Please share your triumph of the day

[nachobro]

Made a last minute decision and booked a trip to EVO this weekend. I wasn't gonna go but I can't break my attendance streak.

[Atramental]

Woot! Got invited to another party.   

[Kara]

I was playing with a knife (embrace your Polish heritage brehs) and absentmindedly pushed its blade side into a finger tip for a material amount of time but ended up doing no meaningful damage to the digit in question.

On a related note, though this is more likely a struggle post, I am really disassociating an alarming amount lately.

Also I should probably find a whetstone for this knife.

[Rufus]

Remember Artyom, a shitty cheap King stone is fine for rough grit, but for polishing an edge you want naniwa qualitee.

[Kara]

Radiohead was played during a dramatic scene... sorry "dramatic" scene in the latest season of Criminal Minds on Netflix. Radiohead is officially CBS lamestreamer tier.

Living long enough to see your enemies vanquished.

[T234]

Radiohead was played during a dramatic scene... sorry "dramatic" scene in the latest season of Criminal Minds on Netflix. Radiohead is officially CBS lamestreamer tier.

Living long enough to see your enemies vanquished.

I hope it was a broad who picked that shit out, good sir.

[El Babua]

Radiohead was played during a dramatic scene... sorry "dramatic" scene in the latest season of Criminal Minds on Netflix. Radiohead is officially CBS lamestreamer tier.

Living long enough to see your enemies vanquished.

I heard the Strokes being played at IHOP a while back. The song being from their only good album made their shame even funnier.

[Kara]

Radiohead was played during a dramatic scene... sorry "dramatic" scene in the latest season of Criminal Minds on Netflix. Radiohead is officially CBS lamestreamer tier.

Living long enough to see your enemies vanquished.

I hope it was a broad who picked that shit out, good sir.

Spencer Reid is mai husbando.

[Brehvolution]

Rewarded myself with some studio wireless headphones to go with my new Spotify sub.. I'm very impressed with Spotify. I haven't found a song they don't have yet. Even stuff from bandcamp was on there.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Spotify is awesome. My only complaint is I can't find Peter Gabriel

[Tasty]

Semi-related, but YouTube Music is low-key pretty awesome.

[chronovore]

I fucking hate JASRAC, the Japanese version of the RIAA. They have a stranglehold on music in general in Japan and NO-ONE has reasonable streaming options. Pandora, YouTube Music, Spotify, even Last.fm are all region blocked.

[chronovore]

Ah, as for triumph: I logged in today to see that someone had tried to change my Amazon password. This reminded me to make certain I had two-factor set up for it. I didn't, so I did, and now I do. Doo-dee-doo-dee-doo. 

[Rufus]

I fucking hate JASRAC, the Japanese version of the RIAA. They have a stranglehold on music in general in Japan and NO-ONE has reasonable streaming options. Pandora, YouTube Music, Spotify, even Last.fm are all region blocked.

They seem worse than their German equivalent.

[chronovore]

I fucking hate JASRAC, the Japanese version of the RIAA. They have a stranglehold on music in general in Japan and NO-ONE has reasonable streaming options. Pandora, YouTube Music, Spotify, even Last.fm are all region blocked.

They seem worse than their German equivalent.

I think they panicked once CDs were deemed legal for rental. You can rent CDs here, but not games. 

But JASRAC's influence and pricing is almost certainly why Rock Band's Japanese version never came out. It's why foreign owned internet radio services are unable to be received here. Actually Apple doesn't block anything, video or audio, and iTunes Radio worked great until they folded it into the Apple Music service and decided to charge for it.  :'(

I've thought about adding a VPN to my regimen, but I guess I'm relatively happy with the 15,000 songs I've already got.

:oldmanshoutsatclouds.gif

[Rufus]

I fucking hate JASRAC, the Japanese version of the RIAA. They have a stranglehold on music in general in Japan and NO-ONE has reasonable streaming options. Pandora, YouTube Music, Spotify, even Last.fm are all region blocked.

They seem worse than their German equivalent.

I think they panicked once CDs were deemed legal for rental. You can rent CDs here, but not games. 

Odd. Maybe video games being relatively new at the time allowed them to bamboozle lawmakers.

:oldmanshoutsatclouds.gif

Nah, these organizations are behind the times.

[Madrun Badrun]

Bought like a day an half worth of food in china town for 5$.  Then ate it all in an hour.   Gonna take a nap at work now. 

[Atramental]

By next pay cycle I'll be a salaried employee as opposed to being paid hourly. 

No more sweating about trying to get exactly 40 hours (of quantifiable work) on the clock each week.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Now they will have you work 50 hours while paying you like you work 40

[Madrun Badrun]

congrats.  Thats a lot of piss to clean up. 

[Atramental]

"Pallando, this week I'll need you to work 50+ hours mopping up dog piss. The janitor is out sick and you're our next best option since you have on the job experience doing this." 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Awww yeah got tickets for the season opening game Arsenal - Liverpool and the wife doesn't mind me going for the weekend so I can hang out with a buddy there

To do list:
-Fish and chips
-Full English breakfast
-Pints
-Playing Fifa
-seeing the Arsenal

spoiler (click to show/hide)

90 quid for a ticket though brehs

[close]

[seagrams hotsauce]

i'm pretty high and i'm about to get breakfast while listening to the new Gucci Mane. After that, I'm gonna take a nap, wake up and play some Overwatch, and fuck my girlfriend, who is really hot and inexplicably seems to really like me. Tonight I'm going to grill some ribs, shrimp, corn, and maybe a couple thighs and/or wings, and then maybe get shitfaced. I hate summer but today will be good.

[chronovore]

Saturday here: Busted my ass to get through last minute deliverables for my contract programmer, who loves working on weekends. Got the house shipshape for visiting guests from Turkey who saved my mom and me over there in 2014, and we ate a mess of locally premiere sushi together. Felt like I was running at 90% capacity until dinner.

[tiesto]

Friend offered me tickets to Video Games Live in Westbury and we ended up meeting Tommy Tallarico.

[Mupepe]

I've gotten much better at changing the tire on my Harley. This is the third time and I've gone from a whole day to just about an hour and a half. Pretty much faster than when the dealer does it. Suck it mofos.

[Phoenix Dark]

It used to take a whole day? How much harder is it than changing a car tire, assuming someone's car knowledge/experience was at the level of your motorcycle knowledge/experience back when it took a day.

[Mupepe]

The rear is a pain in the ass. You have to remove the exhaust system and of course reinstall it. You also have to get the belt tension right since it connects to the rear tire. And you have to line up both rear swing arms, the brake mount, tire, abs sensor and two spacers to get it all together while pushing the axle through. So doing this by myself for the first time ever... Yeah. A whole day.

There was also a lot of paranoia and "why isn't this shit fitting back together?" Plus trial and error. You can do it without taking the exhaust off but you need some special tools and I've gotten good enough at it that it's not worth it at this point.

It's not more complicated than a car but things aren't engineered nearly as user friendly so there is a lot more little steps where things can get confusing or go wrong if you're trying to figure it out on your own.

[Cerveza mas fina]

having a harley damn mups im so jealous

sometimes in bed I think about how much fun I had riding my 125cc suzuki in Ireland, one day Ill ride again dammit

[Mupepe]

Do it, man. The world needs more people on two wheels.

[Samson Manhug]

I’m thinking about getting a bike again too. I think I’m going to go make an offer on this guy this week:



http://cycleactionokc.com/Motorcycles-Suzuki-V-Strom-650-XT-ABS-2015-7f922dbe-d61c-476c-8a3c-a5e6009672d5

[helios]

Some guy is going to make a movie out of my short film screenplay about a contract killer trying to win back his girlfriends with the unwanted help of his multiple personalities. And I found out that I placed in the top 20% of of the Nicholl Fellowship with a different script. No where near high enough to become a quarterfinalist, but it's nice to know it got that high.

[VomKriege]

Payday or what then ?

[helios]

No payday yet, but it opens a door for me.

[Mupepe]

I’m thinking about getting a bike again too. I think I’m going to go make an offer on this guy this week:

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http://cycleactionokc.com/Motorcycles-Suzuki-V-Strom-650-XT-ABS-2015-7f922dbe-d61c-476c-8a3c-a5e6009672d5

Yesssssssss. Do it!!

[Tasty]

Some guy is going to make a movie out of my short film screenplay about a contract killer trying to win back his girlfriends with the unwanted help of his multiple personalities. And I found out that I placed in the top 20% of of the Nicholl Fellowship with a different script. No where near high enough to become a quarterfinalist, but it's nice to know it got that high.

 

That's awesome! Congrats man.

[VomKriege]

No payday yet, but it opens a door for me.

Ah shoot. Good nonetheless. Screenwirting is worst than the Hunger Games, having a script picked up by an outsider is always nice.

[Phoenix Dark]

Some guy is going to make a movie out of my short film screenplay about a contract killer trying to win back his girlfriends with the unwanted help of his multiple personalities. And I found out that I placed in the top 20% of of the Nicholl Fellowship with a different script. No where near high enough to become a quarterfinalist, but it's nice to know it got that high.

[helios]

No payday yet, but it opens a door for me.

Ah shoot. Good nonetheless. Screenwirting is worst than the Hunger Games, having a script picked up by an outsider is always nice.

It's a big step, but there's still a long ways to go until you guys say my movies suck

[Tasty]

No payday yet, but it opens a door for me.

Ah shoot. Good nonetheless. Screenwirting is worst than the Hunger Games, having a script picked up by an outsider is always nice.

It's a big step, but there's still a long ways to go until you guys say my movies suck

You'll be The Bore's Gary Whitta in no time!

[Takuan]

I took an amazing dump during my team lunch

[Madrun Badrun]

Was the team as impressed with it as you were?

[Takuan]

Was the team as impressed with it as you were?

No, but the flies were. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

i take a 20 minute dump every day at the office

[helios]

I make a dime. Boss makes a dollar. That's why I poop on everyone's computer.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I had some political shit slinger throwing shit about a deliverable saying that something wasn't in it that was supposed to be but it's on like every paragraph and is frankly impossible to miss. I get called into client's office with this shit slinger and the client is like,

"I'm worried about this deliverable based on what shit slinger here has to say. It seems its missing this important element"
I was like, "Did you actually look at the deliverable? Here it is. See how from the first page you can see what shit slinger is saying isn't true?"
client looks at the deliverable and nods, "Yeah"
I continued, "It's all over the document. Nearly every paragraph of every page. I mean any idiot that can read can see it's in there."
I look at shit slinger who is starting to blush and add, "Well, apparently not ANY idiot."
client

I just walked out at that point don't care if the boss is pissed. I'm done with politics here

[Cerveza mas fina]

Summer is so boring at the office, went down to the cafe today during work and just closed my eyes for 20 minutes and dozed off.

[Cerveza mas fina]

This nap was actually a struggle

[chronovore]

I had some political shit slinger throwing shit about a deliverable saying that something wasn't in it that was supposed to be but it's on like every paragraph and is frankly impossible to miss. I get called into client's office with this shit slinger and the client is like,

"I'm worried about this deliverable based on what shit slinger here has to say. It seems its missing this important element"
I was like, "Did you actually look at the deliverable? Here it is. See how from the first page you can see what shit slinger is saying isn't true?"
client looks at the deliverable and nods, "Yeah"
I continued, "It's all over the document. Nearly every paragraph of every page. I mean any idiot that can read can see it's in there."
I look at shit slinger who is starting to blush and add, "Well, apparently not ANY idiot."
client

I just walked out at that point don't care if the boss is pissed. I'm done with politics here

Wait, a politically-inclined co-worker of yours brought this stuff up with the client? Or was the shit-slinger also part of the client's hierarchy?

[toku]

https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/track/this-remix-by-miami-producer-marks-sounds-like-ryuchi-sakamoto-with-sunstroke

 

[Phoenix Dark]

https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/track/this-remix-by-miami-producer-marks-sounds-like-ryuchi-sakamoto-with-sunstroke

 

[I'm a Puppy!]

I had some political shit slinger throwing shit about a deliverable saying that something wasn't in it that was supposed to be but it's on like every paragraph and is frankly impossible to miss. I get called into client's office with this shit slinger and the client is like,

"I'm worried about this deliverable based on what shit slinger here has to say. It seems its missing this important element"
I was like, "Did you actually look at the deliverable? Here it is. See how from the first page you can see what shit slinger is saying isn't true?"
client looks at the deliverable and nods, "Yeah"
I continued, "It's all over the document. Nearly every paragraph of every page. I mean any idiot that can read can see it's in there."
I look at shit slinger who is starting to blush and add, "Well, apparently not ANY idiot."
client

I just walked out at that point don't care if the boss is pissed. I'm done with politics here

Wait, a politically-inclined co-worker of yours brought this stuff up with the client? Or was the shit-slinger also part of the client's hierarchy?

No. If it was my co-worker he'd be fired. It's a cohort of the client.

[Madrun Badrun]

Braved the sun and went and got beer cause I'm not getting much done at work.  Belhaven stout, which is the first stout I've had that tastes nearly as good in a can as on tap.  Also some Kilkenny irish cream ale cause I thought the packaging looked classy.   

[Brehvolution]

Went and saw Guns n Roses Sunday night at Metlife arena. Slash is a machine.

Panoramic:
http://i.imgur.com/mknqnI2.jpg

Pretty far away, but the tickets were only $70. :shrug

Amazing show

[Madrun Badrun]

only 70$ 

[Cerveza mas fina]

slash was playing with gnr?

[Brehvolution]

only 70$ 

The level below us was going for $125+ and just as far away. 

[VomKriege]

Will meet the project manager of another employer and on the same day do some work on a personal project in another company letting us use their hardware, hoping to be able to push me (maybe through selling them on some piece of software I am specialized on).

Might not result in anything right now, but it's nice to have some feedback on my efforts to sell myself.

[Mupepe]

My wife outs her old Cosmo magazines in the guest restroom. So every time I use it i get to see Ashley Graham's big ass titty cleavage.

[Alcoholic Fish]

My wife outs her old Cosmo magazines in the guest restroom. So every time I use it i get to see Ashley Graham's big ass titty cleavage.

Met her at a work event once. She was extremely nice.

Also, the ass on her