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Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:55 pm
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:38 am
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:26 am
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:05 am
by Fredjikrang
Yeah, my sister told me that it took her about 9 months, though she also read other books at the same time.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:14 pm
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:34 am
by Portia
As torturous as planning one's own wedding is, listening to others' wedding drama is perhaps worse again.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:00 am
by Katya
Fredjikrang wrote: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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:12 pm
by Marduk
Anyone else watching the Iowa caucus results? This is a TIGHT race.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:32 pm
by TheBlackSheep
Yeah, that 57 votes stuff was craaaaazy.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:07 am
by 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
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:05 am
by Marduk
the final count is in, and it is: Romney by a whopping 8 votes.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:13 am
by bobtheenchantedone
And you told me like four times that Santorum was going to win.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:40 pm
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:26 pm
by C is for
Craig Jessop wrote: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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:32 pm
by Marduk
Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. It is bad for your (mental) health.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:19 am
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:52 pm
by 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!
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:59 pm
by 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.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:08 pm
by mic0
I'm taking Russian 102 this semester (so advanced!) and Katya is on every other page.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:12 pm
by Katya
mic0 wrote: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.