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Looks like my extreme laziness might be paying off
As part of the experiment, male subjects were photographed clean shaven, five days after shaving, 10 days and then after a whole four weeks without shaving....
Looks like my extreme laziness might be paying off
As part of the experiment, male subjects were photographed clean shaven, five days after shaving, 10 days and then after a whole four weeks without shaving....
In 2006 I was not posting here yet, and thus immune to the devastating insight this thread affords
I was, however, active on the Ctrl Alt Del forums, and we were all very sure that you nerds were living less enriched lives
oh my god i must know more about this
please dish all the CAD vs PA drama
I attempted cast my mind back to those days and recalled a specific thing I posted on the CAD forums that just made my face crumple in on itself like the Shelbyville lemon guy, holy shit. I was a monster.
Okay science now that you’ve affirmed that I should only bother to shave once every few days, tell me why devouring whole pints of Ben and Jerry’s makes me irresistible
Been working my way through Player of Games these past few days. I hope at least one of the Culture novels has the drone accompanying the main human and getting annoyed with their rudeness as the main character.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
Lady Raven was away for a couple days, leaving me unsupervised. The first morning I ate a whole tub of white chocolate n raspberry Häagen-Dazs for breakfast.
Okay science now that you’ve affirmed that I should only bother to shave once every few days, tell me why devouring whole pints of Ben and Jerry’s makes me irresistible
Resistance to ice cream headaches is a desirable genetic trait?
Looks like my extreme laziness might be paying off
As part of the experiment, male subjects were photographed clean shaven, five days after shaving, 10 days and then after a whole four weeks without shaving....
but what if my stubble is scraggly and unattractive
You'll always have your winning personality
*looks away and bites knuckle*
+3
SurfpossumA nonentitytrying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered Userregular
edited November 2018
It's early release for the next week, so you know what that means! That's right, more bonsai!
This sawara cypress was a bit less immediately workable than the hinoki cypress I tried first; I'm pretty glad I did them in this order, because I feel like having gotten a sense of where wires go and what branches to keep helped a lot more here. The inside was just a solid mass of tiny new and dead branches, and it had tons and tons of small to mid sized branches, and being able to say okay, we're keeping this one and then working out from there helped a lot.
I didn't really have much of an idea for what to do with it, so after a good bit of pruning I decided I'd try repotting it and seeing what I found amongst the roots. And what I found was an amazing 2+ inches of fantastic gnarly roots, and I immediately had a vision of it perched on top of a rock, roots growing down around it, tall and majestic. I boldly started lopping off branches, getting it closer to the shape I was now envisioning, since I was now definitely keeping the entire trunk and would need much shorter branches to emphasize its height rather than any sort of horizontal movement.
This one was significantly more root bound in its pot than the last one, so it probably needed a repotting soon anyway. I spent a good while combing the roots out with my fingers and eventually the handle of a paintbrush. Once I got it to the point where each main root was largely separated, I trimmed off a bunch of the finer roots near the top.
Then I went out and scrounged up a rock. It ended up not being ~perfect~ so I went back out with a flashlight and found a better one. I wired it up very crudely, tested it out (it actually all balances perfectly!) then stuffed it all back into the original pot in the hopes that the roots will toughen up a bit first or something, I dunno.
Anyway, I'm super excited about this one too, now.
This is what it looked like before I stuffed it back into the pot, and should be somewhat representative of the final thing (if it doesn't die).
I'll need to come up with a better wiring solution and there's still a lot of pruning to be done before I wire the branches, but it's so cool! So majestic!
[e: I should note that there is still a ton of roots behind the rock in that last picture. As far as I know you can be pretty aggressive with removing the outer roots but I'm scurred.]
Currently up:
Small tree on unused part of kitchen counter
Small tree in Kiddoroars room
Small tree in Thunderlords rooms
Full size tree in entrance way (out old tree with our old ornaments)
Yet to be put up:
Living room (our new tree with all rose gold ornaments)
Dining room (MIL's tree that looks like someone vomited decorations onto it) (the kids decorate this one)
Small one in our bedroom
Small one in brother in laws room
And the windows in the kitchen and dining room have been decorated, and the new shelved in the loving room have been as well.
I cut out acidic food, booze, coffee, and smoking this last week and my esophagus feels worse
the main thing that helped me reduce my acid problems was reducing life stress
cutting out acidic beverages and foods and taking medications sort of alleviated it but frankly the only thing that mainly stopped it was not feeling mentally bad always
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
I cut out acidic food, booze, coffee, and smoking this last week and my esophagus feels worse
the main thing that helped me reduce my acid problems was reducing life stress
cutting out acidic beverages and foods and taking medications sort of alleviated it but frankly the only thing that mainly stopped it was not feeling mentally bad always
I cut out acidic food, booze, coffee, and smoking this last week and my esophagus feels worse
the main thing that helped me reduce my acid problems was reducing life stress
cutting out acidic beverages and foods and taking medications sort of alleviated it but frankly the only thing that mainly stopped it was not feeling mentally bad always
Man why has nobody thought of that before
wait what is this sarcastic response; am I somehow being insensitive by saying this
I'm just saying that he's doing nothing wrong by cutting out trigger foods but sadly in my experience it can help but might not work 100%
the only thing that helped me was entirely out of my control (Dan's cancer being surgically excised) and I'm obviously not saying feeling acid due to stress is anyone's fault
I cut out acidic food, booze, coffee, and smoking this last week and my esophagus feels worse
the main thing that helped me reduce my acid problems was reducing life stress
cutting out acidic beverages and foods and taking medications sort of alleviated it but frankly the only thing that mainly stopped it was not feeling mentally bad always
Man why has nobody thought of that before
wait what is this sarcastic response; am I somehow being insensitive by saying this
I'm just saying that he's doing nothing wrong by cutting out trigger foods but sadly in my experience it can help but might not work 100%
the only thing that helped me was entirely out of my control (Dan's cancer being surgically excised) and I'm obviously not saying feeling acid due to stress is anyone's fault
I appreciate everyone being polite and the thoughtfulness shown by your discretion
But we all know I’m the reason for Eddy’s acid reflux
After deleting my Facebook account I deleted my bookmark for it
Probably about a dozen times today on my phone I’ve muscle-memory tapped where it used to be and gone to a different site, purely out of years of routine
Imagine what you could tell people at the beginning of this thread.
Buy Apple stock
The next season of Doctor Who is going to be pretty good
Please don't invent Twitter
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one very fancy lunch with my future project team (no booze cause people went to a meeting afterwards and did not want to pregame it)
one open bar+appetizers for a canceled meeting on the floor I was working on
a couple nice cocktails and many appetizers with the gay consultants group at a bar close to where I live
what the fuck is this
that is so much free food in one day
oh my god i must know more about this
please dish all the CAD vs PA drama
We had a meeting at work so we got stale, markdown bakery donuts and store brand bottled water
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/men-beards-attractive-clean-shaven-says-science-100029507.html
wow that site is cancer
I attempted cast my mind back to those days and recalled a specific thing I posted on the CAD forums that just made my face crumple in on itself like the Shelbyville lemon guy, holy shit. I was a monster.
Now when an ogre stomps on you you become "smashed" for the next round.
If the ogre misses they instead become "furious".
Resistance to ice cream headaches is a desirable genetic trait?
I cut out acidic food, booze, coffee, and smoking this last week and my esophagus feels worse
Did you eat some unevenly baked sponge : (
I only eat sponges with a good bake
The gods of scrumminess have failed you 😭
Too busy fucking around with challenges and hunting
*opens desk drawer and stares at service revolver*
You'll always have your winning personality
*looks away and bites knuckle*
This sawara cypress was a bit less immediately workable than the hinoki cypress I tried first; I'm pretty glad I did them in this order, because I feel like having gotten a sense of where wires go and what branches to keep helped a lot more here. The inside was just a solid mass of tiny new and dead branches, and it had tons and tons of small to mid sized branches, and being able to say okay, we're keeping this one and then working out from there helped a lot.
I didn't really have much of an idea for what to do with it, so after a good bit of pruning I decided I'd try repotting it and seeing what I found amongst the roots. And what I found was an amazing 2+ inches of fantastic gnarly roots, and I immediately had a vision of it perched on top of a rock, roots growing down around it, tall and majestic. I boldly started lopping off branches, getting it closer to the shape I was now envisioning, since I was now definitely keeping the entire trunk and would need much shorter branches to emphasize its height rather than any sort of horizontal movement.
This one was significantly more root bound in its pot than the last one, so it probably needed a repotting soon anyway. I spent a good while combing the roots out with my fingers and eventually the handle of a paintbrush. Once I got it to the point where each main root was largely separated, I trimmed off a bunch of the finer roots near the top.
Then I went out and scrounged up a rock. It ended up not being ~perfect~ so I went back out with a flashlight and found a better one. I wired it up very crudely, tested it out (it actually all balances perfectly!) then stuffed it all back into the original pot in the hopes that the roots will toughen up a bit first or something, I dunno.
Anyway, I'm super excited about this one too, now.
This is what it looked like before I stuffed it back into the pot, and should be somewhat representative of the final thing (if it doesn't die).
I'll need to come up with a better wiring solution and there's still a lot of pruning to be done before I wire the branches, but it's so cool! So majestic!
@Brody @21stCentury
[e: I should note that there is still a ton of roots behind the rock in that last picture. As far as I know you can be pretty aggressive with removing the outer roots but I'm scurred.]
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I was on the EGM forums mostly and they hated this place.
So I checked it out and immediately abandoned them.
List of planned trees/locations
Currently up:
Small tree on unused part of kitchen counter
Small tree in Kiddoroars room
Small tree in Thunderlords rooms
Full size tree in entrance way (out old tree with our old ornaments)
Yet to be put up:
Living room (our new tree with all rose gold ornaments)
Dining room (MIL's tree that looks like someone vomited decorations onto it) (the kids decorate this one)
Small one in our bedroom
Small one in brother in laws room
And the windows in the kitchen and dining room have been decorated, and the new shelved in the loving room have been as well.
the main thing that helped me reduce my acid problems was reducing life stress
cutting out acidic beverages and foods and taking medications sort of alleviated it but frankly the only thing that mainly stopped it was not feeling mentally bad always
Man why has nobody thought of that before
wait what is this sarcastic response; am I somehow being insensitive by saying this
I'm just saying that he's doing nothing wrong by cutting out trigger foods but sadly in my experience it can help but might not work 100%
the only thing that helped me was entirely out of my control (Dan's cancer being surgically excised) and I'm obviously not saying feeling acid due to stress is anyone's fault
Do you really not see how joking about suicide is a bad idea.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I appreciate everyone being polite and the thoughtfulness shown by your discretion
But we all know I’m the reason for Eddy’s acid reflux
Probably about a dozen times today on my phone I’ve muscle-memory tapped where it used to be and gone to a different site, purely out of years of routine
@Shazkar Shadowstorm maybe you were right about internet trash compulsions
The internet is pretty saturated with flippantly acting like life is over because of a very mild setback.
Buy Apple stock
The next season of Doctor Who is going to be pretty good
Please don't invent Twitter