This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread!

[cannedpeahes]

[quote author=Höböspärtän link=topic=3603.msg261735#msg261735 date=1360470245]
[quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=3603.msg261724#msg261724 date=1360453704]
I am so stoked. The weather today was awesome! Great time to be on the farm and to snow shoe.

Hopefully this is the gallery link...


http://imgur.com/a/UNc5D

Some of those pictures are absolutely stunning.
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Sugar frosted trees
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You think that, but in Canada they're usually full of raccoons.

[Vlambo]

[quote author=Caffeine link=topic=3603.msg261742#msg261742 date=1360510038]
[quote author=Höböspärtän link=topic=3603.msg261735#msg261735 date=1360470245]
[quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=3603.msg261724#msg261724 date=1360453704]
I am so stoked. The weather today was awesome! Great time to be on the farm and to snow shoe.

Hopefully this is the gallery link...


http://imgur.com/a/UNc5D

Some of those pictures are absolutely stunning.
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Sugar frosted trees
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You think that, but in Canada they're usually full of raccoons.
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uggh snow.

[Dtrain323i]

fuck damn it, wrong tax form got filled out and the state rejected it. Gotta file an amended return.

[Gasman]

fuck damn it, wrong tax form got filled out and the state rejected it. Gotta file an amended return.

Is this in the right thread?

[Azure_Angel]

I will have a job like this some day. Mark my word. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2SqA3GGfQM#ws

[zaneyard]

I just found perfection on two wheels.
http://f3my11.mvagusta.it/f3-my11/slideshow
and then I looked at their other bikes.
Holy shit.
The Italians sure do know how to make a gorgeous bike.

[A. Crow]

fuck damn it, wrong tax form got filled out and the state rejected it. Gotta file an amended return.

is this because of your unclaimed income from being a star trek online dilithium farmer? 

[Dtrain323i]

[quote author=Dtrain323i link=topic=3603.msg261774#msg261774 date=1360559307]
fuck damn it, wrong tax form got filled out and the state rejected it. Gotta file an amended return.

is this because of your unclaimed income from being a star trek online dilithium farmer? 
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Contract work for the department of health and human services. I'd get a 1099 but I started last last year and didn't make over $600.

[Neptune]

http://www.plutorocks.com/home

Personally, I went with Cerberus and Persephone.

[Versus]

orpheus/erebus

[rumsfald]

I will have a job like this some day. Mark my word.

the best line in that video comes at 2:55.

[Greatbacon]

Spent all day walking and eating my way around Cambridge and North Boston.  It was super fun.  Also rainy.

[A. Crow]

I pulled ahead by a fender on the 3rd FRS I've encountered around town, then bailed, just before the crest of the hill as he shot onward, right into the cop.

[Didzo]

I was asked by a random person if I wanted to study with them the other day. It's the first time someone new has approached me for anything other than official business or asking for directions (seems to happen at least once a week) in years. Not exaggerating here.

[Versus]

I pulled ahead by a fender on the 3rd FRS I've encountered around town, then bailed, just before the crest of the hill as he shot onward, right into the cop.

lol

[A. Crow]

Maybe it's time to go back to beer

And that stretch of road always has cops, multiple cops 

[CaffeinePowered]

Maybe it's time to go back to beer

Beer can have a lot of calories in it, calories cause weight gain, just stop having so many calories and you wont get a 'beer gut'

[HeK]

[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=3603.msg261882#msg261882 date=1360775694]
Maybe it's time to go back to beer

Beer can have a lot of calories in it, calories cause weight gain, just stop having so many calories and you wont get a 'beer gut'
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Pure alcohol is somewhere around 200 cal per fluid Oz. So....

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Caffeine link=topic=3603.msg261883#msg261883 date=1360776221]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=3603.msg261882#msg261882 date=1360775694]
Maybe it's time to go back to beer

Beer can have a lot of calories in it, calories cause weight gain, just stop having so many calories and you wont get a 'beer gut'
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Pure alcohol is somewhere around 200 cal per fluid Oz. So....
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Curious, what about the net after detox...does the body spend a lot of calories detoxifying alcohol?

[Eightball]

[quote author=HeK link=topic=3603.msg261887#msg261887 date=1360779200]
[quote author=Caffeine link=topic=3603.msg261883#msg261883 date=1360776221]
[quote author=LT Crow link=topic=3603.msg261882#msg261882 date=1360775694]
Maybe it's time to go back to beer

Beer can have a lot of calories in it, calories cause weight gain, just stop having so many calories and you wont get a 'beer gut'
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Pure alcohol is somewhere around 200 cal per fluid Oz. So....
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Curious, what about the net after detox...does the body spend a lot of calories detoxifying alcohol?
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wee woo wee woo nerd alert

The body doesn't directly (at least immediately) expend a lot of energy eliminating alcohol from your system. Some escapes through evaporative processes (breath) but most is processed hepatically as it makes multiple passes through the liver in circulation. There, ethanol is acted upon by a somewhat prolific enzyme (alcohol dehydrogenase) which breaks the alcohol down to, idk, some other metabolite (acetaldehyde?). The process doesn't really expend more calories than normal since there aren't any novel physiological processes to trigger it: your blood is undergoing constant hepatic filtration, and these enzymes are constitutively produced (and broken down, and remade, etcetc). It's conceivable that there's some sort of feedback process to upregulate the enzyme's expression (building tolerance), which might cost some nominal amount of energy, but it's not going to be more significant than digestive enzyme production which I think we count as part of your basal metabolic rate anyways.

But yeah, alcohol is more like fat in terms of caloric density than carbohydrate.

tldr not really