Celtore

I took a train ride last week to Toronto and took the subway while I was there. I like taking the train compared to driving on the highway; it's much less stressful. Plus once you get there, you don't have to worry about figuring out where you're going to park (and probably fork over $20.) You just take the subway to wherever you want to go.

The last bus trip... I can't remember. I'm not a huge fan of buses.

The games which make me feel the most nostalgic are Super Mario World, Paper Mario 64, Pokemon RBY/GSC and Digimon World 1/3. These are all games I grew up with and thoroughly enjoyed.

edit: OH! And Toy Story for the SNES. Somehow I managed to complete it as a kid. Considering its difficulty and rough controls, I have no idea how. Probably lots of continues and lots of persistence.

High school: attending the ceremony and thinking "thank goodness that's over with."

College: It was incredibly weird. My last day was a presentation day where we showed off a project we spent 8 months developing. After the professors announced the best projects, it just sort of... ended. We unceremoniously took down the display, said our goodbyes to one another and didn't meet again until 2 months later at the graduation ceremony.

I wanted to attend a midnight launch when I was younger, but I never did because of transportation issues. And today, I just can't be bothered; I'll just buy the thing online and have it mailed to me. If it's in short supply even online and I care enough, maybe I'll write a small program to send me an email when the "buy" button becomes clickable.

Haha, guilty. But I can imagine blue is a popular colour for Pegasus characters because of the natural traits that we associate with the colour. It also seems to be really easy to find a good shade of blue where I find it tricky to find just the right shade of red, yellow or green to use.

The subtle art of not giving a f*** by Mark Manson. It's a slightly different take on the typical self-help sort of book. I'm enjoying it so far and some of it's ideas are actually applicable for me.

Holy smokes, $1000 already! That's awesome, we're outpacing Jeric!

I'll contribute more as the month goes on. Every little bit counts; a bit can be the small difference between a functional program and a buffer overflow.

@Phosphor Again, you've forced me to retaliate! *return boop*

And while I'm at it...

@WWolf @Crimson storm @TwilySparky @Alco fa @Fluttershutter @Woona :3 @Silent @Lunar Echo @Jonny Music @Johnny1226 @flueryheartlove @Califorum

You don't escape this either.

Right now, the holiday season. There's some local events happening next weekend that I'm really looking forward to. I'm also looking forward to a great night to do some astronomy. I have a new eyepiece and filter I want to test out. Last time I tried, the moon was being a gigantic pain.

I'm not the biggest Trekkie in the world, but I'm more of a fan of TNG.

What's your favourite form of transportation?

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Ok, typing with hooves on its own would be a problem, but come on!

*wildly swings their ghostly hooves ineffectually through the keyboard*

Granted! But today is the last day of the break. Tomorrow, it's back to the normal schedule.

I wish I could summon objects at will.

I guess you could call my adding machine vintage.

Do you own a pocket radio?

It went zip when it moved, pop when it stopped, whirrrr when it stood still;

I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.

It's kind of weird... After six years, Kanto has sort of fallen in my rankings. I think seeing old regions in 3D highlight problems that I didn't notice when it was in 2D. There's not a lot of variety in terms of the environment; it's all grass and caves. And with the recent remakes, the removal of the safari zone and game corner only makes the regions' problems stand out more.

For now, I think Alola is my favourite in terms of geography because the environments largely make sense. The snow area of the game is logically on the highest mountain and the desert area is on the opposite side of said mountain instead of being somewhere in the middle of the map. The mountain range is casting a rain shadow! You don't need HM moves anymore either because of the ride pokemon system, so you don't have to worry about anything being inaccessible due to your team.

The only thing I dislike about it is that it's an island chain and not joined together. If not for that, the region would be perfect.

Because the cheapest way to do these sorts of lights is to have the current go across the filament in the bulbs. If one light goes out, the circuit is basically dead and the electricity can't get to the rest of the string. It is pretty annoying when that happens though, especially if you're stringing them together over a long distance (like across a house roof) and it just dies half way through.

I don't think modern strings of lights are generally wired that way anymore. At least, we have this LED set which has a few dead bulbs and it still functions perfectly fine. Well, other than those few dead bulbs.

I don't think smartphones are going to have any major shakeups in the next few years. Though I guess you could say foldable displays could lead to some interesting developments, depending on how well that R&D goes. After that though, I have no idea what the next thing will be. It might even be all about the software after that point rather than hardware.

It's not really a constantly present fear, but sometimes when I'm looking through my telescope at night, I wonder what else is out there. Is there intelligent life out there somewhere in space, and if we encountered it, would it be hostile? Or worse, could there be a world devouring monster out there somewhere hidden in the deepest reaches of space like Galactus?

The rest of my fears are fairly mundane.

If by magic you mean something supernatural, then no, I don't believe in that sort of magic. There are some things I might compare to magic in a poetic sense, but definitely not literally. The closest thing we have to that are illusions spun by talented stage magicians, which are quite a treat.

I've never used those bluetooth headsets. I look crazy already talking myself through challenging topics, I don't need to draw more attention to it by talking with one of those things!

I do use bluetooth for my fitbit, but there are long periods where I stop using it. I get so frustrated with that watch; the heart rate tracking is unreliable and it can track thousands of steps I've never taken. I've also tried bluetooth for transferring files, but it's so incredibly slow that it's just easier to pop up a quick wifi hotspot and just use scp to transfer the files I need.

I picked up a new monitor. My old monitor had some troubles with the buttons and it had a big red line down one of the rows. To be fair, I had it since Windows Vista. It's pretty nice and has audio, so it's perfect for my game systems.

Yep! I've decorated my cubical and have a little tree and some fake snow on the top of my workstation. Nothing at home yet, but we'll probably put up lights very soon.

So many good movie teasers lately! I want to see this too!

I have to say supper. What can I say, I'm a carnivore at heart and supper offers a lot of variety.

Second breakfast can be pretty good too: tea and a light snack like a muffin or granola bar. I'm usually too tired during regular breakfast to fully enjoy it.