I won't say them out loud that often, but I'll certainly type them even outside an Exilian context.Well to be fair I always type the naughty words on here and the filter just changes them so I wouldn't really have a reason to develop this habit.
It is another HP PavilionHad one of them for many years worked amazingly well, but i ran it into the ground with the amount of gaming i did lol. It still works but the heats up like crazy. Love my new laptop though.
I have had a day in Nottingham, including some beer in (reputedly) the oldest pub in England.
What you doing in my local! :o i live right next to the Old Jerusalem could of joined you for a pint ;)D'oh! I wish I'd posted earlier about what I was going to do. On the other hand, I didn't really decide until yesterday morning that I was definitely going to go Nottingham for the day - if Storm Katie had been much worse, or I'd felt more tired, I would probably have stayed at home.
Studying is boring an weirdly tiring considering I'm doing absolutely portugal all.
All of Portugal is more than you think with all the colonies and stuff.
Nothing is important silly wolf, all existance is meaningless and fated to end.
Nihilism is unappreciated. >:(Doesn't matter, nihilism doesn't care.
I just don't know how to handle online communication.Totes opposites of me, bro. :P
And I'm actually a social butterfly.
Also just sticking to the bare minimum of small talk before doing if they want to meet in meatspace seems to be working. I'm not calling it meatspace though in case they think it's some weird euphemism.
If I'm ever in Croatia we'll have to have a game, reading this is making me miss playing! Actually if I'm moving to Vienna (which might well be happening in the next few months) this might be more possible, it looks like I could get the train from Vienna to there for around £100 or so (Glaurung will probably know what's optimal transport wise!)
But yes, definitely put a thread for your blog in the WH section :)
Human, not rodent.Or possibly biologist, not mathematician or computer scientist.
I just finished university. so ive got all the time in the world.....oh no im scaredGood luck with whatever's next, or indeed working out what comes next. Yes, it can be scary, but it will work out in the end.
Why do you have many guests? Big family, or are you working someplace?
Just binged through The Last Kingdom. It's pretty badass.
I found this quite interestingSo all those times I had pease pudding on toast i was actually reenacting without even knowing it? Sweet.
I've been looking for something to watch, actually.
I'll give it a try today. ;)
New computer obtained! I now have a secondary, much smaller/lighter laptop, which given the amount of travel I'm doing will be very helpful - it's literally half the weight of my other one so much easier to just chuck in a bag and take to places :)
I am wondering if my modding days are over - I've not really done any in a while. That said, my next standalone game will appear in closed beta in the next few weeks :)
And so a new era of modding begins! ;)
Chase snakes all day
Indeed I'm hoping to pick Glaurung's brain for recommendations...I'm glad you qualified that phrase - I'm quite attached to my brain and would very much like it not to be picked, whether for eating or any other purpose.
I'm fairly sure there will be plenty of more appealing and less legally and morally problematic foods on offer :)Yes, I can assure you that is so. As you're in Germany, many of them involve some combination of pork, ham, sausage, cabbage, and potato, but I think Frankfurt is sufficiently cosmopolitan that you'll find other things too.
Who should I interview next for Exilian Articles? Ideas welcome :)
Watching some classic eps of Unsolved Mysteries. The soundtrack... Robert Stack's voice... still scares the armadillo out of me. It's funny reading the comments that so many others are also traumatized from watching this as kids. We can't help but feel like a murderer, ghost, or alien is right behind us while watching. :')
Well, we completely missed Exilian Day for the first time in years :/
Nice bit of news from my research group today - we secured an ERC consolidator grant, which are the big guns as far as humanities research goes - seven figure sum of money, so we'll get four or five additional people in the group sometime next year which is a sizeable expansion. :)
Yes, finding people with the right skill-sets I think may be a whole other challenge.
What is the right skillset? I may know some people who have a history degree and previous programming experience.That plus wanting to do a PhD in something medieval and East Europe/Middle East related is probably the right skill-set for the doctoral-level posts!
Anyone got 750k lying around? Nice new option for a future Exilian HQ is up for sale :PAlas, it's in inshore waters, so we can't do a Sealand with it :(
Incidentally, Penty - why the new user account?I forgot my old password and the email account I had for it must have been an old one.
I forgot my old password and the email account I had for it must have been an old one.I think we can fix this. I'll have a check and message you.
I need to decide if we're doing pub this month. Not sure right now: if we are, I guess it should be Thurs 28, I just don't know how up to things I'm feeling at the moment. I'm really struggling to keep up with everything and getting a lot of anxiety dreams and not feeling awfully well, which isn't a nice combination really.
Oh, excellent! Very happy to hear it :)Thank you. Some side-effects have now kicked in: some pain at the injection site, a rather interrupted night's sleep, and possibly a high body temperature. But all expected for something triggering the immune system.
Also we seem to have passed Exilian's birthday for the year without much of a murmur - sorry about that, it's been busy lately.Not to worry - I think we've all been busy. I'd also more-or-less attached the celebratory stuff to the pubmeet this Thursday.
Dover castle is definitely a place I'd like to visit, is the reconstruction and decoration still ongoing or was that just for a temporary display?The reconstruction I was thinking of was all historical - changing it from a medieval castle to a Napoleonic-era artillery fortress, and then digging out an extensive network of tunnels in the First and Second World Wars. There's one medieval tower that's currently closed for maintenance works, but otherwise I think everything that English Heritage (the owners) intend to have open is open.
I've been in Zambia for the last couple of weeks, was very good. Saw some stuff, did some things, ate some foods. 10/10 would go again.Zambia sounds interesting - what did you do?
Unfortunately there were no direct flights from here and the traveling has left me pretty knackered, and my mum caught covid shortly after I left and then possibly fractured her ankle just before I returned, so there isn't much rest for me right now. Back to school tomorrow too.
I may be able to resit the rest and then maybe go on my placement and move into year 2 or maybe go on a placement and then take a year out and then move onto year 2, if I can provide valid extenuating circumstances but idk that I've got any good ones.Try some vague words about COVID and the current world situation? Most programs need students more than the students need them.
We'll have to see.
Your landlord really does suck.
And yes, Keynes' thoughts on rentierism have definitely been springing to mind lately.There are also the old Georgists who noticed that if you let them, landowners will absorb all growth in the economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Hello! How's everyone doing? :DNice to see you! Things are hectic here too - trying to plough on and finally get this PhD finished, working on the edits atm. And having a lot of bureaucracy dropped on me.
Things have been hectic here for the past year.
Nice to see you! Things are hectic here too - trying to plough on and finally get this PhD finished, working on the edits atm. And having a lot of bureaucracy dropped on me.
What's been the hecticness at your end? :)
I think a lot of people feel pressed right now because some systems are starting to work again, but there is a backlog from the first three years of the COVID pandemic, and other systems are still not functional or barely functional (eg. healthcare). So some things are rush rush while other things which they depend on are slow or nonfunctional.Nice to see you! Things are hectic here too - trying to plough on and finally get this PhD finished, working on the edits atm. And having a lot of bureaucracy dropped on me.
What's been the hecticness at your end? :)
Well, the same basically. I've been trying to finish my thesis and Erasmus exchange, all while looking for a new job and finally taking my driving exam, renovating my grandmother's flat and so on. Very, very hectic.
BoooYeah, the logic being that nobody was using it very much and it made the forum look more rather than less deserted most of the time. If we get back to having a good amount more activity and people are using things like this general chat thread so much that we need to reinstate it to help keep the flow, then of course we'll look into it. We're... a little way off that, right now.
Down with this sort of thing!
I think a lot of people feel pressed right now because some systems are starting to work again, but there is a backlog from the first three years of the COVID pandemic, and other systems are still not functional or barely functional (eg. healthcare). So some things are rush rush while other things which they depend on are slow or nonfunctional.Yes, I think that's fair to say. Healthcare in Austria is fairly functional, but trying to support people in worse situations can be exhausting in and of itself. And I think there's a burnout backlog too where people have pushed themselves through the last few years, some better than others, but in many cases that's taken a toll that they haven't had any additional space to recoup.
Well this is a prime example of the deep flaws inherent with democracy. I propose that you choose me as Exilian's first benevolent tyrant so I can save you silly geese from making such awful decisions in the future. Bask in my golden aura dear subjects.BoooYeah, the logic being that nobody was using it very much and it made the forum look more rather than less deserted most of the time. If we get back to having a good amount more activity and people are using things like this general chat thread so much that we need to reinstate it to help keep the flow, then of course we'll look into it. We're... a little way off that, right now.
Down with this sort of thing!
Heating and electricity prices are supposed to be crazy in the UK. But its confusing because old and corporate social media tend towards catastrophizing or channeling Dr. Pangloss.Kind of, government (eventually) imposed a price cap on energy but it only applies to households, so businesses are generally paying obscene rates now. Petrol and diesel prices finally came down recently, still a lot higher than pre-pandemic but significantly less than they were at their height.
I'm pretty sure last time you tried this one, you ran for an Exilian election explicitly to be a steel booted tyrant. Are you going soft in your old age? :)Yeah, the logic being that nobody was using it very much and it made the forum look more rather than less deserted most of the time. If we get back to having a good amount more activity and people are using things like this general chat thread so much that we need to reinstate it to help keep the flow, then of course we'll look into it. We're... a little way off that, right now.Well this is a prime example of the deep flaws inherent with democracy. I propose that you choose me as Exilian's first benevolent tyrant so I can save you silly geese from making such awful decisions in the future. Bask in my golden aura dear subjects.
Steel booted, golden handed.Should be your signature quote, really :)
On the other stuff: aye, AFAICT the UK's labour shortage is semi-cushioning some people from the living costs problem - the people being hit worst are people with very static incomes aka benefits or reliant solely on state pensions. In Austria we've had a clear rise in the cost of living but I don't get the sense it's causing huge scales of new hardship, the government has invested quite a bit in trying to cushion people. I think for me the pressures are more related to my particular job and status than society-wide: the precarity of job and immigration status is hard, and like Dubsartur I'm kind of not seeing much path to a balanced social life or sense of stability, though I may be in a somewhat more favourable position work-wise. The pandemic is still a bother for me, too: given how hard Covid hit me last October I am now having a phase of not really wanting to go out and see people so much, given how high case rates are in Austria.Yeah my understanding is that each COVID infection damages your immune system, so subsequent infections have higher risk. Its hard and confusing to plan group events now that so many people have stopped taking basic precautions like wearing a N95 or better mask in crowded indoor areas and running powerful air filters. Viruses can evolve to resist medicine or vaccines but they can't evolve to survive intense UV radiation (or whatever).
At the moment I think I'm reaylly just trying to haul myself to the end of the PhD and then see where things are, but I worry I'm not planning forwards enough.
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15 years?! I can't believe Exilian has been around for half my life.
Still remember the day I found it while looking for M&B mods. :D