Ah, rum balls. Never had one, though once thought I did. Tune the wayback machine to late 80's : a wedding reception where the brother of the groom, cleverly disguised as a waiter, goes around serving "rum balls" to anyone who sez yes. I did. Within half an hour I wuz pretty laid back. I thought the jazz band was exceptional ( I hate jazz ). Later I had two main courses and four desserts. The mother of the bride, normally a chatterbox/harpy/shark crossbreed, sat at the main table simply staring at yon void. No one could be bothered dancing. Some, not me, had been also snogging champagne and were just gibbering idiots. Well, there wuz more gibbering idiocy than the average level one would measure over the set of all wedding receptions. Thank heavens I'd only had one "rum ball" and the only ethanol was the usual toasting.
Easy quiz : what were they really ?
... sorry to be throwing a sub-quiz into your thread Annie. But hey, I'm a mod with a dog complex so deal with it .... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
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We're just waiting for the pitch to be towelled off properly, have a blow-dry, a good comb through, followed by tints & tips with a perm. To keep it up to English standards ..... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
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I feel sorry for the English players 'cos you just know they're gunna get a thumping by that peculiarly savage tribe that is called Fleet Street 'journalists'.
Cheers, Mike.
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That one. What it feels like listening to jazz for any length of time as a me is frankly, people, indescribable, which suggests I'll tell you all about it one day. Yes :)
I'm making rum balls.
I can't find one on rum balls+jazz though.
THey are a sticky gooey mess.
I will get a spoon *suddenly blow trumpet* an implement in which I am fully trained, people, and thereby... able to eat the evidence.
Congratulations Australia. You have better batsmen and bowlers.
That could be it, couldn't it...?
I'll run it past my other half, and see what happens. He likes it when I show an interest in his interests like that :)
... sorry to be throwing a sub-quiz into your thread Annie. But hey, I'm a mod with a dog complex so deal with it .... :-)
*flip eyelids to half-mistmast* A flash back so many years later suggests LSD, Mike. Of course... that's better with acid house than jazz, but I can see how the latter might have slipped under your radar. I'm not sure whether space cake says 80's to me or not though. It would depend if your lot down there were as far behind the alternative cultures of the north as us sub-saharan lot down there were. E's sort of springs to mind if you weren't, but you should have all been dancing to dehydration I believe, not pasted goofily to where you were.
It's good to see Gary and Mikey are enjoying that barrel though, isn't it...? Maybe if we slung a few from the rafters on long ropes it would start looking quite... festive in here...
re edits: did you like them? I thought I'd lay on a lot so you could.
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.... which may be a subtle clue that a general code review is overdue.
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*flip eyelids to half-mistmast* A flash back so many years later suggests LSD, Mike. Of course... that's better with acid house than jazz, but I can see how the latter might have slipped under your radar. I'm not sure whether space cake says 80's to me or not though. It would depend if your lot down there were as far behind the alternative cultures of the north as us sub-saharan lot down there were. E's sort of springs to mind if you weren't, but you should have all been dancing to dehydration I believe, not pasted goofily to where you were.
A quite extensive & superbly accurate knowledge base there Annie. :;~+))
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re edits: did you like them? I thought I'd lay on a lot so you could.
I worship your progress in editing skills to the same degree that I enjoy jazz after a rum ball.
FWIW : to your other half I would mention that his match prediction was pretty good. He doesn't secretly work for Ladbrokes does he ? Sadly the Perth pitch wound up looking like Ian Botham's hair.
I might have a word with my good friend Elon* and have three Falcon 9's each deliver some rum to Kath & Gary & Mikey. HINT : no payload, the rum is in the fuel tanks. Being suborbital hops there will be plenty spare. Metric tonnes in fact. Just PM me the coordinates of eg. your nearest sporting oval, supermarket car park, local councillor's favorite golf green, worst enemy's beautifully tended front lawn etc.
Cheers, Mike.
* .... I deplore name droppers, don't you ?
( edit ) We were far behind the world back then, dare I say retarded, and so then hashish was the new 'H'. You can still experience the 1980's in Australia today. Just go to Adelaide.
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Just for annie, I'll note
Just for annie, I'll note that I had strawberry cheesecake yogurt for breakfast. And I froze some blueberry for dessert last night.
I'm making rum balls. THey are a sticky gooey mess. *sad face*
Kathryn :o)
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Ah, rum balls. Never had one,
Ah, rum balls. Never had one, though once thought I did. Tune the wayback machine to late 80's : a wedding reception where the brother of the groom, cleverly disguised as a waiter, goes around serving "rum balls" to anyone who sez yes. I did. Within half an hour I wuz pretty laid back. I thought the jazz band was exceptional ( I hate jazz ). Later I had two main courses and four desserts. The mother of the bride, normally a chatterbox/harpy/shark crossbreed, sat at the main table simply staring at yon void. No one could be bothered dancing. Some, not me, had been also snogging champagne and were just gibbering idiots. Well, there wuz more gibbering idiocy than the average level one would measure over the set of all wedding receptions. Thank heavens I'd only had one "rum ball" and the only ethanol was the usual toasting.
Easy quiz : what were they really ?
... sorry to be throwing a sub-quiz into your thread Annie. But hey, I'm a mod with a dog complex so deal with it .... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I have no idea at all what
I have no idea at all what they might have been
The true recipe for rum balls requires at least a barrel of rum per ball. The only question is what is a ball? Who cares!
I bet we fathom the bottom of the barrel of rum.
We're just waiting for the
We're just waiting for the pitch to be towelled off properly, have a blow-dry, a good comb through, followed by tints & tips with a perm. To keep it up to English standards ..... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Congratulations Australia.
Congratulations Australia. You have better batsmen and bowlers.
Richard
Well I guess that helped.
Well I guess that helped. :-)
I feel sorry for the English players 'cos you just know they're gunna get a thumping by that peculiarly savage tribe that is called Fleet Street 'journalists'.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Interestingly - my coding
Interestingly - my coding includes this:
<anniet+jazz=use_head_if_found_before_off_button>
There's also another line somewhere... hold on...
<to_use_head_as_mallet_AAARGH_on_approach>
That one. What it feels like listening to jazz for any length of time as a me is frankly, people, indescribable, which suggests I'll tell you all about it one day. Yes :)
I can't find one on rum balls+jazz though.
I will get a spoon *suddenly blow trumpet* an implement in which I am fully trained, people, and thereby... able to eat the evidence.
That could be it, couldn't it...?
I'll run it past my other half, and see what happens. He likes it when I show an interest in his interests like that :)
*flip eyelids to half-
mistmast* A flash back so many years later suggests LSD, Mike. Of course... that's better with acid house than jazz, but I can see how the latter might have slipped under your radar. I'm not sure whether space cake says 80's to me or not though. It would depend if your lot down there were as far behind the alternative cultures of the north as us sub-saharan lot down there were. E's sort of springs to mind if you weren't, but you should have all been dancing to dehydration I believe, not pasted goofily to where you were.It's good to see Gary and Mikey are enjoying that barrel though, isn't it...? Maybe if we slung a few from the rafters on long ropes it would start looking quite... festive in here...
re edits: did you like them? I thought I'd lay on a lot so you could.
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
anniet
I have a corresponding line in my code :
<mike+jazz=deep_regrets_at_not_having_martial_arts_training_to_casually_disable_musicians_as_per_Bruce_Lee>
.... which may be a subtle clue that a general code review is overdue.
A quite extensive & superbly accurate knowledge base there Annie. :;~+))
I worship your progress in editing skills to the same degree that I enjoy jazz after a rum ball.
FWIW : to your other half I would mention that his match prediction was pretty good. He doesn't secretly work for Ladbrokes does he ? Sadly the Perth pitch wound up looking like Ian Botham's hair.
I might have a word with my good friend Elon* and have three Falcon 9's each deliver some rum to Kath & Gary & Mikey. HINT : no payload, the rum is in the fuel tanks. Being suborbital hops there will be plenty spare. Metric tonnes in fact. Just PM me the coordinates of eg. your nearest sporting oval, supermarket car park, local councillor's favorite golf green, worst enemy's beautifully tended front lawn etc.
Cheers, Mike.
* .... I deplore name droppers, don't you ?
( edit ) We were far behind the world back then, dare I say retarded, and so then hashish was the new 'H'. You can still experience the 1980's in Australia today. Just go to Adelaide.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote: the rum is
Now Dr. Hewson, would that be a mildly disguised reference to the origin of the term "Molotov cocktail". I would not have guessed you to be a Finn.
Nearest sports oval is
Nearest sports oval is located at https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1605988,-118.1670194,653m/data=!3m1!1e3 Elon is likely already very familiar with it being only a few miles from his HQ. He might even be going there in a few days for a big game. https://www.rosebowlstadium.com/events/detail/rose-bowl-game-2017