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New Year Open Thread

by Fran
Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 12:38:10 PM EST

Crazy Horse, your wish is my comand... or something like that. :-)

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New Year Open Thread | 34 comments (34 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 1)

Is everybody having a hangover from last nights celebration, or what?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 12:43:48 PM EST

Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

None for me. I actually took a nap at about 8PM (an exciting New Year's, I tell ya), woke up at 10PM to turn on Dick Clark. Sounded like he was slowly recovering from his stroke. Much better shape than last year.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 12:57:17 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm okay. Didn't really get too drunk cos drinking on your own isn't really that sort of drinking.

Mind you, the Stone Bitter chocolate Oatmeal Stout (eat your heart out Drew) was pretty damn fine.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:13:43 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

If the Arrogant Bastard Ale is any indication, I'll pass. Didn't think much of it.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:34:04 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

Never tried that. If I ever see it I'll try it and comment.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:59:18 PM EST
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no hangover, and no celebrations here (none / 0)

A bottle of champagne between 3 adults, and everybody (almost) off to sleep before 11pm. A surprising number of artisanal fireworks are lit up in the streets of the city on that hour...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:21:29 PM EST
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Re: no hangover, and no celebrations here (none / 0)

Did you also use a sabre to open the bottle? :)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 05:49:50 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

No hangover, just a big family meal today, still getting over that one oof.

<foie gras + roast stuffed capon = roast stuffed afew gras>

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 03:11:17 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

The Universe is yours to discover during the International Year of Astronomy 2009 | Release Archive | Astronomy 2009

With 2009 just over the horizon, stargazers around the world are busy preparing for the International Year of Astronomy. A staggering 135 nations are collaborating to bring the Universe closer to Earth. Events and activities will take place over the coming 365 days and beyond, in a spectacle of cosmic proportions.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 12:46:27 PM EST

Re: New Year Open Thread (4.00 / 7)

No hangover here, Fran, but it's a lazy day. Best wishes for 2009 to everyone, and here goes a recent picture of the beautiful, and beautifully preserved, antique columns inside the Pantheon of Rome. Nearly 1900 years old and counting. Will anything we build be as long-lasting?

You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.

by Vagulus on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 12:48:28 PM EST

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That's a great picture.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 12:55:24 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (4.00 / 4)

Happy New Year everyone.

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:15:00 PM EST

Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

Hey, good to see you dude.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:16:44 PM EST
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Thank You.

These past several weeks have been busy, busy, busy. And it looks like the next 3 months are going to be as bad or worse.

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:29:40 PM EST
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Hey! (none / 0)

good to see you again! Happy new year! (happy new home?)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:19:52 PM EST
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Re: Hey! (none / 0)

Well, no.

That was what I was working on: pushing to get to where I can finish-up in the next 3 months.

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 02:02:29 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (4.00 / 4)

Great. Now we have New Mexicans returning to the site. Means we'll probably have to have a meet-up in Santa Fe, or better yet Taos. New Mexico, where all the French Nobel winners in literature live. Jeez. probably think Bill Richardson is cool or something.

welcome home, AT.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:28:32 PM EST
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Hey, Happy New Year. Where ya been?

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:32:43 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 1)

Working on the house and several writing projects.

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 02:05:18 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 1)

Begging the question, what kind of writing projects?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 02:09:58 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

All are still Works in Progress:

One is a low budget screenplay a friend in Los Angles (where else?) wants to produce.

Others - still ongoing - are a sheaf of technical discussions (high-techy talk to marketeer-speak) about our Natural Language Understanding System.

I wrote, but will not send, a response to a DARPA Request For Information.

The last is a rewrite of our 'Request for Funding.' The old one is woefully out of date both financially and technologically.

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 02:38:33 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 1)

Happy Noo One to you too, and good to see you.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 03:13:47 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (4.00 / 6)

Fran's Open Thread

Crazy Horse, your wish is my comand... or something like that. :-)

Y'all see how easy it will be in 2009?

These are the things with which i began the new year.

There are now no more boxes on the living room rug.
While wandering around Bremen on the fifth day of blue skies, (unheard of, but thanks for the welcome), i found the exact piece of wood i needed to provide the base for the printer cupboard.
Boot Liquor radio on SomaFM internet radio is a good soundtrack for today.
i watched all the amazing documentary films which accompany Gandhi, and i'm even more amazed it got made.
i found my screenwriting software, so i can send Melancthon the Hiawatha script, instead of the novel he wants to read.
i watched the crescent moon pass over my desk, which is pretty cool for a Wohnung with a glass roof.
From J's frontpage 10 Yr Euro diary, i discovered that no matter my experience, i can't detail what actually needs to be done to help us heal Anglo disease.
I'm thinking it will be pretty cool in Bremen, the Frisco of Deutschland, so we should probably have a meet-up.
In general, i wish there were more Germans on this site, and if they're lurking, Vorbeischaue Bitte.

Oh by the way, i have never seen so many fireworks in my life, as littered my area last night. And the sound track as i write this is the band Son Volt, singing, May the Wind Take Your Troubles Away.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:21:09 PM EST

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http://www.whisky-weekend.de/

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:35:02 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

And while it's on my mind, Scotch Corner on Ruckstrasse? used to be pretty good...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:36:35 PM EST
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Re: New Year Open Thread (none / 0)

Thanks for the tips, and you will be welcome of course.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:41:58 PM EST
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Son Volt, Windfall

May the Wind Take Your Troubles Away

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 01:37:08 PM EST
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Happy New Year!

It's 12:36 PM here in New Mexico, and the hangover is just beginning to wear off... bleah.

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 02:35:00 PM EST

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You'll find this amusing, I think.

'Bout had a heart attack last week when I was up in ABQ. Drove by Page One Too and ... it ... was ... closed!!!! (AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH)

Parked, walked up to the Hallowed Door, and read they'd completed their move.

whew

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 02:45:10 PM EST
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Happy New Year! This links to the regular YouTube video, but if you can, click on the "watch in HD" link at the lower right of the video-- much better.

(And no, I don't know what they're saying in the song-- specially written for the new year celebration, I've heard-- but who cares! Let this be a happy year!)