Synobun
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Those halogen floodlights must cause horrible glare for anyone not sitting in front of them.
It looks far less aggressive when using eyeballs instead of cameras.
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It looks far less aggressive when using eyeballs instead of cameras.
aimeeandbeatles
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Do you have glasses? Lights go funny on glasses.
Mixed use, it holds rugby league, rugby union and soccer - there's a World Cup qualifier vs Nepal coming up here soon.
Those halogen floodlights must cause horrible glare for anyone not sitting in front of them.
Shot using a fisheye wide angle function on my phone, you really don't notice the light towers at grounds when you're there.
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They're strange but surprisingly enjoyable. I'm reclusive and despise crowds but there's something about being at a hockey game that's just fun. I'd probably never go alone, though.
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No good for AFL too?
AFL fields are oval shaped and 40 to 70 metres longer and wider, they play on cricket fields usually.
aimeeandbeatles
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Here's a pretty big rave (at least for me): I've kept up my daily writing goal for a full month!
Attended a lecture this evening on cacao and drinking chocolate in Mexico and at Chaco Canyon in NM.
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AFL fields are funky. I actually quite enjoyed a match that azzaman brought me to when I was over in Melbourne.
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Last week I did some interviews and I noticed that my suit was really, really baggy. I don't exactly remember when I bought it but it must have been at my peak fatness. Yesterday I had another interview to do and I really didn't want to feel like I was wearing a sack so I tried on a suit I bought way back when I started community college. I haven't been able to wear it in almost a decade but it fit just fine yesterday! I was super surprised and very happy about that. During the interview, they asked what was my biggest failure and achievement for the week and I was able to talk about how much weight I'd lost and they were very impressed and it felt great.
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Started learning new Greek this month. Ancient Greek is good too, but new Greek is where alive people are at. 
Ajidica
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Went with a friend to a presentation at the American Swedish Institute on Viking/Scandinavian runes. The presentation was pretty interesting though, and by the presenters own admission, he was not a historian or archaeologist, and it often showed. His overview of Scandinavian/Norse history during Late Antiquity and the Vendel period was a bit spotty*, along with how he presented furnished inhumations**. There was also an odd moment when he was talking about a runestone that appeared to be memorializing the death of a volva and he commented that nobody knows what the serpent featured on the stone means. It is fully possible he could have misspoke or I could have misunderstood, but serpents/dragons were pretty well established in Norse and Germanic mythos from pretty far back and were unlikely to be a feature of later Christian writers trying to fit the pagan Norse worldview into a Christian framework.
*For example, he referred to the Goths as Scandinavian even though the only clear connections the Goths/Wielbark culture have Scandinavia are some lines in Jordanes' Getica which are not born out by archaeology.
**Admittedly, my only real knowledge of interpreting the goods in furnished inhumations comes from Guy Halsall who, as I understand, is a bit unorthodox in some of his interpretations/theories.
*For example, he referred to the Goths as Scandinavian even though the only clear connections the Goths/Wielbark culture have Scandinavia are some lines in Jordanes' Getica which are not born out by archaeology.
**Admittedly, my only real knowledge of interpreting the goods in furnished inhumations comes from Guy Halsall who, as I understand, is a bit unorthodox in some of his interpretations/theories.
Excellent choice!Started learning new Greek this month. Ancient Greek is good too, but new Greek is where alive people are at.
I remember awhile back when there was an article on CBC on this issue; the comments from about 99% of the male posters were disgustingly mean-spirited. And it was obvious who the right-wing female posters were, as they couldn't fathom any girl not being able to afford menstrual supplies or being caught without. It's like none of them took basic human biology in high school or ever knew anyone whose cycles are irregular and therefore completely unpredictable.
As for all those years that we were charged GST for this stuff, because it was considered a "luxury" item...
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Open Office has a dictionary that you can program, and any decent browser has a spell checker.My last computer came with Windows 10, which wants me to buy their word processing program from them. I raise my middle finger in salute!I downloaded Open Office, for free.
This worked fine for a while. Then Open Office decided every word I typed was misspelled.
I struggled without a spellchecker for a while, but finally I downloaded LibreOffice, for free.
Then that kicked in, and all's right with the world.
Actually, the ancient Egyptians were a highly-literate society and meticulous about record-keeping.
There's a huge difference between sharing a room and sharing a bed. There were plenty of years when the people I went to science fiction conventions with had co-ed rooms. But we were sharing the room, and when two people shared a bed, they were either the same sex or they were married couples. And this is something my grandmother was never told, or she'd have forbidden me to ever go to another convention.
I felt perfectly safe with the guys who shared the room (though there was one year when there were four women in my room and on Saturday night a male friend of one of them asked to crash because he'd been drinking too much to drive home safely; one of the women was married and didn't want to share a room with a guy who wasn't her husband, so we compromised: the room had a HUGE walk-in closet, so we gave him a couple of extra pillows and blankets and he slept on the floor in the closet).
I hope you were able to find out who took it.
I've seen hockey in person and on TV, and on TV is more comfortable (some arenas are just freezing, and washroom facilities for women aren't great). But either way, watching hockey is a lot more fun when there's someone to watch it with. My dad and I used to watch a lot of NHL hockey.
Here's a pretty big rave (at least for me): I've kept up my daily writing goal for a full month!
Good for you!
The main NaNoWriMo event of the year is coming up in November. I'll be starting a thread in A&E next month. I've started prep work for it (prep is allowed before November 1; in fact, it's recommended).
Turkey and chocolate sauce...
we served that one year in the local Society for Creative Anachronism, as the theme for the feast was Aztec.
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Open Office has a dictionary. I set the language to American English. Open Office still flagged every single word.
Libra Office is the twin of Open Office, but it works fine. 
. Also had unexpectedly really awesome weather 
.Thank you for explanation. I thought it was the same.
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