Happy Days in Random Chatter 10

[Fredjikrang]

Eh, I only scored 22%. I think that I'll live. ;D

And C, my sister read 182 books this year, though 200 was her goal. She blames reading Les Miserables for her not reaching it.

[Unit of Energy]

I read 20 books a month over the summer, but school took it's toll on reading time. but that's over and done with now.

[C is for]

Les Miserables takes forever. I probably read like 100 books in the middle of reading it (or, well, maybe more, since it took me over a year) but I finally buckled down and finished it.

I'm easily distracted.

[Fredjikrang]

Yeah, my sister told me that it took her about 9 months, though she also read other books at the same time.

[TheAnswerIs42]

I have always been glad I read that when I took a reading class in High School. Greatest elective ever. We just came in and read whatever we wanted to each day, and the grade was just based on writing down vocabulary we learned and a little blurb each week. So I had 40 minutes a day where all I had to do was read Les Miserables. Otherwise, I'm not sure I would have ever finished.

[Portia]

As torturous as planning one's own wedding is, listening to others' wedding drama is perhaps worse again.

[Katya]

Yeah, my sister told me that it took her about 9 months, though she also read other books at the same time.

I started reading it over ten years ago and haven't yet finished, although I do pick it up again every now and then.

[Marduk]

Anyone else watching the Iowa caucus results? This is a TIGHT race.

[TheBlackSheep]

Yeah, that 57 votes stuff was craaaaazy.

[Portia]

Forward, backward, inward, outward
Come and join the chase
Nothing could be drier
Than a jolly caucus race

Backward, forward, outward, inward
Bottom to the top
Never a beginning,
There can never be a stop

[Marduk]

the final count is in, and it is: Romney by a whopping 8 votes.

[bobtheenchantedone]

And you told me like four times that Santorum was going to win.

[Craig Jessop]

The Iowa caucuses? Ha, I prefer to call them the "Hawkeye Cauci." I wish I were clever enough to have come up with the name, but I didn't. And I can't remember who did.

[C is for]

The Iowa caucuses? Ha, I prefer to call them the "Hawkeye Cauci." I wish I were clever enough to have come up with the name, but I didn't. And I can't remember who did.

I don't know if he coined it, but I just heard Rush Limbaugh say it.

[Marduk]

Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. It is bad for your (mental) health.

[TheBlackSheep]

Fact: I've regularly listened to at least a few minutes of Rush ever since Vorpal told me to that one time. Fact: my mental health has never been better.
Defend, sir.

Wait, actually, don't. We all know I just like to be mad sometimes.

[Digit]

I was just reading in the January 2012 issue of IEEE Spectrum something pretty cool about a technology I didn't know humans had achieved.

The process that allows the blind to see starts with a pair of sunglasses, which sport a tiny video camera mounted in the bridge just above the nose. The camera captures an image and sends it down a wire to a visual processing unit hanging on the patient's belt. That VPU-which is a little larger than a smartphone-converts the world's complexities into a 60-pixel image in black and white, which it sends back to transponders on the glasses. From there the image goes wirelessly to antennas wrapped around the sides of the eyeballs, and from there to the 60-electrode arrays that are tacked to the delicate retinas.

The lady focused on in the article, who had the treatment after having been completely blind for the past 16 years, says "Now, when I'm walking down the block, I can look up and identify [my] building."

That's very neat!

[Portia]

So very, very tired, and needing to find the balance between staying up till 8 or 9 and jolting myself awake so I stay awake till the OTHER 8.

[mic0]

I'm taking Russian 102 this semester (so advanced!) and Katya is on every other page.

[Katya]

I'm taking Russian 102 this semester (so advanced!) and Katya is on every other page.

Ha! Well, that is the origin of my alias.