just wanted to stop by and say hi and I couldn’t miss an opportunity for firties.. its been so long since I’ve had one of those š
Forgot Monday night is the new Wednesday night in Deadpan land.
Condolences to Jack and New Jersey. I was rooting for them. Much to the chagrin of my Los Angeles buddies.
Just somewhere between 4-7 bball games and then I am getting my sports vacation for 2012! So excited.
True Blood started up last night and i am looking forward to the next few months of control of the TV remote! Until they start talking football nonstop on ESPN.
sigh
Too much sports for my female brain to comprehend. I just keep thinking.. at least he doesn’t like baseball. If Hugh was also a baseball fan I am not sure I could stand it.
Back to True Blood: it was freaking awesome. If anyone else here watches. Having Eric back to himself is the best thing to happen to TV in a long time. This season is looking up to being much better then last.
That is all
goodnight pan
goodnight vampires
Was a good start to the season, although Eric and his sister was a bit icky.
wait.. do I have the pan all to myself right now?
looks around
strips naked
prances about making vampire faces
/faints
blushes!
Hi Van š
Yeah the “sister” thing was quite icky.. they are not related, couldn’t they come up with a different name for their relations?
What do they call packs of vampires? Hives? His hive sister or something. ewww.
ok
goodnight for reals
its a clan
packs of vampires that are blood related are a clan according to the top hit on my google search
further down the list was brood
vampire brood is my new goth band name
ok really really this time
goodnight
computer off
Wow, an Andrea sighting to start off the morning. Things are definitely looking up!
Cough.
Morning Pan
Looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day out today.
ooooo, an ITunes update. I’m all a quiver.
My update went smoothly.
Van, I spell with a u as well. I guess it comes from being one of the colonies. :cheerful:
I always follow the sage advice if the Gnu.
Today’s Show Notes:
Desert Unshow ā78
Special Guest – Desert Pixie
Los Angeles Kings won the NHL Play offs. Have you paid your debt yet?
Greasy Comments
Cj
Desert Pixie
Lost Ralph
Lo Pan
Vanamonde
EssBee
Rhettro
ditto
The Energizer Bunny
JR Murdock – First of the week
Next Palooza will either be Blade Runner or Buckaroo Bonzai
Send in content: 480-788-JMDP(5637) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
There’s this giant sunbeam across our bed. The cat keeps dragging me into the bedroom trying to convince me I should be laying in the sunbeam with her. I must admit, I’m tempted – damn work.
It’s 18C right now. Perfect weather of a walk. :happy:
The temperature below which early colour instant film (peel apart type) would need to be warmed under an armpit to develop properply.
Not only useless information but obsolete as well.
I might be slow, but I’ll get my earbuddies done sooner or later. š
I will work on that tonight now that I’ve had enough time to think about it.
*click*
Retweet āMay 29, 2012 at 3:29 pm Ā·
My prediction, Kings in 6, ā
Did the Knights foil the strategy?
The Devil’s in the details.
Paul Maki, you have been called out. Jack needs more content, Broseph.
Then tell him to stay the hell away from a certain trivia podcast…
I that I shall never see
content as lovely as Paul Maki.
Content whose hungry mouth is prest
Against Andrea’s sweet flowing breast;
Content that looks at Jack all day,
And lifts his hairy arms to say;
Content Motherfuckers – Send it!
Really Big Trees – a serial by Paul Maki Kilmer.
I think, in about an hour or so, I’m going to do a play by play. (assuming Deadpan doesn’t go down like it did last week when I wanted to to a pbp).
Just so you know, I only have one B horror on my DVR. There hasn’t been that many showing lately. Your only choice is Wrong Turn 4. Which will be interesting because I don’t think I’ve seen the first three. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865567/ I’m really hoping it doesn’t fall into my “no watch” category. While I do enjoy the B horrors, believe it or not, there is a fine line between what I will watch and what I won’t.
Also, I’m feeling ambitious. Prepare yourself for a different kind of PBP.
…if I can pull it off. Sometimes my ambition doesn’t match my abilities.
We’re you planning to watch the movie upside down?
Some people just can’t take a woman talking about games:
I wonder how many of those trolls have/will have daughters. Repulsive.
This, right here, is why I’m a feminist.
*sigh* Whether you agree with her viewpoints or not, there is no call to act like some of these people do.
Someone needs to rescue that poor woman.
What?
I don’t consider myself a feminist. True I believe in equal pay for equal work. And I don’t really expect someone to sweep me off my feet and “rescue” me (not that I need rescuing but you get the idea) but, damn it, I like having doors held open for me. I like getting flowers or candy for no reason. I guess I want my “femininity” both ways. Is that wrong?
…I like baking cookies for my hubby. I supported us when he was getting his master’s degree. I like the fact he does the vacuuming and dusting in the house. I like planning our meals for the week and cooking up something new.
I could go on but you get the idea.
I dont think its the idea of having to “bake cookies” that drives feminism – more the fact of the threat of rape and death for speaking up on issues.
I guess I can’t argue with that. I don’t like the fact that I, as a girl, can’t walk downtown alone once the sun goes down but hubby could (if he wanted to, which he doesn’t)
I don’t think so, because I feel exactly the same way on all those points. š
…except that I haven’t gotten the hang of planning meals yet. I would love to have that skill, though.
Hubby and I grocery shop together once a week. It’s easier to know what to buy if you know what you’re making.
Christ on a crutch…. I’d love to know how many of these cockjokers truly believe this stuff theyre saying, or are just doing it to get their rox off. Fucking pathetic either way
Ugh, now that I’ve actually read the article, I’m truly disgusted. I had no idea how low her trolls had actually stooped.
So, we’ve been seeing this kind of unchecked vitriol for years. Is it getting worse? Is it bleeding over into the real world (Rep. Giffords?)?
Went to check the mail and a damn moth flew out of the mailbox, startling me. Stupid nice weather
I sometimes wonder if maybe hubby and I are too stereotypical geeky.
We’ve had a lot of work done in and around the house over the last five years including, redoing the front yard, redoing the back yard and, next week, the main bathroom will be torn out and built back up from scratch. Also, if I ever manage to save enough money (doubtful), I want the kitchen redone. In all of this, we didn’t actually do any of it, we always hired contractors. We’ve been getting the evil eye (and a few comments) by some of our more… hands on friends. We have friends who are redoing their kitchen themselves. It will probably cost half of what ours has been quoted at in using a contractor. Yet, I just don’t see myself picking up a hammer and tearing out walls. We have friends who bought sod and did their own yard. I sometimes feel… guilty?…bad?… *shrug* not sure the right word, just off, because hubby and I are the least handy people of everybody we know. *sigh*
My cunning plan was to be useless at DIY, useless enough that nobody asks me to even hang wall paper…
This summer, we are getting ambitious and tearing down the garden shed. The one going in its place will be prefab so I don’t know if it counts as being handy
Just sitting here twiddling my thumbs… or typing on the Deadpan. *shrug* Whatever works. I’m waiting for approval on a report. Hopefully it’ll come in soon. Otherwise the pbp will have to wait until tomorrow.
Where is my approval!?! I’m suppose to have it by 1pm my time. It’s now 1:02!
*sigh* I hate waiting for other people.
/exit stage left
But just try to imagine how neglected the right side of the stage feels
Well, it looks like all is good in work land. Moving to the living room to start a movie I’m really unsure as to whether I’ll like or not. I guess we’ll see.
Hey look, I’m a new person :happy:
Today’s movie is Wrong Turn 4
Which means, at some point, there were three more
I’d read the description from the DVR
But I don’t thing that will get you very far
Rated 18a makes tis movie up to snuff
With nudity, and violence and all that stuff
West Virginia sanitarium 1974
The movie starts with a dramatic score
Orientation to the new girl
She decided to give psychology a whirl
lucky psychology
The evil hillier brothers are introduced
Cannibals, we must deduced
These kids cannot feel pain
They’ve eaten their own hands, just the same
He has a pin to use on a lock
Grunts and groans, don’t get caught
The three boys escape, oh my
Do they help the others? No they just walk by
The guard is the first to be beaten
Then his eye is whT gets eaten
All cells are opened and chaos ensues,
To the strains of the Blue Danube (seriously)
People at beat, women are raped
Some of them even get video taped
The patients are happy, the staff is not
Especially the ones getting electrically shot
The new girl is dead
With electric shock to her head
The doctor is strung up by barbed wire
Pulling him up, higher and higher
I hear the ghost of Shakespeare rattling milk bottles.
Ok, as fun as this was, I was right about this movie not fitting into my style. For the second time in Deadpan history, I’m stopping the movie and deleting it from my DVR
all the other movies I have on the DVR are more mainstream, so not sure what will be next. Will have to rhyme another day.
Maybe, if I have time, I’ll do a play by play of it tomorrow. I just don’t guarantee it’ll be in rhyme. We’ll see how ambitious I’m feeling then
Instead, I think I’ll make brownie cookies for my hubby!
Loved the rhyming, Miss DJ!
I’m sorry the movie sucked. I hate those torture movies. Blech
I don’t like torture movies either. That’s usually where I draw the line with my silly B movies.
Yes Bunny, the rhyming was brilliant,
A pity the movie was excrement.
there, my cookies are in the oven doing what cookies do.
Now I must clean up my mess
Are they gingerbread men and women?
Nope. Chocolate brownie cookies
I just got Krater on Steam. It’s currently downloading. Have no idea if it’s any good but it looks interesting and wasn’t that expensive so…
Tonight will tell.
I cannot get past the third level of Super Meat Boy, my gaming skills are fading fast.
I find, as I’m getting older, I’m becoming more and more a game tourist. Now, about half the time, I tend to set the level on a game to easy and cruise my way through. A lot of the time it does depend upon the game, though.
I would really like to recover some old precious, very important photo memories of mine on my stupid PC…. I restored an old backup and in my photo folder, I have jpegs (yay) but I also seem to have other folders that require Picasa?….
Can you please guide me as to what to do. I do not have Pocasa installed on the Windows side of my Mac.
Is that all I need to do to get these images back?
I understood the direction Scott was taking, but I think he needed to give us more and not make us work-so-damn-hard to decipher the story. Even though this is intellectual horror movie, the horror should be emotionally charged. It lacked that. I also did NOT appreciatetheShaun of the Dead scene.
“Blueman Group” is actually sponsering the opening weekend. The seem to be quite the philanthropic bunch.
I sure am excited. The show aim goin to is small but features Phantom Regiment, SC Vanguard, Blue Knights and the Academy and it’s only one week away.
š should be fun
Drum corpse?
Yeah, he’s a real deadbeat.
*drumrolls eyes*
Hey Jack,
Have you ever been to the Martini Ranch in Scottsdale? Second chance to see the Loom on July 26th. That’s a Thursday BTW.
I’ve been there! It’s a pretty small place. He’s a supporting act again, but that might be more doable for me.
Let’s circle back and take it offline to brainstorm ways to leverage this opportunity. /bizdeuche
Drag or upload an image of yourself into the search box.
Ponder just what it is Google think you look like. I am an Asian man and a couple of tall pine trees.
The 3 of us are apparently a teenage girl.
I gave the google image search a bit of a test run. I can understand what it is doing with pictures of people. It doesn’t claim that it will find more pictures of you provided with a picture of you. Nor does it claim to find pictures of white males sitting on a picnic table (the first picture I provided it) provided with a similar picture. However, it does claim to do locations very well. I tried it with a picture of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Quite an iconic image and a hard one to screw up (not a whole lot of cathedrals still being built any more). It did alright with about half the returned images also being La Sagrada Familia. Then I tried it with a picture of the Puerta de Toledo in Madrid. It did a good job of finding another image that matched it exactly. But, in the “Visually Similar Images” category it failed miserably. It should have shown other arches (not exactly a difficult thing to identify or find pictures of). Instead it simply provided pictures of seemingly random structures with the same foreground and background color such as a hotel, a restaurant, a house, and a government type building looking like the Capital building in Washington DC.
My computer has been acting very strange for the last week or so. I find when I first start it up, after a couple of minutes, the thing locks up. Usually to the point I have to do a hard reboot by holding down the power button (as opposed to ctr-alt-del). Once it has rebooted, it seems to work fine for the rest of the day. I’ve done virus checks every day this week out of paranoia.
Why is my computer doing this?
The only thing I can suggest is to pull the power lead out and then hit the on switch.
Plug the lead back in and switch on properply this time.
There’s a technical reason why my Dell desktop does this from time to time but I’ve forgotten the details of the tip that solved it.
This computer is a desktop Van, if I pull the power lead it will shut off on its own without me hitting any switch.
That being said, it is an Alienwear computer which is now owned by Dell.
It sounds like some sort of controller problem. You might want to talk to customer support and see what diagnostics they want you to run.
I mean shut the PC down, plug the plug then hit the on switch.
On mine I hear an audible click as the residual
Power is discharged, then I can boot normally.
My Dell is a desktop PC.
Ok, I’ll give it a try… later today. Stupid work gave me another 650 contracts to review.
Until I can get a recording device up, here are the list of words my Ipod came up with using the iOvulus app while doing the historic/ghost tour at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park:
fifteen
fog
noise
thousand
error
ashes
dark
mission
push
children
hey
direct
east
cheat
doesn’t
food
nintey
dig
erase
Lisa
cent
5
drone
travel
hidden
car
present
Don
bones
why
provide
spin
Anyone want to write a story?
Other than the woman cursed by a Lexicon demon to to tap tap in vain on her iPod?
Yeah, well. It’s a curiosity really.
And I don’t have to tap it… it just runs on its own once you turn it on š
Of all that you just said, the naughtiest-sounding thing is still “iOvulous”.
I didn’t know you wanted me to get naughty Jack…. naughty I can do
It looks like shes getting the shocker from one of the War of the Worlds aliens
Alright, I’m a bit bummed for no good reason – TIL that Lena Headey – aka Cersei Lannister, aka Sarah Conner, aka the Queen from 300….is a year younger than I am.
I was certain she was older than me. And yes, I’m sure that gets me some very small violin playing from the Deadpan Senior Citizen Brigade š
*sigh* airline fail and I’m stickler in the Vegas airport till after midnight.
That sicklers, Ralph. Good lickler getting the fickler out of there. I hope you don’t have to rent a trickler.
Of all the airports to be stuck in… That is easily Top 3– unless you’re broke.
Stay safe and be vigilant and safe travels!
I’m so sorry. š
I would have stayed there with you, but my plane would not wait.
It’s raining and pouring and this old man has stopped snoring.
Morning Pan, off to Scotland for the weekend, fingers crossed the rain hasn’t brought the rail network to a grinding halt.
I read that wondering about the Oort Cloud and how it fell into the limits of the solar system. Apparently, the Oort cloud itself isn’t a given, but a hypothesis.
Interesting place, our little corner of the universe.
Something has to be supplying the comets we actually see in the inner solar system.
I’m betting it’s not a sentient gas cloud chucking snowballs at us to relieve the boredom.
George Hrab rips Prometheus apart in the latest Geologic Podcast, worth checking out to hear the rant.
Yes, and it took up most of his show. I had to keep skipping and skipping because I haven’t seen the movie yet. Made for a very short podcast this week.
Neil DeGrass Tyson had some problems with Prometheus. I guess, at one point they talk about being half a billion miles from earth. That wouldn’t even get you out of the solar system.
see, no real spoilers š
Morning Pan
Went downtown again this morning.
I have a gaming dilemma. I really want to play the game Dragon’s Dogma but it’s XBox only game. Why is this not on PC? I do have an XBox, I just prefer to play on PC. hmmmmm.
Resistance is futile.
It’s wet outside. June is normally our rainy month. I’m already tired of it.
On a work related note. I managed to review 225 of my 1,000 contracts yesterday. I may be working this weekend again.
CP: Yesterday’s Democracy Now!
Holy crap, the JP Morgan guy is scary. He truly believes he/his company did nothing wrong.
“This is also a government that’s slashing the national archives dramatically and killing the national library by cuts. On the one hand they’re good for history and on the other hand they’re bad for history ā you sometimes wonder if they really know what they’re doing,” he said.
I see youve been watching a BIT too closely on how we do things here, Canada.
Yeah. I’m not too happy about some of the shenanigans.
Has anyone here tried VUDU yet? I’m curious what others think about it.
I have. I had a couple free trials. I mean its easy enough to use and they have a good selection.. but I’m not paying $6 for a rental, nor will I pay 15.99 to “own” a film over the intertubes.
I haven’t . . . I’m bad at even watching Netflix, though we are now finally watching Breaking Bad!
Totally worth it!
Breaking Bad that is, especially S4.
“John Flansburgh: I heard about Jonathan Coulton through John Hodgman.”
Heh. So many Johns in that statement. So much talent.
Why is there a pop/dance remix countdown on the radio at 7am on a Saturday morning?
Well, I suppose it’s appropriate that the Desert Unshow be a tumbelweed week. Happy Weekend to all the Dads (and the awesome people who make them Dads). I’ll be around, just sayin’ it.
:drevil:
I tried to increase the comments. It’s not my fault the movie sucked.
I now have on my DVR the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Maybe I’ll do that on Monday. *shrug* Maybe. I never did see the original so I will have nothing to compare it to.
Not a good time to have one of these bad boys fly right at you
I feel like my finger just got stuck in the rotary while dialing.
Another way to feel old. Hubby said he was talking to his class about technology helping the visually impaired. Healso played a video regarding this and the iPad. Stevie Wonder was on this video. None of the kids (grade 8) knew who Stevie Wonder was
On a unrelated note, my hands are covered in model paint. I’m not usually that messy
On an unrelated note again, I was complaining earlier about the game Dragon’s Dogma. Hubby said he will solve the problem for me and get it for me for my birthday next month. Hmmm
Although, there is the possibility I might need a new computer instead. Which would really tick me off as it’s only 2 1/2 years old. Long enough to be off warranty. It’s running at the moment but we were both worried it wouldn’t this morning when it started and gave a “unrecoverable error”. *sigh*
Carcassonne purchased for too much at B&N! (Can you tell I’m trying to expose the kids to smart boardgames?) I don’t actually know this game, I bought it based on reviews. Fingers crossed.
We quite enjoy playing Carcassone. It requires a bit of strategy, but not too much
Of those games on Van”s list we have, Ticket to ride is good. Small world might be a little much for your youngest. We have Cleopatra but we don’t play it that often. Of the three it’s probably the weakest. Although, young minds might enjoy it as you’re literally building Cleopatra’s thumb throughThe the game
Also, while I would probably say not the biggie, Settlers of Catan, I would definitely recommend Space Farers of Catan, especially for youngsters. Your movement. Everybody gets their own space ship to build on to and use as dice sor movement and battle. For that reason alone, most of the people we play with prefer Space Farers over Settlershttp://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1897/starfarers-of-catan
RE: Long dead computer sounds – recognized them all. Used to keep a 5 1/4″ floppy drive in my computer cases, even though I couldn’t even hook it up anymore. Think I finally pitched it along with a couple of 3.5″ drives as part of the pre-move purge.
Thanks for the game recommendations, guys. I’ve only played the basic Settlers, which is fun, but I think we’ll wait another year or so. I probably would have bought Ticket to Ride, but it’s $15 cheaper online. Carcassonne was definitely a fun choice, and a good introduction to the world of “Eurogames”. http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Eurogame
825 State Street Stout (release #10) by Epic Brewing Co is a fantasticlly smooth stout. Chocolate, toffee and even toasted marsallow on the lips.
This has skyrocked to Top 2 stouts for me.
Happy Fathers Day to all you hot pappas out in DPLand!
Heading back home today, but first Apple store hell.
Morning Pan
Once again, I will be hubbyless tonight. I wonder if I’ll see more of him when he moves to the high school.
Relay was a great success on Saturday. I’m still tired, but it is back to work I go.
Damn work. Always interfering with our fun :happy:
Doesn’t it? Sigh.
Now I have a whole bunch of writing to get to.
Anyone know how to get a Raspberry Pi to run off of batteries? The software team at my work place recently got a Raspberry Pi to play with and we are trying to figure out how to run it off of batteries. The Raspberry Pi FAQ page says you should be able to run it off 4 AA batteries, but don’t give an indication of how this could be done. There are a lot of really smart computer science guys here, but they don’t have a lot of background in hardware engineering.
What strange weather we’re having. It’s raining in my back yard but not in my front. It was raining on the way to the mall but not at the mall itself. :alien:
My inner cynic thinks that the methods relative cheapness will mean it will never go widespread.
Catch pancreatic cancer really early and it’s easy to ‘cure’ and drug companies won’t be able to make a lot of money from drugs.
Sadly, I would tend to agree. However, Quest Diagnostics was mentioned and they are the company that specializes in this sort of revolutionary break through. Their Flu Test changed the waiting time for results from “over night”, to about 10 minutes.
So if they get hold of this technology I suspect it would make it to market. If the big cancer drug companies buy the patient rights … it could get buried.
firsties?
really?
wowza
that was weird
just wanted to stop by and say hi and I couldn’t miss an opportunity for firties.. its been so long since I’ve had one of those š
Forgot Monday night is the new Wednesday night in Deadpan land.
Condolences to Jack and New Jersey. I was rooting for them. Much to the chagrin of my Los Angeles buddies.
Just somewhere between 4-7 bball games and then I am getting my sports vacation for 2012! So excited.
True Blood started up last night and i am looking forward to the next few months of control of the TV remote! Until they start talking football nonstop on ESPN.
sigh
Too much sports for my female brain to comprehend. I just keep thinking.. at least he doesn’t like baseball. If Hugh was also a baseball fan I am not sure I could stand it.
Back to True Blood: it was freaking awesome. If anyone else here watches. Having Eric back to himself is the best thing to happen to TV in a long time. This season is looking up to being much better then last.
That is all
goodnight pan
goodnight vampires
Was a good start to the season, although Eric and his sister was a bit icky.
wait.. do I have the pan all to myself right now?
looks around
strips naked
prances about making vampire faces
/faints
blushes!
Hi Van š
Yeah the “sister” thing was quite icky.. they are not related, couldn’t they come up with a different name for their relations?
What do they call packs of vampires? Hives? His hive sister or something. ewww.
ok
goodnight for reals
its a clan
packs of vampires that are blood related are a clan according to the top hit on my google search
further down the list was brood
vampire brood is my new goth band name
ok really really this time
goodnight
computer off
Wow, an Andrea sighting to start off the morning. Things are definitely looking up!
Cough.
Morning Pan
Looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day out today.
ooooo, an ITunes update. I’m all a quiver.
My update went smoothly.
Van, I spell with a u as well. I guess it comes from being one of the colonies. :cheerful:
I always follow the sage advice if the Gnu.
Today’s Show Notes:
Desert Unshow ā78
Special Guest – Desert Pixie
Los Angeles Kings won the NHL Play offs. Have you paid your debt yet?
Greasy Comments
Cj
Desert Pixie
Lost Ralph
Lo Pan
Vanamonde
EssBee
Rhettro
ditto
The Energizer Bunny
JR Murdock – First of the week
Next Palooza will either be Blade Runner or Buckaroo Bonzai
Send in content: 480-788-JMDP(5637) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
There’s this giant sunbeam across our bed. The cat keeps dragging me into the bedroom trying to convince me I should be laying in the sunbeam with her. I must admit, I’m tempted – damn work.
It’s 18C right now. Perfect weather of a walk. :happy:
The temperature below which early colour instant film (peel apart type) would need to be warmed under an armpit to develop properply.
Not only useless information but obsolete as well.
I might be slow, but I’ll get my earbuddies done sooner or later. š
I will work on that tonight now that I’ve had enough time to think about it.
*click*
Retweet āMay 29, 2012 at 3:29 pm Ā·
My prediction, Kings in 6, ā
Did the Knights foil the strategy?
The Devil’s in the details.
Paul Maki, you have been called out. Jack needs more content, Broseph.
Then tell him to stay the hell away from a certain trivia podcast…
I that I shall never see
content as lovely as Paul Maki.
Content whose hungry mouth is prest
Against Andrea’s sweet flowing breast;
Content that looks at Jack all day,
And lifts his hairy arms to say;
Content Motherfuckers – Send it!
Really Big Trees – a serial by Paul Maki Kilmer.
I think, in about an hour or so, I’m going to do a play by play. (assuming Deadpan doesn’t go down like it did last week when I wanted to to a pbp).
Just so you know, I only have one B horror on my DVR. There hasn’t been that many showing lately. Your only choice is Wrong Turn 4. Which will be interesting because I don’t think I’ve seen the first three. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865567/ I’m really hoping it doesn’t fall into my “no watch” category. While I do enjoy the B horrors, believe it or not, there is a fine line between what I will watch and what I won’t.
Also, I’m feeling ambitious. Prepare yourself for a different kind of PBP.
…if I can pull it off. Sometimes my ambition doesn’t match my abilities.
We’re you planning to watch the movie upside down?
Some people just can’t take a woman talking about games:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/06/dear-internet-why-you-cant-have-anything-nice
Good god.
I wonder how many of those trolls have/will have daughters. Repulsive.
This, right here, is why I’m a feminist.
*sigh* Whether you agree with her viewpoints or not, there is no call to act like some of these people do.
Someone needs to rescue that poor woman.
What?
I don’t consider myself a feminist. True I believe in equal pay for equal work. And I don’t really expect someone to sweep me off my feet and “rescue” me (not that I need rescuing but you get the idea) but, damn it, I like having doors held open for me. I like getting flowers or candy for no reason. I guess I want my “femininity” both ways. Is that wrong?
…I like baking cookies for my hubby. I supported us when he was getting his master’s degree. I like the fact he does the vacuuming and dusting in the house. I like planning our meals for the week and cooking up something new.
I could go on but you get the idea.
I dont think its the idea of having to “bake cookies” that drives feminism – more the fact of the threat of rape and death for speaking up on issues.
I guess I can’t argue with that. I don’t like the fact that I, as a girl, can’t walk downtown alone once the sun goes down but hubby could (if he wanted to, which he doesn’t)
I don’t think so, because I feel exactly the same way on all those points. š
…except that I haven’t gotten the hang of planning meals yet. I would love to have that skill, though.
Hubby and I grocery shop together once a week. It’s easier to know what to buy if you know what you’re making.
Christ on a crutch…. I’d love to know how many of these cockjokers truly believe this stuff theyre saying, or are just doing it to get their rox off. Fucking pathetic either way
Ugh, now that I’ve actually read the article, I’m truly disgusted. I had no idea how low her trolls had actually stooped.
So, we’ve been seeing this kind of unchecked vitriol for years. Is it getting worse? Is it bleeding over into the real world (Rep. Giffords?)?
Went to check the mail and a damn moth flew out of the mailbox, startling me. Stupid nice weather
I sometimes wonder if maybe hubby and I are too stereotypical geeky.
We’ve had a lot of work done in and around the house over the last five years including, redoing the front yard, redoing the back yard and, next week, the main bathroom will be torn out and built back up from scratch. Also, if I ever manage to save enough money (doubtful), I want the kitchen redone. In all of this, we didn’t actually do any of it, we always hired contractors. We’ve been getting the evil eye (and a few comments) by some of our more… hands on friends. We have friends who are redoing their kitchen themselves. It will probably cost half of what ours has been quoted at in using a contractor. Yet, I just don’t see myself picking up a hammer and tearing out walls. We have friends who bought sod and did their own yard. I sometimes feel… guilty?…bad?… *shrug* not sure the right word, just off, because hubby and I are the least handy people of everybody we know. *sigh*
My cunning plan was to be useless at DIY, useless enough that nobody asks me to even hang wall paper…
This summer, we are getting ambitious and tearing down the garden shed. The one going in its place will be prefab so I don’t know if it counts as being handy
Just sitting here twiddling my thumbs… or typing on the Deadpan. *shrug* Whatever works. I’m waiting for approval on a report. Hopefully it’ll come in soon. Otherwise the pbp will have to wait until tomorrow.
Where is my approval!?! I’m suppose to have it by 1pm my time. It’s now 1:02!
*sigh* I hate waiting for other people.
/exit stage left
But just try to imagine how neglected the right side of the stage feels
Well, it looks like all is good in work land. Moving to the living room to start a movie I’m really unsure as to whether I’ll like or not. I guess we’ll see.
Hey look, I’m a new person :happy:
Today’s movie is Wrong Turn 4
Which means, at some point, there were three more
I’d read the description from the DVR
But I don’t thing that will get you very far
Rated 18a makes tis movie up to snuff
With nudity, and violence and all that stuff
West Virginia sanitarium 1974
The movie starts with a dramatic score
Orientation to the new girl
She decided to give psychology a whirl
lucky psychology
The evil hillier brothers are introduced
Cannibals, we must deduced
These kids cannot feel pain
They’ve eaten their own hands, just the same
He has a pin to use on a lock
Grunts and groans, don’t get caught
The three boys escape, oh my
Do they help the others? No they just walk by
The guard is the first to be beaten
Then his eye is whT gets eaten
All cells are opened and chaos ensues,
To the strains of the Blue Danube (seriously)
People at beat, women are raped
Some of them even get video taped
The patients are happy, the staff is not
Especially the ones getting electrically shot
The new girl is dead
With electric shock to her head
The doctor is strung up by barbed wire
Pulling him up, higher and higher
I hear the ghost of Shakespeare rattling milk bottles.
Ok, as fun as this was, I was right about this movie not fitting into my style. For the second time in Deadpan history, I’m stopping the movie and deleting it from my DVR
all the other movies I have on the DVR are more mainstream, so not sure what will be next. Will have to rhyme another day.
I do have Bunraku on my DVR http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181795/
Maybe, if I have time, I’ll do a play by play of it tomorrow. I just don’t guarantee it’ll be in rhyme. We’ll see how ambitious I’m feeling then
Instead, I think I’ll make brownie cookies for my hubby!
Loved the rhyming, Miss DJ!
I’m sorry the movie sucked. I hate those torture movies. Blech
I don’t like torture movies either. That’s usually where I draw the line with my silly B movies.
Yes Bunny, the rhyming was brilliant,
A pity the movie was excrement.
there, my cookies are in the oven doing what cookies do.
Now I must clean up my mess
Are they gingerbread men and women?
Nope. Chocolate brownie cookies
I just got Krater on Steam. It’s currently downloading. Have no idea if it’s any good but it looks interesting and wasn’t that expensive so…
Tonight will tell.
I cannot get past the third level of Super Meat Boy, my gaming skills are fading fast.
I find, as I’m getting older, I’m becoming more and more a game tourist. Now, about half the time, I tend to set the level on a game to easy and cruise my way through. A lot of the time it does depend upon the game, though.
I’m really really crap at writing emails.
Sigh
I find this to be highly amusing and cute.
Even the Lord of the Siths has a sense of humor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIRQf0S3oD0&sns=em
Um.
http://www.drinkngame.com/info.html
Sold American!
Hey smart computer ppl! I need your help please!
I would really like to recover some old precious, very important photo memories of mine on my stupid PC…. I restored an old backup and in my photo folder, I have jpegs (yay) but I also seem to have other folders that require Picasa?….
Can you please guide me as to what to do. I do not have Pocasa installed on the Windows side of my Mac.
Is that all I need to do to get these images back?
If that doesn’t work try installing this program:
http://www.irfanview.com/
It can read a lot of obscure picture formats (including KDC that my first digital camera saved pictures as).
Perhaps start here? http://picasa.google.com/
Billiards, anyone? I promise to not go overboard during this election year. . . I’ll only pass along stuff that holds up to scrutiny. And it won’t be constant. Forreal.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/the-fiscal-legacy-of-george-w-bush/
Shots in foot hurt.
just sayin’
Biting your tongue when eating a crumpet also.
What’s a crumpet? Like a scone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpet
Ohhh it looks like an English muffin on steroids!
Do you make these, Van?
Nag, just the cheaps ones from Sainsburys.
The holes mean the butter/margarine seeps through onto the plate if you don’t eat them quick.
Nah not nag, bloody hell iPhone are you out to get me?
I must admit… I’m super thrilled for this new movie ext month:
Savages by Oliver Stone. Benefit Del Toro steal my beating heart.
I hope Oliver Stone doesn’t follow the recent trend old-guy directors who put out less-than-mediocre crapolla
http://www.imdb.com/rg/em_share/rt_iphone/title/tt1615065
Soooooo, what did you think think of Prometheus?
I understood the direction Scott was taking, but I think he needed to give us more and not make us work-so-damn-hard to decipher the story. Even though this is intellectual horror movie, the horror should be emotionally charged. It lacked that. I also did NOT appreciatetheShaun of the Dead scene.
http://tinyurl.com/6ven2mc
heh
funny
Haha. Indeed. Sad there is no Shaun of the Dead ‘why’ tho.
*Benecio not benefit.
Damn you autocorrect
Poor hubby is not feeling well today so he’s staying home. ;sick:
Your crap joke for the day:
Last night I said to the wife
“Any chance of some Oral Relief?”
She said “What’s that mean, you want me to suck you off?”
I said “no just shut the fuck up”
+14
I can now preorder a Raspberry Pi…
I feel like it’s 1982 all over gain.
Its a Beret… and its 1985
Pah! Berets are for the French.
I dont mind the French. If not for them, we in America would still be speaking English.
Wait…
Well it’s done, hopefully some time around August I shall receive a computer the size of a cigarette packet.
Nikki, quit grinding on my beret!!
http://tinyurl.com/7aed6sx
The wonders of cropping:
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/12/the-uncropped-versions-of-iconic-photos/
CW: Mad Men S5 E12
The scene with the first attempt at suicide and the faulty car…
SUCH a great show.
This session really kicked into gear for the last few Eps.
10 more unshows without BSP missing any more or doing anymore special episodes and we’ll fall in line with JMDP’s episode count.
Work those oars, ye swabs! They be gainin’ on us!
It’s opening weekend for DCI!
Those of you in Kentucky and Ohio can participate.
http://www.des08.com/t/24242302/836838669/54912010/0/
“Blueman Group” is actually sponsering the opening weekend. The seem to be quite the philanthropic bunch.
I sure am excited. The show aim goin to is small but features Phantom Regiment, SC Vanguard, Blue Knights and the Academy and it’s only one week away.
š should be fun
Drum corpse?
Yeah, he’s a real deadbeat.
*drumrolls eyes*
Hey Jack,
Have you ever been to the Martini Ranch in Scottsdale? Second chance to see the Loom on July 26th. That’s a Thursday BTW.
I’ve been there! It’s a pretty small place. He’s a supporting act again, but that might be more doable for me.
Let’s circle back and take it offline to brainstorm ways to leverage this opportunity. /bizdeuche
Topless Robot nails the insanity for these Japanese toys.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/06/super_terrific_japanese_thing_inflatable_evangelio.php
That slide from Scanners never gets old does it.
That’s for sure! š
Alright, new pointless amusement from Fark.com
Go to Google Image search
https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
Click on the camera icon to do “search by image”
Drag or upload an image of yourself into the search box.
Ponder just what it is Google think you look like. I am an Asian man and a couple of tall pine trees.
The 3 of us are apparently a teenage girl.
I gave the google image search a bit of a test run. I can understand what it is doing with pictures of people. It doesn’t claim that it will find more pictures of you provided with a picture of you. Nor does it claim to find pictures of white males sitting on a picnic table (the first picture I provided it) provided with a similar picture. However, it does claim to do locations very well. I tried it with a picture of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Quite an iconic image and a hard one to screw up (not a whole lot of cathedrals still being built any more). It did alright with about half the returned images also being La Sagrada Familia. Then I tried it with a picture of the Puerta de Toledo in Madrid. It did a good job of finding another image that matched it exactly. But, in the “Visually Similar Images” category it failed miserably. It should have shown other arches (not exactly a difficult thing to identify or find pictures of). Instead it simply provided pictures of seemingly random structures with the same foreground and background color such as a hotel, a restaurant, a house, and a government type building looking like the Capital building in Washington DC.
Apparently I look like a man
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thedailyhoney.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2012/06/DSC_9772/4138596103.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thedailyhoney.com/2012/06/bollyville-leaves-for-the-singy-iifas/&h=1000&w=665&sz=104&tbnid=c1XeR_fdO0VgiM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=61&zoom=1&usg=__AFtaSMQDlNSieQF_qJHv2IHlRDM=&docid=6qgi-H0zmx8vfM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JQTaT_iRAqaM2gWm3KSkBg&ved=0CDAQ9QEwAA&dur=2686
Um… um…
I dont wanna play anymore
Can I post yet?
Testing. 1…2…3…
The computer says Yes
Jerez. Now I can. Yay.
For your sweet tooth entertainment
http://m.9gag.com/gag/4269358
And here I thought I was the only person to leave the strongest m&m for last. And I could have gotten a free 1/2 pound bag out of it? Argh.
I think I should just go to bed now and weep.
Spy Mouse (including iPad version) and Flight Control Rocket go free for a short time:
http://firemint.com/2012/spy-mouse-flight-control-rocket-free/
Morning Pan!
My computer has been acting very strange for the last week or so. I find when I first start it up, after a couple of minutes, the thing locks up. Usually to the point I have to do a hard reboot by holding down the power button (as opposed to ctr-alt-del). Once it has rebooted, it seems to work fine for the rest of the day. I’ve done virus checks every day this week out of paranoia.
Why is my computer doing this?
The only thing I can suggest is to pull the power lead out and then hit the on switch.
Plug the lead back in and switch on properply this time.
There’s a technical reason why my Dell desktop does this from time to time but I’ve forgotten the details of the tip that solved it.
This computer is a desktop Van, if I pull the power lead it will shut off on its own without me hitting any switch.
That being said, it is an Alienwear computer which is now owned by Dell.
It sounds like some sort of controller problem. You might want to talk to customer support and see what diagnostics they want you to run.
I mean shut the PC down, plug the plug then hit the on switch.
On mine I hear an audible click as the residual
Power is discharged, then I can boot normally.
My Dell is a desktop PC.
Ok, I’ll give it a try… later today. Stupid work gave me another 650 contracts to review.
Until I can get a recording device up, here are the list of words my Ipod came up with using the iOvulus app while doing the historic/ghost tour at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park:
fifteen
fog
noise
thousand
error
ashes
dark
mission
push
children
hey
direct
east
cheat
doesn’t
food
nintey
dig
erase
Lisa
cent
5
drone
travel
hidden
car
present
Don
bones
why
provide
spin
Anyone want to write a story?
Other than the woman cursed by a Lexicon demon to to tap tap in vain on her iPod?
Yeah, well. It’s a curiosity really.
And I don’t have to tap it… it just runs on its own once you turn it on š
Of all that you just said, the naughtiest-sounding thing is still “iOvulous”.
I didn’t know you wanted me to get naughty Jack…. naughty I can do
Mind boggles:
http://digitaldowsing.com/iOvilus
I have to admit to humming the Ghostbusters song as I typed.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miniongames/tahiti-board-game
$1 for the print n play? Sure, what the hell.
Lately hubby and I have been into this game
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91536/quarriors
Shut. the. fuck. up.
http://io9.com/5918453/cooked-squid-inseminates-womans-tongue-cheek-and-gums
I’m sure there is anime that illustrates these kind of dangers.
I see a B movie in the making :biggrin:
The article notes she ate “parboiled squid along with its internal organs.” Parboiled is a very brief boil. It isn’t fully cooked.
Cthulhu will have his revenge. š
Oh Korea… sometimes you make even Japan say, “Uh, you crazy?”?
It’s rather funky to find a bit of mash potato on the bottom of your cup.
At first, I thought this comment was part of the parboiled squid in the cheek conversation.
It puts the tentacle to the chin or it gets the hose again.
You get a drink from the fire hose!
CP: Black Mirror — Arcade Fire
It’s scary how much detail is on this Black Widow statue.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/06/14/hot-toys-the-avengers-black-widow-figure-images/
And why does the stand have to go there?
That’s got to chafe.
It looks like shes getting the shocker from one of the War of the Worlds aliens
Alright, I’m a bit bummed for no good reason – TIL that Lena Headey – aka Cersei Lannister, aka Sarah Conner, aka the Queen from 300….is a year younger than I am.
I was certain she was older than me. And yes, I’m sure that gets me some very small violin playing from the Deadpan Senior Citizen Brigade š
*sigh* airline fail and I’m stickler in the Vegas airport till after midnight.
That sicklers, Ralph. Good lickler getting the fickler out of there. I hope you don’t have to rent a trickler.
Of all the airports to be stuck in… That is easily Top 3– unless you’re broke.
Stay safe and be vigilant and safe travels!
I’m so sorry. š
I would have stayed there with you, but my plane would not wait.
It’s raining and pouring and this old man has stopped snoring.
Morning Pan, off to Scotland for the weekend, fingers crossed the rain hasn’t brought the rail network to a grinding halt.
Haggis travels!
Amazing Voyager news that doesn’t involve bald women:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159359/Humanity-escapes-solar-Voyager-1-signals-reached-edge-interstellar-space.html
Amazing it’s still working, way to go old tech.
I read that wondering about the Oort Cloud and how it fell into the limits of the solar system. Apparently, the Oort cloud itself isn’t a given, but a hypothesis.
Interesting place, our little corner of the universe.
Something has to be supplying the comets we actually see in the inner solar system.
I’m betting it’s not a sentient gas cloud chucking snowballs at us to relieve the boredom.
George Hrab rips Prometheus apart in the latest Geologic Podcast, worth checking out to hear the rant.
Yes, and it took up most of his show. I had to keep skipping and skipping because I haven’t seen the movie yet. Made for a very short podcast this week.
Neil DeGrass Tyson had some problems with Prometheus. I guess, at one point they talk about being half a billion miles from earth. That wouldn’t even get you out of the solar system.
see, no real spoilers š
Morning Pan
Went downtown again this morning.
I have a gaming dilemma. I really want to play the game Dragon’s Dogma but it’s XBox only game. Why is this not on PC? I do have an XBox, I just prefer to play on PC. hmmmmm.
Resistance is futile.
It’s wet outside. June is normally our rainy month. I’m already tired of it.
On a work related note. I managed to review 225 of my 1,000 contracts yesterday. I may be working this weekend again.
CP: Yesterday’s Democracy Now!
Holy crap, the JP Morgan guy is scary. He truly believes he/his company did nothing wrong.
300 bleh
400 Yeah!
Go, Bunny, go! :happy:
Interesting article on The War of 1812. š
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/06/14/pol-war-of-1812-bicentennial-federal-events.html?cmp=rss
Ah the War of 1812… Two men enter – 3 men leave.
“This is also a government that’s slashing the national archives dramatically and killing the national library by cuts. On the one hand they’re good for history and on the other hand they’re bad for history ā you sometimes wonder if they really know what they’re doing,” he said.
I see youve been watching a BIT too closely on how we do things here, Canada.
Yeah. I’m not too happy about some of the shenanigans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQ7WkNw0ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4
Factual! (mostly š )
Even better video. :happy:
If you were a fan of Toonami, you might enjoy these tributes.
http://richiebranson.com/2012/otakutuesdays-volume-1/
This looks awesome: a pub on a bike!
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/15/could-you-get-a-dui-on-this-thing/
DENVER HAS ONE! Havent had a chance to hop on yet
Whenever I get there, we are so getting on one! š
Get here!!!
I’m working on it. I’ll let you know later this year if it will work at all. š
OH ME HOPES!!!!
*pops head up from the weeds & takes a deeeeeep breath*
Hellllo!
Some space porn for your Friday evening:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2282.html
Hahahahahaha!
http://io9.com/5918772/uh-dont-criticize-people-for-saying-um-uh-and-like
For sure.
Paul Maki, did you get my email?
Has anyone here tried VUDU yet? I’m curious what others think about it.
I have. I had a couple free trials. I mean its easy enough to use and they have a good selection.. but I’m not paying $6 for a rental, nor will I pay 15.99 to “own” a film over the intertubes.
I haven’t . . . I’m bad at even watching Netflix, though we are now finally watching Breaking Bad!
Totally worth it!
Breaking Bad that is, especially S4.
“John Flansburgh: I heard about Jonathan Coulton through John Hodgman.”
Heh. So many Johns in that statement. So much talent.
That was from an old interview with JC & JF. Worth a read if you like either.
http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/a-conversation-with-john-flansburgh-and-jonathan-coulton
Just wait until you hear the latest Earbuddies exchange between me and Paul Maki!
š at Paul Maki
Just a quick hpe in to give you this bit of entertainment
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=e1-bLmjLHlQ&v=e1-bLmjLHlQ&gl=CA
The hospital appears to be running a CABG Special.
No! Hannah & Josh (& Jeezus)… I do not see the water dripping off that wire; which is 3 pennies wide, in the dark of the night over Niafra Falls
Blech is the word, is the word, is the word.
Your random Spagehetti Western bad guy of the day:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Maria_VolontƩ
Why is there a pop/dance remix countdown on the radio at 7am on a Saturday morning?
Well, I suppose it’s appropriate that the Desert Unshow be a tumbelweed week. Happy Weekend to all the Dads (and the awesome people who make them Dads). I’ll be around, just sayin’ it.
:drevil:
I tried to increase the comments. It’s not my fault the movie sucked.
I now have on my DVR the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Maybe I’ll do that on Monday. *shrug* Maybe. I never did see the original so I will have nothing to compare it to.
Not a good time to have one of these bad boys fly right at you
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_wasp#section_3
Good times:
http://m.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/13-tech-sounds-you-dont-hear-anymore/
God I feel old
I feel like my finger just got stuck in the rotary while dialing.
Another way to feel old. Hubby said he was talking to his class about technology helping the visually impaired. Healso played a video regarding this and the iPad. Stevie Wonder was on this video. None of the kids (grade 8) knew who Stevie Wonder was
On a unrelated note, my hands are covered in model paint. I’m not usually that messy
On an unrelated note again, I was complaining earlier about the game Dragon’s Dogma. Hubby said he will solve the problem for me and get it for me for my birthday next month. Hmmm
Although, there is the possibility I might need a new computer instead. Which would really tick me off as it’s only 2 1/2 years old. Long enough to be off warranty. It’s running at the moment but we were both worried it wouldn’t this morning when it started and gave a “unrecoverable error”. *sigh*
Miscellaneous crap
http://nerdbastards.com/2012/06/15/nerdy-bits-necronomicon-pizza-own-joss-whedon-every-anime-opening-ever-made-princess-whatshername-cosplay-and-moar/
James Bond Monopoly? Really?
http://www.monopolygamer.com/play.asp?num=22
Be careful landing at Octopussy Gardens.
Cat Woman’s butt is just…http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/06/12/the-internet-attempts-to-comprehend-catwomans-newest-look/
Maybe I should have this put into my bathroom
http://www.tinglondon.com/?q=collections/flooring
Carcassonne purchased for too much at B&N! (Can you tell I’m trying to expose the kids to smart boardgames?) I don’t actually know this game, I bought it based on reviews. Fingers crossed.
We quite enjoy playing Carcassone. It requires a bit of strategy, but not too much
A good time was had by all!
Ah-Ha!
just a bit too late. waaa waaa waaa
Some more ideas ( including online versions):
http://www.daysofwonder.com/en/index/
Of those games on Van”s list we have, Ticket to ride is good. Small world might be a little much for your youngest. We have Cleopatra but we don’t play it that often. Of the three it’s probably the weakest. Although, young minds might enjoy it as you’re literally building Cleopatra’s thumb throughThe the game
Also, while I would probably say not the biggie, Settlers of Catan, I would definitely recommend Space Farers of Catan, especially for youngsters. Your movement. Everybody gets their own space ship to build on to and use as dice sor movement and battle. For that reason alone, most of the people we play with prefer Space Farers over Settlershttp://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1897/starfarers-of-catan
RE: Long dead computer sounds – recognized them all. Used to keep a 5 1/4″ floppy drive in my computer cases, even though I couldn’t even hook it up anymore. Think I finally pitched it along with a couple of 3.5″ drives as part of the pre-move purge.
Thanks for the game recommendations, guys. I’ve only played the basic Settlers, which is fun, but I think we’ll wait another year or so. I probably would have bought Ticket to Ride, but it’s $15 cheaper online. Carcassonne was definitely a fun choice, and a good introduction to the world of “Eurogames”.
http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Eurogame
825 State Street Stout (release #10) by Epic Brewing Co is a fantasticlly smooth stout. Chocolate, toffee and even toasted marsallow on the lips.
This has skyrocked to Top 2 stouts for me.
Happy Fathers Day to all you hot pappas out in DPLand!
Heading back home today, but first Apple store hell.
Morning Pan
Once again, I will be hubbyless tonight. I wonder if I’ll see more of him when he moves to the high school.
Relay was a great success on Saturday. I’m still tired, but it is back to work I go.
Damn work. Always interfering with our fun :happy:
Doesn’t it? Sigh.
Now I have a whole bunch of writing to get to.
Watch all of Tarkovsky’s films online:
http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html
If I’m being charitable, some may induce sleep.
Anyone know how to get a Raspberry Pi to run off of batteries? The software team at my work place recently got a Raspberry Pi to play with and we are trying to figure out how to run it off of batteries. The Raspberry Pi FAQ page says you should be able to run it off 4 AA batteries, but don’t give an indication of how this could be done. There are a lot of really smart computer science guys here, but they don’t have a lot of background in hardware engineering.
The kind you get in a second-hand store?
Looks doable but not much run time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iyBSkc02Cg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fantastic. Thanks.
What strange weather we’re having. It’s raining in my back yard but not in my front. It was raining on the way to the mall but not at the mall itself. :alien:
Rodney King has died:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18478979
Yeah, I heard about it yesterday
Very sad.
There will be no PBP today *sigh* stupid work
This is a good momentary Monday HA!
http://mobile.tasteofawesome.com/view/DEATH/1812
“Access Denied” is getting old.
Would you prefer “Sorry Dave, I can’t do that?”
I wonder if Dave and Siti would be compatible
-t +r
I hope you’re referring only to computers…
I think Siri would refuse to open the iPod bay doors.
I’m sorry but that function is not available outside the USA.
Incredibly inspiring for our youth and cancer detection!
Show your kids! This kid is just simply excited about science! & being a “geek”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/06/18/wait-did-this-15-year-old-from-maryland-just-change-cancer-treatment/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
My inner cynic thinks that the methods relative cheapness will mean it will never go widespread.
Catch pancreatic cancer really early and it’s easy to ‘cure’ and drug companies won’t be able to make a lot of money from drugs.
Sadly, I would tend to agree. However, Quest Diagnostics was mentioned and they are the company that specializes in this sort of revolutionary break through. Their Flu Test changed the waiting time for results from “over night”, to about 10 minutes.
So if they get hold of this technology I suspect it would make it to market. If the big cancer drug companies buy the patient rights … it could get buried.