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Hah...*smirk*...Team 3 just put in our Kick-Ass Heroine shelf Stamp Request!
Judithe wrote: "Go, Mandy! I need to join you...sigh. "All my pants were getting too tight and since the weather is cooling down soon, I was about to have nothing to wear! Really though, my in-laws and my parents all fight weight-related issues (or health problems that are contributed to by weighing more than they should) so I decided I needed to get mine back under control as soon as I could for my children's sake. (My husband doesn't give a damn about his unfortunately, but that's not a battle I can fight...)
Congrats to Team 3! First stamp going around, right?
Hey Mandy - great job on the weight loss. We should make a group at GR (there probably is one) - Read to lose! Every 5 lbs you buy a new book.
Oh! Lovely idea! (maybe with a metric option, too, LOL!)
But a kilo is so much more to lose than a pound, lol. And to say I lost 10 kg is not as exciting as I lost 22 lbs.
Though the hip measurements show much more noticeable drops (once you get over the initial shock!)
There is a sponsered reading weight loss group, can't remember who is running it this year but it's for romance readers and the participatig authors donate signed books that go to those who loose the most. I think it's a fabulous idea, there was an initial fee of $10-15 if I remember correctly, it was towards p&p costs :)
I am going to start a weight loss challenge at The Challenge Factory at the first of the year. (with New Year's Resolutions and all ☺) When it gets closer I'll post the info for anyone interested.
Jenne, did you know that smiley has been invented 30 years ago today :)
Valerie ~ Val Hall ~ wrote: "Jenne, did you know that smiley has been invented 30 years ago today :)"
*blink* Really? And how did you come into that piece of trivia? I though I was a monster box of loose bits of knowledge, but that one beats any I could bring to mind hands down.
*blink* Really? And how did you come into that piece of trivia? I though I was a monster box of loose bits of knowledge, but that one beats any I could bring to mind hands down.
Senior moment here; I really thought smiley was older. Like with first CMOS machines in early 70s that quickly became IBM DOS (I'm pretty sure first IBM PCs were 1981/82 but they had some forerunners and some miniframes transitioning from CMOS to DOS) then MS-DOS and the Berkley BBBs that became UNIX and then Linux...all those lovely ANSI/ASCII line draw hexadecimal codes... oh well. Not like I have anything but faded green bar printouts. (Even I ditched paper punch cards and tapes)...dialing in with acoustic coupler and FORTRAN and BASICA programs to redo early cursors to blink regular to smiley to regular to back to denote the connection to one of the SCO flavored mainframes...I'm way too old.Wiki claims 1953 but I think they meant the yellow smiley faced figure versus the computer code. (I was born in 1960s so no personal knowledge of that). I do still have a 1972 mostly (I think) Zenith Heathkit keyboard relic thing I saved as first I ever built and it has a function key set to do characters and the cardboard taped to bottom shows a smiley...where in the basement junkyard did I put that?
Oh wait...I guess the WYSIWYG (video screen based and then later the more visual operating sytems like Windows) versions where almost all on screen might be a mere 30 years old. But not the versions used in messages/emails/chats/forums/groups/bulletin-board things that came before; they were all older. And if there was a combination of characters to put together to make other characters there was a sleepless geek in a basement or garage somewhere trying to beat another geek to it.And there were geeks that spent a portion of their lives coming up with innumerable character combinations you could do with limited keyboards and data transfers. I still have nightmares of combinations of : ) ( < > 1 0 | / \ ; in endless lines of sequentially numbered program code to do early emoticons and oddly fascinating (somehow I missed the fascination) commands to print things that turned out to draw smiley faces and all kinds of other pictures.
I kinda miss Delphi and Prodigy -- dang you AOL. Maybe some of the usenet newsgroups go back far enough ... hmmm...not worth digging out the backup tapes that likely aren't readable anyway or searching thru usenet archives to find posts with smiley. Doubt even Google newsgroups kept those around.
'night all. I don't think the white bean minestrone I ate was strong enough to soak up the apple manhattans when I start remembering usenet codes...
Whoa, my brother is a programmer, and did half of computer engineering, so I recognize about half of what you put there, fruit of his improptu background explanations. The other half? Not even close. Though doing some mental juggling, I can reason apha-numerical-plus coming (easier) around the 80's with IBM, I still would have not known how to find out about an anniversary.
I think I need one of those apple manhattans Deborah with that information overload. Way too much computer confusing talk for what I can handle
I am floored Deb by your knowledge. I was never a computer geek but you bring fond memories. Anyway, the smiley thing I heard on the radio yesterday. Something about student in a chat room or doing experiments and wanting to communicate emotions ('cause you can totally take a comment the wrong way without the visual facial cues). I can't say if the info was accurate or not and frankly I though that it was older than that...then again it is before the widespread of the internet as we know it. If I remember correctly you had to go to the university to use their network...I did not think that it would blow out of proportion.
Go to or dial in on the old handset phones to a gawky coupling device at 300 bits/bytes (I no longer even remember which) per minute if lucky to keep old phone line going...discussions like this could take 5 minutes to 5 hours between posts, a one page fax hours to send, forget music or video or graphics (moot point without screens that could display anyway). It was sometimes like chess by mail...and frequently easier to just print data and send via snail mail or fedex for those of us less thrilled by the process. And paying long distance charges on the dialup; not good for chat rooms, just for data...did not stop early gamers though.I think the radio post is from one of the big companies (microsoft? IBM?) recently recovering some really old backup tapes and it went viral that they now had a date/timestamp for one of the earliest documented uses of smiley as emoticon--30 years ago for that one. Really on the old slow stuff the less characters used the better...this is worse for me than a flashback. Note to self: do not have tablet with you when drinking.
Royal Apple Manhattan = something I was dumb enough to try in airport bar. Regular Manhattan (in case of this branded one Royal Crown whiskey was used but any of the softer blended ones with vanilla undertones work) process except also add jigger of Pucker Sour Apple with rest of stuff in shaker (or whatever leftover green apple/appletini stuff you have lying around works great....er...trust me on that one...). Put dried apple ring (or fresh) in martini glass and pour cocktail over. The more you drink, the neater it is to watch the dried apple rings puff up as they absorb the liquids...and the rings are really tasty! Sometimes you can also find apple or cherry bitters instead of usual orange for a twist on manhattan recipe.
Shelf! Shelf! Shelf! I have nothing I am reading right now! (a complete first in a very long time!)
Lol, yeah, I just finished my books and am stalking too.
I finished my kickass heroine book so now I'm reading my free space book. I'm curious to know what shelf will be chosen next!
I haven't finished the last shelf and I'm still stalking. Almost done though.
Mary wrote: "I haven't finished the last shelf and I'm still stalking. Almost done though." Same here, but Shelf!
Definitely shelf! I'm pretty much done with my current read and I'd love the next one to be a bingo book. I don't have a clue what I feel like reading.
Me neither, Nairabell. I'm waiting on the shelf to decide what to read.
I think my favourite part of bingo is looking through the shelf and thinking "omg I have to read that". Waiting for announcements is the worst though.
I need a shelf to be called to hopefully make me feel better. Been up since midnight with an excruciating pain in my left ear. Just got back from urgent care, turns out I perforated my eardrum. Hopefully reading and pain meds will make me forget all about it.
Oh sorry to hear that Paris, I hope the meds will help and it heals soon.
I think she's waiting until we've all worked ourselves into a frenzy.
Paris wrote: "I need a shelf to be called to hopefully make me feel better. Been up since midnight with an excruciating pain in my left ear. Just got back from urgent care, turns out I perforated my eardrum. Hop..."
Aw! How did you do that? I feel for you. Have not have an earache since I turned 12, but the remembrance makes me flinch still. Hope you get better soon, or get really good happy pills
Aw! How did you do that? I feel for you. Have not have an earache since I turned 12, but the remembrance makes me flinch still. Hope you get better soon, or get really good happy pills
Well I don't know about you but my frenzy is ON!
Me too! It's quite sad actually. Even though there's what... 17 hour difference between Steph and me I still check all day on Saturday. Even when I know it's 2 in the AM across the ocean in Japan. I still check. Obsessively.
Do you think Steph's susceptible to bribes? I could whip up a batch of my Red Velvet Brownie Cheesecake bars ... of course, by the time they're done it would be shelf time anyway. LOL.Instead of skulking around wishing for a new shelf, I should be using my time constructively and writing my free-space review on Insurgent right about now, but I'm putting it off temporarily. Ooops, don't tell D.G., my team captain.
SHELF!!
Dragana wrote: "Oh sorry to hear that Paris, I hope the meds will help and it heals soon."Thanks Dragana. So far, the pain meds are working nicely. lol
Zanahoria (Taly) wrote: "Aw! How did you do that? I feel for you. Have not have an earache since I turned 12, but the remembrance makes me flinch still. Hope you get better soon, or get really good happy pills."
They think that it had something to do with the cold I've had all week. Boo. I haven't had an earache since I was a kid either. Used to get ear infections all the time, but I forgot the pain that is involved. Pretty sure this pain is the worst I've ever felt in anything (no I don't have kids. lol).
I definitely got good happy pills so until the antibiotics kick in and they will do the trick nicely. ;-)
Breann wrote: "Me too! It's quite sad actually. Even though there's what... 17 hour difference between Steph and me I still check all day on Saturday. Even when I know it's 2 in the AM across the ocean in Japan. ..."Ha! I do the same thing. I always think who knows maybe she'll wake up in the middle of the night and decide to post.
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Finished Shelf 1 (very good read), happily into Free space...picked a chubster that I bought the first 4 novels of...have NO IDEA how much is left to read, but it is no chore. Have to time myself so I can get WORK done (why oh why does RL insist on being so immediate?)
Go, Mandy! I need to join you...sigh.