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Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2026 7:01 am
by Man in Space
bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2026 6:12 pm
Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2026 4:41 pm
Provisionally I’m thinking of naming this new one “the Z-Machine”.
I presume a reference to
Infocom?
No, a reference to
this.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2026 2:31 pm
by alice
Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2026 3:49 am
malloc wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2026 10:50 pm
There is a lunar eclipse tonight, just about at its peak. Not sure where else it's visible but I can see it from the St Louis area at least.
Cool! It was visible in the morning in France, but the sky was really cloudy.
Of course, this being Britain, it was foggy all night here.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 6:43 am
by Raphael
Too Much Information behind the cut:
Turns out that weird little swelling spot on my penis is just a somewhat bulging stretch of artery. Phew.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 2:02 pm
by Travis B.
I just did an Engineering Review for the feature I have been working on at my day job for roughly the past two years, and it went really well, with the vast majority of the (relatively few) review comments being just cosmetic improvements to my ER slides (and only one code change being required, because a user interface element implemented by one of my coworkers had a couple minor typos in it, i.e. not being consistent with the use of '-' versus '=').
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2026 4:47 pm
by Raphael
Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2026 2:02 pm
I just did an Engineering Review for the feature I have been working on at my day job for roughly the past two years, and it went really well, with the vast majority of the (relatively few) review comments being just cosmetic improvements to my ER slides (and only one code change being required, because a user interface element implemented by one of my coworkers had a couple minor typos in it, i.e. not being consistent with the use of '-' versus '=').
Congratulations!
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2026 2:11 pm
by malloc
Got my flu and COVID vaccines for the fall out of the way. Hardly a major win compared with all the problems facing me, but I definitely remember forgetting to address that until it was almost too late last year.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2026 2:39 pm
by alice
malloc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2026 2:11 pm
Got my flu and COVID vaccines for the fall out of the way. Hardly a major win compared with all the problems facing me, but I definitely remember forgetting to address that until it was almost too late last year.
Well done. At the very least, it's one fewer thing to worry about.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:34 pm
by malloc
That said, vaccines always leave me feeling achy the next the day. Obviously they're for the best, but still kind of a pain when I have work that day.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2026 2:47 am
by WeepingElf
malloc wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:34 pm
That said, vaccines always leave me feeling achy the next the day. Obviously they're for the best, but still kind of a pain when I have work that day.
Yes, that's my experience, too. Of course, this is simply because the immune system is stimulated by the vaccination and working hard. No need to worry about that.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2026 10:20 am
by malloc
The brutal heatwave of the past few months has finally broken and remarkably quickly at that. It has taken only several days for the daily temperature to fall from 38°C (100°F) to 18°C (65°F).
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2026 3:20 pm
by Raphael
malloc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2026 10:20 am
The brutal heatwave of the past few months has finally broken and remarkably quickly at that. It has taken only several days for the daily temperature to fall from 38°C (100°F) to 18°C (65°F).
Glad to hear. The transitional seasons can be weird.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2026 2:52 am
by Ares Land
Here we're going from 10°C at night to 30°C during the day; it's really pretty pleasant weather.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2026 10:18 am
by /ˌnɐˈɾɛndɚduːd/
Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2026 3:20 pm
malloc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2026 10:20 am
The brutal heatwave of the past few months has finally broken and remarkably quickly at that. It has taken only several days for the daily temperature to fall from 38°C (100°F) to 18°C (65°F).
Glad to hear. The transitional seasons can be weird.
where I am it seems like we're not getting an autumn this year; in the span of two weeks the average high has gone from around 24°C (75°F) to just below freezing, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. at this point I wouldn't be surprised if we're getting snow midway through October.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2026 12:58 pm
by Travis B.
And here we're getting normal weather for this time of the year, with daytime temperatures in the mid-to-low 60's F, and nighttime temperatures going down into the 40's F.
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2026 4:16 am
by lëtzeshark
After roughly 18 months and intermittent complaining, I finally got my 2024 tax assessment from the Luxembourg authorities, and it ended up being a rather plump refund. (On the other hand, trying to figure out how they got to the exact numbers they did is a bit puzzling, but some things are perhaps beyond mortal comprehension and the assessment is more or less in the ballpark that I estimated.)
Re: Happy things thread!
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2026 4:48 am
by Raphael
lëtzeshark wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2026 4:16 am
After roughly 18 months and intermittent complaining, I finally got my 2024 tax assessment from the Luxembourg authorities, and it ended up being a rather plump refund. (On the other hand, trying to figure out
how they got to the exact numbers they did is a bit puzzling, but some things are perhaps beyond mortal comprehension and the assessment is more or less in the ballpark that I estimated.)
Congratulations!