Author Topic: Please share your triumph of the day (Read 797890 times)

zomgee · « **Reply #3240 on:** September 30, 2016, 05:35:24 PM »

Quote from: Kaffir The Reaper on September 30, 2016, 11:38:49 AM

Quote from: Samson Manhug on September 30, 2016, 10:21:20 AM
Quote from: Kaffir The Reaper on September 30, 2016, 08:45:09 AM
Going to immigrate to the US and stay there for good this November

Where to?

Ohio first to help out the fam, and then go see different universities for Masters and check out a few places of employment.

In the meantime I'll be visiting Bozeman, LA, New York, and New Orleans. Might check out Michigan to see the Lions disappoint in person.

Make sure and wave when your plane dumps its septic system overtop WV.

Tasty · « **Reply #3241 on:** September 30, 2016, 05:43:42 PM »

Not coming to Boston 😒

nudemacusers · « **Reply #3242 on:** September 30, 2016, 05:44:54 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on September 30, 2016, 05:43:42 PM

Not coming to Boston 😒

cant blame him tbh

Tasty · « **Reply #3243 on:** September 30, 2016, 06:34:30 PM »

🖐😒

chronovore · « **Reply #3244 on:** September 30, 2016, 08:15:00 PM »

My "new" iPhone arrived in the mail today. It's a used iPhone 6, but because this Japan and not the USA shitshow of online purchases that the USA features, it's spotless and new and shiny and lovely, and now my old phone's contents are perfectly mirrored on it. WHOOOOOOT.

chronovore · « **Reply #3245 on:** September 30, 2016, 08:15:42 PM »

Quote from: Kaffir The Reaper on September 30, 2016, 08:45:09 AM

Going to immigrate to the US and stay there for good this November

HOLY SHITTING SHIT, that's AMAZINGLY great news!

Atramental · « **Reply #3246 on:** September 30, 2016, 08:27:22 PM »

What about Greenville, SC though, Wrath?

Don't worry, I'm actually tolerable in real life.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #3247 on:** September 30, 2016, 08:27:52 PM »

Quote from: Kaffir The Reaper on September 30, 2016, 05:46:24 PM

Quote from: Tasty Meat on September 30, 2016, 05:43:42 PM
Not coming to Boston 😒

I'll make sure to go just for you, bae.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #3248 on:** September 30, 2016, 09:51:44 PM »

To be fair Montana is the square mile equivalent to like 6 states

brawndolicious · « **Reply #3249 on:** October 02, 2016, 01:35:30 AM »

Company closure finished yesterday after 2 months but this recruiter dude working for santa clara valley water authority seems to think I'd be a great fit as a project manager. So I started off today with breakfast with Ann after we had a fight yesterday, then a party with my former coworkers where I totally nerded out and discussed weed and Halo with my lab director, and then I met her again and had smashburger. And as soon as I got home I laid the wickedest fart. Only to find out Trump lost a billion dollars in one year and feels poor on the inside.

Imma ride this wave and apply to those biotech start-ups. They're probably mostly all bullshit but I'm feeling gewd.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3250 on:** October 03, 2016, 08:34:29 PM »

Lined up an internship at an AI startup. And they are doing basically exactly what I wanted to do for my Ph.D.

zomgee · « **Reply #3251 on:** October 03, 2016, 10:44:57 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on October 03, 2016, 08:34:29 PM

Lined up an internship at an AI startup. And they are doing basically exactly what I wanted to do for my Ph.D.

Now the internet will seek strange pornography for you!

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3252 on:** October 03, 2016, 11:45:13 PM »

it already does

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3253 on:** October 03, 2016, 11:48:19 PM »

i open my arms like mosses and the path to strange porn materializes before me

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #3254 on:** October 04, 2016, 08:52:35 PM »

A major university asked me to come in and teach them for 3 days.
All these people are so happy to do their jobs. So refreshing to see that after so many people so dead inside from work.
I used to teach at BYU when I was there. But now I get to check "teach at an ivy league of the west university" off my bucket list.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #3255 on:** October 04, 2016, 11:38:33 PM »

Oh and I got to have dinner with my old friend Cyan. Having good company for dinner

brawndolicious · « **Reply #3256 on:** October 05, 2016, 03:16:55 PM »

Walked into a middle-management interview at a water company in San Jose after only finding out last night I'm totally unqualified/uncertified on paper at least. I stood tall and was totally honest about not being familiar with the regulations/certs and all that but they just said my resume was impressive with my science/qa background and that they think I'll be a great fit and not to worry about the certifications as that's just copy-pasted. Had a good feeling walking out and will find out in a few days if I got it.

My old workplace laid everyone off so hopefully I get it and don't have to scrounge unemployment as that'll barely cover rent. At the least it feels good to be over-ambitious.

chronovore · « **Reply #3257 on:** October 05, 2016, 06:42:49 PM »

You did the right thing. It's up to the hirer to decide if you're right for the position. It's also good experience to interview for things outside your comfort zone. The number of people who aren't qualified for their job in Silly Valley is staggering. At least you're being honest about it.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #3258 on:** October 06, 2016, 02:18:06 AM »

Software companies are usually run like shit though, I've heard. Even my experience on the semiconductor side was mostly training through Google-searches.

chronovore · « **Reply #3259 on:** October 06, 2016, 02:24:56 AM »

Quote from: brawndolicious on October 06, 2016, 02:18:06 AM

Software companies are usually run like shit though, I've heard. Even my experience on the semiconductor side was mostly training through Google-searches.

Yeah, back in college, in my first job as a designer/educator all I did was go through Illustrator and Freehand's tutorials before showing up for the interview. Of course I also had a mess more general computer experience than any other designer there, but they acted like I was Herr Aldus Adobe himself.

chronovore · « **Reply #3260 on:** October 06, 2016, 12:06:02 PM »

Not only got my phone's screen fixed today, but also finished the reinstall of OS X on my early 2009 iMac!

Apple's odd network prioritization meant that purchasing iCloud and backing up photos took FOUR DAYS. Not a joke, four days, real time. After the first day, I looked into if this was normal -- turns out many customers complaining about it. Second day, I call a friend there, and they confirmed that it's slow. "Just wait." It strikes me as odd, because iTunes' download speeds are INSANELY fast.

I could bore you with the remaining days of troubles encountered during this reinstallation, but I'll instead report that the machine feels about as peppy now as it did when I bought it. I thought that the OS was trying to do more, and taking more and more memory, but with Mavericks freshly installed, it is full of pep.

Whatever the most recent version is, where it's macOS now, won't run on this thing, it's so old. So at least I don't have to worry about further upgrades. This is it until it dies.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3261 on:** October 06, 2016, 03:13:55 PM »

Listening to Tina Fey's Bossypants instead of working.

Samson Manhug · « **Reply #3262 on:** October 06, 2016, 06:36:16 PM »

I’m not promising anything because I can’t speak for Great Rumbler and Joe Molotov, but you’ve got at least two of the Bore elite and me in Oklahoma.

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And don’t forget my friend’s cousin, Olivia Munn, is also from Oklahoma

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I don’t know her

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Mupepe · « **Reply #3263 on:** October 06, 2016, 07:35:05 PM »

I got really excited before I read the third spoiler.

chronovore · « **Reply #3264 on:** October 06, 2016, 07:52:51 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on October 06, 2016, 03:13:55 PM

Listening to Tina Fey's Bossypants instead of working.

Now that /is/ a triumph.

Quote from: Mupepe on October 06, 2016, 07:35:05 PM

I got really excited before I read the third spoiler.

For it to truly work for you, Olivia would have to do it with her cousin, Manhug's friend, so you'd be relegated to voyeur.

Mupepe · « **Reply #3265 on:** October 06, 2016, 08:51:16 PM »

God that would be so good

Huff · « **Reply #3266 on:** October 07, 2016, 04:08:33 PM »

Well I guess it's a triumph that all my family is fine after my hometown got mauled by Matthew. But north east Florida is currently underwater and I can't imagine all the damage that occurred.

In a lighter note, finally an excuse for my parents to rip out the carpet and put in wood floors

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3267 on:** October 10, 2016, 07:58:59 PM »

Lost 17lbs after starting a lo-carb diet about a month ago. It's nothing extreme, just trying to work out a plan for healthier eating that I feel like I can stick to long-term. A diet shake for breakfast, lunch is usually a ham and lettuce wrap (in a whole wheat, low-carb tortilla), and then various chicken and veggie dishes for dinner. Trying to avoid between meal snacks, but replacing chips and cereal with almonds, baby carrots, strawberries when I do feel like I need something. Replacing my Dr. Pepper addiction with

I feel like I can do better, so to have still lost that much weight makes me feel motivated.

king of the internet · « **Reply #3268 on:** October 10, 2016, 08:30:16 PM »

Discipline.

It feels amazing being in good shape even if the rest of your life is completely fucked.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3269 on:** October 10, 2016, 09:00:43 PM »

Well this is awkward because I was going to ask him to be my weightloss buddy.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3270 on:** October 10, 2016, 10:26:05 PM »

Weight loss threesome

toku · « **Reply #3271 on:** October 11, 2016, 02:13:55 AM »

Quote from: Kaffir The Reaper on September 30, 2016, 08:45:09 AM

Going to immigrate to the US and stay there for good this November

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #3272 on:** October 11, 2016, 02:33:39 AM »

Worst thing about losing weight is all the new clothes you have to buy.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3273 on:** October 11, 2016, 10:38:22 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on October 11, 2016, 02:33:39 AM

Worst thing about losing weight is all the new clothes you have to buy.

I haven't bought anything other than 2 jeans and a shirt in 3 years do to my thinking that I'll just need to buy new stuff when I loss weight.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #3274 on:** October 11, 2016, 11:18:01 AM »

Quote from: Kaffir The Reaper on October 11, 2016, 03:24:14 AM

Quote from: Premium Lager on October 11, 2016, 02:33:39 AM
Worst thing about losing weight is all the new clothes you have to buy.

And all the new pussy you have to fit in to your schedule.

see thats the benefit of being married

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I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #3275 on:** October 11, 2016, 11:43:11 AM »

PD abandoning baggy jeans.

king of the internet · « **Reply #3276 on:** October 11, 2016, 12:31:07 PM »

Baggy pants are goofy af. Might as well be wearing cargo's. Slim fit always unless u a fatty.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3277 on:** October 11, 2016, 01:09:09 PM »

He's buying Levi's on Amazon. Triumph over. Shut it down.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #3278 on:** October 11, 2016, 03:34:06 PM »

Had a busy few days starting with getting offered the government job on Thursday to racing to LA to meet my older brothers first child (he's cyoote) and today I'm gonna see some limited release of the godzilla movie that my friend's taking me to. I also have to find some time to meet my gf and give her some cool jewelry I saw in LA.

Tasty · « **Reply #3279 on:** October 12, 2016, 12:04:24 AM »

Came out on Facebook today (minus exactly 25% of my friends list - fam, church, etc.)

I've probably told 30 or so people but that still left around 200 that I've never been explicitly open about it with.

Feels good brehs.

Happy #NationalComingOutDay (I made the post with 5 mins left before midnight haha.)

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3280 on:** October 12, 2016, 12:14:11 AM »

Congrats! also how many of them pretended not to have known?

Tasty · « **Reply #3281 on:** October 12, 2016, 12:27:38 AM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on October 12, 2016, 12:14:11 AM

Congrats! also how many of them pretended not to have known?

Nobody so far!

I don't act "typically" gay (other than liking Nintendo.

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Freyj · « **Reply #3282 on:** October 12, 2016, 01:05:51 AM »

I lost about 60 lbs in 2014 and it was astonishingly easy. I was a lazy ass the whole time, just stuck to a calorie limit. I'm also a yeti so it's probably not that easy for normal sized people.

Starting is the hardest part but once those lbs start coming off...

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #3283 on:** October 12, 2016, 01:40:12 AM »

Congrats Andy.

Hopefully one day coming out won't be a thing anymore

Tasty · « **Reply #3284 on:** October 12, 2016, 01:24:34 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on October 12, 2016, 01:40:12 AM

Congrats Andy.

Hopefully one day coming out won't be a thing anymore

Yup. Probably a while off still but the progress in the last decade alone has been incredible, almost breakneck.

16 years ago, some states still had sodomy laws on the books. You could be jailed and fined for having consensual sex with another adult.

13 years ago same-sex marriage was illegal in all 50 states, and now it's the reverse. Marriage equality is the law of the land.

8 years ago Obama was "not in favor of gay marriage," then just two years later he repealed DADT. By the time he was back up for re-election 4 years ago, he said, "I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."

It's crazy to think there are kids in high school today that will never know a time when same-sex marriage wasn't legal in this state (MA.) I can only imagine the progress to come.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3285 on:** October 12, 2016, 01:35:55 PM »

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #3286 on:** October 12, 2016, 01:57:20 PM »

Congrats Tasty! As I might have mentioned my daughter is the president of her school's LGBT club and a lot of their concerns are coming out or keeping it secret and such. She's admitted that it's a bit of a weird for her because we've always been so accepting that it was never an issue for her. It was sorta like "BTW, I'm gay." We were like "Cool. How was school?" So while she can certainly understand why high school kids are scared to come out, it's a bit difficult when they say "Well how did you come out to your parents? And she's like "It wasn't a big deal." Hopefully it gets to the point where it just isn't a big source of drama for everyone.

BTW, it's especially funny when I meet one of her friends and from the moment I meet them I'm like "This kid is completely gay." And that kids parents don't know. One of these kids even went so far to get a girl to go with him to prom so he could keep his parents in the dark and I'm like "I've known you in a public setting for less than 5 minutes and know you're gay. How is it your parents don't know?"

Tasty · « **Reply #3287 on:** October 12, 2016, 02:02:41 PM »

Keep forgetting you're a parent

It is strange. I think on some level parents always know, or they deliberately put it out of their minds. That said some people are able to hide it better than others.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #3288 on:** October 12, 2016, 04:33:47 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 12, 2016, 02:02:41 PM

Keep forgetting you're a parent

It is strange. I think on some level parents always know, or they deliberately put it out of their minds. That said some people are able to hide it better than others.

Not only am I a parent, my oldest starts college next year

Huff · « **Reply #3289 on:** October 12, 2016, 04:59:01 PM »

lol old

Atramental · « **Reply #3290 on:** October 12, 2016, 08:25:49 PM »

I'm a closeted wizard. Where's my holiday?

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Kidding.

Gratz Tasty.

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chronovore · « **Reply #3291 on:** October 12, 2016, 09:46:13 PM »

Quote from: Pallando on October 12, 2016, 08:25:49 PM

I'm a closeted wizard. Where's my holiday?

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Kidding.

Gratz Tasty.
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Just as with your sex life, you get to enjoy holiday abstinence.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #3292 on:** October 13, 2016, 05:34:50 AM »

When I was like 12 the thing to say to other kids was gay and f*g
and what you fairy you wanna suck dick?

I'm ashamed of my actions

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grow up in a small bible town brehs $:-\$

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Mupepe · « **Reply #3293 on:** October 13, 2016, 12:17:55 PM »

You're all homos

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #3294 on:** October 13, 2016, 02:09:10 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on October 13, 2016, 05:34:50 AM

When I was like 12 the thing to say to other kids was gay and f*g
and what you fairy you wanna suck dick?

I'm ashamed of my actions

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grow up in a small bible town brehs $:-\$
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Maybe it'd be ok if you were "What? You fairy, you wanna suck my dick?...no, seriously. Please?"

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #3295 on:** October 13, 2016, 02:20:26 PM »

Quote from: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2016, 02:09:10 PM

Quote from: Premium Lager on October 13, 2016, 05:34:50 AM
When I was like 12 the thing to say to other kids was gay and f*g
and what you fairy you wanna suck dick?

I'm ashamed of my actions

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grow up in a small bible town brehs $:-\$
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Maybe it'd be ok if you were "What? You fairy, you wanna suck my dick?...no, seriously. Please?"

I love pulling pranks on my friends!

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3296 on:** October 13, 2016, 02:22:05 PM »

Cho Choo

Tasty · « **Reply #3297 on:** October 13, 2016, 02:24:42 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on October 13, 2016, 02:20:26 PM

Quote from: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2016, 02:09:10 PM
Quote from: Premium Lager on October 13, 2016, 05:34:50 AM
When I was like 12 the thing to say to other kids was gay and f*g
and what you fairy you wanna suck dick?

I'm ashamed of my actions

spoiler (click to show/hide)
grow up in a small bible town brehs $:-\$
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Maybe it'd be ok if you were "What? You fairy, you wanna suck my dick?...no, seriously. Please?"

I love pulling pranks on my friends!

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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #3298 on:** October 14, 2016, 10:43:17 AM »

Feeling extra manly today because I ran out of deodorant after one arm so not I got 'Lion's Pride' in the left and 'Wolf Thorne' in the right. GRRRRR.

king of the internet · « **Reply #3299 on:** October 14, 2016, 02:57:44 PM »

Final day of my twenties. I probably won't be able to remember most of the upcoming weekend.

News:

Author Topic: Please share your triumph of the day (Read 797890 times)