What is making you happy right now

[Bitter Jeweler]

I ate baby goat tonight. It was awesome!

[RandBlade]

Just woke up in the new house

[Timbuk2]

Just woke up in the new house

Awesome

Big 'grats Rand. Great feeling having your own place.

[Angel_Mapper]

I ate baby goat tonight. It was awesome!

Nooooooooooooooooooo! (My bf is Year of the Goat)

[Flixy]

I ate baby goat tonight. It was awesome!

Before getting civilization 5, I played civ4 last night with a friend. From ten PM to ten AM, with beer and scotch. It was fun!

Although I did lose pretty badly

[NGS]

Just woke up in the new house

Awesome to hear Rand! Gotta feel good, eh?

[Angel_Mapper]

Went down to Sacramento to get an 8 port router from Fry's, and I had Extreme Pizza tonight for the first time in months. Good to be working again.

[termite]

Home made sausages

We went out to the farm this weekend and killed, butchered, minced and mixed our own individual flavoured sausages - I went for red win, sage, black pepper, red pepper & salt and added a little feta cheese and a scoop of Vegemite (about 85% red meat* & 15% pork fat).

Best goddam sausages ever!

*Kangaroo meat

[BalticSailor]

Well, it made me giggle, which isn't exactly "being happy", but still, this thread seems to be the most appropriate of 'em all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/th.../2010/sep/24/1

[Nessus]

[GGT]

Home made sausages

We went out to the farm this weekend and killed, butchered, minced and mixed our own individual flavoured sausages - I went for red win, sage, black pepper, red pepper & salt and added a little feta cheese and a scoop of Vegemite (about 85% red meat* & 15% pork fat).

Best goddam sausages ever!

*Kangaroo meat

Does kangaroo taste like other white meats? I don't think much about killing or eating poultry or birds of fowl. Not sure how I'd think about eating a meat like Kangaroo where the mothers have a baby pocket. I've also never eaten Emperor Penguin meat, where the daddies nestle the eggs for a long time.



I've eaten turtle soup, quite tasty. And venison, a bit too gamey for me. Never once did I think I was eating Franklin (the turtle) or Bambi. I don't think of Wilbur (from Charlotte's Web) when I eat pig. Though I adored the movie Babe.

But eating kangaroo is foreign to me. Just as eating Guinea Pig or Hamster would be weird. Or eating cat or dog. Must be the pet connection, or cuddly stuffed animal thing, huh?

[Ominous Gamer]

"A police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy."

Thats a big fuck you to the Maryland State Police Department.

[termite]

Does kangaroo taste like other white meats? I don't think much about killing or eating poultry or birds of fowl. Not sure how I'd think about eating a meat like Kangaroo where the mothers have a baby pocket. I've also never eaten Emperor Penguin meat, where the daddies nestle the eggs for a long time.



I've eaten turtle soup, quite tasty. And venison, a bit too gamey for me. Never once did I think I was eating Franklin (the turtle) or Bambi. I don't think of Wilbur (from Charlotte's Web) when I eat pig. Though I adored the movie Babe.

But eating kangaroo is foreign to me. Just as eating Guinea Pig or Hamster would be weird. Or eating cat or dog. Must be the pet connection, or cuddly stuffed animal thing, huh?

Kangaroo is a very nutritious and very lean red meat, it has a nice flavour but is so low in fat it is normal to add a little bacon or pork fat.

A kangaroo is much like a jumping deer if that helps.

[Aimless]

five months <3 a thursday that feels like friday

[littlelolligagged]

I just ate an insanely good bowl of chili.


And we'll have pumpkin pie later.

[Echovirus]

My friend's home from his deployment to Afghanistan

[termite]

My friend's home from his deployment to Afghanistan

I'll drink to that.

[oldmunchkin]

Yay...It's about time! No more getting blown out of the room by super-loud commercials you don't want to watch anyway!

WASHINGTON – Legislation to turn down the volume on those loud TV commercials that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls looks like it'll soon become law. The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to limit the volume of commercials and keep them at the level of the programs they interrupt.
The House has passed similar legislation. Before it can become law, minor differences between the two versions have to be worked out when Congress returns to Washington after the Nov. 2 election.
Ever since television caught on in the 1950s, the Federal Communication Commission has been getting complaints about blaring commercials. But the FCC concluded in 1984 there was no fair way to write regulations controlling the "apparent loudness" of commercials. So it hasn't been regulating them.
Correcting sound levels is more complicated than using the remote control. The television shows and ads come from a variety of sources, from local businesses to syndicators.
Managing the transition between programs and ads without spoiling the artistic intent of the producers poses technical challenges and may require TV broadcasters to purchase new equipment. To address the issue, an industry organization recently produced guidelines on how to process, measure and transmit audio in a uniform way.
The legislation, sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., requires the FCC to adopt those recommendations as regulations within a year and begin enforcing them a year later. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., is the driving force behind the legislation in the House.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100930/...ud_commercials

[earthJoker]

I lost my mobile last week, some girl took it to the Lost&Found and I got it back now

[littlelolligagged]

Bookcase number 2 was much easier to assemble than bookcase number 1.

I still have one thing that needs to be put together in the basement, but I don't need it immediately. I'm sure it is perfectly happy where it is until I can convince someone else to do it for me.

[Aimless]

Spotify premium I feel like Dreadnaught! Only a thousand times more deserving

[Echovirus]

I'll drink to that.

We'll be doing that in a week or two when he goes on leave and comes home.

[Lor]

I was notified by my mortgage advisor that I have a mortgage in principle, so everything is looking good so far.

Fingers are still crossed!

[Supermarioman]

I got a 100 on my test.

This week is starting off on a great note!

[Ominous Gamer]

Finally caved and purchased a parking pass for downtown. Luckily work is on the edge of downtown, so I can manage the cheap lot. $19 a month. Not to bad considering my bus pass was $15 after county discount, until you start figuring in gas. I put less than 7000 miles on my car in the last year, so I'm a little out of practice, but when I worked at MOSI I used to get 31MPG with the Saturn. Lets see how long it takes me to reach that again...

[GGT]

This is the Remix: Classic Wall Street Quotations for 2010

Joshua M Brown October 5th, 2010
Soros, Buffett, Templeton, Livermore, Rothschild - This is the remix. I've updated their classic quotations for the modern investment world. Vote for your favorites below...Enjoy!

“We simply attempt to be greedy when others are fearful and to make others fearful when we do not have enough long positions on our sheets.” - Warren Buffett

“Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice." - Walter Wriston

“Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in the creation and marketing of ETFs.” - George Soros

“It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.” - Warren Buffett

"The four most dangerous words in investing are 'It’s the Lightning Round!'". - Sir John Templeton

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market had a Flash Crash.” - Warren Buffett

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can pretend that Treasuries yielding a half a percent are a safe buy.” - John Maynard Keynes

“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of my policies” - Alan Greenspan

“Obviously the thing to do was to be bullish in a bull market and bearish in a bear market and a renter in the housing market and open-minded to exotic sh*t at Jean-Georges’ Spice Market.” - Jesse Livermore

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not how much it owes China.” - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man gets a text message, an eFax and two Twitter DMs. And by the time he’s updating his Facebook status and feeding his virtual farm animals, he has no idea what 'abyss' you’re talking about.” - Lou Mannheim, Wall Street

“How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? How about around 2007 when I was walking around with a crown and a scepter, spraying Crystal on chicks in the VIP room. I was probably a little irrationally exuberant right around then, holmes.” - Alan Greenspan

“Money is like manure, you don’t have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.” - J. Paul Getty

“The time of maximum optimism is the time to sell and the time of maximum pessimism is the time to start a blog and write 20 posts a day about gold.” - Sir John Templeton

“Rule No. 1 - Never Lose Money. Rule No. 2 - When you do lose money, call in Becky Quick and the camera crew for some folksy chit chat over root beer floats.” - Warren Buffett

[']['ear]

Paper accepted to Developmental Cell! High profile journal article like this is worth 3 or 4 modest papers for funding purposes, so this is a great boost to my career and promotion prospects.

[littlelolligagged]

Good for you, Tear.

[Timbuk2]

I was notified by my mortgage advisor that I have a mortgage in principle, so everything is looking good so far.

Fingers are still crossed!

Good good ... first step overcome.

Plan is to ... move in with the missus? Joint mortgage?

[Lor]

Good good ... first step overcome.

Plan is to ... move in with the missus? Joint mortgage?

We already live together but we rent an apartment, the mortgage will be a joint thing .