Merry Christmas!

[Scipio]

Also, wife regifted the rifle I bought her to me.  Score!

[Barrister]

I've realized I've become a person with too few hobbies or interests - so that the few I do have were the source of numerous gifts.

In particular, it was a very Winnipeg Jets Christmas.  I got Jets vs Oilers tickets (awesome, except for the game result), a Jets hoody (nice), a Jets fleece blanket (err... well it's very warm around me shoulders right now), down to some Jets boxers ...

[lustindarkness]

I got:
a new "tacticool chair" (camo camping chair with cooler)
a programmable learning thermostat (Nest)
another flashlight (I lost one this year)
$ to spend on airsoft (getting a P90/E90 for CQB)
and best of all, a great day with my kids and family and lots of food, my kids are The Awesome

[derspiess]

I got:
a new "tacticool chair" (camo camping chair with cooler)
a programmable learning thermostat (Nest)
another flashlight (I lost one this year)
$ to spend on airsoft (getting a P90/E90 for CQB)
and best of all, a great day with my kids and family and lots of food, my kids are The Awesome

Let me know how that Nest thing works for you.  I've had my eye on one for a while but keep waiting for the price to drop.

[lustindarkness]

The plan is to install it this weekend, and since it "learns" I guess it will not give you the most savings until a year or more down the road? I have no idea, I have not read up on it yet.

[Admiral Yi]

That thing is going to take over your house and eject you out into space.

[derspiess]

That thing is going to take over your house and eject you out into space.

Tim's team of scientists will help him find a habitable planet.

[Eddie Teach]

and he's floating in a most peculiar way...
the stars look very different today...

[Sheilbh]

Merry Christmas

Got a kindle, a couple of cookbooks, a scarf and socks!

[Darth Wagtaros]

I got a Kindle Fire HDX, a digital camera, XBox controller, 2 bottles of rum, 2 bottles of wine, a few books and some dark chocolate.

TV broke so I had to buy a new TV. 

[Barrister]

I've realized I've become a person with too few hobbies or interests - so that the few I do have were the source of numerous gifts.

In particular, it was a very Winnipeg Jets Christmas.  I got Jets vs Oilers tickets (awesome, except for the game result), a Jets hoody (nice), a Jets fleece blanket (err... well it's very warm around me shoulders right now), down to some Jets boxers ...

I take it back - the Jets boxers are very cozy.   

[Syt]

http://www.der-postillon.com/2013/12/heiden-beklagen-unterwanderung-von.html

My (probably sucky) translation from German:

Pagans lament subversion of Holy Night by Middle Eastern redeemer religion

Is the polytheistic Occident dismantling itself? Pagan priests in Germany lament that the traditional festivities on 25th December in honor of the birth of the Unconquered Sun God are increasingly undermined by a strange religion from the Middle East. Instead of hustling after the newfangled Jesus-fad, people should remember the origins of the Holidays.

In a press release the Roman-Pagan Priesthood reminds that the birthday of the Sun God (Sol Invcitus) is an elementary part of occidental tradition.

Only the foreign infiltration by southern migrants ("Christians") and converts has led to to a slow corrosion of the actual values of the celebrations.

These days there's even chocolate depictions of bearded men from Southern Turkey ("Saint Nicholas") being handed out to children.

"If we don't face this increasing Political Correctness, no one will remember the original meaning behind the facade of the Holy Night in future," the press release says. This is not about consumerism, the family or any births in stables.

The original message of the holidays unites all people: "With the virgin birth of the Unconquered Sun God we mark that the fucking winter is half way over. If that is no Good News, then I don't know."

"Even stole the sun halo from Sol Invictus: Jesus"

[Duque de Bragança]

FAIL! Since they speak of Southern Turkey which did not exist back then.
Besides, the holiday season has as much to do if not more with the Saturnalia, Sol Invictus is another Middle Eastern redeemer religion.

[Syt]

I can't say I particularly care.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yet you cared enough to post it.