It’s Friday, at least in my part of the space-time continuum, so here’s an open thread for you all. No trolls, MRAs, Trump fans, etc.
And since I’m posting weirdly filtered pics, here’s a weirdly filtered pic of my cats in their kitten days:
And some random ladies having a drink:
I love your kittens! 😀
I want my package. Having something that you’re strongly looking forward to be lost in in the mail is just the pits 🙁
I had my last exam today and I had thought that I’d get to celebrate with said package’s contents… not sure what to do with myself right now.
Say, it was recently announced that Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha, The Walking Dead) will play the protagonist of Star Trek: Discovery. You get three guesses as to what the alt-right’s response has been.
I think I’ve got a bunch of weirdly filtered cat pics somewhere in the depths of my old-recovered-files folder :O
Weirdly filtered cat pics were a hobby of mine in my teenage years.
Sadly the cat on those pics died last year, at age 18. He was the laziest, scarediest, and hairiest cat in my world. He wouldn’t hunt, not because he was lazy, but because he just seemed to lack that instinct. I’ve seen him nap in the middle of a flock of birds happily trotting around the garden. Even the birds knew he was cool.
But the most amazing thing was one night when I was making coffee at maybe 3am, I heard a weird noise from the larder, and when I checked inside to see what was going on, he was just sleeping there. Then a mouse skittered down the shelves and ran to him and hid from me behind his tail while he was giving me the lazy stare. It was the most amazing thing ever.
Well, except for the mice shitting all over the larder, of course.
@RosieLa
If you don’t mind my asking, what’s in the package ? At any rate, I hope you get it quickly.
Wait, what happened to Michelle Yeoh?
Upon checking, it looks like that Martin-Green is the main character, but Yeoh is the captain of *a* ship. It’s not clear if they’re on the same ship. If they are, then this would be the first time where the closest thing to a main character isn’t the captain.
I need to paint my Bill pendant.
I’ve just been to an amazing gig at Wembley arena and moshed for the first time in years. Felt like therapy to be honest.
A little drunk now and super happy. After the last few months have been so rough I really needed this.
@NicolaLuna
That’s awesome! Nothing quite like a mosh gone well – especially when you need to let out some excess energy. I’m a really timid person usually, but somehow I just love the feeling you get when a bunch people gather with the joint purpose of shoving the hell out of each other to loud music.
http://i.imgur.com/WJv4HcG.gif
(I’ve been laughing at this for the past hour and saw a flimsy excuse to post it, sue me.)
@SFHC
what is this frooooooooooooom
Oh, and!
@dlouwe
dududududude we need to talk about Allegedly Free. Mixing could use some work, but yyou did a good.
I’m glad you’re happy, NicolaLuna.
Been watching Dark Shadows, the original soap opera. I’m in the first time-travel plot. I’m not sure what to think about the costuming. This is a show that aired in the late 60’s, and all of the kissing is closed-mouthed, but the men’s outfits let me see who dresses left and who dresses right. What was going through their minds?
Does anyone know of a good image hosting/linking site that doesn’t require a login ? Haven’t used one in about a decade :s
Well shit. I posted in the other open thread because there were no comments in this one and then all of a sudden this one blows up. I hate that 🙁
imgur doesn’t require a login.
@Troubelle
One of Jim Sterling’s LPs. The whole video’s a glorious mess.
@SFHC
Omg, I just recently rewatched that. XD
My serial novel just got a review titled “Absurdly feminist but otherwise fantastic.” Apparently the feminism cost me a star and a half off the rating. That’s the sort of thing that it seems ought to annoy me, but I just had to laugh.
I’m going to bed with my kitties, yay! They’re super happy to see me.
I’m not going to bed with my sweetheart. She would have been super happy to see me.
Now I need to figure out how to get myself to Ottawa by 9am Sunday, when Saturday is expected to be a snowstorm followed by an ice storm. Otherwise I’m stuck until Wednesday.
DD Webb: linky?
Dave’s tweet stream has an article about Florida Man breaking into their neighbor’s house to pet their (the neighbor) cat. If the cat in the picture is the one they broke in to pet, I can see why they did. I, personally, don’t think that cat is risk-a-felony-just-to-get-a-pet level cute, but I can see how somebody could. Maybe if they were a really floofy long-hair.
@numerobis tiraas.wordpress.com
Fantasy, so if you’re not into that, you probably wouldn’t enjoy it, fair warning. Also rather long, been updating two to three times a week for two years now.
Don’t let the headlines fool you. I looked up the case, and this dude was just breaking into houses, not to pet cats, but to break into houses. He just happened to be petting a cat when caught in one of the homes, by the homeowner, who was asleep in bed at the time when he crept into her bedroom and was noticed by the cat.
The story is super creepy and the dude’s actions are not remotely charming. Deceptive headline is deceptive, and numerous outlets used a similar one.
@Policy of Madness
I thought it did, I’m dumb. Thanks.
Sadly, turns out I don’t actually have that filtered pic anymore, for some reason. I got the original one, and a backup of an old filter I’ve used (probably not the relevant one), but that’s it and this computer doesn’t have the software I used for it.
So here, have some not-weirdly-filtered CAT.
http://i.imgur.com/y9QLRlT.jpg
@Troubelle
Thank you! I’m really happy that you like it. I did see your comment in the other thread and replied there, but to save you from having to go find it, I’ll just re-paste it here:
Agree that the recording itself could use some work; I wanted to get your ear on it before putting a ton of time in. I’ll very likely put together a more polished version… eventually. (I’ve got a small queue of my own songs that I keep putting off recording, hah.)
You can shoot me an email to let me know how you want to be credited and so I can send you any future recordings; it’s my username at gmail.com.
@Sinkable John – my day planner for next year (I know that’s more unexciting than you’d hoped for, but I need it).
@SFHC – reminds me of the tanks and the basements at Gagetown (a Canadian army special).
@dlouwe
Check your inbox, darling!