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Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:38 pm
by Craig Jessop
Cognoscente wrote:Shrinky Dink wrote:I was talking to my dad and he mentioned how Youth Conference went this summer. It reminded me of a time when our theme for Youth Conference was "Steadfast and Immovable" and we were going on a road trip. They wanted to get t-shirts with our theme on a license plate. Steadfast is too big to fit, so it got abbreviated as STDFAST.
Wow. That's.... pretty amazing.
Reminds me of that Arrested Development episode when Tobias got a vanity license plate to commemorate "
A New Start."
This is similar to my ward's Gospel Doctrine lesson last week, where we played "Plan of Salvation Pictionary." My group was assigned Adam and Eve.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 11:29 am
by Portia
Provo is so weird, sometimes. Ate at Los Hermanos by myself last night, and their space used to be an Italian restaurant.
Michelangelo's David had a bright blue Mexican blanket draped over his lower half. Oddly, the prudishness down there makes everything, even humanity's greatest artistic achievements, seem prurient. Rolling my eyes so hard.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 11:54 am
by mic0
Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:56 pm
by Marduk
mic0 wrote:Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.
Noooo. Bad Mico.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 3:42 pm
by Portia
I've been on a Stefan Zweig kick. (His work inspired Wes Anderson in making The Grand Budapest Hotel.) This passage about the repression of 1900 as seen from the vantage point of 1940 perfectly sums up my feelings on Provo:
"By this unnatural differentiation in external habits the inner tension between the poles, the erotic, was necessarily strengthened, and thus, by its unpsychological method of concealment and reticence, the society of that time achieved the directly opposite effect. While in its incessant fear and prudishness it was constantly tracking down the indecent in all forms of life, literature, at, and dress, in order to avoid every possible incitement, it was actually forced to think constantly of the indecent."
THIS
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 4:27 pm
by mic0
Marduk wrote:mic0 wrote:Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.
Noooo. Bad Mico.
I think I just confused "tasty" with "I went there with people I liked."

Thanks for shaming me into remembering.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:35 pm
by Emiliana
mic0 wrote:Marduk wrote:mic0 wrote:Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.
Noooo. Bad Mico.
I think I just confused "tasty" with "I went there with people I liked."

Thanks for shaming me into remembering.
Heh. You live in Texas, right? Did you grow up here? If so, double shame on you for thinking that anywhere else has decent Mexican food!
(Other than Mexico. Of course.)
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:36 pm
by Emiliana
Last night I dreamed that my dad left my stepmom for a gay man. My first reaction was, "I KNEW it wasn't possible for a straight man to have such clean fingernails and good fashion sense!"
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:39 am
by Portia
I am extremely bored by the meet-at-seven-for-a-drink dates. It causes me a lot of anxiety (and frankly I think is wasting valuable time that ought to be spent elsewhere). Any ideas to make it suck less?
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:45 pm
by Emiliana
Portia wrote:I am extremely bored by the meet-at-seven-for-a-drink dates. It causes me a lot of anxiety (and frankly I think is wasting valuable time that ought to be spent elsewhere). Any ideas to make it suck less?
Counter with a date idea of your own?
That's all I've got.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:23 pm
by Cognoscente
Drink faster.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 12:50 am
by bobtheenchantedone
Cognoscente wrote:Drink faster.
I like it.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 11:05 am
by Portia
Hahaha! It was an interesting night.
(Half an hour before the date, I was walking along 2100 S and got picked up by this group of guys who seemed a bit heavy on the "bro," one was in a RVCA shirt, I think? We went to Campfire Lounge and he literally disappeared. So I took that as a sign and left.)
The date itself was fun, but I am 99% certain he's not interested in a second. Oh well!
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 4:38 am
by Imogen
Craig Jessop wrote:Love is dead and I will die alone.
same
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:35 pm
by Digit
Heh, I was at my old game of seeing who bought the domains of common nouns and found an interesting thing. If you go to paper.com, it goes to officedepot.com, specifically, to the results of a product search on paper. I was expecting Office Depot to have nabbed pencil.com too, but that seems to be some team of "proven experts" who will take your money to go "bring your business to the Japanese market" which is to say I don't think they have anything specifically to do with wooden writing instruments.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:35 pm
by Portia
Applying for a dream job that opened up. Probably should feel more nervous than I do, but I think that I'm qualified and you can't fake passion or experience. (For long, heh.) Wish me luck! It's local to SLC, so my grandmother would get her wish on that. :P
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:47 pm
by Cognoscente
Nothing like a coding interview to make you feel like an imbecile. And now I guess we play the waiting game.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:47 pm
by Cognoscente
Ugh, the waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:42 pm
by TheBlackSheep
I'm playing that game too. It does suck. I feel you
Re: Happy Days in Random Chatter 10
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:05 pm
by yayfulness
That's where I am with housing right now. The rental market in California is absolutely evil.