what are you into right now?

Tulum is beautiful and I want to go back there for ages

Sic did you mexico much and if so plz tell all

Stevie, how much Spanish do u speak?

de nada

-Borderlands 2 on PS3
-Working out at the gym, including being able to job for stretches again
-Getting a used recumbent bike so's I can do cardio at home whilst playing said Borderlands 2 and not getting bored by extended cardio

lol, u mean "nada" xp

("de nada" means no problem, I think, or it did in 1978)

ha, yes, i know, i was just being loco

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514Y%2BwA82kL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

That thing Ciara does with her voice after "don't stop" at the end of the second verse of "Body Party"

ripping an absurd amount of music to put on a walkman I got at the start of the week, to ensure I got a clip I'd lost on a previous one. Just hope it works ok. But it does seem to be consuming most of my energy.

Having a tv that I can watch things on through attaching a memory stick to a USB connection. Probably been something taht people have been doing for years but new to me. Am aware that it is a function on laptops etc, but has it been on tvs for long/
Having a tv I can see properly and can actually read writing on.

The growing feeling taht I need to get back to springcleaning my room as I tried before Xmas and didn't get through. MAybe getting too into procrastination too.

Sewing, taking a course once a week that i need to do some homework I brought home to catch up with the rest of the more experienced people in the class and not been doing because I've been ripping hundreds of cds all week.

David Byrne's How Music Works when I get around to reading it, yet again not getting this done cos of the above.

avocados
pistachios
bon appetit magazine
films starring/written by Brit Marling (need to rewatch)
small, attainable goals for these cold days

In a similar vein to the above, right now I'm into Apple TV (lol iPhone's autocorrect capitalisation) and the fact I can stream any .mp4 files that I can lay my hands on direct to my tv. Last night was mike leigh's 'naked'. Great Xmas gift

sleeping a lot
jack hardy records
re-reading the o.g. conan stories in conjunction with recent conan comics i get out of dollar boxes
trying to learn to play a fiddle

likelikelikelikelike

frittatas, fried grit cakes and chili
Elliott, Walter & Bennett records
catching up on oscar baited movies
stand up comedy on sirius radio

ian can we hang out dude

tiny travel size everythings
listmaking
avocado + turkey sandwiches
homemade ranch dressing

avocado and turkey sandwich sounds like the best thing ever right now

add some fresh spinach & it's a winner

add hot sauce too! yummmmm

things i am into:
drumming
recording
planning for spring and summer
restoring my personal energy supply
dancing/thinking about my ideal dance party
meatballs

airbnb
keith.css
cara cara oranges
writing
greens+ energy bars
reading articles about queerness in dance music
trying to reconcile being disgusted by woody allen the person but still loving a handful of his movies (which i will probably never watch again)

Sewing stuffed toys for the class project. May have overstuffed though. May need to change stuffing too, used an old duvet as had been suggested at one point in class. I'd washed it recently since it had been lying around with holes in for ages.

Thinking of signing up for a dressmaking course at same place. Could pick up a lot more techniques as long as I can make something other than dresses.

The Book of Mormon. Saw it in camera version on Friday but camera version of theatre performance not as good as film. Harder to get angle right I guess, looking down in curved theatre rather than up in straight one.
But hilarious show. Now to see it live live.

Working out what to do with the flat. Got new furniture in shape of table & chairs so need to work out how to make things fit better. Managed to really hem myself in while ripping music for new walkman. Also need to work out how best to house cds that have been ripped. Need another dimension for storage. Or better shelving system.

Anybody who answers this question with anything other than 'trying to create peace on Earth' is a selfish cunt in my opinion.

- being a selfish cunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bkRoD26aFU

Not playing in a band
Indulging a video game addiction that was latent for most of my 20s
Perler beads (bought these to make some pixel art, just realized I CAN MAKE PRESENTS FOR PEOPLE!)
Thrift shopping (always, til the end of time)
Primary source books on mysticism/occult stuff
Daydreaming about making Android apps
Adventure Time
Playing LPs on my squeaky suitcase record player

traditional oats
appetite for destruction
history of economics
hannibal
cartesian analogies
minima moralia
macaroni & cheese

Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber (just the Corwin ones for now)
the few kinds of incense I'm not allergic to
slowly destroying California by taking long showers
polenta
watching British TV on youtube (Shooting Stars, The Changes, Snuff Box)
tunicates and siphonophores (thanks weird animals thread)
death metal that sounds like it was recorded by technically proficient cavemen dosed up on hallucinogenic fungi

Adam, what is the best way to obtain a sufficient variety of Perler beads?? It seems like you can buy a grossly overpriced 12-pack of assorted colors, or you can buy a cheap huge bucket that is all mixed together. Is there any other way? I really want to make EarthBound perler art.

http://www.amazon.com/Perler-Beads-1-000-Count-Tan/dp/B000I0RPUU

This seems like the best bet; 1000-count bags for arounde $2.50 each. I'd just have to pick which colors I'd use the most

Cool! Go for it! I'm pretty new to it, but I went ahead and bought the bucket of random colors, because I'm cheap and in a way I enjoy sorting those things. I put together a cool Charlie Brown yesterday but during the process realized how little black beads there were in the bucket. I'm guessing it's the most high in demand, so I would say get the bucket and if you run low, you can buy packs of individual beads on Amazon. Getting a nice, big, transparent grid board is worth the investment.

James Burke's 1970s series Connections. I just watched through the whole set over the last couple of days while continuing to sew stuffed toys for the class project. Interesting to see this programme nearly 36 years later. The historic parts presumably remain for the most parts valid but this is now reflectively stuck in history itself. Wonder if anybody would approach things the same way now. Or is this an influence on the way tv shows have presented themselves since?

Inside the Animal Mind
Chris Packham show that's been on BBC2 for the last few weeks showing how animals see the world and showing levels of intelligence I hadn't been aware of. For example it seems that the whole Crow family have what he refers to as mental flexibility so they can not only learn to handle a given problem but also apply what they're learnt to other problems. It showed a Raven learning how to open a puzzle box Packham had devised so rapidly they had to slow down the camera. Also a jay learning to get maggots out of a water filled container by dropping stones into the water until it rose enough to get their beak in. THis after having been shown the principle on a totally different set up, a stone dropped onto the top of a box would release a worm from the bottom of the box. So they could take that and figure out water displacement and also differentiate between using this on a water filled container whereas they recognised they couldn't in a sand filled one.
Shows that more animals have the ability to use tools than it has been traditionally supposed. I don't know why the monkey using a twig to get termites from a mound was only noted in 1962. Whether it was dismissed before or just not seen. Also occured to me that you could make a really cool sci fi story based on the idea that animals hadn't had the ability to use tools prior to that date and are rapidly growing in intelligence.

Boardwalk Empire
Just watched through seasons 2&3 over the last week. Hoping there will be more before long though haven't checked if there is already any. Not sure how long I've had those. Maybe when I wake up.

Jun Mayuzumi
cooking with different chills or peppers
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
having dance parties with August

hillary mantel again
fleetwood mac esp tusk
gallons of rooibos tea

Veep
disconnecting from gay social life
deprioritizing sex
weird super-intense Weekend-esque 24+ hour fantasy dream world encounters with this one guy
Instagram

my "febrile fibonacci february" spotify playlist
sleeping until 1:30 p.m. on sunday
valentine's meal (small plates): maple onion rings, brisket, roasted brussels sprouts, poutine with smoked-meat gravy, mussels with chickpeas and linguica, a manhattan to drink

I finally read Rip It Up And Start Again, so...Pil, Wire, Scritti, etc.
nostalgia
rules, obstacles and limitations
snow boots
lemon water
Powerpoint (seriously)

I've also always been into this and will never stop being into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8ClQ_9mdM

gilmore girls (ongoing...i binge watch a season a month)

xps yo bro I am a PowerPoint expert, you should ask me questions

Like how to disable auto-start in a Windows Media Player object or how to apply different Slide Masters or etc

how do i turn off Snapping so that i can place the images where i ra-god-damn well please?

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― vylvyt ylvis (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, February 15, 2014 2:25 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stevie wat is yr name?

xps yo bro I am a PowerPoint expert, you should ask me questions

OK - how do I link/gracefully transition to LARGE video files and play them full-screen? I'm talking 100-200gb HD files, so far too large for embedding but stored on the same drive? I hate clicking out of PPT and into Quicktime so that everyone can see my shit.

https://www2.palomar.edu/pages/atrc/2012/05/15/powerpoint-video-embed-vs-link/

link to file iirc

Thanks, will try.

Do we have a PPT thread?

MH GTFO THIS IS MY QUESTIONS

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― vylvyt ylvis (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, February 15, 2014 2:25 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stevie wat is yr name?

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is just my first name and last name all one word

And admrl know that if you are linking to a file in a PowerPoint that is on removable storage, you will run into problems bcz it will point to the video file w/ a full path that incl's a drive letter, so if you plug into a diff machine and it assigns a diff drive letter it won't be able to find the video

there are ways to, like, use Package for CD and go in and modify some settings files to point to something in the same directory but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Linking to video files on anything portable is just a disaster, really.

You could also try embedding a Windows Media Player object on the Developer tab if it's a non-native video format but that's got its own set of issues.