What made your day?

[Nicolas]

Make my day by telling what made yours!

23/11/2004: During a lecture from a Schiphol Airport spokesman, his presentation on future developments of Schiphol Airport was accidentaly interrupted by an automatically opening staff mail. The main topic of the info mail was that Spongebob Squarepants is coming to visit Schiphol...

What made your day?

[pumpkinpie]

What made your day?

Does it have to be today, or can I post in retrospect?

[Bozola]

What made your day?

Sunrise.

[Tero]

I don't have anything funny but this really made my day: I'm finally, after months of waiting, getting my dream phone: a Sony Ericsson P910. It's very expensive but hey, I'm a techno freak.

Actually, I did have a good laugh earlier today with a coworker. We were looking at an item for sale on an online auction site. It said (in Finnish) something like "pretty much every part still included". :lol:

[ToSeek]

Two of the most attractive women in the building just moved across the hall from me. :D

Angelina Jolie emailed me for date... :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o

[kylenano]

I'm playing How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2 for the third time today. It's not quite All That You Can't Leave Behind (somehow I wasn't expecting it to be), but I like it a lot. I got the limited edition - CD with bonus track, DVD and book - in the post this morning. It's only my third U2 album (the other is The Joshua Tree).

The lyrics appeared on the internet a couple of weeks ago and the astronomy isn't too bad :) From the brightest star
Comes the blackest hole

Crumbs From Your Table
I don't usually sit around watching TV during the day, but I did enjoy the DVD about how U2 wrote three of the songs. Both funny and poignant.

The book has notes, photos and sketches. And the UN Declaration of Human Rights, but I won't go into why I was so pleased to see that, because it's getting political!

[CTM VT 2K]

The sun rose, traveled across the sky, and set. Or, to be more accurate, the Earth rotated such that the sun became visible in my location (odd considering the climate and season) and continued to rotate until such time as the shadow of the Earth blocked the sun again. 8)

[Lurker]

My Rose got on IM, even though she's very sick these days, and told me that she missed me a whole lot and that she wanted to say that she loved me!!

[kucharek]

I don't have anything funny but this really made my day: I'm finally, after months of waiting, getting my dream phone: a Sony Ericsson P910. It's very expensive but hey, I'm a techno freak.

You mean you're allowed to buy other phones than Nokias in Finland!? They are not going to expatriate you!? They are not coming to your front door and drag you out into your foregarden where already the crosses are burning, Tero!?

Tero? ... Tero! ... TERO! ... TERO!!!!!!!!!! :o










:lol:

[Nicolas]

Nice replies!!

It doesn't necessarily have to be funny things. Just anything that made your day. In retrospect is good too, telling old stories can make one's day too :)
I got a "miss you/love you" mail too today, and some good news on an ebay sell, both of them made me feel quite happy.

[pumpkinpie]

Alright....what made my Saturday: being brought flowers by a man for the first time in [an uncountable number of] years. :D

[Nicolas]

I'm more into plants, they last longer. But when they eventually die it can be a pain, it's like you didn't take good care of them...

But getting flowers indeed can make your day!

[Tero]

You mean you're allowed to buy other phones than Nokias in Finland!? They are not going to expatriate you!? They are not coming to your front door and drag you out into your foregarden where already the crosses are burning, Tero!?

Tero? ... Tero! ... TERO! ... TERO!!!!!!!!!! :o

:D I actually owned a Sony Ericsson once before and nothing bad happened to me, so I think I'm safe. It's true that many Swedes and Finns buy only Ericssons or Nokias respectively but I've never been much of a nationalist. I actually like Sweden quite a lot :)

[ngc3314]

Make my day by telling what made yours!

23/11/2004: During a lecture from a Schiphol Airport spokesman, his presentation on future developments of Schiphol Airport was accidentaly interrupted by an automatically opening staff mail. The main topic of the info mail was that Spongebob Squarepants is coming to visit Schiphol...

What made your day?

Well, I had an inverse experience. I was actually discussing the Apollo hoax claims in class, and had foolishly left my Mission Reports CDROMs at home - the ones with nice QT video snippets so I can show the flag rippling when wrestled. So I go into the classroom an hour early, google and find the Lunar Surface Journal files. So far so good. Then 90 minutes later, in front of the class, RealPlayer decides to auto-update (maybe the popup window grabbed focus so it started when I tried to play the video clip). It does the download, as the class watched on screen, cuts off the snippet I was about to play, kills the browser, and reboots, all while I try to talk around it with slides on the other screen. I did more than mutter about how this never happens with *nix systems, although I may have unwittingly abetted it by trying to click to continue what I was doing.
Sigh.

(Nicolas - hoe zeg je "Spongebob Squarepants" in het Nederlands??)

[Nicolas]

(Nicolas - hoe zeg je "Spongebob Squarepants" in het Nederlands??)

ngc3314 asked me how you say "Spongebob Squarepants" in Dutch.

Spongebob Squarepants is a cartoon figure from Nickelodeon. As far as I know he is called the same in Dutch, at least in the local supermarket here in Holland he is (I mean the free wheel reflectors in the AH supermarket). I don't know about Belgium, I haven't heard much of him there. The mail was about some action or something, with a Spongebob Squarepants character coming to the airport (a man in a suit I mean, like you have Mickey walking around in Disneyland)

[AGN Fuel]

Not just my day, but my entire year (& maybe the rest of the decade) was made several months ago...

I can't go into specific details, but my company had been taken to court over a disputed contract by an exceptionally obnoxious gentleman. The finding went against us (on a minor contract technicality :evil: ) and we were obliged to pay out the contract to a significant sum, approaching 7 figures.

Unfortunately for the obnoxious gentleman in question, the contract had been originally placed in his wife's name for tax minimisation purposes. He probably should have taken that into account several months earlier, when he had dumped her & their three kids and shacked up with some bimbette 20 years his junior.

We took very great pleasure indeed in settling the matter with the wife.

[electromagneticpulse]

Not just my day, but my entire year (& maybe the rest of the decade) was made several months ago...

I can't go into specific details, but my company had been taken to court over a disputed contract by an exceptionally obnoxious gentleman. The finding went against us (on a minor contract technicality :evil: ) and we were obliged to pay out the contract to a significant sum, approaching 7 figures.

Unfortunately for the obnoxious gentleman in question, the contract had been originally placed in his wife's name for tax minimisation purposes. He probably should have taken that into account several months earlier, when he had dumped her & their three kids and shacked up with some bimbette 20 years his junior.

We took very great pleasure indeed in settling the matter with the wife.

Hahaha now thats justice :)

My day was actually made today, i just found out one of my friends who left my college course so she can look after her young one. (Dont worry she's not gone out my life she'll be back again next year :D ) But her best friend (jackie) who i car pool with told me that she's moved into her house and she's really happy.
But then later we found that the college is been tight fisted and not giving jackie her fuel money back so i might be called in to be persuasive. So thats another good thing, my placement for college is almost set up (so i'll be doing volunteer work soon) and when i got on MSN tonight i got told by one of my friends in canada she was going to call me.

So all in all its been a really good day :D
I would do a retrospect day but i really can't be bothered right now.

[Nicolas]

24/11/2004: I found a Nice Dual 1218 turntable with modifications in the trash. It was in a terrible condition, it was literally thrown away...
But I managed to repair it!! I don't have the means to set up the cartridge correctly, so it isn't sounding that nice now. But I had good fun working on it, and have a nice object to sell now (anyone near delft NL interested? PM me! :) 8) )

Candy made my day... :D :D :D :D :D

[Andromeda321]

Had a party of sorts in physics today because no one was really there. We had a cake that said "Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!" written on it despite the fact that his b-day is in March and the prof played a tune on his banjo to demonstrate a harmonic wave. Rather interesting talent I don't think any of us thought he had, at least I didn't. :)
Oh and now I'm home, the PA Turnpike had no toll today because the workers were striking, and tomorrow's TURKEY DAY!!!! :D :D :D

[Nicolas]

This weekend, I saw a genuine astronomy book from about 1530 or something like that. It was opened on a page discussing heliocentrism and geocentrism. The author was rather neutral, but seemed to prefer heliocentrism more because of the simpler motions the planets would be making (back then, when limited to the solar system, one could still speak of "the" center of the universe; but that's another discussion).

In the margin of the book there were comments typed (they were typed, so originally belonged to the book). Things like info on names given and extra info.

I found the following text next to the introduction about some scientist placing the sun in the center of the universe, others giving the earth that place:

"some scientists like to place themselves in the center of the Universe"
:lol: :lol: :lol: 500 years old!

For those who thought this kind of humour is a new phenomenon..

Made my day!!

[sarongsong]

El Presidente helicoptered directly over my house enroute to his appearance/speech here (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041207/D86QVK480.html) this morning. Not an everyday occurrance, and the day's only half over!

[Nicolas]

Helicoptered, was it in his Marine 1 Sea King or Blackhawk?

[Normandy6644]

El Presidente helicoptered directly over my house enroute to his appearance/speech here (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041207/D86QVK480.html) this morning. Not an everyday occurrance, and the day's only half over!

Hey, not bad!

Haven't had much to make my day lately, though I met a superawesome girl last Sunday, so that was a definite plus. Definite minus being a) it appears she has a boyfriend, and b) she's spending next semester in South Africa. Nonetheless, I feel some strange connection to her and something tells me to just have patience. It's odd. But it's fun!

[Nicolas]

Sure is fun. Enjoy the feeling, but maybe in that situation it's best not to hope on anything, the chances sound rather low. Try to keep your expectations realistic. But as I said, enjoy the feeling!!

[Normandy6644]

Sure is fun. Enjoy the feeling, but maybe in that situation it's best not to hope on anything, the chances sound rather low. Try to keep your expectations realistic. But as I said, enjoy the feeling!!

That's all I'm doing. 8)

[sarongsong]

Helicoptered, was it in his Marine 1 Sea King or Blackhawk?
Looked to be the Sea King (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aviation-central.com/helicopters/images/aha3d-p1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aviation-central.com/helicopters/aha30.htm&h=312&w=652&sz=30&tbnid=IrGOEO8AgnYJ:&tb nh=64&tbnw=133&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMarine%2B1%2BSea%2BKing%2Bphoto%26hl% 3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN), with a similar looking escort craft, both in white.
Hey, see what today brings (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=378074#378074):
...You have got to be the absolute most dense person on the planet... :roll:
...I'm on a roll! :P
Good luck, Normandy, with "...the stuff of dreams..."

[Nicolas]

Today I noticed for the first time that the brand of my refrigerator is

"Candy"

:D 8) :D

[Nowhere Man]

T'other day, I was reading the latest issue of Girl Genius when I came across a gag that made me laugh loud and long. Sure, it was an old joke in new clothes. But the unexpectedness of it made it all the more funny.

"We need the eggs." :lol: :lol: [this place needs a ROFL icon]

Most days, I'm happy just to come home and find that the cat has NOT barfed somewhere.

Fred (edit to add verb)

[Candy]

Today I noticed for the first time that the brand of my refrigerator is

"Candy"

:D 8) :D
:o

[Normandy6644]

Finished my exams today! Wooo! \:D/

[jrkeller]

Cool, almost cold weather has finally arrived for the fall season. It might make it 30's tonight and below freezing tomarrow night.

[ToSeek]

Well, I went to the doctor yesterday with chest pain and shortness of breath, and it wasn't a heart attack.


It's just either bronchitis or walking pneumonia....

[mike alexander]

Actually, that's pretty good news.

You can reach an age and condition when having a pretty good day is just having one.

[Mainframes]

I hit a birdie on the ninth hole yesterday to break 50 for the first time at my local nine hole course!! :D

[Nicolas]

I noticed www.badastonomy.com exists as well... :roll:
For a moment I thought the BA had completely renewed his homepage :D