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Celtore

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  1. Empowered; I've been doing some self-discovery these past few months. Not everything is sunshine and daffodils, but I have picked up a few tricks to fight back against my brain being a gigantic jerk. I'm also feeling quite mildly entertained thanks to a new video game I picked up.

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  2. I have a digital journal that I put my emotions in. It helps me get over things a lot of the time because it forces me to approach the issue directly and rationalize it.

    But when the anger and frustration truly spikes, I literally release it in my car (where nobody has to hear me going super saiyan.)

  3. I saw a repeat showing of Aquaman, which has turned out to be one of my favourite movies. By no means is it perfect, but it has such a fantastic story arc, great visuals and a really satisfying/heartwarming ending.

  4. My bad dreams seem to pit me against something incredibly difficult to overcome. Some examples include:

    • Fighting the armies of Cthulhu in a yacht with water on all sides.
    • Defending my house against an encroaching forest fire.

    My good dreams can vary a lot. The other night, I was camping. It was an extremely pleasant dream.

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  5. Loads of cardio! I try to hop on the exercise bike each day for about an hour. I may skip a few days in the week, but I at least try to get four days in. Some nights, I do an hour on the treadmill instead, but being tall and the low ceiling of the exercise room kind of makes it a major pain in the butt.

    I also do some simple callisthenics to try to keep tone, like pushups, planks and burpees. I have to stay strong enough to lug around a 50 pound telescope, after all. :mlp_laugh:

  6. I have one posted on my LinkedIn and another public one which hides my eyes, but that's it.

    If you asked me why a few years ago, I'd say "because privacy", but Google, Facebook and Amazon know damn well what I look like; they're not fooling anyone. I guess now, it's more a matter of personal preference. I'd rather people just know me by my username and maybe my avatar. There's no need to reveal my entire hand unless I got into cosplay or something. 

  7. I finally tried one. I unfortunately can't say im a huge fan of them though. Im going to try it again in a little while, but after I put it in the fridge. The ones I had before were warm and I think that played a part into my opinion of them. 

  8. As a programmer, they're not magic. They're just stupid machines that can run blocks of logic, and that logic is created and deployed by using a huge toolchain of abstraction layers built on top of other abstraction layers. They will never do anything they're not told to do. They may do something stupid or unexpected because of bad software, but it was still told to respond in the way it did. 

    The closest thing to magic might be machine learning. You build a neural network which models your problem, train it on a large set of data and suddenly your software understands what a dog looks like. It's all math behind the scenes, but holy. crap.

  9. Most of my money is going into one of two places: a couple of mutual funds and a tax free savings account. I have a few mutual funds managed by my bank which have been steadily growing over the years, as well as a few managed by a partner of my employer. That second one is much more heavily managed, slowly decreasing in risk as you reach retirement age. It's doing fairly well and my employer is matching up to $2000 per year for saving $4000. 

    The TFSA is an account I never touch and just keep putting as much in as I can every pay week. It's not that there are any penalties for withdrawing from it, it just makes more sense to use the standard chequing account instead of draining the tax free one. 

  10. Oh, I've got one. Carol of the Bells by the Barenaked Ladies. It makes me physically feel ill, it's such a crappy and depressing rendition of a classic song. I'd rather listen to a midi! And naturally, my local radio station absolutely loves it because it's by a Canadian music group.

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    If you actually listened to it, here, have a good rendition to cleanse your ears.

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  11. Trixie is a bit of an odd case for me. Despite her boastful personality, she was one of my favourites too. Part of it is her whole character design, but I think it was mostly because I pitied her in the first season. Here she was just trying to do her stage magic and she ends up having to deal with a giant bear and twilight spiking her ego down several levels. That's a very bad day, pretty much a crushing defeat. 

    And on top of that, it's no secret that I have a soft spot for reformed antagonists. And she is undeniably very adorable too! ^_^

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  12. Windows phone 10! Wait, what do you mean that's not a thing anymore? :okiedokieloki:

    Honestly, neither one of them is great. Android has more potential and flexibility, but I have no trust in Google. Apple seems to generally care about security and privacy (because their primary business model is selling computers, not ad revenue), but their walled garden approach is incredibly restrictive. 

    I have to vote Android in any case. I'm a Linux user, I can't run iTunes. I need direct access to the file system to upload music and manage stuff from my main PC. That being said, it's not a glowing victory. If I could dump android too, I would. 

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  13. I have to say pizza. I absolutely love both, but after conferring with my taste buds, they concluded that a really excellent pizza can typically outflavour a really excellent burger. Unfortunately, the converse is true as well; a crappy pizza generally tastes worse than a crappy burger. You can taste the fakeness in the sauce and the dough whereas the burger is still meat, maybe just not cooked to perfection. 

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