Fresh out of the shower and ready to go… although I’d probably be more ready if I had more than a towel on.
Since I did pretty much nothing yesterday, I have a large plate in front of me. Today’s schedule includes:
Quarterly royalty reports for authors
Calling Government of Canada (expect lots of hold time on that one)
Continuing the edits on one of our audio book releases.
Edit fall catalogue.
Let’s see how much I actually get done this morning.
It’s amazing how much you can get done if you just sit down and put your mind to it. I’ve already completed three of the four items on my list. Although, to be fair, the Government of Canada is now me waiting for them to call me back so I guess I’ve only got 2.5 items done. Still… :happy:
At this rate, I might even have time for a movie after lunch. Don’t know what’s next on my DVR but, like always, it’s going to be a winner.
CD: Raspberry leaf tea
They’re showing this on Space (our version of SyFy) tonight after supper. Hubby and I plan to watch and be totally amazed.
That’s the same girl who killed Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” on video. Good for her!
My greatest accomplishment at 14 was beating The Legend of Zelda.
(…….. OK, it was a Laser Tag Novice League championship, but look where that’s gotten me…….)
Damn Deep Silver Humble Bundle. I have most of those games.
Crap joke for the evening:
A couple was going out for the evening. They’d gotten ready, all dolled-up , dog put out, etc. The taxi arrives and as they start out, the dog shoots back in the house. They don’t want the dog shut in, so the wife goes out to the taxi while the husband goes upstairs to chase the dog out. The wife, not wanting it known that the house will be empty explains to the taxi driver, “He’s just going upstairs to say good-bye to my mother.”A few minutes later, the husband gets into the cab. “Sorry I took so long” he says. “Stupid bitch was hiding under the bed and I had to poke her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! Then I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching and biting me as I hauled her arse downstairs and tossed her out in the back yard! She better not shit in the vegetable garden again!”The silence in the cab was deafening.
Once again I am at my computer with nothing but a towel on. This is starting to become a habit.
Towels just get in the way.
There, dressed and ready to go.
My to do list for today:
Contact Patricia Briggs
Minor edits on our next book release (not a Patricia Briggs book)
convert book to e format
Contact the Calgary public library supplier to see when they want it.
Work on audio edits.
Let’s see how much I actually get done today.
Still in bureaucracy hell in an effort to get the shower fixed.
Your crap joke for the day:
A man was walking in the city, when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking bum who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.The man took out his wallet, extracted two dollars and asked, “If I gave you this money, will you take it and buy whiskey?””No, I stopped drinking years ago,” the bum said.”Will you use it to gamble?””I don’t gamble. I need everything I can get just to stay live.””Will you spend the money on greens fees at a golf course?””Are you NUTS! I haven’t played golf in 20 years!”The man said, “Well, I’m not going to give you two dollars. Instead, I’m going to take you to my home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife.” The bum was
astounded.”Won’t your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I’m dirty, and I probably smell pretty bad.”The man replied, “Hey, man, that’s OK! I just want her to see what a man looks like who’s given up drinking, gambling, and golf!”
*golf clap*
*stolen clap*
If people would stop emailing me thinking the world is ending, I might actually get something done!
Although… I did actually get three things on my list done. I guess it’s not all bad.
Lunch Time!
Van, I think you should thank me. I only ever give you a coat. JOe and Bunny gave you the clap.
This morning, I was looking for the phone # for my local Dick’s Sporting Goods for a totally normal reason for a girl.
I’ve had three employee meetings where they sat with me and looked at my computer screen. I just realized that my little google search window on the top-right corner of my browser has said “dicks” since around 7 a.m.
There. Showered, dressed, and first load of laundry in the wash.
Today’s tasks:
Make minor corrections to ebook conversions
Format and print WWC program participant stickies
Review the WWC program book (which I managed to actually not create this year, bwa, ha, ha, ha!)
Audio edits (which I did none of yesterday)
Pick up books to be sold at WWC on our behalf.
I resemble that. The primary difference is that my soda would have been large and my popcorn would have been the bucket.
One of my favourite memories (told before) is going to see Grosse Pointe Blank.
After purchasing the ticket and walking away I overhead one of the cinema staff pick up the phone and say “you are going to have run the film we’ve got a customer”
He’s a good one. My son and I have been collecting minifigs since series 2. Good times all around. /me me me me
I am the king of 90% complete projects. THE KING I tell you!
That’s what the ladies say. To me anyway.
I havent verified the story, but its still cute and funny. Happy Birthday, Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews Turning 79 – this is hysterical!
To commemorate her birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall. One of the musical numbers she performed was ‘My Favorite Things’ from the legendary movie ‘Sound Of Music’. Here are the lyrics she used: (Sing It!) – If you sing it, its especially hysterical!!!
Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin’,
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin’,
And we won’t mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.
When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I’ve had,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>
(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores. Please share Ms. Andrews’ clever wit and humor with others who would appreciate it.)
I still make it a point every summer, to catch a firefly.
I no longer get the jar, poke air holes in the lid and see how many I can catch. In fact, it is a more of a “catch and release” strategy and really, just the one.
Some how, it feels important for me to make sure I do this.
CW: Rain (fucking Raymond) Man
God, I love to laugh at the 80’s fashion and video graphics.
Oh, and a young, big snauze Tom Cruise
Tonight I suffered through “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
I had managed to make it this far in life without seeing it. Why oh why did I break that streak. 🙁
I am simply amazed that the entire franchise didn’t die right there and then with that festering pile of meh. It didn’t know if it wanted to be a cutesy family film or a gruesome teenager’s creep fest or an adult’s “action adventure romance”. I didn’t know what it wanted to be so it just threw it all up against the wall to see if anything would stick. Oh the horror.
I’m listening to Cake to try and get the blech of this film out of my head but it’s not helping much.
There are so, so many transcendent moments in that film. Along with many terrible parts (evil mind-controlled Indy? WTF? The heart scene and the dinner scene were also pretty scarring for young viewers in the theater, ca 1984(?)
I am surprised you’d never seen it before.
I don’t know how I had managed to miss it in the theatre but by the time it was available on video, I had heard bad things about it so there was not much motivation to see it. I now have the DVD box set so I decided to give it a go.
Wish I hadn’t.
Even the arcade game based on the film was pretty naff.
YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok the game stunk.
We walk from here.
Suffered thru???? This film blows Last Crusade out of the water. I’ll defend this film to the hilt, I don’t give a good goddamn what folks think. And please, its not like Raiders “knew what it wanted to be” either. It just knew to be a good action flick and that’s what Temple of Doom was too. I wont defend Short Round or Kate Capshaw’s screaming other than to say they’re nowhere hear as terrible as people say. It made great money and it was actually quite critically lauded overall. SO no, I assure you there was no way for it to kill the franchise. While I can appreciate the hatred for Phantom Menace, even tho I dont agree with it, I’ve never understood the backlash for this film.
Well I can site some stuff that bugged me right from the start.
The opening cheesy musical number. Okay. I’m down with cheesy if that’s what this wants to be. Then some guy posing as a waiter and is apparently some long time friend of Jones who is willing to die for him gets killed seconds after we meet him. Who is he? Why did he agree to follow Indy in here why is he willing to die for him? We aren’t told so we have to assume he is disposable except Indy gets all bent out of shape about it.
There is the girl who comes over and gets involved in a gangster shake down. Why? Why didn’t she leave as soon as guns were pulled? What investment did she have in any of these charactures? It isn’t explained.
So the movie starts to get tense and all serious … then decides to have a 3 stooges type “slapstick” fight scene with balloons and an apparently endless supply of nightclub patrons who just keep running back and forth.
At this point, why does the girl continue to run around with Indy?
He doesn’t have anything she wants. She doesn’t know anything about him other than where ever he runs, people continue to shoot at him. Why doesn’t she run FROM him?
Then they jump out a window and end up in a car driven by some kid that Indy has decided to run around with. Why? Having a partner in adventure, much less a kid as a partner doesn’t fit with the image we were left from the first film. He had “associates” and friends sure but a “buddy” to run around with? No. Also,did they just meet? Have they been a team for years? No one ever explains this.
So it had a REAL forced feel of “we’re going to create this family unit for Indy to show what an accessible family guy he is”. Sort of a family friendly, Disney-a-fied Indy.
Okay if that is what they want.
But then that doesn’t work with the “ripping out the heart” scene, the beating and kicking of kids scenes, the burning the dude alive scene.
As for the kid though, given the choice I would have taken him over the girl. She was a useless appendage for this film. She had nothing Indy needed for this adventure and he had no connection to/with her. Personally, I found her antics neither cute or funny so her scenes served to simply drag down the pace of the film. Plot wise, if Indy had left her in the bar at the open (or at the airport), it wouldn’t have changed the coarse of the film’s plot a bit. It would have made it faster paced and (for me)vastly less contrived and forced.
As for Raiders, for me it had a VERY definite genre. It was “action adventure” flat out. No forced attempts to “move you emotionally” or constant, comic side-kicks to make Indy seem “lovable”.
I found myself wanting to fast forward through about the first half of TOD.
I guess the analogy is that Raiders just wanted to get hot and heavy with you, right here and right NOW!
While TOD wanted to spend about an 45 minutes cuddling and talking about your feelings first.
So if a film has different genres wrapped into it that means it doesn’t know what it wants to be? If that’s the case you need to tear down the original Star Wars, Iron Man, the entire Star Trek franchise,and yes the original Raiders as well. This film is a nod to the serials of the past (more so than even Raiders) – of which you had comedy, romance, action all wrapped into different portions. I didnt find any of the scenes in this film contrived. Who cares who Indy’s compatriot was? Who cares why Willie left with him (tho being a gold digging ho I’m pretty sure its because she saw a new, more flashy meal ticket in Indy).
Don’t forget this is a prequel as well, so its not going to be the same Indy we saw in Raiders, tho I really dont think there was any Disneyfication (Disnification? Disnardiferperation?) going on here. The Indy in Raiders was molded directly from the events here.
PS: Get off my lawn.
Purely from memory, because I haven’t seen ToD this century, I recall that the opening musical number and action sequence were everything right about the Indy franchise. Dazzling spectacle mixed with good jokes and fun, clever, exciting action – – although granted, the poison/antidote premise was far-fetched – – right up until the boat escape on the mountain.
The middle is a mess, but then the climactic scene on the bridge was also pure movie magic.
There is no defense for Billy or Short Round, but they’re still both preferable to Shia LeBouf.
Eh, whats to think? They’ll make 600 million each and I wont see those either. Dont worry they’ll be lost to the annals of film history soon enough.
Your crap joke for the day:
A man was walking along the street when he saw a ladder going into the clouds. As any of us would do, he climbed the ladder. He reached a cloud, upon which sat a rather plump and very ugly woman. “Screw me or climb the ladder to success,” she said.
No contest, thought the man, so he climbed the ladder to the next cloud. On this cloud was a slightly thinner woman, who was slightly easier on the eye. “Screw me hard or climb the ladder to success,” she said. “Well,” thought the man, “might as well carry on.”
On the next cloud was an even more attractive lady who, this time, was quite attractive. “Screw me now or climb the ladder to success,” she uttered. As he turned her down and went on up the ladder, the man thought to himself that this was getting better the further he went.
On the next cloud was an absolute beauty. Slim, attractive, the lot. “Screw me here and now or climb the ladder to success,” she flirted. Unable to imagine what could be waiting, and being a gambling man, he decided to climb again. When he reached the next cloud, there was a 400 pound ugly man, arm pit hair showing, flies buzzing around his head.
Did you know it’s a long weekend here in Canadaland? I completely forgot all about it until my therapist asked what my plans were for the long weekend. Extra day off! Woo Hoo!
From the latest Ansible:
• True Romance Dept. ‘But then the tips of her breasts became erect on their own, and the flood in her loins washed morals, despair, and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his. Now his big generative jockey was inside her pelvic saddle, riding, riding, riding, and she was eagerly swallowing it swallowing it swallowing it with the saddle’s own lips and maw – all this without a word.’ (Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood, 2012)
The bonfire of the what now?
50 Furlongs of Grey?
generative…jockey…?
Better than the geriatric jockey.
Something to look forward too.
The geriatric jockey rides his horse 20 mph slower than everyone else, with his blinker on for miles.
CW: Clue
pure silliness
Long, but interesting read. The guy was kicked out of Nirvana AND Soundgarden, then quit Mindfunk, but still managed to make something of his life.
(Phew. Thank god for all of those Star Wars movies…)
What were the 2 you hadn’t seen, Van?
Alien Nation and THX 1138
I’ve seen clips from the former and just the end of the latter.
45. The ones I didn’t see were: Alien Nation, Cloverfield, Invaders from Mars, Sphere, and West World. I will gladly check out 4 of these, but still refuse to see Cloverfield as it embodies all of the aspects of shitty movie making that have become so prevalent recently (i.e., shaky cam, hand-held-camera-that-is-actually-of-a-shittier-quality-than-a-real-hand-held-camera-so-the-audience-is-really-really-aware-that-it-is-a-hand-held-camera-and-not-some-professional, etc.).
Westworld is a classic and well worth checking out.
Of course it’s also the film Crichton cribbed the plot from for Jurassic Park from his earlier self.
Nah. Cloverfield was quite good.
I didn’t choose to watch Cloverfield, but I was pleasantly surprised. I hear all of the complaints about whiny hipster characters, etc. – but the movie was a fun ride.
44
Only 30 for me. 🙁
Does it count if I have seen some of them more than once?
Several are films I have seen pieces of but for some reason, never seen the entire film.
46
48 as well. But jeeebus was Sphere awful. The stereotypical neat film that’s killed by the ending.
To be fair I dont think 1/3 of these should be classified as “must see”.
Had Happy Hour with some mates last night who said “Pacific Rim” was very good. Described it as a 1950’s B movie done really well.
I don’t know what that means but am now intrigued.
In other news –
Trying to replace my Brake, Master Cylinder. First brake line fitting came loose with no problem. 2nd one refused to budge and has now rounded off.
Swell.
My unfinished project list grows larger.
Please feel free to insert comic book cursing HERE.
As long as you don’t cross into Q-bert cursing. We might need to have an intervention, then.
An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his advice on reviving her husband’s libido.
‘What about trying Viagra?’ asked the doctor.
‘Not a chance’, she said. ‘He won’t even take an aspirin.’
‘Not a problem,’ replied the doctor. ‘Give him an ‘Irish Viagra’. It’s when you drop the Viagra tablet into his coffee. He won’t even taste it, give it a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went..’
It wasn’t a week later when she called the doctor, who directly inquired as to her progress.
The poor dear exclaimed, ‘Oh, faith, bejaysus and begorrah! T’was horrid! Just terrible, doctor!’
‘Really? What happened?’ asked the doctor…
‘Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee and the effect was almost immediate. He jumped straight up, with a twinkle in his eye
and with his pants a-bulging fiercely! With one swoop of his arm, he sent me cups and tablecloth flying, ripped me clothes to tatters and took me then and there passionately on the tabletop! It was a nightmare, I tell you, an absolute nightmare!’
‘Why so terrible?’ asked the doctor, ‘ Do you mean the sex your husband provided wasn’t good?’
‘Freakin’ jaysus, ’twas the best sex I’ve had in 25 years! But sure as I’m sittin’ here, I’ll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again…
I walked all over the Florida State Fair last year looking for the fried butter because I wanted to see what it would be like. Couldn’t find it anywhere. Had to settle for fried twinkies and fried peanut butter cup.
Today (Sunday Funday), served up a double decker shit sandwich.
I ended the day eating an ice cream sandwich.
Boo!
Jesus F. Christ, today.
Boo!2
:Lo Pan strikes back.
Went to see the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 last night. Both put on a good show, but Matchbox 20 were the obvious headliners with a set that cost at least 100 times more than the Goo Goo Dolls. Excellent night.
Only fair to tell you that the photograph at the beginning of the quiz is of Clive Sinclair..
58%???? Unfair! That quiz is not so much about being geeky as on how much actual programming background an knowledge you have.
45%
Im okay with this score but I take offense to the pretentious commentary that followed.
“You’re just “meh” with technology. One minute smugly downloading a cool new smartphone app to show off, the next staring in despair at the Microsoft Word help system to write a simple letter.”
Im not just some wannabe, hipster chick.
My calendar says “Monday, Civic Holiday (CAN)”. Happy Civic Holiday to the Canadian Deadpan crew.
Yes! It’s a holiday here in the colonies. I get to spend the day assembling WWC badges. meh.
Well happy generally meaningless holiday anyway. I meant to ask you last week why you had a three day weekend.
Curious, because I plan on spending the day trying to fix the brakes on my Honda Civic.
Coincidence ?
These always worked when I used Honda. There are few things the Hundred Hand Slap can’t fix.
I like Longmont a lot more than you do. Good thing I live there and you don’t!
We we’re just there at diff times in its history. Thats all.
Perhaps. Or perhaps the town I came from was so horrible that Longmont is a Nirvana.
One item with Longmont: tomorrow is “national night out” and our neighborhood is having an event/movie in the park. Food is provided by Chick-fil-a and Target. ARgh!!
That being said, we will be our doing Geeks Who Drink with the Lo Pans, so won’t be there to glare at the food donators.
Of course taste is something that they can fix with chemical additives. (“Sour cream and onion” burger anyone?)
I will say that I am intrigued with this “proof in principle” test though.
It offers the possibility of “hamburger” for future space travelers who have no room for cattle or can’t afford to boost the weight of a meat locker out of our gravity.
Once in space or (on their secret base on Phobos) they can just grow their own cookout!
I’m not sure if Malcolm Reynolds will approve of this or not…
Sure beets crackers.
*wonders if anyone even remembers “Farscape” anymore.*
I frelling remember.
Or they can just get it from the replicators. “Burger… sour cream and onion… hot”
Saw the ISS tonight, as it scooted across the western sky.
I’ll bet they wish they could grow some BBQ.
Or a cybernetic sex slave.
That’s always a close second to a steak.
Last minute delayed catch up:
nc
Essbee: I would recommend an IPA receipe for your amber malt. considering your previously stated preferences.
Pixie said: “and it has Joss Whedon as a writer, so how much more grimm could it be than some of the Buffy episodes?”
You mean Joss ‘kill every beloved character’ Whedon?
I lie in and still get firsties, COME ON!!!
COME ON!!!
I lie on and… oh nevermind.
It’s the end times!
I suck.
http://abandonedography.com/post/56693217021/abandoned-roller-coaster-in-hubei-province-china
Morning Pan!
Fresh out of the shower and ready to go… although I’d probably be more ready if I had more than a towel on.
Since I did pretty much nothing yesterday, I have a large plate in front of me. Today’s schedule includes:
Quarterly royalty reports for authors
Calling Government of Canada (expect lots of hold time on that one)
Continuing the edits on one of our audio book releases.
Edit fall catalogue.
Let’s see how much I actually get done this morning.
It’s amazing how much you can get done if you just sit down and put your mind to it. I’ve already completed three of the four items on my list. Although, to be fair, the Government of Canada is now me waiting for them to call me back so I guess I’ve only got 2.5 items done. Still… :happy:
At this rate, I might even have time for a movie after lunch. Don’t know what’s next on my DVR but, like always, it’s going to be a winner.
CD: Raspberry leaf tea
They’re showing this on Space (our version of SyFy) tonight after supper. Hubby and I plan to watch and be totally amazed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2043757/
Ok, enough of this silliness. Some of us have audio to edit.
There, one chapter down. Only eighteen more to go. *sigh*
Why am I only just learning now that today is National Cheesecake Day? I would have taken the day off from work!
mmmmm. Cheesecake.
Mmmmmmm!
I’m still not a metal person, but this is pretty awesome:
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/07/30/holy-crap-14-year-old-performs-insanely-epic-vivaldi-tribute-on-electric-guitar-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geeksAreSexyTechnologyNews+%28%5BGeeks+are+Sexy%5D+technology+news%29
That’s the same girl who killed Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” on video. Good for her!
My greatest accomplishment at 14 was beating The Legend of Zelda.
(…….. OK, it was a Laser Tag Novice League championship, but look where that’s gotten me…….)
Damn Deep Silver Humble Bundle. I have most of those games.
Crap joke for the evening:
A couple was going out for the evening. They’d gotten ready, all dolled-up , dog put out, etc. The taxi arrives and as they start out, the dog shoots back in the house. They don’t want the dog shut in, so the wife goes out to the taxi while the husband goes upstairs to chase the dog out. The wife, not wanting it known that the house will be empty explains to the taxi driver, “He’s just going upstairs to say good-bye to my mother.”A few minutes later, the husband gets into the cab. “Sorry I took so long” he says. “Stupid bitch was hiding under the bed and I had to poke her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! Then I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching and biting me as I hauled her arse downstairs and tossed her out in the back yard! She better not shit in the vegetable garden again!”The silence in the cab was deafening.
no COAT TOO BIG… No coat too small
http://www.ilyke.net/if-facebook-existed-during-wwii-/15611#s5EpmwJbDU6bYKcF.01
Oh this is beautiful…
I liked this… so much, I’m going to steal it and share it on FaceBook
Minigore 2 goes free on the App Store:
http://toucharcade.com/2013/07/30/freebie-alert-minigore-2-zombies-goes-free-to-celebrate-4-year-anniversary-of-the-original-minigore/
CW: 2-headed Shark Attack
To quote hubby, “the production quality matches a lot of porn… In fact, I’m willing to bet most of these women did act in porns”
The girls take their tops off.
Hubby, “yeah!”
Now the girls are making out… Topless
This is the movie starring Brooke Hogan and Carmen Electra?
Yup. But they weren’t topless
Your a brainiac so you automatically j ow how to tune a boat?
So the crew of the boat see to understand English when it’s spoken to them, but they can’t seem to speakmenglish. Strange
“speakmenglish”?
What is the motivation of this shark? Yes it has two heads but only one body so it doesn’t actually need to eat all these people for nourishment
Oh nos. the atoll is sinking
What was the point of the other two boats?
Believe it or not, Sharknado was actually a better movie
Cole stole the ship
Hulk hogan’s daughter was not amused
Neither is Jerry O’Connell’s brother or Carmen Electra.
Strange cast in this movie
Why is the atoll sinking now? It obviously has been ther a while since there wer fisher men’s huts on it. A couple of docks…
And now, there’s a tidal wave. Of course
What happened to the shark not liking shallow water?
I am so confused
This commercial disturbs me on so many levels
This seems like a stupid plan to me
How can it live with one head blown off?
Wow.
Goodnight :tumblemush:
Hey Jack, take your top off.
Evolution
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Morning Pan
Once again I am at my computer with nothing but a towel on. This is starting to become a habit.
Towels just get in the way.
There, dressed and ready to go.
My to do list for today:
Contact Patricia Briggs
Minor edits on our next book release (not a Patricia Briggs book)
convert book to e format
Contact the Calgary public library supplier to see when they want it.
Work on audio edits.
Let’s see how much I actually get done today.
Still in bureaucracy hell in an effort to get the shower fixed.
Your crap joke for the day:
A man was walking in the city, when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking bum who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.The man took out his wallet, extracted two dollars and asked, “If I gave you this money, will you take it and buy whiskey?””No, I stopped drinking years ago,” the bum said.”Will you use it to gamble?””I don’t gamble. I need everything I can get just to stay live.””Will you spend the money on greens fees at a golf course?””Are you NUTS! I haven’t played golf in 20 years!”The man said, “Well, I’m not going to give you two dollars. Instead, I’m going to take you to my home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife.” The bum was
astounded.”Won’t your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I’m dirty, and I probably smell pretty bad.”The man replied, “Hey, man, that’s OK! I just want her to see what a man looks like who’s given up drinking, gambling, and golf!”
*golf clap*
*stolen clap*
If people would stop emailing me thinking the world is ending, I might actually get something done!
Although… I did actually get three things on my list done. I guess it’s not all bad.
Lunch Time!
Van, I think you should thank me. I only ever give you a coat. JOe and Bunny gave you the clap.
omg THAT deserves a coat!
http://tinyurl.com/kdjfl5b
Ew!
I’m driven to my unreliable phone by network funniness.
And then I go and use a word like “funniness”.
you make me laugh i think ill keep you
“you make me laugh i think ill keep you …”
Last time I heard that, the rest of the sentence was “… handcuffed to the bed.”
Well as long as they are pink and fluffy…
Who says its still not?
You had me at, “Here, have this drink that is not at all laced with Rohypnol”.
I’m quite the sweet talker
The rain is indicating to me (rather noisily by jove) that it is raining outside.
Is it by jove or very near jove?
The former takes a bow.
I’m back!
http://www.blastr.com/2013-7-30/guy-turns-his-dads-old-car-insanely-detailed-giant-mech-sculpture
For now!
Wat the hell kinda car was that?
Prog Wang?
“We really shook the pillars of heaven, didnt we Prog Wang?”
“Wang’s mech is not fully operational”
and I’ll just leave it at that.
Holy glorious
http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-312.0,1.9,2
This morning, I was looking for the phone # for my local Dick’s Sporting Goods for a totally normal reason for a girl.
I’ve had three employee meetings where they sat with me and looked at my computer screen. I just realized that my little google search window on the top-right corner of my browser has said “dicks” since around 7 a.m.
sigh . . .
Just don’t click on the “Street View”.
“They’re for a friend.”
That’s what he said!
http://www.houseofnames.com/dick-coat-of-arms
“Dick, Dyck, Dic, and others”
” my local Dick’s”
One of the best explanations of I’ve seen of the FB/Twitter time sink:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-machine-zone-this-is-where-you-go-when-you-just-cant-stop-looking-at-pictures-on-facebook/278185/
And who are we to question a guy named “Csíkszentmihalyi”?
We’re not even worthy to say his name.
this warrants a re-post here…
Hello Flo? OMG, 2013!
Morning Pan
This morning I haven’t even made it as far as a towel. Still in my sweats, thinking about heading for a shower.
Ok, now it’s time to get wet.
If you watch Cinderella backwards, its about a woman who learns her place.
http://www.amazon.com/Cinderella-Coat-Pajamas-Countdown-Midnight/dp/B00C9IH0YK
There. Showered, dressed, and first load of laundry in the wash.
Today’s tasks:
Make minor corrections to ebook conversions
Format and print WWC program participant stickies
Review the WWC program book (which I managed to actually not create this year, bwa, ha, ha, ha!)
Audio edits (which I did none of yesterday)
Pick up books to be sold at WWC on our behalf.
Cacao.
Happy Birfday, Chuck D
I got Black Caesar back at the crib.
Clear the way for the S the S1Ws.
Thank You, Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fucking-loser-at-movie-all-by-himself,33302/
Umm, poor Van?
I resemble that. The primary difference is that my soda would have been large and my popcorn would have been the bucket.
One of my favourite memories (told before) is going to see Grosse Pointe Blank.
After purchasing the ticket and walking away I overhead one of the cinema staff pick up the phone and say “you are going to have run the film we’ve got a customer”
Been that kind of morning. Sending this link out to the DesPix, for being awesome, above and beyond:
http://themetapicture.com/that-moment-when-you-need-to-be-hugged/
squee 🙂
How can they dress up Data in “mid 21st Century clothing” and think he would really fit in on Earth?
(Scene from Star Trek: First Contact)
Did they still have Goths in the mid-21st Century?
They should have given him a Twilight t-shirt.
We’ll all go together when we go:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23518587
want . to . play . a . game . ?
http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Bios/Librarian.aspx#Motorcycle Mechanic
Pretty sure he thinks it’s fun to stay at the YMCA. . .
Working link 🙂 http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130402220930/lego/images/c/c8/Pic7F03C97ECB8EF45EADC9F8D0FD960325.jpg
He’s a good one. My son and I have been collecting minifigs since series 2. Good times all around. /me me me me
I am the king of 90% complete projects. THE KING I tell you!
That’s what the ladies say. To me anyway.
I havent verified the story, but its still cute and funny. Happy Birthday, Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews Turning 79 – this is hysterical!
To commemorate her birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall. One of the musical numbers she performed was ‘My Favorite Things’ from the legendary movie ‘Sound Of Music’. Here are the lyrics she used: (Sing It!) – If you sing it, its especially hysterical!!!
Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin’,
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin’,
And we won’t mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.
When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I’ve had,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>
(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores. Please share Ms. Andrews’ clever wit and humor with others who would appreciate it.)
I still make it a point every summer, to catch a firefly.
I no longer get the jar, poke air holes in the lid and see how many I can catch. In fact, it is a more of a “catch and release” strategy and really, just the one.
Some how, it feels important for me to make sure I do this.
CW: Rain (fucking Raymond) Man
God, I love to laugh at the 80’s fashion and video graphics.
Oh, and a young, big snauze Tom Cruise
Tonight I suffered through “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
I had managed to make it this far in life without seeing it. Why oh why did I break that streak. 🙁
I am simply amazed that the entire franchise didn’t die right there and then with that festering pile of meh. It didn’t know if it wanted to be a cutesy family film or a gruesome teenager’s creep fest or an adult’s “action adventure romance”. I didn’t know what it wanted to be so it just threw it all up against the wall to see if anything would stick. Oh the horror.
I’m listening to Cake to try and get the blech of this film out of my head but it’s not helping much.
There are so, so many transcendent moments in that film. Along with many terrible parts (evil mind-controlled Indy? WTF? The heart scene and the dinner scene were also pretty scarring for young viewers in the theater, ca 1984(?)
I am surprised you’d never seen it before.
I don’t know how I had managed to miss it in the theatre but by the time it was available on video, I had heard bad things about it so there was not much motivation to see it. I now have the DVD box set so I decided to give it a go.
Wish I hadn’t.
Even the arcade game based on the film was pretty naff.
YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok the game stunk.
We walk from here.
Suffered thru???? This film blows Last Crusade out of the water. I’ll defend this film to the hilt, I don’t give a good goddamn what folks think. And please, its not like Raiders “knew what it wanted to be” either. It just knew to be a good action flick and that’s what Temple of Doom was too. I wont defend Short Round or Kate Capshaw’s screaming other than to say they’re nowhere hear as terrible as people say. It made great money and it was actually quite critically lauded overall. SO no, I assure you there was no way for it to kill the franchise. While I can appreciate the hatred for Phantom Menace, even tho I dont agree with it, I’ve never understood the backlash for this film.
Well I can site some stuff that bugged me right from the start.
The opening cheesy musical number. Okay. I’m down with cheesy if that’s what this wants to be. Then some guy posing as a waiter and is apparently some long time friend of Jones who is willing to die for him gets killed seconds after we meet him. Who is he? Why did he agree to follow Indy in here why is he willing to die for him? We aren’t told so we have to assume he is disposable except Indy gets all bent out of shape about it.
There is the girl who comes over and gets involved in a gangster shake down. Why? Why didn’t she leave as soon as guns were pulled? What investment did she have in any of these charactures? It isn’t explained.
So the movie starts to get tense and all serious … then decides to have a 3 stooges type “slapstick” fight scene with balloons and an apparently endless supply of nightclub patrons who just keep running back and forth.
At this point, why does the girl continue to run around with Indy?
He doesn’t have anything she wants. She doesn’t know anything about him other than where ever he runs, people continue to shoot at him. Why doesn’t she run FROM him?
Then they jump out a window and end up in a car driven by some kid that Indy has decided to run around with. Why? Having a partner in adventure, much less a kid as a partner doesn’t fit with the image we were left from the first film. He had “associates” and friends sure but a “buddy” to run around with? No. Also,did they just meet? Have they been a team for years? No one ever explains this.
So it had a REAL forced feel of “we’re going to create this family unit for Indy to show what an accessible family guy he is”. Sort of a family friendly, Disney-a-fied Indy.
Okay if that is what they want.
But then that doesn’t work with the “ripping out the heart” scene, the beating and kicking of kids scenes, the burning the dude alive scene.
As for the kid though, given the choice I would have taken him over the girl. She was a useless appendage for this film. She had nothing Indy needed for this adventure and he had no connection to/with her. Personally, I found her antics neither cute or funny so her scenes served to simply drag down the pace of the film. Plot wise, if Indy had left her in the bar at the open (or at the airport), it wouldn’t have changed the coarse of the film’s plot a bit. It would have made it faster paced and (for me)vastly less contrived and forced.
As for Raiders, for me it had a VERY definite genre. It was “action adventure” flat out. No forced attempts to “move you emotionally” or constant, comic side-kicks to make Indy seem “lovable”.
I found myself wanting to fast forward through about the first half of TOD.
I guess the analogy is that Raiders just wanted to get hot and heavy with you, right here and right NOW!
While TOD wanted to spend about an 45 minutes cuddling and talking about your feelings first.
So if a film has different genres wrapped into it that means it doesn’t know what it wants to be? If that’s the case you need to tear down the original Star Wars, Iron Man, the entire Star Trek franchise,and yes the original Raiders as well. This film is a nod to the serials of the past (more so than even Raiders) – of which you had comedy, romance, action all wrapped into different portions. I didnt find any of the scenes in this film contrived. Who cares who Indy’s compatriot was? Who cares why Willie left with him (tho being a gold digging ho I’m pretty sure its because she saw a new, more flashy meal ticket in Indy).
Don’t forget this is a prequel as well, so its not going to be the same Indy we saw in Raiders, tho I really dont think there was any Disneyfication (Disnification? Disnardiferperation?) going on here. The Indy in Raiders was molded directly from the events here.
PS: Get off my lawn.
Purely from memory, because I haven’t seen ToD this century, I recall that the opening musical number and action sequence were everything right about the Indy franchise. Dazzling spectacle mixed with good jokes and fun, clever, exciting action – – although granted, the poison/antidote premise was far-fetched – – right up until the boat escape on the mountain.
The middle is a mess, but then the climactic scene on the bridge was also pure movie magic.
There is no defense for Billy or Short Round, but they’re still both preferable to Shia LeBouf.
I just don’t know what to think about this news.
http://www.eonline.com/news/445128/james-cameron-now-planning-three-avatar-sequels
Goodnight :unobtanium:
Eh, whats to think? They’ll make 600 million each and I wont see those either. Dont worry they’ll be lost to the annals of film history soon enough.
Your crap joke for the day:
A man was walking along the street when he saw a ladder going into the clouds. As any of us would do, he climbed the ladder. He reached a cloud, upon which sat a rather plump and very ugly woman. “Screw me or climb the ladder to success,” she said.
No contest, thought the man, so he climbed the ladder to the next cloud. On this cloud was a slightly thinner woman, who was slightly easier on the eye. “Screw me hard or climb the ladder to success,” she said. “Well,” thought the man, “might as well carry on.”
On the next cloud was an even more attractive lady who, this time, was quite attractive. “Screw me now or climb the ladder to success,” she uttered. As he turned her down and went on up the ladder, the man thought to himself that this was getting better the further he went.
On the next cloud was an absolute beauty. Slim, attractive, the lot. “Screw me here and now or climb the ladder to success,” she flirted. Unable to imagine what could be waiting, and being a gambling man, he decided to climb again. When he reached the next cloud, there was a 400 pound ugly man, arm pit hair showing, flies buzzing around his head.
“Who are you?” the man asked.
“Hello” said the ugly fat man, “I’m Cess!”
http://www.tesco.com/direct/suck-uk-dart-coat-hooks/606-3748.prd
!!
Brilliant crap joke, Van.
Brillianter response, EssBee.
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EssBee’s coat will do nicely.
Morning Pan
Hubby is working from home today :cheerful:
I keep working away.
Now… it is time to have my head and neck pushed, pulled and twisted.
CW: for Red 2 to start
Time for some Helen Mirren lurve..
The original was a better movie.
This won’t be available much longer:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/07/download-five-years-of-tordotcom-stories
Brills
Four furry beings lay in my way of motivation today.
http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/why-does-my-dog-cock-her-head?WT.mc_id=ClinicFB
check out the No. 5 breed….
http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/the-15-quietest-dog-breeds
i beg to differ
Did you know it’s a long weekend here in Canadaland? I completely forgot all about it until my therapist asked what my plans were for the long weekend. Extra day off! Woo Hoo!
From the latest Ansible:
• True Romance Dept. ‘But then the tips of her breasts became erect on their own, and the flood in her loins washed morals, despair, and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his. Now his big generative jockey was inside her pelvic saddle, riding, riding, riding, and she was eagerly swallowing it swallowing it swallowing it with the saddle’s own lips and maw – all this without a word.’ (Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood, 2012)
The bonfire of the what now?
50 Furlongs of Grey?
generative…jockey…?
Better than the geriatric jockey.
Something to look forward too.
The geriatric jockey rides his horse 20 mph slower than everyone else, with his blinker on for miles.
CW: Clue
pure silliness
Long, but interesting read. The guy was kicked out of Nirvana AND Soundgarden, then quit Mindfunk, but still managed to make something of his life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/magazine/evermans-war.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
Wow. Quite the life hes led
48:
http://www.listchallenges.com/50-must-see-science-fiction-movies?ref=share
35.
Not bad for this Pixie!!!
(Phew. Thank god for all of those Star Wars movies…)
What were the 2 you hadn’t seen, Van?
Alien Nation and THX 1138
I’ve seen clips from the former and just the end of the latter.
45. The ones I didn’t see were: Alien Nation, Cloverfield, Invaders from Mars, Sphere, and West World. I will gladly check out 4 of these, but still refuse to see Cloverfield as it embodies all of the aspects of shitty movie making that have become so prevalent recently (i.e., shaky cam, hand-held-camera-that-is-actually-of-a-shittier-quality-than-a-real-hand-held-camera-so-the-audience-is-really-really-aware-that-it-is-a-hand-held-camera-and-not-some-professional, etc.).
Westworld is a classic and well worth checking out.
Of course it’s also the film Crichton cribbed the plot from for Jurassic Park from his earlier self.
Nah. Cloverfield was quite good.
I didn’t choose to watch Cloverfield, but I was pleasantly surprised. I hear all of the complaints about whiny hipster characters, etc. – but the movie was a fun ride.
44
Only 30 for me. 🙁
Does it count if I have seen some of them more than once?
Several are films I have seen pieces of but for some reason, never seen the entire film.
46
48 as well. But jeeebus was Sphere awful. The stereotypical neat film that’s killed by the ending.
To be fair I dont think 1/3 of these should be classified as “must see”.
43. Taint nobody seen Invaders From Mars???
I’ve seen the original, not the remake.
Taint
Rest in Peace, good sir:
http://www.blastr.com/2013-8-2/star-trek-batman-babylon-5-actor-michael-ansara-dead-91
He gave us a lot of good characters.
Had Happy Hour with some mates last night who said “Pacific Rim” was very good. Described it as a 1950’s B movie done really well.
I don’t know what that means but am now intrigued.
In other news –
Trying to replace my Brake, Master Cylinder. First brake line fitting came loose with no problem. 2nd one refused to budge and has now rounded off.
Swell.
My unfinished project list grows larger.
Please feel free to insert comic book cursing HERE.
As long as you don’t cross into Q-bert cursing. We might need to have an intervention, then.
Cool:
http://vimeo.com/71065220
Yes please. More?
Your crap joke for the evening:
An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his advice on reviving her husband’s libido.
‘What about trying Viagra?’ asked the doctor.
‘Not a chance’, she said. ‘He won’t even take an aspirin.’
‘Not a problem,’ replied the doctor. ‘Give him an ‘Irish Viagra’. It’s when you drop the Viagra tablet into his coffee. He won’t even taste it, give it a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went..’
It wasn’t a week later when she called the doctor, who directly inquired as to her progress.
The poor dear exclaimed, ‘Oh, faith, bejaysus and begorrah! T’was horrid! Just terrible, doctor!’
‘Really? What happened?’ asked the doctor…
‘Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee and the effect was almost immediate. He jumped straight up, with a twinkle in his eye
and with his pants a-bulging fiercely! With one swoop of his arm, he sent me cups and tablecloth flying, ripped me clothes to tatters and took me then and there passionately on the tabletop! It was a nightmare, I tell you, an absolute nightmare!’
‘Why so terrible?’ asked the doctor, ‘ Do you mean the sex your husband provided wasn’t good?’
‘Freakin’ jaysus, ’twas the best sex I’ve had in 25 years! But sure as I’m sittin’ here, I’ll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again…
NSFW: http://vimeo.com/7985387
That …
Um.
I er…
no
AAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!! WOOOOOOOO!
Gah, a tiny hole in my Joe Satriani shirt!
Jack Mangan teaches entropy to the masses.
dem feels
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/songs-that-define-the-90sfor-better-or-worse For your 90s Recall.
Wait how can these define the 90’s when 98% OF them came out between 90 – 95? Was there a musical blackhole from 96-99?
Now that I think about it there was..
I miss this stuff. Gimmie my 90’s back!
The computer says no.
The computer is a right bastard.
95-99 *was* rather a musical black hole, yes.
You would deny the awesomeness of this song?
http://youtu.be/1OrNS2zbTZg
*sigh*
Have you guys seen these? they are priceless
http://starchertrek.com/
LOLOLOLOLOL
Thanks for the link TEB. Pulled me out of a funk of a day.
Starchertrek. hehehe
They had me at “Phrasing!”
Its Shark Week, people.
Wel he was good in The Crow Road adaption:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23570354
Kingdom Rush is free this month from IGN:
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/02/ign-free-game-of-the-month-kingdom-rush
So apparently, the next Doctor has been introduced. George something or other… they went REALLY young this time.
I may be getting my English headlines confused.
I find it rather weird the William Hartnell was roughly the same age when he played the first Doctor.
Make up obviously has improved over the years…
WTF:
http://twitter.com/jasonsanford/status/364026569393569792/photo/1
Oh, Van. You can be so provincial sometimes. 🙂
More ruined goodies in there:
http://io9.com/tour-baikonur-the-worlds-first-and-largest-operationa-1019029148
Ah Russia.
I walked all over the Florida State Fair last year looking for the fried butter because I wanted to see what it would be like. Couldn’t find it anywhere. Had to settle for fried twinkies and fried peanut butter cup.
..and then there is this:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/998430_10151810666018980_1944220774_n.jpg
Today (Sunday Funday), served up a double decker shit sandwich.
I ended the day eating an ice cream sandwich.
Boo!
Jesus F. Christ, today.
Boo!2
:Lo Pan strikes back.
Went to see the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 last night. Both put on a good show, but Matchbox 20 were the obvious headliners with a set that cost at least 100 times more than the Goo Goo Dolls. Excellent night.
Fuck:
http://usvsth3m.com/post/57411403201/the-inevitable-sweary-doctor-who-malcolm-tucker
:biggrin:
66%:
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/how-geeky-are-you/
Only fair to tell you that the photograph at the beginning of the quiz is of Clive Sinclair..
58%???? Unfair! That quiz is not so much about being geeky as on how much actual programming background an knowledge you have.
45%
Im okay with this score but I take offense to the pretentious commentary that followed.
“You’re just “meh” with technology. One minute smugly downloading a cool new smartphone app to show off, the next staring in despair at the Microsoft Word help system to write a simple letter.”
Im not just some wannabe, hipster chick.
My calendar says “Monday, Civic Holiday (CAN)”. Happy Civic Holiday to the Canadian Deadpan crew.
Yes! It’s a holiday here in the colonies. I get to spend the day assembling WWC badges. meh.
Well happy generally meaningless holiday anyway. I meant to ask you last week why you had a three day weekend.
Curious, because I plan on spending the day trying to fix the brakes on my Honda Civic.
Coincidence ?
These always worked when I used Honda. There are few things the Hundred Hand Slap can’t fix.
http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Category:E._Honda's_Special_Attacks
special
Or if all else fails:
http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ken-sf2-bonusstage-car.jpg
(OK, OK, I’m done)
It appears that I must bleed my brakes.
… again.
Cribbed from the Morris’s FB feed:
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/06/23/classic-movie-scenes-imagined-as-pages-in-little-golden-books/
My city is on this map!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/happiest-states-_n_3696160.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
OMG that’s not the Longmont that I used to know..
I like Longmont a lot more than you do. Good thing I live there and you don’t!
We we’re just there at diff times in its history. Thats all.
Perhaps. Or perhaps the town I came from was so horrible that Longmont is a Nirvana.
One item with Longmont: tomorrow is “national night out” and our neighborhood is having an event/movie in the park. Food is provided by Chick-fil-a and Target. ARgh!!
That being said, we will be our doing Geeks Who Drink with the Lo Pans, so won’t be there to glare at the food donators.
HoooAH! What is “beer and trivia”, Alex?
Longmount?
Canada wins!
Mmm pretty sure Switzerland “wins”.
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_591_27-insane-but-true-early-versions-famous-characters_p27/#14
The whole list is interesting, but I had no idea about #14, which references a certain ancient Chinese god, sometimes seen around here.
Didnt pass the audition?!??!?!? Phooey!
I would love to have seen Hong as Sulu.
Back to the drawing board:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/08/the-worlds-first-lab-grown-meat-burger-tastes-terrible-surprise/
Stick to the deer
Of course taste is something that they can fix with chemical additives. (“Sour cream and onion” burger anyone?)
I will say that I am intrigued with this “proof in principle” test though.
It offers the possibility of “hamburger” for future space travelers who have no room for cattle or can’t afford to boost the weight of a meat locker out of our gravity.
Once in space or (on their secret base on Phobos) they can just grow their own cookout!
I’m not sure if Malcolm Reynolds will approve of this or not…
Sure beets crackers.
*wonders if anyone even remembers “Farscape” anymore.*
I frelling remember.
Or they can just get it from the replicators. “Burger… sour cream and onion… hot”
Saw the ISS tonight, as it scooted across the western sky.
I’ll bet they wish they could grow some BBQ.
Or a cybernetic sex slave.
That’s always a close second to a steak.
Last minute delayed catch up:
nc
Essbee: I would recommend an IPA receipe for your amber malt. considering your previously stated preferences.
Pixie said: “and it has Joss Whedon as a writer, so how much more grimm could it be than some of the Buffy episodes?”
You mean Joss ‘kill every beloved character’ Whedon?
Ralph!
oh Ralph!