xkcd

by **The Scyphozoa** » Sat May 26, 2012 2:31 pm UTC

The EGE wrote:Now, all it takes is a few minutes on photoshop and then anyone with a net connection can see them.

Plus a very high-quality scanner.

by **Snark** » Sat May 26, 2012 4:31 pm UTC

I taught myself basic Python this morning to start tackling the Project Euler problems.

by **torontoraptor** » Sat May 26, 2012 10:22 pm UTC

I got a summer job! Wonderful world if IT support, here I come.

by **The Scyphozoa** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:40 am UTC

It's an awesome feeling when you cause a friend to realize something awesome.

Neither he nor I have ever played any Mass Effect game, but we've watched (different) playthroughs of some of them on YouTube.

He began to talk about Mordin in ME3. In an attempt to make a reference to his death scene (which I have not seen) in the hopes that I would pick up on it, he said something about how "He's studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian." I immediately drew the conclusion that it was supposed to be a Salarian version of the Modern Major General song. My friend had no idea that song existed... so I found it on YouTube and played it for him and he's all "Holy shit it sounds exactly like the song Mordin was chanting in that one scene!"

So we were both standing there after having discovered, from different angles, just exactly how awesome that scene is. Feels good man.

by **ExplodingHat** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:15 am UTC

It would seem that a clean and lubricated bottom bracket makes the difference between "decroded beater" and "smooth ride". My bicycle's top speed has increased by about 25%.

by **raike** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:48 pm UTC

I got my brother to start learning how to program! He's now learning Python. There is now no one in my house who cannot write code! (I'm the only one who actually has to, and my parents haven't written code in years, but still!)

by **Ptolom** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:55 pm UTC

-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

Haha, I love that.

by **mercutio_stencil** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:24 am UTC

ExplodingHat wrote:It would seem that a clean and lubricated bottom bracket makes the difference between "decroded beater" and "smooth ride". My bicycle's top speed has increased by about 25%.

I like putting air in the tires of my friends' bikes and oiling their chains. The beams on their face when they can suddenly go twice as fast is worth it.

by **ExplodingHat** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:58 am UTC

mercutio_stencil wrote:
ExplodingHat wrote:It would seem that a clean and lubricated bottom bracket makes the difference between "decroded beater" and "smooth ride". My bicycle's top speed has increased by about 25%.

I like putting air in the tires of my friends' bikes and oiling their chains. The beams on their face when they can suddenly go twice as fast is worth it.

The bearing grease had not been changed probably since before I was born, and had achieved a rather glue-like consistency. My mind struggles to comprehend how many joules I wasted fighting that viscosity. But yeah, the feeling of a smooth chain and up-to-pressure tires is of similar character, if not magnitude. But yeah, it serious feels like I'm riding a brand-new bike.

by **Coin** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:05 am UTC

Nothing to see here, just my dirty mind removing words >.<

Spoiler:

Awesome: My girlfriend is coming to visit! I haven't seen her in ages! *curses LDR*

by **ExplodingHat** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:29 pm UTC

Coin wrote:Nothing to see here, just my dirty mind removing words >.<
Spoiler:
ExplodingHat wrote:It would seem that a clean and lubricated bottom ~~bracket~~ makes the difference between "decroded beater" and "smooth ride". My ~~bicycle's~~ top speed has increased by about 25%.

I was actually going to include the adjective "tight" (the crank initially had a good deal of give before the repair session), but decided that would make it too easy to do what you just mentioned.

by **Menacing Spike** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:18 pm UTC

Holy shit

by **Microscopic cog** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:29 pm UTC

That pigeon site is amazing!

by **pseudoidiot** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:14 pm UTC

Awesome: today's Shirt Woot.

by **Giant Speck** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:32 pm UTC

Must... resist urge... to spend money...

by **SurgicalSteel** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:17 pm UTC

Dick's has a bunch of golf equipment on clearance today. Some clubs were both marked down and part of a two-for-one deal. I got two clubs regular 160 and 130 for 50 and 0!

by **Kithplana** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:58 pm UTC

D'awwww: http://www.shmoolok.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/53/SWSA-Final-Night-Prelude.aspx

by **voicedotter** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:50 pm UTC

Wooo I am incredibly happy right now. I have met the perfect girl for me, and I cannot be happier.

by **Magnanimous** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:55 am UTC

Science thing of the day: rainbows are a lot bigger than humans can see. (The scattering effect works for all(?) wavelengths of light, not just optical lengths.)

by **PurplePenguin** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:34 pm UTC

Got my guitar down from the attic for the first time in about 6 years today, started tuning it, realised there was a string missing. DISASTER. But NO! I had strings lying about my room, and my dad was home to string it for me (since I'm inept at that kind of thing). So now I'm happily messing about with it. Hurray!

by **UniqueScreenname** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:27 pm UTC

I PASSED MY ASCP EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOW OFFICIALLY A LICENSED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE LETTERS AFTER MY NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by **Whelan** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:44 pm UTC

Congratulations! On a less impressive note, I managed to pass my first year of uni!

by **pseudoidiot** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:47 pm UTC

Not-so-awesome: super hot here today.

Awesome: VP came around with an assortment of frozen treats for the whole office. OM NOM NOM

by **DSenette** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:06 pm UTC

during the summr months our company will go to the wal-mart down the street and buy all of their popsicles and put them in coolers in the break room one day out of the month (it's an aluminum casting facility...get's hotter than fuck during the summer)...yay free popsicles!

by **gorcee** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 1:09 pm UTC

Assuming that there are no last-minute issues, in less than 6 hours my fiancee and I will own a house. O_O

by **SlyReaper** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 2:10 pm UTC

gorcee wrote:Assuming that there are no last-minute issues, in less than 6 hours my fiancee and I will own a house. O_O

With fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong, congrats. I bought my first house last year and I'm still getting used to the idea that these walls belong to me rather than a landlord. It's brilliant.

by **tastelikecoke** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:32 am UTC

The Scyphozoa wrote:So we were both standing there after having discovered, from different angles, just exactly how awesome that scene is. Feels good man.

And now I have discovered three shoutouts of the original: From Every Major's Terrible, to Mordin's crazy musical, and the Elements song xD

by **Magnanimous** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:23 pm UTC

I'm helping out at a science camp this summer, and today we spent a few hours playing with Snap Circuits. Words cannot express how fun these things are.

by **willaaaaaa** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:55 pm UTC

Went white-water rafting for the first time yesterday! So much fun (and I didn't fall into the water)!

by **Zamfir** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:24 am UTC

Started my new job and it looks awesome. People are nice, the company seems well organized, and the works look great. I am in a small team that tries to develop advanced components, with far more attention to the aerodynamics in particular. And there seems to be plenty of room there, there is even an order from another firm to redesign one of their products, to be paid on license basis for every kilo and kilowatt we can cut from the design.

by **PurplePenguin** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:54 am UTC

I just feel awesome.
I feel like rolling up my new degree into its red cardboard tube and bopping people over the head with it.
"Oh, so you messed me about for weeks, making me miserable for my whole graduation week? Well *bop* screw you, cos I have a degree!"
"Oh, so you ended up getting the guy I was so desperate to be with? Well, meanwhile, *bop* I got a degree!"
"Oh, so you're not going to employ me for that job I would be amazing at and would allow me to move out of my parents' house and closer to friends? Well, I'll find something better, because *bop* I'VE GOT A DEGREE!"
(Okay, that last one is somewhat unrealistic).

Hey, it's one of the few things in life I can be super proud about. And I damn well will be.

by **Menacing Spike** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:57 am UTC

PurplePenguin wrote:"Oh, so you're not going to employ me for that job I would be amazing at and would allow me to move out of my parents' house and closer to friends? Well, I'll find something better, because *bop* I'VE GOT A DEGREE!"

"But do you have 10 years of experience in our very specific field?"

by **Zarq** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:01 pm UTC

"I... I have this piece of paper here."
"Yeah, that's only really useful for bopping people on the head."

by **PurplePenguin** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:21 pm UTC

Hey, bopping certain people on the head would give me great happiness right now. Possibly more happiness than a job could.

But yeah, I know a degree is not necessarily the most useful thing ever. But while everything else seems to be going wrong, it's something I've managed to achieve and feel proud of. I never really believed I'd get through the 4 years of university, and I feel pretty awesome that I did.

by **Zarq** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:39 pm UTC

Oh, um, yeah, I was not trying to downplay the achievement or anything. I was just making a joke. Getting a degree IS awesome.

by **PurplePenguin** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:45 pm UTC

Okay. I just worried on retrospect I had made it sound like having a degree is the most important thing in life ever, thought I should clarify.
But I did enjoy the dog booping picture.

by **Ptolom** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:25 pm UTC

I was feeling lousy and playing Dinosaur Jr into my brain in an attempt to drown it out, checked their website and saw the announcement for a new album in September. Everything is better with J Mascis shredding over it.

by **eSOANEM** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:36 pm UTC

I know this stuff usually stays in the science board, but seeing as no-one else said it:

CERN found a particle! It's probably the Higgs! Woohoo!

by **RollingHead** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:53 pm UTC

The Prodigy and Evanescence are awesome live!

by **UniqueScreenname** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:25 pm UTC

Jealous much.

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