Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Everyone
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#232I’ll skip the well-meaning attempt at personal engagement (too old and cranky for that) and just wish everyone Merry Christmas (or whatever religious/winter solstice variants span your spiritual function space at this time of year) and the happiest of New Years.
Happy Solstice! It's all about the axial tilt of this pale blue dot where we all need more peace, kindness, and compassion.
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#2331992 my family just got a VCR but hardly had any tapes. For some reason my sister and brother were obsessed with Home Alone and as the youngest and a toddler, I played along with the excitement. My dad set up "some new movie" to play in our basement but said he couldn't get Home Alone, saying it cost too much, sorry. We eagerly watched the title intro which in retrospect, was obviously Home Alone. Once the oldest sibling finally read "Home Alone" we all completely lost our minds.
We even have this whole thing on video.
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#234Is there going to be a 2024 Donald Knuth Christmas Lecture?
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Sorry about the crappy part, and congrats on the good stuff! If it's any encouragement, I bombed a bunch of interviews during my 14 months of unemployment, but in January I'm returning to a position I loved. Just saying that you shouldn't extrapolate too much from even a string of such things. Hope your new year is awesome.
thank you, and congrats! best of luck in your new job!
Thanks!
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m Jewish too. But I’ve always been around people who celebrate Christmas. I don’t bother lighting the Menorah for Hanukkah this year since I live alone. I got half a mind to go to the local temple and sit with strangers there but I don’t really feel like it. Treating myself to some McDonalds a la uber eats today. I never eat the stuff.
Please don’t poison yourself with that chemical food!
I hope that Christmas finds you in a wealth of joy and whatever you’re looking for that causes such comments. We are all fighting our own battles and this is my sincere hope that you win yours!
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I'm Muslim, so all my Christmas's school and college days were kinda the same, 1980s. I would have a real small tree xmass decorated at home and no one would blink about it, then wander over to my christian friends' neighborhood around noon to see what kind of cherry and wine they were serving. This is that neighborhood now https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1031546789002116&set=pcb...
I'm Muslim too and I always find it interesting to see how various non-Christian theists observe Christmas. Obviously we don't "celebrate" but I personally don't see anything wrong with partaking in the secular parts of Christmas (and let's be real, in the west, it's pretty much all secular). My parents felt otherwise when I was growing up, so my siblings and I weren't allowed to do anything Christmas related, but no…
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Of course it was peak - the Matrix came out
Nobody even knows about Dark City which came out the same year. Because the freaking Matrix came out too. That's just how many good films there were that year. If Dark City came out today it would be lauded as most original thing in a decade.
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I'm Muslim too and I always find it interesting to see how various non-Christian theists observe Christmas. Obviously we don't "celebrate" but I personally don't see anything wrong with partaking in the secular parts of Christmas (and let's be real, in the west, it's pretty much all secular). My parents felt otherwise when I was growing up, so my siblings and I weren't allowed to do anything Christmas related, but no…
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This is a weird and kind of rude thing to say to someone.