The Syndicate

Wait a minute...

Oh sh-

That took longer then expected.

Tfw school started. And board meetings. And I have three new pupils. And overdue with a PhD report yet again. Which will be complicated to schedule and travel, due to school and the supervisor also being involved in piano jury stuff. And the phone also started ringing, asking me to accompany students of which I had received no word of until now at the late-entry admissions over at the Faculty. Which are taking place tomorrow.

My dad's discovery of the french press style changed his life, he uses nothing else for his coffee since.

Omg its a lijzzzy

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Some Parks/booze fans we got here, my epic Lagavulin moment was brushed off...

You had Lagavulin? Nice. I've never actually had it.

It's shown in the picture, y'kno.

It's dark and strange, for sure. For special times, no doubt.

Some Parks/booze fans we got here, my epic Lagavulin moment was brushed off...

G-Man wrote:

Ricochet wrote:mmm datsome burny meat-uh-balls

Just got home. Indeed the are.

mmm datsome burny meat-uh-balls

That's true, which is what birthdays are for.

Although, in my dad's case, he'd rather just reward himself.

God damn it, I'm an awful son. And person.

happy birthday to my dad

also, get jelly Parks fans. this guarantees me being Nick in the upcoming Heist/Matrix game, right?

I had to talk about opening up a fish restaurant. No, really.

Lesen war ok, aber nicht leicht.
Hören war einfach, ich bin optimistisch.
Schreiben war auch ok, ich glaube, obwohl ich bei dem Lesebrief meinen Wortschätz immer vergessen.

In zwei Stunde werde ich noch Sprechen haben, beten sie für mich.

Das Gefühl, wenn ich morgen meine Goethe-Zertifikat Prüfüng ablegen muss...

So strange, I can't access the forum on my home WI-FI.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I dunno, but my DST has been over for like 2 weeks too.

Where are you from again?

That information is classified.

Is it that time again when America changes its clocks either two weeks earlier or later than I do (I think it's the former in this case)?

I went to a play at the local german theater this evening, together with my German studying group (wrapping up by B2 levels). I haven't been to a play in a really long time. I don't even remember ever going with my "ehemalige" girlfriend.

Anyway, the funny part is that teach warned us not to pick a play in which strong language or even some nudity might occur, because there are 16 and 17 yr old students in the group, so it may not be kosher. Guess which show we blindly picked to go to. I was in charge with buying the tickets, so my only thought, when the actors started stripping and enacting an intense sex scene and even a jerk off mimicking one, was that the teach will strangle me tomorrow. Whoops.

But we had fun overall, most of us liked it (only one or two thought it was just too modern and weird for their taste or even awful); a colleague in fact was the only one in the audience to give a standing applause. She thought it was amazing. I thought the theme was pretty generic and an easy pick for building non-stop tension and soapy like interactions (existential and communicational crisis among Millenials in the Facebook era and intertwined stories of love and betrayal), plus this theater usually has the talent, but lacks the staging skills or creativity, yet this time it held up nicely. There was a moment that mixed music, coreography and narrative culmination, in which Arcade Fire's My Body is a Cage was played. Got me all wet.

"the reign of Uzziah". Heathen!

I was moreover trying to find if the name literally translates into something in particular, but thanks for that as well.

Epignosis, does the name Amos have any biblical meaning?

Sounds better than that movie that's been made.

Oh tru.

Who is Equivocate? I was confused reading that name pop up until I saw it in the polls as well...

Ooh my winter hat is Columbia.

I don't get the commercial.

I need to renew my gym membership.

This is really just #firstRico'sworldproblems, so I ain't gonna write it in the Problems thread

Tfw this week and the next two are such hell. Music school exams with the young ones every day this week (even had to sit in the committee myself for four hours today and will have to do so again on Friday), then accompaniment rehearsals with faculty students during the whole afternoon, plus had to make a slideshow presentation for German class this evening, where I was as professional as always, but lost the group's popular vote (by some margin) to a 16 year old charming, passionate, hard-working and determined schooler, basically the kind I was 10 years ago (minus the charming), which curiously messed up with my esteem and the feeling of getting old, at least at this moment.

A colleague in the German class literally told me I should get a good night sleep, because of how spent I was visibly looking.

So yeah, guess this must be what they call real life, huh?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:This is interesting. A guy who's never played piano in his life recording a jazz album.

I read reviews, but never listened. The kinder reviews said it's merely a comedic project. The harsher ones called it jumbo music.

Sorry about your loss. He sounded like a good man. I remember having a staggering amount of uncles, aunts and nephews/nieces, but they all live in different rural areas. My mom mostly stays in touch.

My favorite story is never realizing the technicality that my mother's step sister (named Dorina) is my aunt, until I was 9 or 10. She was always just Dorina to me. Yeah, she's probably my closest aunt, in that regard.

Raising money seemed to imply donations. Also, Nauru is not in Europe.

I'm not from America. Make sure to play Undertale, though. Or else.

All done, I'm back now.

Happy new year

Bad news everyone, I think I have to unplug myself from the forum until 2016, just too much stuff to do at home right now, until the year is over. See you all again soon.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Here's a little something from Grinchy.

uhm

Ricochet [u]one year ago[/u] wrote:In. No idea how to play this, but I wouldn't mind getting killed pls.

This poor sod, I tell ya...

MP just blued himself all over the forum.

(This tactic has become too easy, btw)

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Some of the banner images appear broken to me. What's going on?

Where are you accessing the internet from? I've noticed that some companies will block photobucket images.

At home... on my laptop? I don't work in any company.

Anyway, it seems fixed now, so nvmd. Maybe it was a photobucket derp (although, not all the pics were screwy, for that matter).

Some of the banner images appear broken to me. What's going on?

Legend is not that bad, actually.

A year ago I started tracking down and watching the movies that have soundtracks created by TD, but the cinematic level is often so poor, I couldn't go all the way through with the project. Last movie I recall watching was Near Dark.

I wasn't even head over heels with the good rate ones - for instance, Sorcerer (mainly because the French original is vastly superior).

Risky Business main theme, lol.

Still counts!

School concert this evening. Background music when I arrived was Tangerine Dream.

Literally checked my pulse.

I taught my parents to think again on having more children, by arriving 13 days later than scheduled. 42-week pregnancy, not kidding.

BEARGLOVE

Safe delivery!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Epignosis usually sends a reminder to everyone to switch it on/off at the appropiate time.

I don't know how your time zone is effected though.

4am becomes 3am, as of tonight.

Which I assume means I'll be 6 hours from EDT, not 7.

Questione:

Do I need to switch off DST tonight or is America still staying in the dark?

I never stopped playing old vidya games on my NES console until a computer arrived in our house.

We're here. We're finally here.



Well, at least they got the day of the week right...

Roxy wrote:I posted the picture of my kitty Buddy Love bc he just passed away after giving me 17 years of unconditional love. I have never loved any animal more and I will never love one like that again. It has been just heart breaking for me. I loved him so much. He hasbeen there for me so many times makes me so sad that I could do nothing to stop his dying.

He was such a beautifully sweet kitty.

You must know I don't use these lightly, Rox, so:



I love cats and I still don't have one, as a grown-up. My grandparents' cat died when I was around 6 or 7. I wasn't too kind with her when visiting, because of having too much qualities of a fucking brat - chasing her with toothpaste around the house, wanting to force her to sit in my lap forever and ever, etc. - but when I heard she died (which my parents kept from me for around 6 months), it was the one in about five or six times when I cried buckets in my entire life.

...one other time was when watching Titanic the first time. Sheesh, I was 9.