Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: SFEley on March 07, 2007, 03:17:27 AM
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In the Thread Which Shall Not Be Named (or Gendered), Palimpsest wrote:
Could we have a thread on something else we love, perhaps? LOL, people always seem to want to talk abotu SF media. Or maybe just a "things we love" thread? That's not very imaginative. Sorry!
This is a very good idea. Someone needs to kick it off, so...
I love popcorn. Real popcorn, popped with actual oil and with real butter on it. Microwave popcorn is salty cardboard. And I know that hot air popcorn is the healthiest, but I don't care. To my knowledge there is only one real popcorn popper still being made, the West Bend Stir Crazy popper, basically a heating pan with a little metal stick that stirs the kernels around. I had one for about ten years before the motor gave out; I bought another the same week, with great relief that they were still making it. This is my nighttime snack, oh, between 30% and 50% of all evenings. Perhaps someday I'll invest in a theater popcorn machine, the novelty kind you can find in catalogs. (Though I'm not sure I eat that much popcorn.)
I have more things I love, but one at a time is probably best.
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I love "Your Mom" jokes. My friends and I say them all the time to each other.
"I hate homework." "Your mom hates homework." Or, "I hate your mom."
"This problem doesn't make any sense." "Your mom doesn't make any sense."
Really, "Your Mom" jokes have become so ingrained into our group that most people don't even notice them any more. If you make a statement you should expect that someone will make a similar statement about your mom. Sometimes your mom's face. It's part of the group dynamic. Some real jewels can come out of this kind of banter, full of innuendo.
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I love the quiet that descends after the two kids are wrestled into bed.
You non-parents think that's boring, but anyone with kids under ten knows what I mean.
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Some answers, with pictures!
My kids Ian and Meg
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCN0749.jpg)
My lovely wife Cindy
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCN0377.jpg)
Our gardens (this is "the circle garden", one of ten or so flower beds we have)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCN0509.jpg)
Our gardens (The walkway to the house)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCN0437.jpg)
Our gardens (herb garden)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCN0430.jpg)
My lawn, and the cutting of said lawn (when I listen most often to Escape Pod)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCF0174.jpg)
The big willow tree
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/DSCN0432.jpg)
Sword fighting (Kuhapdo/Kumdo)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/bigmclargehuge/pics%20of%20fam/jeffsword.jpg)
As for popcorn, tons of which we eat every year, our favorite popcorn maker is one of these. It makes the best friggin popcorn ever.-
(http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/popcornpopper_1938_1625397)
Ours is the Back to Basics model, buy one here-
http://www.backtobasicsproducts.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=64
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I love Moleskine journals. I know they're pretentious, I know they're wayyyy overpriced, I know they're trendy, but I really love them anyway. They're elegant, well made, and the perfect size (the pocket ones, anyway). I have a bunch that I use for different writing projects, and while I'm happy to use whatever's handy when an idea comes, it usually gets copied into the notebook.
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I love my gal, first and foremost. Without her, I'm just another balding guy pushing forty and working a desk job.
I love hearing podcasters riff on stuff I've posted in their forums. Makes me feel like I'm part of something.
I love tabletop RPGs, and wish I could play them a lot more often.
I love discussing geeky topics like time travel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in small groups over pints of microbrewed beer and pizza.
I love having all the laundry done, to the point where the floor of the laundry room has not one single article of clothing waiting to be washed.
I love the buzz that comes from a solid workout at the gym, although lately I've been denying myself that pleasure to the point where I don't even remember where my workout gear is, and my waistline is pointedly reflecting that denial.
I love coming across a turn of phrase or analogy that really gets to me, one that makes me read it over and over, savoring it, committing it to memory.
I love anything that's funny enough to make me laugh until my eyes start tearing up. An example of this is DM of the Rings (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612), a hilarious and ongoing comic-book-style retelling of the movie version of LotR as if it were a D&D campaign, which I find so funny that it makes me laugh until I'm gasping for breath.
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I love anything that's funny enough to make me laugh until my eyes start tearing up. An example of this is DM of the Rings (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612), a hilarious and ongoing comic-book-style retelling of the movie version of LotR as if it were a D&D campaign, which I find so funny that it makes me laugh until I'm gasping for breath.
You would probably love Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html), then.
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I love that whenever I live through another episode of "My Life as a Three Stooges Movie," I can now tell my friends and laugh about it, instead of hoping no one was looking.
I love that my nine-year-old daughter has just as big an imagination as I remember having when I was nine.
I love that I have reached a point in my life that I no longer care that I'm not cool.
I love that my daughter thinks I'm cool, even though I'm not.
I love that my wife loves me, despite knowing that I'm not cool.
I love my wife and my daughter just because they are my wife and my daughter.
and I REALLY love order of the stick. (Rich Burlew is a genius.)
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I have recently developed a passion for good Scotch. By "good" Scotch I mean single malts in the expensive-but-still-under-three-digits category such as The Macallan 12, Balvenie 15, etc. I think I mentioned in an intro a while back that I was doing "Single Malt Who" nights, where folks came over for whisky tastings and Doctor Who viewings. I set that up largely so that I could drink a wider range of whiskies than I could otherwise afford.
I wasn't always a Scotch snob. For years I preferred Irish whiskey. Sullydog and I used to have mock online arguments about it, with insults that verged on the Shakespearean. My favorite was Black Bush, because it was so smooth. (It's still the one I recommend to those people who don't like whiskey for its harshness.)
Then one day I got an e-mail about a free Glenmorangie tasting at a fine restaurant in town, and rounded up some friends to go. That evening converted me. I've tried finer Scotches since then, but my favorite whisky remains the Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish. It's strong, but with a slightly sweet character and an aroma I can only describe as "friendly."
Black Bush tastes thin and watery to me now. I have regrets about that. Last night I was at an Irish pub and finished off the dinner with a bit of Jameson's, and I couldn't even get into that -- it wasn't bad, but the taste was all on the surface. (I still enjoy Redbreast, though, when I can find it. Sadly, the last time I found it was at the duty free shop in Ireland.)
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and I REALLY love order of the stick. (Rich Burlew is a genius.)
Thirded.
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I see your Scotch, and raise you some Port. ;)
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You know, the vast majority of alcohol (and all whisky) I find I simply do not enjoy. Wine being the exception - I've had quite a few beginner, easy to enjoy reds that have just really done it for me.
So here's to drinking wine with friends, eating a mismatched dinner and having a wonderful time.
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(pours a Bombay Saphire and Tonic)
Here! Here!
(clink!)
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and I REALLY love order of the stick
I've read Knights of the Dinner Table... are they different?
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I've read a few of Knights of the Dinner Table (whatever strips were in Dragon when I had a subscription.) Those are funny.
Order of the Stick follows the adventures of what is obviously a group of D&D characters. There are lots "gamer jokes" in the strip, but fewer and fewer as it goes on. The farther you get into it, the more of the humor is derived from the personalities of the characters. It's drawn with colored stick figures, which is a little off-putting at first, but ends up serving the strip well as it goes on. I commented before that I thought that Rich Burlew was genius and I say that not out of fanboyism (is that a word? :P ). I say that because I discovered that once I got into the strip, I really started to care about what happens to the characters once they got into serious danger. He also has a remarkable way of furthering the story while incorporating jokes and gags at the same time.
The first one is here.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html
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On the topic...
I've got about 25-30 webcomics I read on a regular basis. So I guess you could say I really love those, too.
Why? For one thing, I like the long, drawn out continuities of some of them, I like the tech-centric humor of most of them (Foxtrot and Dilbert just don't do it for me anymore), and I love the fact that a lot of these artists are still excited about the medium.
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I love Bread. Good bread. Homemade bread. I love the meditation of kneading the soft dough, the smell of braking bread, and crackling of the crust as it cools. I was raised on white bread my father baked on Saturdays, and I've kindled the memories in to a passion in my life. Someday, I hope to pass it on to children of my own.
I love good food. Along with baking, my parents taught me how to cook. I cook for my friends, I cook for myself, and I love to cook for strangers (anyone in Michigan?). My girlfriend's a personal chef and our favorite dates are when we can cook together.
I love good cigars. I prefer mid-range, $2-8, with a mild nutty flavor. But more than the taste, I love the attitude. You can't rush a cigar. You can't pop outside for a quick smoke. I like that you have to commit to the event and make time for the cigar, which means making time for yourself.
I love talking. So much of my daily interactions involve using some damn box full of wires or another that I really miss, and appreciate, face-to-face communication with other people. I like the sound of a person's voice, and all the nuances that a person conveys. I think if everyone could talk face-to-face, instead of text or messengers... well, there'd only be like 5 people left on the planet, but it'd be a much quieter planet.
I love the quiet of the highway at 4am the morning I have to fly somewhere. I've done a little traveling, but not enough to get good at it or sick of it. For me, there's just something about that quite feeling of being on the road as the world is waking up around you, and knowing that I'm going somewhere exciting.
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In the Thread Which Shall Not Be Named (or Gendered), Palimpsest wrote:
Could we have a thread on something else we love, perhaps? LOL, people always seem to want to talk abotu SF media. Or maybe just a "things we love" thread? That's not very imaginative. Sorry!
This is a very good idea. Someone needs to kick it off, so...
I love popcorn. Real popcorn, popped with actual oil and with real butter on it. Microwave popcorn is salty cardboard. And I know that hot air popcorn is the healthiest, but I don't care. To my knowledge there is only one real popcorn popper still being made, the West Bend Stir Crazy popper, basically a heating pan with a little metal stick that stirs the kernels around. I had one for about ten years before the motor gave out; I bought another the same week, with great relief that they were still making it. This is my nighttime snack, oh, between 30% and 50% of all evenings. Perhaps someday I'll invest in a theater popcorn machine, the novelty kind you can find in catalogs. (Though I'm not sure I eat that much popcorn.)
I have more things I love, but one at a time is probably best.
Y'know if you ever find that the popper poops out and can't be replaced making your own "real popcorn" is dead simple. Ever since I saw the Good Eats episode(http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_34838,00.html (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_34838,00.html)) about it that's the way I roll (popcornically speaking). Get a big metal bowl and you're off to the races!
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My girlfriend's a personal chef and our favorite dates are when we can cook together.
That...is the most romantic thing I have heard in 2007.
Rock on.
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I love that when prompted my almost 21 month-old daughter knows a pirate says "Arrrrrrr!" and a zombie says "Brains!" and I love that my wife thinks it's as funny as I do (okay, maybe not that funny).
I love sleeping in (which is very rare these days with my daughter).
I love good coffee (especially on days when I want to sleep in but can't).
I love staying up late at night watching movies or TV, listening to music, reading books, writing, and surfing the net (although this makes my desire to sleep in bigger).
Did I mention I love sleeping in?
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I love my girls (my wife and my two daughters, 6 & 3 years old)
I love fried chicken- could probably eat it 5 days a week
I love music, making it as well as listening to it
And I'd love to share some of that popcorn or a nice bottle of Cab, Merlot or even Chardonnay
I love Italy, where my wife & I went last year for our tenth anniversary- The food, the art, the architecture, the history (you can just repeat those over and over for a while!)
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I love that when prompted my almost 21 month-old daughter knows a pirate says "Arrrrrrr!" and a zombie says "Brains!" and I love that my wife thinks it's as funny as I do (okay, maybe not that funny).
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Did I mention I love sleeping in?
When you get up tomorrow (:P), go to the store and buy a special notebook to write down all the cool things your daughter is going to say. If you don't write them down, you'll forget them and then you'll hate yourself.
Trust me on this one.
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I love that when prompted my almost 21 month-old daughter knows a pirate says "Arrrrrrr!" and a zombie says "Brains!" and I love that my wife thinks it's as funny as I do (okay, maybe not that funny).
Cool. Alex knows that a lion says "Rawr!" (someone at day care must've taught him that) but doesn't seem to have any other impressions down yet. He does have all the parts of his face and body down pat, though, and he knows who Mommy and Daddy and Alex and the doggie are. That doesn't get old.
He turns two in a week, and he's definitely talking more, expressing his interests more, and planning ahead more. This is cool. I can't wait to start having real conversations with him.
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I love bread. Specifically, Italian bread. Back when I ran the comic shop, there was a really good coffee shop just up the road from us (A really good, basic latte being one of my other loves) and I used to regularly go there for lunch which, most days, would be simply a ciabatta loaf with real butter and strawberry jam. It's the smell and the texture and the way that the outside crackles when you bite into it. Throw in some sundried tomatoes or olives and cheese and I'm in absolute heaven:)
On a more literary note, I adore that moment you get in really good fiction when there's absolute parity between the reader and the characters. There's a point in Hunt for Red October, in the middle of the briefing on the submarine being stolen where everyone else is arguing and Alec Baldwin is just staring at the information on the screen. The moment where he puts it altogether is such a perfect piece of physical acting, such a perfect, genuine character moment that you can almost see the lightbulb over his head.
There's another right at the end of The Illusionist (Which, oddly, gets the mindset of mid level and amateur magicians almost as well as The Prestige nails the mindset of the 'rockstar' magicians like the Maskelyne family). All it is is a shot of Paul Giamatti laughing but it's like an electrical connection between the viewer and the character. You feel what they feel, see what they see. I love that to pieces.
My all time favourite of those though is the last ten minutes of Sneakers. That's the magic bullet for me, that final scene where they realise that just once, just ONCE, they have the upper hand. It's as close to a perfect cinematic moment as I've ever seen, the acting, the way Branford Marsalis' music comes in, the dialogue. It makes me smile, every single time and by the time we get to:
'Tahiti isn't in Europe!'
'When you get the chip back, you can give geography lessons. Until then, this man goes to Tahiti.'
I'm grinning like a Cheshire cat:)
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I love bread. Specifically, Italian bread. Back when I ran the comic shop, there was a really good coffee shop just up the road from us (A really good, basic latte being one of my other loves) and I used to regularly go there for lunch which, most days, would be simply a ciabatta loaf with real butter and strawberry jam.
I've got a great Cibatta recipe I could share. It's pretty simple too.
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I love ski-racing on a cold, bitter, white winter day.
I love trying to prove to my sister that I really am three years older than she.
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I love bread. Specifically, Italian bread. Back when I ran the comic shop, there was a really good coffee shop just up the road from us (A really good, basic latte being one of my other loves) and I used to regularly go there for lunch which, most days, would be simply a ciabatta loaf with real butter and strawberry jam.
I've got a great Cibatta recipe I could share. It's pretty simple too.
Yes please, that would be great:)
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I love bread. Specifically, Italian bread. Back when I ran the comic shop, there was a really good coffee shop just up the road from us (A really good, basic latte being one of my other loves) and I used to regularly go there for lunch which, most days, would be simply a ciabatta loaf with real butter and strawberry jam.
I've got a great Cibatta recipe I could share. It's pretty simple too.
Yes please, that would be great:)
Done.
Check out "Food for Thought"
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Brilliant:) Thank you:)
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DM of the Rings (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612)
Breathtakingly funny. And I only know of D&D; I've never played it.
Thank you!
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Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish
That's one of my favourites too, of the branded whiskies. I've also had a beautiful Sauternes-finish Gelnmorangie (that I believe is only available in airport Duty Free shops).
My heart is now given to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (http://www.smws.co.uk/ (http://www.smws.co.uk/)) of which I am a paid-up member. Their bottlings are unique so some will inevitably fail but oh, the ones that work...
Steve, if WorldCon is ever in Glasgow again (and next time I promise I'll attend) I'll bring along some Society bottlings for the after-programme drinks. And you may drink your fill.
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You would probably love Order of the Stick, then.
I didn't read all 424 of these, thereby staying up very late, and leaving many words unwritten. No, that was someone else.
Nor am I now addicted.
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That's one of my favourites too, of the branded whiskies. I've also had a beautiful Sauternes-finish Gelnmorangie (that I believe is only available in airport Duty Free shops).
Oooh. That one's the limited run, right? Very expensive? If it's the one I'm thinking of, then I'd heard about it before, and decided that it would be a reward for myself when I sell my first novel. >8->
Steve, if WorldCon is ever in Glasgow again (and next time I promise I'll attend) I'll bring along some Society bottlings for the after-programme drinks. And you may drink your fill.
Lovely. It's a date. Though it's unlikely that Anna and I will wait for Worldcon to be there before going to Scotland. We'll hopefully do it in the next few years for the sake of Scotland itself. (Drove around Ireland a couple years ago and had a fabulous time, and we need to do that again, too.)
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You would probably love Order of the Stick, then.
I didn't read all 424 of these, thereby staying up very late, and leaving many words unwritten. No, that was someone else.
Nor am I now addicted.
Huzzah! Another convert. >8->
It really is amazing how much he manages to pack in with such simple art. The early ones were really funny gaming humor, but there wasn't too much depth. It wasn't until the recent Haley/Elan stuff that I realized just how good the storytelling was here.
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I've also had a beautiful Sauternes-finish Gelnmorangie (that I believe is only available in airport Duty Free shops).
Oooh. That one's the limited run, right? Very expensive? If it's the one I'm thinking of, then I'd heard about it before, and decided that it would be a reward for myself when I sell my first novel. >8->
Even duty-free, it certainly wasn't cheap. The Sauternes isn't as widely available on UK shelves as some of the other finishes but I don't know how limited the availability is. Glenmorangie's site lists the 15-year-old in their shop (at £57: quite a bit of money, but fairly ordinary bottles of Port Ellen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Ellen_Single_Malt) go for £90 these days just because the distillery's been closed for over 20 years). I don't regret a penny of it, though. Every sip was a treat.
Jim Murray in his Whisky Bible (http://www.dramgoodbooks.com) didn't rate the 15-year-old as highly as the 10-year-old, but I think he must have got a duff bottle: his tasting notes sound nothing like the drink I remember.
My favourite whisky is probably Ardbeg Serendipity -- an accidentally created vatted malt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatted_malt) that I was lucky enough to track down a bottle of before stocks ran out. That one is truly special, and I don't have nearly enough left. :(
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Jim Murray in his Whisky Bible (http://www.dramgoodbooks.com) didn't rate the 15-year-old as highly as the 10-year-old, but I think he must have got a duff bottle: his tasting notes sound nothing like the drink I remember.
And now you've made me go and pull out my Jackson's guide to verify. >8-> Which makes me think that I might have been thinking of the Madeira Matured bottling, which was a single cask bottling. I remember seeing it online for about $250 to $300 a couple years back.
(Sadly, I've determined that Jackson's book is good for knowing what's out there, but not much more, as I don't find his tasting notes comprehensible at all.)
My favourite whisky is probably Ardbeg Serendipity -- an accidentally created vatted malt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatted_malt) that I was lucky enough to track down a bottle of before stocks ran out. That one is truly special, and I don't have nearly enough left. :(
I am jealous. I heard about that one from the WhiskyCast (http://www.whiskycast.com) podcast and knew that, like most of the limited whiskies, I'd never come anywhere near it. >8-\
The other vatted malt I'd like to try sometime, but probably never will, is the Compass Box Spice Tree. That's the one where they matured it with charred oak staves inside the barrels, to intensify the wood flavor... Until the Scotch Whisky Association decided it was too nontraditional and forced them to stop making it.
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I remember seeing it online for about $250 to $300 a couple years back.
Yikes! I've become a bit inured to expensive bottles of whisky through tastings at the Society (http://www.smws.co.uk) (where after a few drinks it's easy to get out the credit card for something special) but that's a lotta money.
My favourite whisky is probably Ardbeg Serendipity -- an accidentally created vatted malt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatted_malt) that I was lucky enough to track down a bottle of before stocks ran out. That one is truly special, and I don't have nearly enough left. :(
I am jealous. I heard about that one from the WhiskyCast (http://www.whiskycast.com) podcast and knew that, like most of the limited whiskies, I'd never come anywhere near it. >8-\
It gets parcelled out in really mean measures every so often so I'm hoping that my one bottle will last me a few years. (It could never be enough years, of course.) If I do get a chance to meet you in the UK, I'll make sure to bring it along. You'll only get a sip, mind. ;)
The other vatted malt I'd like to try sometime, but probably never will, is the Compass Box Spice Tree. That's the one where they matured it with charred oak staves inside the barrels, to intensify the wood flavor... Until the Scotch Whisky Association decided it was too nontraditional and forced them to stop making it.
Ooh, hadn't heard of that one. Sounds very interesting, and if their Peat Monster is anything to go by it's likely to be very drinkable. I'll have to keep my eyes open for it.
Thanks for the link to WhiskyCast. There's definitely room in my commute for that podcast. :)
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I love The Pixies and They Might Be Giants.
I love Buenos Aires and New Orleans.
I love the rapping of a woodpecker in the day and the hoot of an owl at night.
I love chocolate and tea.
I love the scream of cicadas and the mrakking sound Initiate Rorschach (one of my two cats) makes when he purrs and meows at the same time.
I love the color of my daughter's hair.
(http://slithytoves.sytes.net/~anna/images/tn-SophiaReading02_20070115.jpg)
I love sleeping and I love dreaming.
I love Montessori education.
I love the word salamander and the word quotidian.
I love the movie "Pan's Labyrinth".
edits: picture fiddling.
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I do not love not knowing how to make an image appear inline, instead of as an attachment. Somebody cluegun me?
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I do not love not knowing how to make an image appear inline, instead of as an attachment. Somebody cluegun me?
First, upload an image to a web hosting account that you have access to.
Then, click the "Insert Image" button in the toolbar above the input box for your post.
Then, type or copy/paste the full URL for the image file between the tags.
Use "Preview" to make sure you did it right. Check for typos if the image doesn't appear.
Worst... Explanation... Ever.
(http://wnyrpg.com/stuff/cbgcomputer.gif)
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First, upload an image to a web hosting account that you have access to.
Then, click the "Insert Image" button in the toolbar above the input box for your post.
Then, type or copy/paste the full URL for the image file between the tags.
Use "Preview" to make sure you did it right. Check for typos if the image doesn't appear.
Bless you, Jim, for your tender application of the clue. Works like a charm. Thanks!
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Bless you, Jim, for your tender application of the clue. Works like a charm. Thanks!
Unfortunately, I got a question mark error icon instead of the picture; when I try to load it in a new page, it gives me an Access Forbidden! error. ("You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.")
Just so I'm not only griping, though... My kid looks like this:
(http://eley.smugmug.com/photos/135791077-M.jpg)
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Bless you, Jim, for your tender application of the clue. Works like a charm. Thanks!
Unfortunately, I got a question mark error icon instead of the picture; when I try to load it in a new page, it gives me an Access Forbidden! error. ("You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.")
Right, direct linking was mucking up our server stats, and was resulting in weird forum postings of random images from our database, including pictures of my pregnant belly in fora whose languages we could not read. It was giving me the creeps in a way random hits of people browsing the image database was not. I forgetted (sic) that. Because I'm on the inside, so to speak, the network was showing me the image just fine.
Anyhow, I moved the thumb to my own directory, and maybe that fixed it? Does it show for values of people not on slithytoves.org now? Not that it's a huge deal, it was merely illustrative.
Just so I'm not only griping, though... My kid looks like this:
Awww, what a cutie. Very alert and interested. [proselytize] He looks like an excellent candidate for Montessori school! [/proselytize]. That pinchable cheek babyfat's not gonna be with him much longer so enjoy it. And cute vibes emanating from the half-hidden, what, corgi? as well.
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I love that my two sons and I can speculate around the dinner table (when we actually all eat at it) about things like "four dimensional cheese slicers".
I love SCA Rapier Combat. - http://www.northernelectric.ca/medieval/practise/first.htm and http://www.northernelectric.ca/medieval/rapier/rapier.htm - "The family that slays together stays together."
I love reading, with a big mug of hot chocolate.
I love the World Wide Web.
I love that pheasants often stroll across my yard, on their way to ... wherever.
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I love the Six Nations (http://www.rbs6nations.com/) rugby tournament. Even if Scotland just got the wooden spoon. Again. Hey, it was still a day of thrilling rugby matches.
Roll on the World Cup!
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I love St. Patrick's day, but I love coffee and blackout curtains the day after St. Pat's more.
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i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours
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i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours
That's not even fair!
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I love riding a bicycle everywhere. I love Erie weather, with its 8-10" of snow in late March. I love paying for stuff on my own instead of calling home to ask my parents for money. I love the Nintendo DS. I love the people I'm moving in with in a few weeks. I love having no classes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, giving me a four day weekend every weekend, and a break in between days.
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i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours
That's not even fair!
I'm happy if we don't hear screaming or get pounced before 8
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A warm bed in a cold bedroom. Hmmmm...
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Kayaks; for where they can take me, and the journey there.
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My girlfriend.
That one guy on the subway that'll tell me when somehow a sock got stuck to my messenger bag.
Pommes Frite, a Belgian fry place in the east village, and the Parmesan Peppercorn dip sauce.
My old Public High School, which taught me more than half the stuff I've had to redo my freshman year, and through which I ended up with 31 AP/IB credits.
Public Transportation, when it works.
Sleep.
Riverside Park.
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"The Smell" of a just unwrapped Boardgame you've been waiting for... ( Yay Killer Bunnies! )
www.boardgamegeek.com
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I love when I see a woman with a well-sloped figure, from the back of the neck to the top of the hips.
Also when my daughter hugs me.
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i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours
That's not even fair!
I actually prefer to wake up early. If I sleep long enough to wake up naturally, I have really bad aches in my neck and shoulders.
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I love all the failures that lead up to a big success (in hindsight mind you, ha!)
I love being lighter and playing basketball, the controll of every muscle in my body to the point that I find myself no longer playing, but dancing
I love my family... ALL of them.
I love my disorders... ALL of them. (I guess it's only 2. ADD/OCD)
I still love when I find a good video game... And "have" to take 2 days off
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I love that first breath after some passionate lovemaking.
I love a good lager, followed by several more lagers, followed by a window-rattling belch.
I love spicy foods of any ethnicity: Indian, Mexican, Thai.
I love cooking and would like to take a year to learn gourmet cooking.
I love wandering around new places, in every corner and taking every detail in.
I love my wife, my best friend, who should be elected for sainthood for loving me back.
I love mindbending stories that open my mind to new worlds.
I love spending a whole day in a museum.
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I like my Sekrit Hot Chocolate recipe, which I make before I settle down in the recliner to read a book.
I like that my two sons, now both in their early 20s, cannot find any musical genre (that they themselves enjoy) to serve as "music to hate their parents by". My musical tastes are more ... outlandish than theirs. (Don't tell them that I cannot stand video game fight music.)
I like SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) Rapier Combat, and that I can indulge in it with my wife and one of my sons.
I love that when prompted my almost 21 month-old daughter knows a pirate says "Arrrrrrr!" and a zombie says "Brains!" and I love that my wife thinks it's as funny as I do (okay, maybe not that funny).
It's nice to see that some people are bringing up their children with some cultural grounding.