When was your "Annus Mirabilis"?

[AnimalTobacco 34]

I was reading an interesting bio of Isaac Newtown, famous for having his annus mirabilis or "miracle year" in 1666 when he came up with integral calculus and what would become his theory of gravity and just generally laying the foundation for much of what would come by way of natural philosophy, mathematics and science for the next 300+ years, and it got me to thinking-- when was my miracle year? Or have I yet to have one.

It is described he had the wild energy one has when passionately motivated and excited for their ventures-- whether it be striking gold or oil or working on a math problem-- and hardly slept that year with all the activity and work he was doing.

What was your miracle year like that set your life on the upward and positive direction? What did your miracle year look like that you were inspired and motivated and given the energy to accomplish all on your plate (and more!) as if that time was bestowed by God himself to springboard your life?

It maybe a PhD or night law school or even an invention.

It may be that start-up you founded and sold for millions or raised money for and ran.

It may be that year you published your first book or sold your first painting in a gallery.

It may be that year you worked to get partner at the firm or juggling infants and children while trying to grow your career.

Who knows I'm sure it's different for us all, it's just that year you can look back on and say, "Wow, that was a lot of work and effort but boy did it pay off and I don't think I can ever replicate that again, but I can point to my successes having their germ in the work and activity undertook in that year, that annus mirabilis"

[Handcruser 2805]

I had an anal mirabilis. Does that count?

[atomheartbevo 89628]

I'm not going to read all of that, but my "Annus Mirabilis" was about 6 months into my marriage, and then I had to wait another 16 years before I was allowed to do it again.

[atomheartbevo 89628]

So did the OP forget to first post in one of the crypto threads?

[956 Worldwide 34702]

When I saw my high school girlfriend’s boobs in real life it was so much better than I thought it would be and set me on a trajectory to regular boob seeing and touching as a primary Life Goal. And that goal turned into things like looking for a paying job and benefits and all sorts of things. Because I was not going to go back to a tits free life. 

 

So I’d say (year in 1990s when I saw boobs). 

[Homercles 10205]

[AnimalTobacco 34]

5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

So did the OP forget to first post in one of the crypto threads?

I’m not sure what that meant, but thanks for your contribution to this thread at least!

Also didn’t realize this was such a long OP; maybe I should go back and edit it down some for folks who come to message boards to not read but to just repeat, ad nauseam, the same things for months and even years on end.

[AnimalTobacco 34]

3 minutes ago, Homercles said:

The first time I saw that meme was @bad_teammate, so I guess that was my miracle year.

Honestly though, and one of the reasons I posted this in earnest, is because I feel like I haven’t had one and I’m missing out on an amazing, transformative and exponentially valuable year. And wanted to hear about yalls and get some ideas.

[Fudge Nuggets 19189]

Got divorced, inherited all the debt from the marriage (lawyer fucked me).  My miracle year was three years later when I was debt free and have never been in debt since including never having a car payment or mortgage.  That was 2005.

[YGIFS 19449]

9 minutes ago, AnimalTobacco said:

I’m not sure what that meant, but thanks for your contribution to this thread at least!

Also didn’t realize this was such a long OP; maybe I should go back and edit it down some for folks who come to message boards to not read but to just repeat, ad nauseam, the same things for months and even years on end.

Well yeah, that's the whole thing about the Aurora Borealis.  They occur every few months per year on end.  Oh wait, you meant Aurannus Bomirabillis?  Auroranus Bomibillias?  What the hell were we talking about you sickie?  

[956 Worldwide 34702]

11 minutes ago, AnimalTobacco said:

I’m not sure what that meant, but thanks for your contribution to this thread at least!

Also didn’t realize this was such a long OP; maybe I should go back and edit it down some for folks who come to message boards to not read but to just repeat, ad nauseam, the same things for months and even years on end.

You’re not Isaac Newton and the vast majority of humanity, including most of us, just muddle through life trying to do our best. So the first step is to stop thinking you’re special. You’re mostly empty space, the part of you that is matter literally changes over time such that the “stuff” you were made of when you were born is all somewhere else now and has been changed for stuff that was previously in some bugs, some trees, some poop.
 

So maybe you aren’t even you and any sort of miracle year was accomplished by a different set of atoms. 

[Rimbo 25911]

1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

You’re not Isaac Newton and the vast majority of humanity, including most of us, just muddle through life trying to do our best. So the first step is to stop thinking you’re special. You’re mostly empty space, the part of you that is matter literally changes over time such that the “stuff” you were made of when you were born is all somewhere else now and has been changed for stuff that was previously in some bugs, some trees, some poop.
 

So maybe you aren’t even you and any sort of miracle year was accomplished by a different set of atoms. 

Well, shit, I don't know about you, but I'm definitely not me.

[Mantis Toboggan, MD 1501]

You’re not Isaac Newton and the vast majority of humanity, including most of us, just muddle through life trying to do our best. So the first step is to stop thinking you’re special. You’re mostly empty space, the part of you that is matter literally changes over time such that the “stuff” you were made of when you were born is all somewhere else now and has been changed for stuff that was previously in some bugs, some trees, some poop.
 
So maybe you aren’t even you and any sort of miracle year was accomplished by a different set of atoms. 

That motherfucker is NOT real

[TheStoicPaisano 9922]

Fig Newtown?

[Fudge Nuggets 19189]

1 minute ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Fig Newtown?

Pig Newton.

[YGIFS 19449]

2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Pig Newton.

I'm not even using my memory, I'm just reading the fucking box!  /LCK

[WBT 20561]

15 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

You’re not Isaac Newton and the vast majority of humanity, including most of us, just muddle through life trying to do our best. So the first step is to stop thinking you’re special. You’re mostly empty space, the part of you that is matter literally changes over time such that the “stuff” you were made of when you were born is all somewhere else now and has been changed for stuff that was previously in some bugs, some trees, some poop.
 

So maybe you aren’t even you and any sort of miracle year was accomplished by a different set of atoms. 

Very Ship of Theseus

[RDCanecutter 26395]

I had lots of zigs and zags in the road, (apparently some of my friends think having 80+ different jobs is odd,) but the first breakthrough open-brain moment I remember, I was in 4th grade. A day or two before, I eavesdropped on an old feller having one of those consarn-it-kids-today monologues that a child would normally ignore, but one thing leapt out at me, and I paraphrase:

"Kids today stay in school too long. If a kid can read and write, and multiply and divide, turn him loose and let him make a living."

Next day in Minimum Security Juvenile Prison aka Elementary School, where we did things like watch a B&W film about Pablo and his donkey in Ecuador, and did vocabulary quizzes, and math tests, and I was making A's on them... THAT moment, I had a fuzzy telenovela flashback to the Old Man talking "if a kid can read and write, and multiply and divide..." YES! THAT IS ME! Why am I still in school?"

I shoulda walked out. But they built a Star-Trekly modern annex where my 5th grade class was to be located. My revolutionary fervor was bought off with new carpet and the teacher who let me draw all I wanted.

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by RDCanecutter
consarn it.

[Biff Tannen 45665]

52 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Well yeah, that's the whole thing about the Aurora Borealis.  They occur every few months per year on end.  Oh wait, you meant Aurannus Bomirabillis?  Auroranus Bomibillias?  What the hell were we talking about you sickie?  

The Mackinaw Peaches

[F250 28764]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

I'm not going to read all of that, but my "Annus Mirabilis" was about 6 months into my marriage, and then I had to wait another 16 years before I was allowed to do it again.

Always get the annus mirabilis before marriage.

[YGIFS 19449]

To be fair, the 2009 Annus Mirabillis is drinking very nicely right now.  But avoid any vintages between 2010-2015.  And always, and I mean always, use a septic wipe after any tastings even if you spit.  

[UTGrad98 2271]

Mine was when I was 3. I was at a day care and scared to death to play musical chairs. I remember crying before the game started and my teacher aide taking me aside and explaining to me how it was just a game and not to be nervous. I then proceeded to make it to the final 2, me and another 3yo girl with one chair left. When the music stopped she was basically almost sitting in the chair and then I sat down as hard as I could and she flew off. I may have even pushed her. From then on I was the best at everything I did.  I learned what it took to be a winner that day. I still remember looking up at my aide and being so excited that I had played and won. I'll never forget the look on her face. 

[F250 28764]

1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

When I saw my high school girlfriend’s boobs in real life it was so much better than I thought it would be and set me on a trajectory to regular boob seeing and touching as a primary Life Goal. And that goal turned into things like looking for a paying job and benefits and all sorts of things. Because I was not going to go back to a tits free life. 

 

So I’d say (year in 1990s when I saw boobs). 

Late 80's, my 6th grade year I was hanging out with a friend who lived in an apartment complex. We were standing under a tree after throwing a football. When there is banging from an apartment window right in front of where we are standing.

This older teenage girl waved at us and then pulled up her shirt to reveal what I perceived to be ginormous titties. She scooped them up with her hands and then smashed them against the window.

The beginning of the song "White Room" by Cream kicked in and my future flashed before my eyes where I would spend every waking moment trying to touch some titties. It took a little over a year until I met this chick Krisiti that let me play with her's in art class in 7th grade. It was magical.

 

[RDCanecutter 26395]

 

[F250 28764]

1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

 

Yes! The first 20 seconds of the song it's all about the first time you see the titties. Then cut to scenes of doing push-ups, putting on multiple Swatch watches and throwing on a bunch of Polo cologne while debating between the Izod pullover or button up Polo then walking into Middle School pulling down your Ray Bans to make eye contact with 8th grade girls.

Ultimately, most nights you end up fapping to nude scenes from Hot Dog the movie and looking forward to a ski trip for Spring Break where you expect to touch some titties.

 

[Steel Shank 9421]

I first became aware of it, Animal Tobacco, during the physical act of love. Yes, a profound sense of fatigue - a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Animal Tobacco. Women sense my power, and they seek my life essence. I do not avoid women, Animal Tobacco, but I do deny them my essence.

Edited August 12, 2023 by Steel Shank

[atomheartbevo 89628]

10 minutes ago, F250 said:

Ultimately, most nights you end up fapping to nude scenes from Hot Dog the movie and looking forward to a ski trip for Spring Break where you expect to touch some titties.

Meanwhile, us poors had to be content with driving down to Galveston and then driving back home that evening.

[F250 28764]

4 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

I first became aware of it, Animal Tobacco, during the physical act of love. Yes, a profound sense of fatigue - a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Animal Tobacco. Women sense my power, and they seek my life essence. I do not avoid women, Animal Tobacco, but I do deny them my essence.

Post-coital tristesse. I knew a guy that became a Catholic priest after experiencing it one too many times with his girlfriend.

[Steel Shank 9421]

Just now, F250 said:

Post-coital tristesse. I knew a guy that became a Catholic priest after experiencing it one too many times with his girlfriend.

Whoa! Slow your roll, there cowboy.

[Upgrayedd 5810]

Saw them the first time at the Whiskey in Hollywood in 1995.

[Not that Bob 735]

Every day that I wake up not dead is the best day of my life. I guess you can call that an Annus Mirabilius but I'm not sure. I'm probably not going to accomplish much more than that. 

[AnimalTobacco 34]

If nothing else, this has become the most eclectically interesting thread on DT in years.

[Steel Shank 9421]

No, not really.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4975]

For a more serious response, I majored in forestry and wildlife at about the worst time possible. I finished up school in the fall of 2009 when the economy was in the dumpster due to the housing crash. Of course, houses being primarily built out of wood, there was absolutely nothing out there in the field of forestry. Even folks who had made a good living with forestry for years were looking for a way to make ends meet. So there was no way I was going to find a job doing that. And wildlife, well that's one of those majors that lots of people do because it is a pretty cool thing to major in, but the job market doesn't support the number of folks who major in it. Especially when there is a major recession. 

So I worked a few odd jobs here and there and eventually went into operations at a chemical plant (way more money than I would have made with my degree). After a couple of years they decided to bring an R&D unit back up that did reactive extrusion. The original plan was to train an operator on each shift to run it, but it was a pretty complicated machine and you really had to know what you were doing to get it to run right. I was vacation relief at the time and there wasn't much vacation to cover, so I ended up training (which was more figuring out the best way to run it on your own) more than anybody else, and I had a pretty good knack for it. They ended up making me the sole operator on it once they realized that the other operators would have to spend so much time learning to run it while only training on their long weekends which only happens once every four weeks.

When I first went down and started running it, it was in a pretty sorry state. They had rebuilt it all wrong and there was no way it was going to do anything useful because it was incapable of maintaining any sort of steady state conditions. I was able to use my education to demonstrate to management what exactly was going on and figure out exactly what they needed to do to fix it. See, one of the fundamental aspects of both forestry and wildlife is figuring out what you have so that you can then make management decisions about what to do with it. Trees don't grow uniformly, animals don't stay exclusively on whatever property you are looking at. They die, new ones are born. You have to figure out a way to take all of that into account when you survey them before you can make any management decisions. Well it turns out that that kind of thinking is perfectly suited for R&D.

In my first year there, I was basically able to not only make the thing run properly, but also able to design experiments and design new ways of collecting data from those experiments so that what we learned from them would actually be useful. I'm not sure that I learned any more that year than I have any year since doing what I do, but it was by far the most transformative. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21875]

36 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

Every day that I wake up not dead is the best day of my life. I guess you can call that an Annus Mirabilius but I'm not sure. I'm probably not going to accomplish much more than that. 

If you woke up dead, that would be an Annus Mirabilius

[Captainant 27637]

31 minutes ago, AnimalTobacco said:

If nothing else, this has become the most eclectically interesting thread on DT in years.

 

[AnimalTobacco 34]

45 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

For a more serious response, I majored in forestry and wildlife at about the worst time possible. I finished up school in the fall of 2009 when the economy was in the dumpster due to the housing crash. Of course, houses being primarily built out of wood, there was absolutely nothing out there in the field of forestry. Even folks who had made a good living with forestry for years were looking for a way to make ends meet. So there was no way I was going to find a job doing that. And wildlife, well that's one of those majors that lots of people do because it is a pretty cool thing to major in, but the job market doesn't support the number of folks who major in it. Especially when there is a major recession. 

So I worked a few odd jobs here and there and eventually went into operations at a chemical plant (way more money than I would have made with my degree). After a couple of years they decided to bring an R&D unit back up that did reactive extrusion. The original plan was to train an operator on each shift to run it, but it was a pretty complicated machine and you really had to know what you were doing to get it to run right. I was vacation relief at the time and there wasn't much vacation to cover, so I ended up training (which was more figuring out the best way to run it on your own) more than anybody else, and I had a pretty good knack for it. They ended up making me the sole operator on it once they realized that the other operators would have to spend so much time learning to run it while only training on their long weekends which only happens once every four weeks.

When I first went down and started running it, it was in a pretty sorry state. They had rebuilt it all wrong and there was no way it was going to do anything useful because it was incapable of maintaining any sort of steady state conditions. I was able to use my education to demonstrate to management what exactly was going on and figure out exactly what they needed to do to fix it. See, one of the fundamental aspects of both forestry and wildlife is figuring out what you have so that you can then make management decisions about what to do with it. Trees don't grow uniformly, animals don't stay exclusively on whatever property you are looking at. They die, new ones are born. You have to figure out a way to take all of that into account when you survey them before you can make any management decisions. Well it turns out that that kind of thinking is perfectly suited for R&D.

In my first year there, I was basically able to not only make the thing run properly, but also able to design experiments and design new ways of collecting data from those experiments so that what we learned from them would actually be useful. I'm not sure that I learned any more that year than I have any year since doing what I do, but it was by far the most transformative. 

Amen to that, brother!

[Gladeite 375]

My annus miracle started about the time my wife hit menopause.  Both kids were out of the house and we were traveling/having lots of fun.  I had a good run of about 8 years.  Then, like a noannus miracle, it stopped.  

[YGIFS 19449]

Yeah, good call to do it whilst traveling.  Annus Mirabellis is definitely an away game activity.  Preferably one where you know you're never coming back to it or any of its sister properties.

[Born to Run 6569]

My annus mirabilis was one time my ladyfriend and I were engaged in coitus in a hotel room after a few cocktails. Starting eating her out in 69, she came hard for a very long time, and her butthole starting contracting. It must have winked at me for a solid minute.

Stunning sight.

[F250 28764]

8 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

My annus mirabilis was one time my ladyfriend and I were engaged in coitus in a hotel room after a few cocktails. Starting eating her out in 69, she came hard for a very long time, and her butthole starting contracting. It must have winked at me for a solid minute.

Stunning sight.

[RPM 26317]

4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Preferably one where you know you're never coming back to it or any of its sister properties.

Hey, don't disregard the sister properties. They have jealousy issues.

[Rimbo 25911]

i peaked in high school. obviously.

[Brisketexan 105074]

I ain’t had it yet.
Probably never will.
But in retrospect, I’ll probably have to give the title to year I had the most frisky time with the wife.
One should measure success by simple pleasures.

[Steel Shank 9421]

Like laying pipe?

[Hate 20106]

June 13, 1993.  I saw the Grateful Dead live and things have not been the same since.  That was a truly life changing day!

[Brisketexan 105074]

Like laying pipe?

This is why we are hermanos.

[Steel Shank 9421]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This is why we are hermanos.

A beer together. Sometime soon. SCS.

Edited August 14, 2023 by Steel Shank

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

we've got latin, isaac newton, and a prompt to get us to discuss when we thought we were most like one of the most brilliant people in history. 

we all went to a public university @animaltobacco.  

[closetohumping 17435]

Mods!!!   Can’t believe you’d allow this sort of language in a thread title.  My kids read this board!