UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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YYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! MY FUTURE IS GO!

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! Excellent! Congrats to Emsk!

(What is your future?)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

(My mum is trying to argue maths with me, telling me that she took 3 boxes of 60 bags each, and drinks one tea a day, and this should last her 3 months. UM, no! You ain't gonna get that past a mathematician.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah, hurrah hurrah, want a celebratory drink this eve?

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

yay! my job is one for 6mths + handover period, april-oct + possibly more...

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

You have 6 months to make yourself indispensable.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i have been working on that for 4 months already!

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

That is awesome, Emsk! Calls for celebratory drinks, definitely. You are obviously already indispensible.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Kate,

This would be way cheaper than sending from the UK.

http://www.amazon.com/Freshpak-Rooibos-Tea-80-bags/dp/B0001590IC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2485501-8195261?ie=UTF8&s=gourmet-food&qid=1174485720&sr=8-1

0_0

― 0_0, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

OOH
i would love a celebratory drink but i have to speed home to pick up veg before pickup time is over then i have to go running (2nd run2min/walk1min sesh, yowsa) then my personal trainer and i have an appointment with some chili and a bottle of wine. tomorrow, or friday? i have stuff on both nights but may be able to squeeze in between tomorrow, def can fri.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Friday good, I'm going to Roll Deep but not till later.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Friday, yes, that is better.

Thank you, 0_0 person - I have forwarded that link to my mum.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, my mum has tried to defend her maths saying that sometimes she shares her tea with visitors. I asked if she had started serving tea to the Corgi, to get through tea that fast. SHE DRINKS IT!!! SHE IS A GREEDY TEA DRINKING FREAK!!! And then lies about her tea habit because she feels so smug about re-using teabags while I use a fresh one every time becuase I am decadent.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

the harpsichord definitely *is* available!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! Shimura Curves want it. Not sure which one of us gets to have it in their house, but that depends on going to fetch it, I suppose?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

can we get dimensions?

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have been unable to do any work today due to our RDC being offline because the Datacentre's router failover procedure did not work.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all. Today I have been really into Fela Kuti again.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't listened to any in ages, maybe I will when I get home.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've been listening to Grails.

And I feel terribly like I've let the cat out of the bag by telling people that most of the money in outrageous London house prices DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST, it is imaginary play money in the hands of accountants.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that money is a fiction is not really one big secret.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

The new Grails album is great. Did I send cookies of that? or is there a cookie monster in the cooler?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

SOmeone did, It is pretty great, I will have to buy a copy.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

It was your cookie, Kerr! You can't even keep track of your own cookies!

I'm feeling quite excitable and need to calm down. It must have been the coffee.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't make it you see. I just saw the cookie on another board.

I'm surprised you're not all over that prog thread on ILM, Kate!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, arguing with Geir and Louis is my idea of a fun afternoon... NOT!!!

Besides, I've been using BULLET POINTS to explain equity. One of the few times my job comes in useful.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think you should do a powerpoint for the lex at the next FAP.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just realising, that as much as I complain about how my parents (especially my mum) f*cked me up on an emotional level (especially with regard to relationships) they (specifically my mum) gave me an INCREDIBLY grounded sense on financial matters.

And funnily enough, this didn't even come from the maths side of the family (my dad has to this day no sense of money because he grew up such a Trusta) but from my mum trying to run around cleaning up my dad's financial messes. And mostly, knock on wood, I have not made my parents' mistakes with money. The middle classes begat middle classes in more ways than just fronting deposits on houses.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling really freaking smug today. Someone shoot me.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I finished varnishing the top half of the synthesiser cabinet:
pics here
it looks great!

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, arguing with Geir and Louis is my idea of a fun afternoon... NOT!!!

geirbot excelling himself yet again with

But symphonic rock should have male singers. Yes did, Genesis did, ELP did, King Crimson did. No point trying to sound different from those in any way.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

You know, that's exactly the kind of thing that I'm trying to AVOID by not reading the thread.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

God I'm in love with your synth-cab, Pash.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

It was surprisingly easy to build, though it took a while. I can sit in front of it and reach/see all the connections & controls really easily, which is exactly what I wanted.

Kate, I don't know how to reply to comments, but yes, that's the daisy retro-h 12-string, which I'll be bringing to the gig.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

You just leave another comment below it.

Aahhh, can't wait to hear the 12-string!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Things I've learned on ILX today - it's considered bad form to talk about your finances being healthy in a way it's never considered bad form to talk about your relationship being all SQQUUUEEEEE, LIFE IS SO GREAT!!!!

Smug homeowners are the new smug marrieds! Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Where on earth have they hidden the bloody info that I need? Argh, I hate this db!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

*bounce bounce bounce* i am neither married nor a homeowner.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but you're hateable, because you have no credit card, therefore you are smug debt-free person!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

you just got a job, it's only a matter of time.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, I bought earlier than you therefore I am more smug.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i am not debt free! i have like £3,500 or something of student debt. shit, what do i have to be making for them to make me start paying it back? it was £15,000 for ages which i've never been anywhere near, then it went up to £18,000 leaving me even further behind. they haven't sent me the Drreaded Letter this year yet, maybe i should call them or sth.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

You are same generation as me so you have to ring them up and ask them to start taking DDs.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am not being awful, but your "terrible student debt" sounds so TINY compared to US student debt. Or what UK are trying to turn student debt into. Bah.

That reminds me, I need to fill in my voter registration form (after all that excitement, I keep forgetting to send it) and hassle the utilities company to send me a bill to pay. You'd think they don't WANT my money.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have I have had an electricity bill since I switched to wind power.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

first have = think

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

(I know I am a terrible person, but I am just so happy to finally find something to be smug about! I know I did not win the genetics lottery or the luck lottery on the relationships front - I am ugly, predisposed to be fat, have 0 people skills, never had a stable enough childhood to have a childhood sweetheart and therefore have no relationship, but I won on the maths skillz, the thriftiness skillz, the luck of finding well paid jobs in finance, and the genetic lottery of having lovely posh grandparents to conveniently die and leave me half a deposit luck)

I mean, so many things are just luck in being born who you are.

If I REALLY wanted to be a horrible person, I would go on the London Housing thread and say all the encouraging things that smug marrieds say to eternal singles - DON'T WORRY, EVERY POT WILL FIND ITS COVER, I MANAGED TO BUY A HOUSE, YOU CAN TOO, DON'T GIVE UP HOPE!!! HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAA YOU SINGLE LOSER YOU, YOU HALF A PERSON COZ YOU CAN'T GET A ~~BOYFRIEND~~ MORTGAGE!!!!

Not that I'm bitter or anything, mind you! :-)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Start chilling the champers, Tarquin, I'm going home.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

You are same generation as me so you have to ring them up and ask them to start taking DDs.

no i bloody don't! i don't want to give them anything! usually by this time of the year they've sent me a letter demanding the blood of my firstborn.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

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