Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

daPyr0x · Postby **daPyr0x** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:34 pm

I got asked to move back to Canada!

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:56 am

Some people associated with our county library admin. asked to use some of the pictures I took on Tuesday.

I got asked to move back to Canada!

Can you take the snowbirds that are in my town back with you? We love the money they spend here but hate the driving and the crowds. According to every source I can find, we get nearly 100,000 more residents in the winter months (doubles the year-round pop) and most are Canadian, with some Minnesotan, Washington...ian(?), and a few other northern state representatives.

neo-dragon · Postby **neo-dragon** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:16 am

Is the term "snowbirds" slang for northern visitors or do you actually mean the snowbirds?

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:28 pm

It's slang for the masses of old people from up north.

Petra456 · Postby **Petra456** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:46 pm

Washington...ian(?)

Yes.

Valentine · Postby **Valentine** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:12 pm

We made TOP FIVE in the case competition!!! (didn't find out the overall rank yet, lol)
And everyone in the class said I'm a killer presenter. Not half bad!

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:13 am

I lost 22 pounds!

Yes, I know I wrote it in the fitness thread. But I don't care. It's so awesome! =)

starlooker · Postby **starlooker** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:44 pm

I survived group.

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:37 pm

With the exception of taping, after ~34 hours: I.Am.Done.

Scratch that. Taping included, I am done. Only thing left is to send them.

*happy dance*

starlooker · Postby **starlooker** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:25 pm

I survived group.

Again.

Also, when I returned from group today, I gave into impulse and threw my keys down on the desk, hard.

This is not the triumph.

As is normal when I give into childish impulses, the consequences were not what I intended. The keys bounced on an inter-departmental mail envelope and promptly landed behind my desk. My heavy, heavy, solid desk. Where I could not reach them.

So, I pulled and pushed and heaved and tried to move the desk. Nope. Not moving. Looks like I'm going to have to get some help or call maintenance and feel like an idiot.

Unless -- unless -- unless I can MacGuyver a solution!

First I tried fishing for them with my Slinky. This was not a success. The gap between wall and desk was too narrow. I was lucky to get the Slinky back.

Think, think, think. Looking around the room with MacGuyver-eyes.

Aha! Paperclips! I made a long paperclip chain, made a paperclip hook at the end, reached down into the gap and got 'em, first try.

It's not quite closing a shirt with a toothpick, but it did make me feel better about my day

Rei · Postby **Rei** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:23 pm

Paperclips are totally the most useful tool ever! Good show!

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:35 am

I ran 5 kilometers (together with my friends, as part of gym class) in 26.34 minutes.

I was actually AHEAD of my friends, when finishing a run. That has never happen to me before.
I am thrilled =)

Also an important triumph, I resisted buying myself something sweet to celebrate after the run, even though I have eaten just 500 calories so far. I'm really proud...and hungry ^_^

Young Val · Postby **Young Val** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:12 am

I made authentic, delicious, orgasmically good naan from scratch all by myself!

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:31 pm

Today I officially tied the number of books I read in 2007. (You'd think this was easy given all my free time, but no, I thrive on structure and haven't had enough of that this year.)

ender1 · Postby **ender1** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:40 pm

A semesters worth of trial and error:

Hector.Victorious · Postby **Hector.Victorious** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:43 pm

Wow. That is beautiful!

VelvetElvis · Postby **VelvetElvis** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:43 pm

*want*

ender1 · Postby **ender1** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:02 pm

*want*

You'd be the second person to want it.

Petra456 · Postby **Petra456** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:18 pm

Yea, i'm the first!

*glares*

elfprince13 · Postby **elfprince13** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:19 pm

I had a state legislator email me asking me to explain Plasma-Gasification technology and suggest resources he could use to educate other legislators on the subject.

also, they said they'd give us more money to buy more pellet stoves for LIHEAP recipients.

Valentine · Postby **Valentine** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:15 am

Will, that is AMAZING.

Postby **locke** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:17 am

that is stunning, discuss how it was done, is it a fiber print?

wow.

my triumph is that I mixed and mingled at the christmas party tonight. Although I only knew about fifteen of the sixty or seventy people there I was actually entering conversations and striking up them and introducing myself. wow. it really really works. I"m a bit stunned how easy and not awkward it is once you do it once or twice. and I found out a lot more people know me than I know them, that's a bit surprising and gratifying, I've made an impression and folks are aware of the good work I do. Plus I also had dinner conversations, it was great.

I'd also like to say that when I sat down next to a group of three women talking, and they introduced themselves as one was married and the other two were girlfriends I didn't get up and walk away shortly after discovering none of them were available, though I was surprised at the impulse to do so, instead I sat there for five or ten minutes and we chatted, they wound up being part of the table I sat with at dinner.

For the first time at one of these functions I can say I genuinely enjoyed myself the entire time, which for me is quite the triumph.

I always look forward to them, then always wind up disappointed in myself afterwards this time I am not, it's a great feeling.

ender1 · Postby **ender1** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:38 am

that is stunning, discuss how it was done, is it a fiber print?

It's a Kallitype. Emulsion hand coated with brush on Arches Platine printmaking paper. The paper was contact printed and exposed with UV light, then it was developed and toned in gold.

Postby **Jayelle** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:20 pm

I mixed and mingled at the christmas party

Did you do it in a jingle bell beat?

...too obscure?

(it's jingle bell rock)

Postby **locke** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:41 pm

that is stunning, discuss how it was done, is it a fiber print?
It's a Kallitype. Emulsion hand coated with brush on Arches Platine printmaking paper. The paper was contact printed and exposed with UV light, then it was developed and toned in gold.

ooooh, so you were shooting with an 8x10 camera? Nice....

I shall scoff no more at the gold developers I've seen at the photo store. wow.

ender1 · Postby **ender1** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:03 pm

that is stunning, discuss how it was done, is it a fiber print?
It's a Kallitype. Emulsion hand coated with brush on Arches Platine printmaking paper. The paper was contact printed and exposed with UV light, then it was developed and toned in gold.
ooooh, so you were shooting with an 8x10 camera? Nice....

I shall scoff no more at the gold developers I've seen at the photo store. wow.

Actually its a 13x19 digital negative. I can't afford bigger camera than my 4x5 atm.

I mixed the toner myself. 1% Gold cloride is not cheap.

steph · Postby **steph** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:47 pm

Yesterday, I painted a bathroom and laid tile in two bathrooms. Tomorrow, I have to grout (that is, if the adhesive dries!).

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:12 am

Today I made one of the few people I highly respect laugh. (Intentionally.) I seriously couldn't do anything useful for a few minutes after that.

This happened again today (different person).

Actually, a little clarification on both of these events. It's not just that it's someone I respect; it's one of those people that I've watched from afar for a while, gaining some serious awe for them over a period of time. Like a celebrity, I guess, except, well, not all that famous. In the quoted instance, it was one of the first times I'd ever spoken to that person; and this time it was the very first time I spoke with them.

And last time it was just via text; I don't know that they actually laughed or anything. This time I actually heard it. I mean, it feels pretty exciting enough just to talk to them, really, but when I'm notnervous enough to actually say something slightly funny... it's just amazing.

Okay, enough of that. (Yes, I am a fanboy for at least two different people.)

Postby **locke** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:18 am

I weighed the same when I got home today as I did when I left. Usually I come home five pounds heavier from winter Hiatus.

Postby **Luet** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:42 am

I made three dr appts that I have been putting off.

elfprince13 · Postby **elfprince13** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:14 pm

I finally got my first non-trivial (by non trivial I mean that it does actual work, not that the task is anything but embarassngly parallel) multithreaded application and increased performance by very nearly a factor of 2 on my dual core machine by enabling multithreading, and it's now crunching through several hundred MB of data. Also, it should get my name in a research publication before I even start college. epic woot. Looks like I'll be able to crank through 90,000 vertices in approximately an hour (that's 1500 a minute or 25 a second or 12 per second per core....not too shabby given that it has to partially reconstruct the search tree for every one) instead of the two hours+ I was anticipating.

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:10 am

I made pasta sauce, (mostly) by myself, and it went really good! =)

starlooker · Postby **starlooker** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:20 pm

*bump*

I checked my voicemail.

I cleaned off my desk.

I have discovered how to judiciously shut my computer monitor off when I do not require it.

elfprince13 · Postby **elfprince13** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:53 pm

Code: Select all

			if(node.getWeight() == Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY){
				Debugger.printInfo("This graph contains islands of disconnected vertices");
				break;
			}

Suddenly the performance of my bounded Djikstra SSSPP implementation went up dramatically.

Syphon the Sun · Postby **Syphon the Sun** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:25 pm

I just finished an appellate brief: twenty-seven pages of why we should protect big business from attacks by the most overturned judiciary in the nation. I'm actually pretty proud of the research I did; I've heard a lot of my peers talk about how little they researched and it's fairly telling when we're talking about the issues in the cafeteria.

Next up: oral arguments to the Mock Circuit Court of Appeals, wherein local judges (including a state Supreme Court Justice) are the Circuit bench. Oh yeah, this ought to be interesting... *crosses fingers*

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