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I'm on-target keeping true to my topmost pre-New Year's Resolution to that of achieving the rest of the resolutions "next year".
@Mike-Hankey came up with the word "Procrastinewyear".
Word of the Year!
modified 2-Jan-16 15:53pm.
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I resolved decades ago not to make resolutions. Keeping that resolution has been an absolute doddle!
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Procrastinewyear
A new word, I like it!
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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MacSpudster wrote: I'm on-target
That's awesome man!
Keep up the good work 
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I read that several times as "procrastin-eye-wear"
I guess I need glasses. It would improve my resolution. 
Marc
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Mike deserves the award for new word, but I invented the condition it describes. Along about 1973 I got tired of feeling like a failure for not upholding my excellent New Years Resolutions, so I resolved, for once and for all, to put more things off. I haven't got around to making another resolution since, and I feel GoodTM about that. So there... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm feeling old today, and it's not just knowing that I've done around 939 moons of hard-time on this planet: knowing that my electrons could be older than the universe is makes me think it's them little gizmos put me in a nest of miseries [^]:Quote: But the research team did manage to come up with the most accurate measurement yet of the “lifetime” of electrons. Their calculations suggest that a particle present today will still be around in 66,000 yottayears (6.6 × 1028 years), which, as Physics World puts it, “is about five-quintillion times the current age of the universe.” The details of this work now appears at the science journal Physical Review Letters.
Now you might claim that electrons didn't exist before the universe existed, but, I ask you: how would you, or I, know ? If electrons are meant to outlast whatever this reality is, who's to say they weren't around before this was ?
Who's to say electrons weren't having a tail-gate party after some cosmic-particle super-bowl, gettin' high on neutrinos, charmed by quarks, and the big-bang troubled them no more than an itch on the backside you can't quite scratch troubles you, or me ?
Well, okay, I think I'll try meditation in hand-cuffs, and see if that helps.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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That could explain your disregard for modern music 
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Quote: modern music
"Modern" and "music" are mutually exclusive terms! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: "Modern" and "music" are mutually exclusive terms!
I'm increasingly inclined to agree with you if a certain somebody's 'songs of the week' are anything to go by!
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Member 9082365 wrote: 'songs of the week' are anything to go by
They could indeed be anything!
If I'd done this from the start of 2015 and you followed them all you had heard goth rock, heavy metal, black metal, Disney soundtracks, chill out, dance, trap, rap, hardstyle and 80's...
Predating 2015 I have music from all eras and genres, and all have some song of the week somewhere
So give me your song of the week. Unless, of course, you're one of those non-music-listening-neanderthals
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Sander Rossel wrote: goth rock, heavy metal, black metal, Disney soundtracks, chill out, dance, trap, rap, hardstyle
Q. E. D. !!!!!
Sander Rossel wrote: Unless, of course, you're one of those non-music-listening-neanderthals
First there is no evidence that neanderthals were unaware of tonal pattern! Second I listen to a great deal of music and give at least 20 new album releases a chance not to be consigned to eternal darkness as a result of my weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth every Friday. What I don't do, however, is endlessly churn out the same track over and over to the point of obsession so don't really ever have a song of the week. I can give you a couple of candidates for the song of 2015, however.
Little Big Town "Quit Breaking Up With Me" - YouTube[^]
Sara Bareilles - She Used to Be Mine (Live on Today Show) - YouTube[^]
Sorry, if they're too much like actual songs for you!
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Member 9082365 wrote: First there is no evidence that neanderthals were unaware of tonal pattern!
Although they've never found neanderthal music scores either
Member 9082365 wrote: endlessly churn out the same track over and over to the point of obsession
I sometimes do, but I listen to albums as well (though much less so than I used too).
Member 9082365 wrote: Sorry, if they're too much like actual songs for you!
They are! Just like all those songs I've heard a million times before. I could listen to it (and sometimes do), but I prefer my music a little bit more exciting
One of those songs that sound like many other songs, which I heard first on the radio, but that I still like and that you might like as well (and which didn't make it last year because it's a 2014 song): Lady Antebellum - Need You Now - YouTube[^].
More 'songy' songs I liked in 2015 (but are older than that) are Conjure One - Center Of The Sun (Feat. Poe) - YouTube[^] and London Grammar - Strong (Official Video) - YouTube[^]
Good boring music isn't boring
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That's what people who were your age said when you were born.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I came here to post the same thing! 
And it goes for all ages too 
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Having a long lifespan does not meant you were there before the universe existed.
Less nutmeg, or find some decent plant.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Be sure to take plenty of Protons to keep things in balance.
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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..but on the plus side...
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BillWoodruff wrote: I've done around 939 moons
You are so close to 'Sahasra-chandra-darshana', which means sighting of a 1000 moons (full moons).
Sahasra-chandra-darshana is an occasion to celebrate, and be grateful for all things experienced, enjoyed; there are elaborate rituals and festivities in some communities around where I live (Bengaluru).
Wish you also have a great Sahasra-chandra-darshana celebration, after the next 61 full-moon sightings.
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I recommend scotch, Bill; in large quantities. This existential crap is all good and well, but when it comes to facing reality, it's not actually good for much, is it?
Cogito ergo sum confusus
More importantly, In vino, veritas.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: In vino, veritas
Shouldn't that be i uisce beatha is fírinne?
(in whiskey is Truth)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hello. I've puslished an article in December and I'd like to know what date the article competition starts ?
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