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The Game Hamster wrote:Vidmaster7 wrote:To sum up todays conversation Captain really enjoys his lizard profile pick (you eat those flys) and t-lion actually knows nimrod is more then just a bugs bunny insult. Oh and mort had stuff thrown at her.Yep.
Though, I knew the Nimrod stuff to, I just didn't feel it was important...
Unless you want me spewing everything I randomly know...That's what I do!
(We all have great friends.)
I just meant me spouting off everything I know.
I know A ton of USELESS stuff...Including why I'm naked!
The Game Hamster |
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The Game Hamster wrote:I was actually going to mention TLA and OPM is a worthy contender, but the latter is actually further down the line for me, and I decided not to list "best shows of all time" because then I'd be stuck listing things forever (off the top of my head, though, adding B:TAS and Gargoyles is necessary, for example).Tacticslion wrote:I still like Avatar: The Last Airbender better, as it IS my #1 Tv show of all time, but Gravity Falls is a VERY close third place. With One Punch Man a close second...Woran wrote:It really, really is. It's funny, the animation style was off-putting at first, but I loved the whole series so much, that now I like it.Tacticslion wrote:Gravity Falls is the BEST!Soos, Handyman of Mystery wrote:"Wait, am I a side character! Dudes, you ever think about stuff like that"Are you watching GF again? Saw two episodes on tv the other day - so good!
Unfortunately, it was just kind of "skip around the timeline day" or something, so it was part 1 of the S1 finale (the one about dreaming and Grunkle Stan), and then straight to "Northwest Mystery Noir" for some reason.
OPM is NOT on that list for objective reasons, not everyone likes it, and you HAVE to enjoy the satire, that one I fully acknowledge is subjective. The other two are almost purely objectively AMAZING especially Avatar, which is almost flawless in its execution.
Edit: keep it to ten/put it in a spoiler, and no one will mind.NobodysHome |
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Tacticslion wrote:I still like Avatar: The Last Airbender better, as it IS my #1 Tv show of all time, but Gravity Falls is a VERY close third place. With One Punch Man a close second...Woran wrote:It really, really is. It's funny, the animation style was off-putting at first, but I loved the whole series so much, that now I like it.Tacticslion wrote:Gravity Falls is the BEST!Soos, Handyman of Mystery wrote:"Wait, am I a side character! Dudes, you ever think about stuff like that"Are you watching GF again? Saw two episodes on tv the other day - so good!
Unfortunately, it was just kind of "skip around the timeline day" or something, so it was part 1 of the S1 finale (the one about dreaming and Grunkle Stan), and then straight to "Northwest Mystery Noir" for some reason.
Honestly, I think I'd switch the order, but barely, and otherwise I agree. So I'd have OPM, then TLA, then anything else. Gravity Falls was really good, but for me not as epic as those two.
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The Game Hamster wrote:Honestly, I think I'd switch the order, but barely, and otherwise I agree. So I'd have OPM, then TLA, then anything else. Gravity Falls was really good, but for me not as epic as those two.Tacticslion wrote:I still like Avatar: The Last Airbender better, as it IS my #1 Tv show of all time, but Gravity Falls is a VERY close third place. With One Punch Man a close second...Woran wrote:It really, really is. It's funny, the animation style was off-putting at first, but I loved the whole series so much, that now I like it.Tacticslion wrote:Gravity Falls is the BEST!Soos, Handyman of Mystery wrote:"Wait, am I a side character! Dudes, you ever think about stuff like that"Are you watching GF again? Saw two episodes on tv the other day - so good!
Unfortunately, it was just kind of "skip around the timeline day" or something, so it was part 1 of the S1 finale (the one about dreaming and Grunkle Stan), and then straight to "Northwest Mystery Noir" for some reason.
I respect that. Like I said, the OPM rating is subjective.
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** spoiler omitted **...
Living in Phoenix, I am dumbfounded by the number of lush green lawns and large water fountains I see. AZ is constantly having water disputes with neighboring states, even I've resorted to drinking bottled water because the local utilities are irresponsible at best thanks to a corrupt state Corporation Commission, and I keep hearing that shortages are incoming in a few years. And yet most people seem to be blithely unaware, or happy to make their deals with corporate interests and kick the can down the road.
There was some bill or initiative a few years ago to treat used water and recycle it back into the utilities -- I think CA does this in some limited form -- but someone(s) threw a lot of money into a 'toilet to tap' smear campaign and it never happened.
I keep hearing about this drought thing, and keep think about why no-one even seems to be trying to figure out sea-water purification. If someone could figure out how to do it cheaply and efficiently, well, the ocean ain't going anywhere any time soon...
Just speculating, but seawater has a lot of stuff in it. So perhaps the only way of purifying it is to evaporate it, which of course takes a lot of energy?
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lisamarlene wrote:Also, I believe, still the original keyboardist (Lamm). Although I don't think Walt Parazadier is touring anymore. 3rd drummer, 3rd bass player (4th if you also count the producer that played bass during the Chicago 17-19 years, since Cetera became a self-obsessed prima donna before going solo), and 6th guitarist. Plus scads of additional percussionists.My son woke me up at 4:49 this morning because he was singing loudly in his sleep. Multiple verses.
Now I get to go make dinner for the kids and the babysitters before I go to work, because tonight we're going to see one of my three favorite old fogey horn rock bands as a belated anniversary date.
John Belushi is dead, Blood Sweat and Tears aren't touring, so it's Chicago, with the original horn section. Because who doesn't need a trombone and a flugelhorn in their classic rock?
Parazadier is on the tour.
Cetera is no loss... I feel the same way about him that I do about Dennis DeYoung (Styx): they should have started their solo careers a lot sooner, before they started ruining their bands with the whiny-a$$ easy-listening drivel that filled their albums in the 80s.
A great band officially jumps the shark when they make a song with "sail" anywhere in the title.
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Right. The whole issue with desalinization is that at the moment, the energy cost per gallon to desalinate it is significantly higher than the price at which you can sell the desalinated water.
However, the last time I checked was a few years ago and it was only around 3x, so we may well be close to large-scale solar-powered desalinization plants. As water gets scarcer and people keep moving here in spite of their promises to move elsewhere (a recent article said that 46% of all residents plan on leaving, to which I respond, "Please?"), the costs will eventually balance out.
Trouble is, the nice people (LM) are leaving, and the jerks are staying.
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Vanykrye wrote:lisamarlene wrote:Also, I believe, still the original keyboardist (Lamm). Although I don't think Walt Parazadier is touring anymore. 3rd drummer, 3rd bass player (4th if you also count the producer that played bass during the Chicago 17-19 years, since Cetera became a self-obsessed prima donna before going solo), and 6th guitarist. Plus scads of additional percussionists.My son woke me up at 4:49 this morning because he was singing loudly in his sleep. Multiple verses.
Now I get to go make dinner for the kids and the babysitters before I go to work, because tonight we're going to see one of my three favorite old fogey horn rock bands as a belated anniversary date.
John Belushi is dead, Blood Sweat and Tears aren't touring, so it's Chicago, with the original horn section. Because who doesn't need a trombone and a flugelhorn in their classic rock?
Paradzier is on the tour.
Cetera is no loss... I feel the same way about him that I do about Dennis DeYoung (Styx): they should have started their solo careers a lot sooner, before they started ruining their bands with the whiny-a$$ easy-listening drivel that filled their albums in the 80s.
A great band officially jumps the shark when they make a song with "sail" anywhere in the title.
DeYoung sounds like a Vegas lounge act when he performs. Always has.
Cetera wasn't (and still isn't) a good songwriter. He could play the bass acceptably for what they wanted/needed. He could sing (no doubt about that). He couldn't compose his own parts. But that first song he wrote...every other member of the band rolled their eyes as they clung to their egalitarian rules of "everyone's songs get played if they bring them to the group" (which are lofty goals)...and hence "If You Leave Me Now" was born.
If I were a religious fellow I'd say Cetera is doomed to whatever negative version of the afterlife one would believe in just for the heresy of writing that song.
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I knew we aren't at a good spot for water desalination, my post was more of a rhetorical question as to why, since somebody ought to have cared enough to at least try to figure it out, but I've not really heard much on that.
Seems like it would be in California's best interest to put a ton of the governments funds into that research, as opposed to less useful research.
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lisamarlene wrote:Vanykrye wrote:lisamarlene wrote:Also, I believe, still the original keyboardist (Lamm). Although I don't think Walt Parazadier is touring anymore. 3rd drummer, 3rd bass player (4th if you also count the producer that played bass during the Chicago 17-19 years, since Cetera became a self-obsessed prima donna before going solo), and 6th guitarist. Plus scads of additional percussionists.My son woke me up at 4:49 this morning because he was singing loudly in his sleep. Multiple verses.
Now I get to go make dinner for the kids and the babysitters before I go to work, because tonight we're going to see one of my three favorite old fogey horn rock bands as a belated anniversary date.
John Belushi is dead, Blood Sweat and Tears aren't touring, so it's Chicago, with the original horn section. Because who doesn't need a trombone and a flugelhorn in their classic rock?
Paradzier is on the tour.
Cetera is no loss... I feel the same way about him that I do about Dennis DeYoung (Styx): they should have started their solo careers a lot sooner, before they started ruining their bands with the whiny-a$$ easy-listening drivel that filled their albums in the 80s.
A great band officially jumps the shark when they make a song with "sail" anywhere in the title.
DeYoung sounds like a Vegas lounge act when he performs. Always has.
Cetera wasn't (and still isn't) a good songwriter. He could play the bass acceptably for what they wanted/needed. He could sing (no doubt about that). He couldn't compose his own parts. But that first song he wrote...every other member of the band rolled their eyes as they clung to their egalitarian rules of "everyone's songs get played if they bring them to the group" (which are lofty goals)...and hence "If You Leave Me Now" was born.
If I were a religious fellow I'd say Cetera is doomed to whatever negative version of the afterlife one would believe in...
And that right there is why Vany gets cookies.
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Oh, I was watching the YouTube clips that The Game Hamster (?) posted about Leo the Lion and the other one, and Impus Major walked in and said, "Oh, yeah, we watched Leo the Lion on Bad Movie Night at V's house. It was REALLY bad."
*SIGH*.
The best part is when they guy starts praising leo the lion while reviewing the other one.
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Appreciating, enjoying, lauding, praising...
Though I'd make the argument that that could be a view of positivity. The focus on the negative as a deviation from the norm de facto paints the positive as the expected norm.
On the other hand, that undermines my argument by making English sound really needy.
Or the focus on negativity is so much the norm that the words for it come easily, while finding the word for focusing on positives is harrd because they are so rarely used...
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So keep in mind that we're looking for a word whose definition is, "Verbally expressing appreciation/enjoyment of an event or situation".
This eliminates enjoying and euphoria right off the bat, as they're passive. Appreciating DOES have a secondary meaning of verbally expressing oneself, but its primary definition is silent. "I am appreciating the sunset," usually does not connote a verbal component.
Praising and lauding aren't the same to me; they're both talking about how great someone is, not expressing your enjoyment of someone. For example, I've never heard someone say, "He was praising the sunny weather," and that would sound very strange. "He was complaining about the lousy weather," is extremely commonplace.So the only one I see in the list so far that I think is a good antonym of "complaining" is the secondary definition of "appreciating".
I'm not trying to pit nicks; I'm just looking at the number of English words that mean, "Verbally expressing unhappiness or disapproval with a person or situation," and marveling at how hard it is to come up with words that mean, "Verbally expressing happiness or approval with a person or situation."
Polish language has the verb "chwalić" [hvalitz], derived from the noun "chwała" [hvawa] (=glory), the former has a wider meaning than English glorify, because it can mean glorifying deity/hero as well, as telling your dog/kid that he is good boy when he obeys the commands/draw a ugly stick picture...
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The Game Hamster wrote:I keep hearing about this drought thing, and keep think about why no-one even seems to be trying to figure out sea-water purification. If someone could figure out how to do it cheaply and efficiently, well, the ocean ain't going anywhere any time soon...Just speculating, but seawater has a lot of stuff in it. So perhaps the only way of purifying it is to evaporate it, which of course takes a lot of energy?
We have the technology t efficiently desalinate small amounts of water, but I doubt those are cost-effective enough to produce amounts sustaining needs of bigger communities. The desalination plants could be powered by solar panels or wind turbines but building enough of them would have a high initial cost.
I think that some countries do that... I vaguely recall something about Israel doing this or at least considering it, though I don't know if it came to an actual effect.
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Orthos wrote:I'm guessing you guys are talking about Saberspark, and the other one being Joshua And The Promised Land?A-yep.
I didn't have 50 minutes to spare, so I watched maybe 5 minutes of each. Long enough to know I didn't have any desire to see either movie.
The Joshua review is pretty much just summed up in those 5 minutes, but the leo the lion review is worth watching all the way through.
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Israel does that, and on a large scale...
Israel buys a cubic meter of water (1000 liters or 1 metric ton of water) for 58 from the desalination company operating the plant, and the company still makes profit in that deal. The plant costed around $500,000,000.
Desalination of sea water is apparently less energy-effective than recycling water.
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NobodysHome wrote:** spoiler omitted **...Living in Phoenix, I am dumbfounded by the number of lush green lawns and large water fountains I see. AZ is constantly having water disputes with neighboring states, even I've resorted to drinking bottled water because the local utilities are irresponsible at best thanks to a corrupt state Corporation Commission, and I keep hearing that shortages are incoming in a few years. And yet most people seem to be blithely unaware, or happy to make their deals with corporate interests and kick the can down the road.
There was some bill or initiative a few years ago to treat used water and recycle it back into the utilities -- I think CA does this in some limited form -- but someone(s) threw a lot of money into a 'toilet to tap' smear campaign and it never happened.
The Game Hamster wrote:I keep hearing about this drought thing, and keep think about why no-one even seems to be trying to figure out sea-water purification. If someone could figure out how to do it cheaply and efficiently, well, the ocean ain't going anywhere any time soon...Just speculating, but seawater has a lot of stuff in it. So perhaps the only way of purifying it is to evaporate it, which of course takes a lot of energy?
Interesting.
Very interesting.
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Vanykrye wrote:...lisamarlene wrote:Vanykrye wrote:lisamarlene wrote:Also, I believe, still the original keyboardist (Lamm). Although I don't think Walt Parazadier is touring anymore. 3rd drummer, 3rd bass player (4th if you also count the producer that played bass during the Chicago 17-19 years, since Cetera became a self-obsessed prima donna before going solo), and 6th guitarist. Plus scads of additional percussionists.My son woke me up at 4:49 this morning because he was singing loudly in his sleep. Multiple verses.
Now I get to go make dinner for the kids and the babysitters before I go to work, because tonight we're going to see one of my three favorite old fogey horn rock bands as a belated anniversary date.
John Belushi is dead, Blood Sweat and Tears aren't touring, so it's Chicago, with the original horn section. Because who doesn't need a trombone and a flugelhorn in their classic rock?
Paradzier is on the tour.
Cetera is no loss... I feel the same way about him that I do about Dennis DeYoung (Styx): they should have started their solo careers a lot sooner, before they started ruining their bands with the whiny-a$$ easy-listening drivel that filled their albums in the 80s.
A great band officially jumps the shark when they make a song with "sail" anywhere in the title.
DeYoung sounds like a Vegas lounge act when he performs. Always has.
Cetera wasn't (and still isn't) a good songwriter. He could play the bass acceptably for what they wanted/needed. He could sing (no doubt about that). He couldn't compose his own parts. But that first song he wrote...every other member of the band rolled their eyes as they clung to their egalitarian rules of "everyone's songs get played if they bring them to the group" (which are lofty goals)...and hence "If You Leave Me Now" was born.
If I were a religious fellow I'd say Cetera is doomed to whatever negative version of the
Huh. Weird.
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Israel does that, and on a large scale...
Israel buys a cubic meter of water (1000 liters or 1 metric ton of water) for 58 from the desalination company operating the plant, and the company still makes profit in that deal. The plant costed around $500,000,000.
Desalination of sea water is apparently less energy-effective than recycling water.
I had to look up the numbers, and that is almost dollar for dollar, california's going water rate. That means that plant could be used effectively all over california, and while having no effect on the water price, would eliminate the water shortage.
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Vanykrye wrote:And that right there is why Vany gets cookies.DeYoung sounds like a Vegas lounge act when he performs. Always has.
Cetera wasn't (and still isn't) a good songwriter. He could play the bass acceptably for what they wanted/needed. He could sing (no doubt about that). He couldn't compose his own parts. But that first song he wrote...every other member of the band rolled their eyes as they clung to their egalitarian rules of "everyone's songs get played if they bring them to the group" (which are lofty goals)...and hence "If You Leave Me Now" was born.
Oh...I've earned cookies. From LM. Those are gonna be some fantastic cookies.
Also, I've waited around 20 years or so to use that old Pets.com commercial.
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We've been drinking toilet water since 2001, and we don't give a sh*t. Did plan to take Hi to the newater plant as well but not enough time to do so.
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Oh, I was watching the YouTube clips that The Game Hamster (?) posted about Leo the Lion and the other one, and Impus Major walked in and said, "Oh, yeah, we watched Leo the Lion on Bad Movie Night at V's house. It was REALLY bad."
*SIGH*.
So, what you're saying is we need to send Joshua and the Promised Land to your house.
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We've been drinking toilet water since 2001, and we don't give a sh*t. Did plan to take Hi to the newater plant as well but not enough time to do so.
How does it taste? My tongue is totally indiscriminate -- probably due to my anosmia -- but Mrs Sunrise's tongue demands high-quality water.
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They have to mix it with treated rain water because it's basically so pure that it would leech minerals out of the metal piping and your body as well. It has no odour or taste at all.
Meh I'm not a water snob. I generally eat anything and drink anything as well. My grandmother's house had water tasting a little salty because they lived near the sea. Didn't bother me.
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All right. Doctor's review time, so let's get moving to the clinic.
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Is it raining outside? It causes moodiness.
Anyway, results state a possible urinary tract infection, but again, I took the test when I just got back to office so I was rather busy and definitely not inclined to drink too much water less I waste time going to pee. And of course, too fat. But I know that already.
Other then that, all good.
Also apparently when collecting urine samples you're supposed to catch the midstream and wipe down first and not just pee into the container. That I didn't know. Could have screwed the results some too.
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Rain usually causes me to feel lethargic and down. If you want a cheat - try eating chocolates. It always puts me in a better mood ^^
I just had some hot chocolate with those hopes. Plus I ordered some greasy bbq chicken wings to be delivered so it should help. Then I'm gonna try and work on my book some more. I think I've not been getting enough physical activity lately plus I've been pretty socially deprived since one of our D&D games ended and we haven't picked up the next one yet and my other one was cancelled this week.
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Just a Mort wrote:Rain usually causes me to feel lethargic and down. If you want a cheat - try eating chocolates. It always puts me in a better mood ^^I just had some hot chocolate with those hopes. Plus I ordered some greasy bbq chicken wings to be delivered so it should help. Then I'm gonna try and work on my book some more. I think I've not been getting enough physical activity lately plus I've been pretty socially deprived since one of our D&D games ended and we haven't picked up the next one yet and my other one was cancelled this week.
Then what you're suffering from is D&D withdrawal syndrome. The only fix, sadly is to get your dose of D&D. If you're fine with PBP format, I could probably run a short level 1 PFS scenario to give you that dose. And going out for a walk in the park helps too.
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...I'm just looking at the number of English words that mean, "Verbally expressing unhappiness or disapproval with a person or situation," and marveling at how hard it is to come up with words that mean, "Verbally expressing happiness or approval with a person or situation."
So, a verb like exult, except a transitive one (needing an object)?
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Lol well I am at work so no go on both of those tho I appreciate the offer.
Honestly for PBP format, if you can post as frequently on PBP as you do on FAWTL, you're good to go. I mean you can post here, so you can post on a PBP. Unless you don't have access to Google maps.
I'm going to get quite some physical activity - gonna have to walk 1.1 km to the factory outlet to buy my mochis and glutinous rice balls.