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[Thunder Chicken]

451: An outside entity (The courts/govt) has decided that you aren't allowed to see this.

451 as in Fahrenheit 451?

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Happy ... almost apogee passage?

My birthday is also today (or did you mean your birthday's tomorrow?).

December 20th. I actually have a few friends that share this birthday and we have an annual pre-solstice celebration (we joke that we're pagans with a bad sense of timing).

I finally got to go hiking for the first time in a long while. It was a nice crisp, cool day, and I went to the Quabbin reservoir, a really beautiful place, one of those increasingly rare places where you can go and not hear people, car traffic, etc. Just the sound of the wind in the trees and the lapping of the water on the stones on the shore. I spent several hours on the shore just sitting and enjoying some peace. I have to do that much more often.

 

[Linguofreak]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=+a+long+time+ago+in+a+galaxy+far+far+away#

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So the internet is officially dead.
Hm. About time some braindead... well, this isn't the basement.

Actually, I'm less perturbed by the existence of error 451 after thinking about it for a bit. Any entity that would want to block / ban a page would probably prefer that the server not even admit the page ever existed in the first place, and that 404 be used instead (and many governments may take the approach of legislating that 404 be used instead of 451 or 403). Error 451 is a way for the Internet to signal, when it is permitted to do so, that it has been compromised by the law.

 

[Urwumpe]

451 as in Fahrenheit 451?

Exactly that number for exactly that reason.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

 

[jedidia]

Muahahaha! :lol:

My new weapon in the arsenenal for the war on christmass, I translate "kumbaya" as "what the hell?" whenever I hear it.
It has the awkward sideeffect that I'm now prone to spontaneous utterances of "kumbaya?" in (in)apropriate situations :shifty:

 

[Urwumpe]

Muahahaha! :lol:

My new weapon in the arsenenal for the war on christmass, I translate "kumbaya" as "what the hell?" whenever I hear it.
It has the awkward sideeffect that I'm now prone to spontaneous utterances of "kumbaya?" in (in)apropriate situations :shifty:

As German, I am absolutely immunized against Kumbaya thanks to the Guano Apes :lol:

When ever I hear the words, I have this song banging in my head, urging to come out and play....

 

[jedidia]

Oh, I forgott all about that one...

Forgott all about the band, now that I think about it. Had probably the most underrated female singer of the last decade.

 

[Urwumpe]

Forgott all about the band, now that I think about it. Had probably the most underrated female singer of the last decade.

Not sure. She was epic in the early 2000s... but if you listen to her today... maybe underrated. I would say she got the worst vocal coach possible.

Also the song writing became too shallow in the later albums. The whole "Proud Like A God" album still rocks.

 

[jedidia]

She was epic in the early 2000s

Kind of what I meant. I think of "the last decade" as "the decade before this one", i.e. 2000 to 2010 :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I got a survey from Nielsen ratings in the mail, including $2 cash and a promise of $5 more if I completed the survey. Survey was pretty easy to fill out since I don't have any kids, don't have a landline phone, and don't own a TV.

I think a TV advertiser would despair if they saw my survey. They do not have my eyeballs and probably never will.

 

[Urwumpe]

I think a TV advertiser would despair if they saw my survey. They do not have my eyeballs and probably never will.

Who needs a TV today anyway? I only need mine because a 40" display is better for watching than a 15.6" notebook. :lol:

Another storm here today, if it wouldn't be so damn warm today (up to 14°C) it would be typical Christmas weather in northern Germany.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Another storm here today, if it wouldn't be so damn warm today (up to 14°C) it would be typical Christmas weather in northern Germany.

Same here. We've only had a couple light frosts, now back up to 50F-60F and rain. I'm sure we'll pay for this in January and February, but the El Nino seems to be keeping the Arctic air up in Canada.

 

[Urwumpe]

Same here. We've only had a couple light frosts, now back up to 50F-60F and rain. I'm sure we'll pay for this in January and February, but the El Nino seems to be keeping the Artic air up in Canada.

Same here, the weather feels a lot like the last El Nino winter 1997/1998.

January 1998 was starting warm but over my first night of sleep (after about 70 hours awake because of Superbowl and night watch duty) during a division exercise in the army, winter came. My last memory was me sitting in a transporter to the final deployment area of my unit before falling asleep and thankfully getting tugged into my sleeping bag. While I was sleeping for 9 hours (nobody dared to wake me up), temperatures dropped from +8°C to -15°C, 10 cm snow fell and I woke up to the meditative sound of a two stroke generator and an artillery battery firing a few hundred meters away. My first question: "How long did I sleep?" On the next night, the temperatures dropped further and my guard duty late at night was mostly me counting the IFVs that had to be tugged into the maintenance area because pre-heating had failed. Things got a bit crowded, because additionally to the maintenance platoon, many of IFV crews found shelter from the cold in our heated place.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Typical Christmas weather in Houston. 75F/24C. I'm not convinced we're really in the northern hemisphere.

 

[orb]

 

[Loru]

and steam gives me 503 error on almost every page

 

[Fabri91]

Who needs a TV today anyway? I only need mine because a 40" display is better for watching than a 15.6" notebook. :lol:

Another storm here today, if it wouldn't be so damn warm today (up to 14°C) it would be typical Christmas weather in northern Germany.

Same here. Will be near Stuttgart on Christmas, borderline short-sleeve weather is expected.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

We had perfect Christmas weather here in southern Ontario, got a light dusting of snow right as I was finishing exams, just enough that it feels like December, but not enough to be a bother.

Then it rained the last two days, and everything is wet and cold.

 

[Fabri91]

Highs of 15°C crossing parts of Switzerland

 

[Thunder Chicken]

69° F / 21° C tomorrow, 62° F / 17° C for Christmas :huh:

Doesn't feel right. Around here it is 50/50 whether we have snow by Christmas, but usually we're getting freezing weather.