philosophy and German Idealism). He is also *the* major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment (and since Kant is a major figure in the German one, Hume figures there too).

It's cool that you saw his grave. When I visited, the tourist info people didn't know who he was. :lol: They had to go searching through some old books to figure it out.

Tbh, I didn't find Edinburgh that pretty. Most of my family live up north, and to me that's really the essence of Scotland (the Balmoral grounds and stuff...)

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#1810 Post by perkana » Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:14 am

I was talking to someone who used to post here last night and I won't be complaining anymore about the weather.
While it's been warm and nice, I can't believe it's been snowing so much at some other places
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#1811 Post by Artemis » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:49 am

perkana wrote:I was talking to someone who used to post here last night and I won't be complaining anymore about the weather.
While it's been warm and nice, I can't believe it's been snowing so much at some other places

Wow that is a HUGE snowman! :cool: :lol:


I am happy that it is finally sunny and clear. The whole week has been snowing, raining, cloudy, and gray.

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#1812 Post by guysmiley » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:55 am

perkana wrote:I was talking to someone who used to post here last night and I won't be complaining anymore about the weather.
While it's been warm and nice, I can't believe it's been snowing so much at some other places
That is the greatest sinep sculpture I've ever come across. I MUST HAVE IT!!!! HOW MUCH?!?!??!?!

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Re: What made your day today?

#1813 Post by Artemis » Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:07 pm

The Italian word for brush - spazzolino. :lol:

A spazzolino da denti is a toothbrush. I have a spazzolino electrico. :lol:

It's probably not that funny, but I am in a silly mood today.

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Re: What made your day today?

#1814 Post by Hype » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:50 pm

Artemis wrote:The Italian word for brush - spazzolino. :lol:

A spazzolino da denti is a toothbrush. I have a spazzolino electrico. :lol:

It's probably not that funny, but I am in a silly mood today.


:aoa: :banana:

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Re: What made your day today?

#1815 Post by sinep » Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:03 am

farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

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that's some beautiful grass

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#1816 Post by creep » Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:01 am

sinep wrote:
farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

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(not my pic obv)
that's some beautiful grass
i thought you were a poor college student. i didn't get to travel when i was in college.

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Re: What made your day today?

#1817 Post by krakle » Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:47 am

creep wrote:
sinep wrote:
farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

(not my pic obv)
that's some beautiful grass
i thought you were a poor college student. i didn't get to travel when i was in college.
That´s a pity. I used to travel a lot when in college. Now I don´t have that kind of time anymore.

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Re: What made your day today?

#1818 Post by perkana » Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:25 am

A friend is going to send me Jane Austen's stamp collection :wiggle:
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Re: What made your day today?

#1819 Post by farrellgirl99 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:38 pm

creep wrote:
sinep wrote:
farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm visiting a friend in Edinburgh right now and I climbed Arthur's Seat today. It was gorgeous.

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(not my pic obv)
that's some beautiful grass
i thought you were a poor college student. i didn't get to travel when i was in college.
i am. i have a scholarship that gave me $7500 dollars over four years to study abroad. so i used it to go to new orleans, rome, and argentina.

this trip i did out of my own pocket from my job. so ive been lucky

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Re: What made your day today?

#1820 Post by Essence_Smith » Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:10 pm

On a whim I put my resume back on Monster and a few job sites a few weeks ago (even though I'm content where I am right now)... checked my email today to discover like half a dozen different agencies, etc are asking me for interviews...good to know my skills are in demand somewhere...

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#1821 Post by nausearockpig » Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:31 pm

Essence_Smith wrote:On a whim I put my resume back on Monster and a few job sites a few weeks ago (even though I'm content where I am right now)... checked my email today to discover like half a dozen different agencies, etc are asking me for interviews...good to know my skills are in demand somewhere...
nice one. What do you do? Speaking generally, of course...

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Re: What made your day today?

#1822 Post by Essence_Smith » Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:06 pm

nausearockpig wrote:
Essence_Smith wrote:On a whim I put my resume back on Monster and a few job sites a few weeks ago (even though I'm content where I am right now)... checked my email today to discover like half a dozen different agencies, etc are asking me for interviews...good to know my skills are in demand somewhere...
nice one. What do you do? Speaking generally, of course...
I'm a law clerk that specializes in intellectual properties (trademarks) data administration...tedious work, but the company I work for is a good one and I finally have found a spot with some upward mobility, good benefits, etc...putting the resume up was basically to see where the market is at these days...

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Re: What made your day today?

#1823 Post by tvrec » Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:43 pm

Funny or Die, Postal Service auditions :lol:

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#1824 Post by Mescal » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:44 pm

tvrec wrote:Funny or Die, Postal Service auditions :lol:

:lolol: I loved Moby

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#1825 Post by Juana » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:45 pm

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Craigslist gave me a new toy for really really cheap

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