Random Raves 49: Cats Can Have Little a Salami

[Arakhor]

I didn't have black teeth or rotten teeth or anything and I absolutely promise you people noticed and judged me harshly.

I should also point out that you too are North American, I believe. Besides, if anyone has been judging me for my crooked teeth, no one has mentioned it in my adult life that I can remember.

 

[JohannaK]

I got my left wisdom teeth removed yesterday. It took longer to wait for the anaesthetic to take effect that for the dentist to pull both teeth out. I was given a gauze and a light prescription and I have felt approximately 0 discomfort.

 

[Kyriakos]

Seminar is over. No financial gain (due to three train trips and other expenses) but basically no financial loss either. Would have been a good paying gig without the train tickets.
Contemplating buying trash kfc to eat on the train. Gained hp and am closer to leveling up on fame (still low).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I got my left wisdom teeth removed yesterday. It took longer to wait for the anaesthetic to take effect that for the dentist to pull both teeth out. I was given a gauze and a light prescription and I have felt approximately 0 discomfort.

That's been my experience with having teeth pulled, though mine haven't ever gone really fast. Apparently some people have teeth with roots that sort of run into their jaw in parallel tracks. I am not one of them, and every time I've had a tooth pulled they have had to cut it in half with a grinder and pull it out in two pieces because of the way the roots spread out. If I had been Tom Hanks character in Castaway I'd have had to break my jaw to get the bad tooth out and would probably have died.

 

[Takhisis]

Seminar is over. No financial gain (due to three train trips= -165 euro; net loss: 20 euro). Contemplating buying trash kfc to eat on the train. Gained hp and am closer to leveling up on fame (still low).

Just measure it in terms of vim/imagination/pulchritude.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Painkillers and I are not suited for each other. I always pass on taking them; even after heart surgery.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The last time I took the trip up the coast, the rolling hills that ran along side the beaches, sand dunes and cliffs of the central coast were emerald green. Today, they were iridescent. To be cliche, it was soul cleansing to just sit and take in nature's beauty.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am back to the 1,5 world, from the 12th world.

 

[Ajidica]

The last time I took the trip up the coast, the rolling hills that ran along side the beaches, sand dunes and cliffs of the central coast were emerald green. Today, they were iridescent. To be cliche, it was soul cleansing to just sit and take in nature's beauty.

You take the train I assume?
Whenever I take Amtrak to/from Chicago I always love looking at the scenery, such as going along the Mississippi mid morning as you enter the hills of the Driftless Region.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah I take Amtrak's Surfliner up north regularly for work. It's a long ride but it's completely relaxing and I enjoy it. This time I finished 1 and 2/3 books over the round trip.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

In addition to the chat I had with the building manager yesterday about the rent situation (details in another thread), we had a very nice chat about British Columbia. I found out that he comes from Campbell River (on Vancouver Island) and I told him about the holidays I had on the Island, my first impression of the Pacific Ocean, and the time a friend and I went to Spokane to meet Sylvester McCoy (the actor who played the Seventh Doctor; he had just taken over the role on Doctor Who and was on a cross-USA tour of appearances at the PBS stations that carried the show. His time in Spokane was on Labor Day weekend, in 1987, so we decided to make the trip.

 

[Colon]

My trusted Nvidia 8800 GTS (320MB) has died. Having come to life during the reign of Windows Vista, it survived 2 motherboard/CPU combinations and an untold number of PSUs and HDDs. It proudest achievement was running Crysis at mid-specs. RIP.

 

[MaryKB]

Looks like there are some good movies on TBS this evening

 

[Lemon Merchant]

My trusted Nvidia 8800 GTS (320MB) has died. Having come to life during the reign of Windows Vista, it survived 2 motherboard/CPU combinations and an untold number of PSUs and HDDs. It proudest achievement was running Crysis at mid-specs. RIP.

Time to buy a 2080 Ti. Only $1500 USD.

 

[Broken_Erika]

#PalindromeDay: Geeks around the world celebrate 02/02/2020

Maths geeks around the world are celebrating a day so rare that - unless they're very, very young - it's certain to happen only once in their lifetimes.

This is, of course, palindrome day, when the date - in this case 02/02/2020 - reads the same way back to front.

But while palindrome days come and go - 20/02/2002 is another example - this one is special.

Unlike the date in 2002, this one reads the same in North America, where dates are written as month-day-year instead of day-month-year as in much of the rest of the world.

It also works for China and a handful of other countries which put the year first.

• What is a palindrome?

The last time a palindrome like this happened was 11 November 1111. (Which is really beside the point, because no-one was using Arabic numerals in North America then.)

In that year:

• Crusaders led by Baldwin I of Jerusalem were fighting the Turks in what is now northern Syria
• Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, was king of England
• Afonso I, founder of the kingdom of Portugal, was born

We don't have to wait quite so long for the next international palindrome day, though - it's 12 December 2121. Who knows? Some of us may even live to see it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51349158

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Rave 1: It's girl scout cookie season
Rave 2: We decided to book a mini-vacation up the coast for Valentine's day weekend. We're going to climb this hill and look at the ocean from the top:

Spoiler Bishop's Peak :

(that picture is from wikipedia)
We'll probably do a beach day too or maybe explore the local forests or something. We're taking the train to get up to that area and reading books or staring at the ocean out the window as it plods along.

 

[The_J]

I had a pretty good day today. I went with the erasmus student network for a hike through the natural park surrounding the campus. So I got to see the area, and met new people at the same time .

 

[Takhisis]

#PalindromeDay: Geeks around the world celebrate 02/02/2020

Maths geeks around the world are celebrating a day so rare that - unless they're very, very young - it's certain to happen only once in their lifetimes.

This is, of course, palindrome day, when the date - in this case 02/02/2020 - reads the same way back to front.

But while palindrome days come and go - 20/02/2002 is another example - this one is special.

Unlike the date in 2002, this one reads the same in North America, where dates are written as month-day-year instead of day-month-year as in much of the rest of the world.

It also works for China and a handful of other countries which put the year first.

• What is a palindrome?

The last time a palindrome like this happened was 11 November 1111. (Which is really beside the point, because no-one was using Arabic numerals in North America then.)

In that year:

• Crusaders led by Baldwin I of Jerusalem were fighting the Turks in what is now northern Syria
• Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, was king of England
• Afonso I, founder of the kingdom of Portugal, was born

We don't have to wait quite so long for the next international palindrome day, though - it's 12 December 2121. Who knows? Some of us may even live to see it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51349158

I still remember 9/9/99. Twenty years and counting.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have been taking photos from the train but honestly between my phone's crummy lenses, my ineptitude with a camera and the smudges/glare on the train windows, none of them have been good. I do hope to take some good ones when I'm up there in person. I have been going for work but I don't get a chance to see the town outside of the restaurants in the area.

I did get an awesome picture of a launch tower against a cliff with the waves off to the side but it's not really high quality.

Here:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-thread-for-space-cadets.475390/page-207#post-15659461

 

[JohannaK]

Rave 1: It's girl scout cookie season
Rave 2: We decided to book a mini-vacation up the coast for Valentine's day weekend. We're going to climb this hill and look at the ocean from the top:

Spoiler Bishop's Peak :

(that picture is from wikipedia)
We'll probably do a beach day too or maybe explore the local forests or something. We're taking the train to get up to that area and reading books or staring at the ocean out the window as it plods along.

Me, I expected a picture of the girl scout's cookies.