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  1. Celtore

    Well, crap. Smash bros ate my weekend. So much for the marathon. Oh well, nothing stopping me from starting tomorrow night. 

  2. Celtore

    Hey Bas, don't worry about the donation thing. Got you covered. :mlp_please:

    1. Celtore

      Celtore

      That's fine, I just thought you deserved it. Plus, there are some fun upcoming festivities you might be interested in.

  3. Celtore

    Night all, I'm going to bed. If I don't soon, I'll probably wake up in this chair tomorrow morning. ^_^

  4. Celtore

    Ughhhh, that feeling when you want a glass of water, but you're too comfortable to get out of the chair and go all the way downstairs to get it. :okiedokieloki:

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  5. Celtore

    Happy birthday, Woona! Take a balloon! :):balloon:

  6. Celtore

    Huzzah, Ive done it! My 3333rd post! :balloon:

    (Not that it really counts for anything, I just like nice numbers)

    1. Dark Horse

      Dark Horse

      It's still a pretty big milestone that you can be proud of. Congrats! :D

  7. Celtore

    I've been feeling a little in the dumps today. I don't know why, I just feel drained. Maybe this weekend, I'll do a MLP marathon. It's actually been a really long time since I've watched it and a feel good show is probably just what I need.

    1. EpicEnergy

      EpicEnergy

      I hope you feel better soon! :kindness:

      I also need to do an MLP marathon, I haven't been watching it as much as I used to and I want to get back into it again.

  8. Celtore

    Holy crap! It's finally a clear sky for astronomy!! I've been waiting for a clear night like this for like a month! ^_^

    1. Silver W. Valensnow

      Silver W. Valensnow

      AMAZING, you like stargazing? l love that too, even though l do not do it nearly as often as l would like.!

    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      Nice! You too, eh? I absolutely love it. I got into it because of an elective I took in my last year of software development. I'm so glad my college offered it; I would have never discovered how much fun it is otherwise and probably would have ended up with some useless liberal arts course like interpersonal group dynamics. :scoots:

      Tonight was a bit on the cold side (very frostbite inducing), but hot chocolate is a pretty good remedy for that! Here's a picture of my telescope:

      telescope.thumb.jpg.0f216052c5901d4ad429edaf23aed348.jpg

       

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      @Celtore, sweet telescope!  :mlp_yay:

  9. Celtore

    Just taught myself "i did it my way" on the harmonica. I forgot how fun it is to play that thing, it's been ages. I don't know if my dog likes it, he's been howling along! :P

  10. Celtore

    Tonight was fun! I got the N64 emulator running on my Wii U and played Banjo Kazooie for the past few hours. I haven't played it since I rented it from blockbuster back in 2000. So many memories pre-youtube of not having an idea of what to do...

    1. Silver W. Valensnow

      Silver W. Valensnow

      sounds like a nice time, you must've had lots of fun. Good, l am happy to see you smile, my friend!

  11. Celtore

    I have no idea why my favourite radio station insists on playing the creepiest instrumental version of Carol of the Bells. The opening sounds so unbelievably ominous when you're the only one awake late at night.

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    2. Silver W. Valensnow

      Silver W. Valensnow

      No doubt, l would like to hear that version at least once, if possible, would you send/link it to me? (no coincidence that there was a hearths warming episode that had :orly: in it)

    3. Celtore

      Celtore

      Unfortunately I couldn't find it on youtube. All the ones I found were way too good, even when I searched for "midi" in the title. I bet you anything they bought the midi a long time ago and just keep it in circulation for the late show.

      Here's a far nicer arrangement I found while searching for it.

       

    4. Celtore

      Celtore

      OMG, I found it! And it's by the barenaked ladies; I should have guessed it was the CRTC to blame. They're a regulatory body for Canadian broadcasting and they love pushing Canadian content down everyone's throats.

       

  12. Celtore

    roses are red, white sage is gray, your server has a bug; 502: bad gateway.

  13. Celtore

    First! :raritysillyhat:

  14. Celtore

    Argh! Finally a clear sky, but of course it's around the time of the beaver moon and it's right next to the thing I want to look at. Not the greatest luck these days for this astronomer >_>

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Don't feel bad. 

      Even if I'd brought my small telescope with me, I doubt I could even lift it after all the turkey and desserts I ate earlier.  :laugh:

    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      Lol! Right! I forgot it's thanksgiving for you guys! I hope you had a good meal! :)

  15. Celtore

    I think I found an exploit in my fitbit. If I put in on a table with a fan, I can achieve tens of thousands of steps without doing anything. Great design, guys. :yeahno:

  16. Celtore

    I went to the museum today! It was a really relaxing and interesting experience, I always come back from there with a generally positive experience and knowing something I didn't know about before. They're also building a Precambrian wing, so I'm really looking forward to what they do with that.

  17. Celtore

    Finally! It looks like environment canada is calling for a clear night on Wednesday and Thursday. Good thing I booked that week off! ^_^

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Sweet! 

      Last night was a good night. Finally got that elusive cloud band on Uranus! :ticking:

       

      Uranus_W25_11-17-2018 (1).jpg

    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      That's awesome! Congrats! ^_^

  18. Celtore

    Well, I guess it's fine that the weather is a bit too awful for astronomy this weekend. I feel like I'm coming down with a cold or something. Early to bed tonight. >_>

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Good night. Hope ya feel better tomorrow!

    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      Thank you, I hopefully should be a little more energetic.

  19. Celtore

    How to deal with windows update: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb2 and never look back.

    Translation: I just trashed my windows hard drive. Why they can't make an update system that doesn't suck is genuinely beyond me. Downloading updates in the background shouldn't grind the whole damn OS and network to a halt.

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Windows 10 = :yuck:

      I set my computers to only download necessary updates but still. If it weren't for SSD's, none of my computers would function with 10.

  20. Celtore

    The scariest thing this nightmare night... The animation of Nightmare Moon is a 25MB gif! AHHHHHHHH! :mlp_laugh:

  21. Celtore

    Astronomy tonight! :D

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    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      Nice! Oh, and Mars is really nice this evening. The atmosphere was a bit too rough (or my lens was a bit to crappy) to see it in too much detail, but it's in a pretty great position and really bright this evening.

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Were you able to see the polar ice cap? It has shrunk a lot in the last couple months!

    4. Celtore

      Celtore

      I wish I could, but unfortunately I couldn't differentiate it; it was way too blurry for me to make out that much detail. Looking forward to next month to know what to blame

  22. Celtore

    Alrighty! New eyepiece for my telescope has been ordered! Hopefully it's better than the one's I'm currently stuck with for high magnification :)

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    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      I ended up getting one with an adaptable range between 8mm-24mm. Indeed, it was a bit on the pricy side compared to buying a regular 8mm like I originally intended (could have bought two of them), but the convenience should make it worth it. :)

      And yeah, lenses are pricy. Fortunately though, you only really need a few good ones and if you plan well, you can barlow the gaps. In my case, my high powered lenses were from my Walmart telescope. Not very fun to use...

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      Ah, a zoom eyepiece. I love my Celestron 8-24mm zoom. It beats carrying around multiple eyepieces. One minor nitpick I have is that the focus has to be adjusted a little bit when going from 24 down to 8.

      I bet those eyepieces for the Walmart scope have a ton of chromatic aberration.

      Celestron Zoom (1).jpg

      Celestron Zoom (2).jpg

    4. Celtore

      Celtore

      You know what, I think I ordered the same eyepiece! Glad to hear you enjoy it! :laugh:

  23. Celtore

    The remake of luigis mansion on the 3ds is making me want to pull out my gamecube. The C stick sucks.

  24. Celtore

    Bah, sky is too cloudy tonight for astronomy. Oh well, guess I'll have to wait later this week.

    1. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      I have my refractor outside right now. There's no way my C8 can keep up with the temperature drop tonight. Do you do any imaging?

    2. Celtore

      Celtore

      Nope, but I am interested in eventually getting into it. I already do photography as a hobby and it would absolutely make a lot of sense to combine the two of them. For now though, there are other upgrades I want to make first. (Most importantly, a better quality 8mm eyepiece.)

    3. Phosphor

      Phosphor

      I have quite a few eyepieces but mainly plossls that came with my telescopes. I primarily do imaging so all the funds go toward barlows, cameras, and filters. :mlp_please:

      When I'm not imaging, I tend to use my 8-20mm zoom eyepiece.

  25. Celtore

    Switching domain names is such a pain. I just spent the past hour and a half going through every service I have an account with and changing the email >_>;

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