The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NotWise]

Today's craftiness - dangly holiday ear rings.

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To go with the traditional holiday sweater.

 

[Duleigh]

To go with the traditional holiday sweater.

To me, this is the ugliest sweater I have ever seen

 

[NotWise]

To me, this is the ugliest sweater I have ever seen

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Buifalo?

 

[MillieDynamite]

WTF is Buifalo?

To me, this is the ugliest sweater I have ever seen

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[YmaOHyd]

It's the AI doppleganger of the home of chicken wings in hot sauce.

 

[MrPixel]

Classic graphic artist error. Who cares about spelling, isn't it a funny illustration?

(Sort of your typical AI slop. AI to date has a rough time with lettering. Some day in the far-off future it will have learned to read.)

 

[iwatchus]

To be honest, I was more offended that anyone from Buffalo would be concerned about an inch of snow. Now if you could just see the shovel coming out of a trench in the snow ...

 

[MillieDynamite]

So, I have so many, many, many stories I've outlined or brainstormed, and half a dozen of them are off to my publisher, and he says they need more work. And yet, I'm working on plots for two more stories today. A serial killer story and a new Alien invasion story inspired by Huminoids From the Deep, but mine are from outer space.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

@sirhugs - I have put a pot of hot cocoa on the stove. Whip cream is in the 'fridge if you want it.

 

[TheLobster]

Looking at the list of recent AH threads, I’m sorely tempted to start one titled “How do we perceive our navels?” — because clearly, there is a lot of this kind of gazing going on in this very forum

 

[iwatchus]

@sirhugs - I have put a pot of hot cocoa on the stove. Whip cream is in the 'fridge if you want it.

Sounds like @TheRedLantern could use some cocoa too.

And is there any Peppermint Schnappes for it?

 

[cw5523729]

(Sort of your typical AI slop. AI to date has a rough time with lettering. Some day in the far-off future it will have learned to read.)

I had a discussion with someone else about that exact situation. I asked for an image which it made perfectly in seconds but mispelled the word apocalypse even though I'd spelled it correctly in the prompt. I asked it to fix it, it apologized, thanked me for catching it, then remade the exact same image with the exact same error.

 

[Duleigh]

Looking at the list of recent AH threads, I’m sorely tempted to start one titled “How do we perceive our navels?” — because clearly, there is a lot of this kind of gazing going on in this very forum

Navel Gazing - self-indulgent or excessive contemplation of oneself or a single issue, at the expense of a wider view

Is there a term I can use that describes my favorite sport of making fun of excessive contemplation of oneself or a single issue?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

In forecast, the 'high' is sometime in the afternoon.

In the records afterwards, the high is whatever the high was when it was.

I've seen the high be 5 minutes after midnight and the low be 5 minutes before the next midnight.

The forecast high may have been somewhere in between.

For example, today

12:05AM 54 degrees

3:00 PM 48 degrees (forecast high)

11:55PM will be around 35 degrees

The records will show 54/35, even though the high was forecast to be 48.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Is there a term I can use that describes my favorite sport of making fun of excessive contemplation of oneself or a single issue?

Best I can come up with is "Ruminaticuleing"

 

[MrPixel]

navels?” ... gazing

Well, I do know that I enjoy watching military ships traversing the channel.

 

[Duleigh]

The records will show 54/35, even though the high was forecast to be 48.

Who cares as long as the number is above -40?

Best I can come up with is "Ruminaticuleing"

That doesn't imply "fun"

 

[Z_TheWriter]

That doesn't imply "fun"

"Ruminaticulelation" then.
(You didn't say "fun", you said "making fun of" )

 

[TheRedLantern]

After encouraging @sirhugs to write through his illness, I took inspiration from his work ethic, determination, and indomitable spirit. Today I thought I wouldn't write because I'm sick, but if @sirhugs can write 400 words a day then so can I, and I did.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

After encouraging @sirhugs to write through his illness, I took inspiration from his work ethic, determination, and indomitable spirit. Today I thought I wouldn't write because I'm sick, but if @sirhugs can write 400 words a day then so can I, and I did.

Dangit now I kinda have to kick myself into gear despite my sinusitis flaring up.

 

[TheRedLantern]

Dangit now I kinda have to kick myself into gear despite my sinusitis flaring up.

400 is a good number. Enough to get something meaningful, not so much that it's intimidating. I was going to time how long it took me, but I didn't want to get tagged for Ruminaticulelation

 

[NotWise]

I harvested broccolini again today. I think it'll stop sometime. I just don't know when.

At the same time, I'm starting to plan for next year's gardens. There'll be more space for garlic. Less space for chiles.

I also added about 1000 words to one of my WsIP.

 

[NuclearFairy]

@sirhugs - I have put a pot of hot cocoa on the stove. Whip cream is in the 'fridge if you want it.

Has anyone else ever tried putting frozen whipped cream in their hot cocoa?

 

[TheRedLantern]

Has anyone else ever tried putting frozen whipped cream in their hot cocoa?

I have not, but it's suddenly moved way, way up my priority list. There's a Hershey store not too far from me, so I might have to see if they can make me a "Nuclear Fairy" (feels like the right name for the drink, right?)

 

[iwatchus]

Has anyone else ever tried putting frozen whipped cream in their hot cocoa?

No but it sounds like a great idea.