Minor Pleasures (8 Viewers)

[_Katie_]

Didn't much like Brussels. The Grand Place is pretty impressive though. Could you make it to Louven or Bruges or somewhere like that for one of the days?

Looks like there are fairly afforable (for me) day trips to Bruges - I think I'll do that.

Of course I got mixed up between the two spellings of Leuven or Louvain

I'm Leuvin It

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I found a fiver on the way into work.

 

[jonah]

Any new city is fun when you've not been there and are only there for a few days, and Brussels has A+ beer and A+ chips, so you do you. Already said but thr Erotic museum is great, more a winding building owned by a strange woman who you have to buzz to let you in, but she has an incredible collection thats not just old wooden dildos. Do a tasting at the Delerium cafe. Its not the best citty to spend too much time in unless you really love the EU (don't we all), but eating and doing the museums is a one day affair, and after that go to Bruges! Smaller towns in Belgium are gorge and you could do lots of cool outdoorsy things, but from a tourist on foot perspective all they have are (a bizarre amount of) pharmacies.

 

[ann post]

I got a pen there and some prick robbed it from my desk when I was 'out sick' last week.

If you get super bored you could get me a new one?

 

[_Katie_]

Any new city is fun when you've not been there and are only there for a few days, and Brussels has A+ beer and A+ chips, so you do you. Already said but thr Erotic museum is great, more a winding building owned by a strange woman who you have to buzz to let you in, but she has an incredible collection thats not just old wooden dildos. Do a tasting at the Delerium cafe. Its not the best citty to spend too much time in unless you really love the EU (don't we all), but eating and doing the museums is a one day affair, and after that go to Bruges! Smaller towns in Belgium are gorge and you could do lots of cool outdoorsy things, but from a tourist on foot perspective all they have are (a bizarre amount of) pharmacies.

All sounds good! Definitely planning on going to Bruge. Any other small towns in reach you would recommend? Might pop over to Ghent?

 

[ernesto]

All sounds good! Definitely planning on going to Bruge. Any other small towns in reach you would recommend? Might pop over to Ghent?

Leuven is only gorge

 

[Unicron]

Anyone have recommendations for Budapest? We're off there in a couple of weeks

 

[Cormcolash]

Anyone have recommendations for Budapest? We're off there in a couple of weeks

Have a bath stinker

 

[ann post]

Finished shelf number 4 (back at work now so only a few hours a week for this). Pedalboard build is ongoing and there was a few tweaks on the workshop side during the week.

Found an amazing lamp in the charity store for 5 euro. Sturdy, dimmable and adjustable.


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Finished #5 and #6 this weekend. KInda at a crossroads in the chess game of freeing up more space where the next few builds temporarily detract from floor space. HOWEVER. I have this very cool recording setup now. or can effectively build 2-3 enclosures.



Note to thumped, the build i'm doing two builds from now I'll be doing a youtube thing on, and if I can get over the golden 300 shares it might bring in a little revenue for the rest of the build.Sharing will most certainly be caring.

 

[therealjohnny]

A condolence card from the vet on the deaths of our cats

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

A very pleasant phone call from Blixa Bargeld.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

What did he want?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

What did he want?

Lyrics for a new song (not joking).

 

[therealjohnny]

Elaborate please. How dis this come about?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Elaborate please. How dis this come about?

I’m a subscriber to their supporters project (crowdfunding thing) and they use a card system like Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies to come up with ways of producing new songs. Blixa drew the card “Anrufe” (calls) and interpreted that as calling a bunch of supporters for words and phrases. We also had a nice discussion about the Bertolt Brecht thing he did here in Dublin last month.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Is anyone else part of any supremely odd facebook groups just out of fascination? I'm in one called "Big Box PC Game Collectors" where guys (and Brenda Romero) post their collection of, well, old PC games. I get an odd satisfaction watching them get excited about getting Titus the Fox in mint condition at a bargain price or coming across a rare version of Doom. I'm not even laughing at them, I really find it engrossing!

 

[Unicron]

Is anyone else part of any supremely odd facebook groups just out of fascination? I'm in one called "Big Box PC Game Collectors" where guys (and Brenda Romero) post their collection of, well, old PC games. I get an odd satisfaction watching them get excited about getting Titus the Fox in mint condition at a bargain price or coming across a rare version of Doom. I'm not even laughing at them, I really find it engrossing!

One of my favourite things is watching someone light up and lose themselves when they talk about something they're really into, even if I've no interest in the subject, I like seeing the change it makes in them. I'm not sure it'd work so well on a FB group

 

[Lili Marlene]

I refuse to be that wholesome.

 

[pete]

Is anyone else part of any supremely odd facebook groups just out of fascination? I'm in one called "Big Box PC Game Collectors" where guys (and Brenda Romero) post their collection of, well, old PC games. I get an odd satisfaction watching them get excited about getting Titus the Fox in mint condition at a bargain price or coming across a rare version of Doom. I'm not even laughing at them, I really find it engrossing!

I’ve a small box of big box pc games in the attic. People buy them?

 

[Lili Marlene]

I’ve a small box of big box pc games in the attic. People buy them?

people collect them.