The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

Feet are ok?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I don't think I want to shop at whatever deli Raz is working at if there's a danger of feet being sliced off. 

[Savonarola]

I completed a 1500 day streak on Duolingo today. 

Congratulations, what language(s) do you do?

[Jacob]

I almost certainly haven't had the real stuff - I've had it in very popular hotpot restaurants here.

But I didn't have it in, for example, Taiwan because I think "hotpot for one" is maybe the saddest short story ever told - and in fewer than six words.

Totally fine if you don't like Taiwanese hotpot or Beijing hotpot or whatever; mainly I care about your opinion of Sichuan hotpot. Primarily to determine whether I'll invite you over for hotpot (or maybe take you out) next time you're in Vancouver.

Chengdu (and I assume other places) has solved the "hotpot for one feels sad" problem:



Basically in some restaurants serve individually chosen skewers cooked in a central hotpot. Technically it may not be hotpot, but culinarily it's pretty similar.

[Sheilbh]

Oh well in that case I have no opinion and am very open for conversion.

That does look tasty too - maybe I need to give it a go again and do the research this time.

[Zanza]

I completed a 1500 day streak on Duolingo today. 

Congratulations, what language(s) do you do?

French 

[Norgy]

I start work tommorow!

I am so happy for you!   

[crazy canuck]

Let's all take a moment to think about PLJ and the loss of his good friend on this day.

I think we lost PLJ's eulogy but we can still remember.

[Valmy]

I start work tommorow!

I hope your day at work is going well Raz!

[grumbler]

Let's all take a moment to think about PLJ and the loss of his good friend on this day.

I think we lost PLJ's eulogy but we can still remember.

Yes.  It is quite bizarre to me that this anniversary is so far from modern public consciousness, given the event's devastating impact at the time. It shouldn't surprise me, given the way almost every other notable anniversary fades as those who never experienced it (or were old enough to appreciate it) become the norm. But it does.

[Valmy]

Yeah. It doesn't seem that long ago as I was an adult, sort of, at the time. It seems weird now it is such a distant time that people hardly seem interested in talking about it anymore.

[garbon]

Let's all take a moment to think about PLJ and the loss of his good friend on this day.

I think we lost PLJ's eulogy but we can still remember.

Yes.  It is quite bizarre to me that this anniversary is so far from modern public consciousness, given the event's devastating impact at the time. It shouldn't surprise me, given the way almost every other notable anniversary fades as those who never experienced it (or were old enough to appreciate it) become the norm. But it does.

I also think the monumentality of COVID plays somehwat of a role as it has become a new...watershed moment?

[Valmy]

Let's all take a moment to think about PLJ and the loss of his good friend on this day.

I think we lost PLJ's eulogy but we can still remember.

Yes.  It is quite bizarre to me that this anniversary is so far from modern public consciousness, given the event's devastating impact at the time. It shouldn't surprise me, given the way almost every other notable anniversary fades as those who never experienced it (or were old enough to appreciate it) become the norm. But it does.

I also think the monumentality of COVID plays somehwat of a role as it has become a new...watershed moment?

And the financial crisis.

But all three are still impacting our lives in a very negative way.

[garbon]

Let's all take a moment to think about PLJ and the loss of his good friend on this day.

I think we lost PLJ's eulogy but we can still remember.

Yes.  It is quite bizarre to me that this anniversary is so far from modern public consciousness, given the event's devastating impact at the time. It shouldn't surprise me, given the way almost every other notable anniversary fades as those who never experienced it (or were old enough to appreciate it) become the norm. But it does.

I also think the monumentality of COVID plays somehwat of a role as it has become a new...watershed moment?

And the financial crisis.

But all three are still impacting our lives in a very negative way.

Ain't that the truth.

[Caliga]

Yeah. It doesn't seem that long ago as I was an adult, sort of, at the time. It seems weird now it is such a distant time that people hardly seem interested in talking about it anymore.

I mean, I have an employee who wasn't born until after 9/11.