HiFiPalooza, Part 2!
More content dedicated to Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity.
Your show notes for the week
Jack Mangans Deadpan #232: Bad Sweaters
Promo – Saturday B Movie Reel (http://tuningintoscifitv.com/tag/sbmr/)
Hi Fi Palooza with:
Kurt in St. George
EssBee
Justa J0e
Greasy Comments
DJ Bunny
Lo Pan
Justa J0e
Vanamonde
Lost Ralph
Vanamonde – First of the week
The mmmmmmeetup is the first weekend of May. Are you coming?
Earbuddies are happening now!
HiFi Palooza. Send your recordings in to Jack on either the book, movie, or both.
Send in content: 480-788-JMDP(5637) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
Closing Music: Sloppy Medley, Part 1.
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First of the first….to be
Lejon is our first… our last… our everything.
Goodnight :Barry:
Omega this week then.
Morning Pan
Slept in
Me, too. Today is skating day.
Skating? In Texas?
Nothing like a near-collision on the freeway to jolt one’s self awake in the early morning.
Hi Pan. Make it a grape day!
I have blackberries. Can I have a blackberry day instead?
Hey Van! Does Jack have our Hi Fi recording yet? *pokes Vanamonde*
Never mind. Jack answered the question at the end of the episode 😉
Your show notes for the week
Jack Mangans Deadpan #232: Bad Sweaters
Promo – Saturday B Movie Reel (http://tuningintoscifitv.com/tag/sbmr/)
Hi Fi Palooza with:
Kurt in St. George
EssBee
Justa J0e
Greasy Comments
DJ Bunny
Lo Pan
Justa J0e
Vanamonde
Lost Ralph
Vanamonde – First of the week
The mmmmmmeetup is the first weekend of May. Are you coming?
Earbuddies are happening now!
HiFi Palooza. Send your recordings in to Jack on either the book, movie, or both.
Send in content: 480-788-JMDP(5637) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
Closing Music
Heading home.
Always nice when you get a seat on a train.
Euphamism?
Traveling in Japan?
Scotland to England
“Why Is the GOP Suddenly Turning Against College?”
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-is-the-gop-suddenly-turning-against-college/254337/
CP: Get Rhythm — Johnny Cash
CW: First two episodes of ‘The River’
Colour me unimpressed.
So far..
Let me know if that changes, Van. I haven’t watched yet, and will check it off of my list if you give it a thumbs down.
Fun episode, everyone who contributed! I like hearing what everyone thought of the book and film. Ed and I agree, the subtitle could be “Diary of an Asshole.”
🙂
So the rumour vine says they are doing a remake of Robr Cop. *sigh*
No, I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar.
I just got around to reading the entire “You Can Play” article and watching the video the Lo Pan posted over the weekend and now sit in my office at Evil crying. How smart to talk about “casual homophobia” and to take the bigotry out of it. Also smart to take the political and religious issues out of it. The NHL is about hockey. I really like the idea that a bunch of beefy white guys are stepping up to do this, and I love that Brendan Burke’s (assumedly) straight brother and father are leading the project. In case you missed Lo’s original:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/play-behind-patrick-burke-bold-effort-using-nhl-143441932.html
Mam yes mam!!!
Wow, according to my e-mail I’ve inherited a giant ass sum of money. All I have to do is remit 55% of it to the lawyer. 55%? That’s a hell of a commission. I think I’ll pass 😆
It’s raining, how strange.
Is that like “It’s raining men”… only different?
No it’s more like, “it’s March, why isn’t it snowing”
Alex Werner, who did some cool music for a German medieval sword fighting group, has posted some new music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju64CGtfVzo&feature=related
The problem with having a tornado drill when it’s nearly 80 out is that everyone goes outside and doesn’t want to go back in…. silly temp workplace.
So they tell everyone to go stand outside during a tornado?
No, we were supposed to stand in the stair wells, but that did not happen with some people.
I think having them stand outside would have been funny 🙂
Believe me I wish a tornado would take a few of them away 🙂
Logical:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=382261745136618&set=a.223098324386295.105971.205344452828349&type=1&ref=nf
:biggrin:
So the Stanley Cup playoffs are coming up again soon. After world championships and 2 NHL seasons, I think enthusiasm for singing has deflated.
My new idea:
Choose a movie that your defeated opponents need to watch (but go easy on the sex and gore … Keep it to a tame R or nicer…). The movie -watcher must supply audio of less than 5 minutes proving that they watched it — audio play-by-play, a review, fanfic, whatever.
Thoughts?
I’m in. But I think you knew that already.
Should we say ahead of time what our movie choices would be for our opposite? We should also consider alternates in case our first choice is not easily found.
I’d say yes to both.
Alternate choices also give sensitive viewers a break. E.G.: If my opponent doesn’t want to watch “Bloody Intestine Derby, part VII”, they can instead watch my 2nd choice, “The Heffalump Movie.”
Count me in.
I want to play, but will have to decline. I’m behind on my High Fidelity recordings as well as my Earbuddy stuff.
I’ll get those in, but for now, I’m working 2 jobs and coming up for air when I can.
:heart:
Yuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Sounds great to me. I’m in.
Me too.
…There’s the snow.
There’s the 54F (that’s 12.2C for you non-‘Mericans)and clear night skies. ;P
Still too cold for The early instant film to develop properply.
Remember armpits are warm.
End of an era:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/13/technology/encyclopedia-britannica-books/index.htm
I’m in, Jack.
Thank goodness for that comma.
Comma, indeed.
A
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Omega
Fucking Brayden Coburn. Wheres Bunny? She got some spainin to do…
:tongue:
And fuck Ryan Reaves while we’re at it!!!!! Jilted lover…
Wheres Bunny???? She got some… oh there you are.
And fuck Troy Brouwer while…
Oh I’m done.
CP: This Modern Love — Bloc Party
Think the Avs need Calgary to win tonite. I dont like it. But Ill take it.
Yotes needed it too– preferably in Regulation. Sucks it didnt go that way. Grrr
In the weirdest cultural mixup imaginable, the MST3K Gamera movies are only available on Netflix streaming until St. Patrick’s Day.
Muh… guess I’ll be buying those one day after all.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand EssBee does Dallas again. Leaving the house at 4:45 this morning.
Have a great day, DP!
Ok, who broke the Deadpan this morning?
Here I had a cute post about kitty and I sharing a cheese scone for breakfast but noooo. I couldn’t post it. After all, it’s all about me you know. :happy:
Well now we know what broke it…
zing!!!!! 😉
*wiggles nose at Lo Pan*
Very, very, very, crap joke:
NEWFLASH – Today the Energiser Bunny was arrested and charged with battery.
Umm, I’ll get my coat.
Lord…even for you Van, thats… wow.
Watt the hell was that?
Joule rue the day!
OMG ditto, you need to bolt.
I just don’t have the charge for that.
I gotta a little charge out of it.
Ohm my god. Why am I so negative?
Resistance is futile.
Hard to be positive when this joke is becoming terminal
If I had to grade these jokes, they’d all get Ds.
Not a triple A among them, just like my hardware cabinet.
Dunno, theyre giving me quite a jolt.
Hubby made me join Google+ yesterday. Unlike him, I was accepted right a way, they didn’t question my existence.
I’m sorry, who are you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4&ob=av2e
I prefer Eminence Front.
It’s a put on.
Pfft! She’s just a bomb.
CP:Battle Lava – Untitled – 37
From ChipMusic.org RSS feed….. I’m glad I discovered this
Simulation Day.
lemme check. . . yep. I spelled that correctly.
I think you forgot a t 😉
We will find out shortly if I can effectively sTimulate the manikins.
Andrew McCarthy could…
I have Geth to destroy.
Can you destroy this too while you are at it? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u7N-33PbR-g
I’m sorry… but I cant wait to see this disaster 🙂
More alien robot porn? 😉
Also more Liam Neeson porn!!!
I saw this trailer when we saw John Carter. I can’t decide if it’ll be good or not.
When they reboot “Austin Powers”, Liam Neeson will play Fat Bastard.
LOL
Thought you posted “Lelslie Nelson porn”.:dizzy:
Lelslie = Leslie
still, … ick
http://tinyurl.com/7wuggjq
Noooooooooo!
You better, you better, get Geth.
See what you did there!!!!!!!
Rama has been sneaking around:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/03/nope-thats-not-the-death-star-sucking-the-life-out-of-our-sun/
And the Ramans do everything in 3s.
They also make a mean noodle soup
This joke cost $0.11.
I’ll buy THAT for a d… wait
Jokes still cost less than a postage stamp. ‘Bout time something did
Cool:
http://io9.com/5893143/when-played-on-tesla-coils-dueling-banjos-sounds-even-more-ominous
That was cool
I’m a little depressed today. Our poodle, yes that one, is in declining health and the initial prognosis from the vet isn’t good. We’ll get blood work results back tomorrow and then we’ll have to make some decisions. Ginger is 16 years old and we have had her since she was a puppy, two years longer than we have been parents.
*hugs*
Thanks Bunny.
More hugs.
I’m dreading when that will happen to our dog.
Thanks ditto, we’ve lost other pets in the past and have joked about when you buy a pet, you’re buying a future tragedy. But we are lucky that we have had the 16 years we got with her enriching our lives.
Yeah, our cat is 16 and not the picture of health either. Every time we take her to the vet’s, we worry it will be her last
Eerily you could say the same about marriage.
I’ve met Ginger. She’s a sweet dog 🙁
Manly hugs, Rhett. Here’s hoping for the best.
Thanks Jack.
Im not a pet person…but I do know theyre a giant part of the family. I ditto Jacks hoping for the best.
True story:
New baby girl is born.
Nurse, “what will you name your new bundle of sweet joy?”
Mom, (pronunciation of name is: Ab-sid-dee)
Nurse, “How do you spell that for the birth certificate?
Mom, “Abcde”
sigh.
That kid is F’ed.
You mean “Effed”
No wait you’re right…
CP: Dancing with Myself covered by Handsome Hank and his Lonesome Boys
I think Lawrence Welk has been reincarnated
Just watched the latest Alcatraz.
They are obviously doing a good job (as Rhettro suggested), as the lead actress doesn’t look that large in the boob department.
So it seems no one wanted to show up in goal for the Sabres OR the Avs
Avs tie it with 1.1 seconds left in the game then win it in the shootout.
To say they pulled this two points out of their ass is an understatement. It may be stinky… but its my kind of stinky.
The Av’s are hungry. They want it.
Lets see if the Yotes can show up, too.
May as well start tonite!
Go Yotes!
Wee doggie – Amazon Prime is adding a bunch of shows from the Discovery networks. We may just bliss out on “How it’s Made”.
I’ve started watching the animated series ‘Avatar – The Last Airbender’ (via Netflix) that some of you have raved about in the past.
Enjoying it so far.
Hey Pan
The sun is rising and so am I. Coincidence?
See If I said that I’d be accused of sexual harassment.
… or prophecy.
My work computer is trying to convince me the internet isn’t working. I find this baffling since I’m able to post to Deadpan
Well, that’s just great. Game over, man!
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/11/chess-championships-lose-sex-appeal-with-new-no-cleavage-rule/
Yeah, John was telling me about this last week. I can understand them wanting to make it about the game.
It really was the chess version of the tennis “grunt”. Or… so I hear…
Not to worry Lo, there is is always the women’s chess boxing tournaments.
WHERE???? WHERE?!????!?!?!?!?
*falls over. hits head*
Check aaaand MATE!
Oh look… its the Avs and Devils tonite
*giggles*
Considering how the Kansas City Scouts became the Devils, I might be cheering for them. Well that and the fact that the Avs are trying to push the Yotes off the bracket. 😉
Hey hey hey… The Scouts became the Rockies became the Devils. Dont you forget it!!!!
Not that thats any less reason to root against the Avs for ya 😉
Lo Pan earns his hockey merit badge.
I fear my job is turning me I to Agent Smith, just without the style and invulnerability.
Do you get the cool shades?
And the ability to split in half?
And the ability to shave Natalie Portman’s head?
Wait no…
Also, I would say that they got a jersey upgrade when they became the Devils.
http://www.900chml.com/Pics/Hamilton%20Hockey%20Heroes/untitled.JPG
LOL
Wasnt it more like this before they moved?
http://www.grandstandsports.com/images/17999.jpg
/hockey snob
LOL Taste the rainbow.
Chico! My favorite Rockie/Devil of all time.
Not my favorite rocky devil, though. That’s a different guy.
I think someone should sue the 1970s for the Scouts/Rockies uniforms.
I submit Exhibit A:
http://www.plaidstallions.com/fashion.html
OMG there goes my work day… wow!!!!
OMG there goes my early childhood…
CP: Latest Wander Radio
Wolf has went all Poe.
Awesomeness:
http://fullcircle.asu.edu/2012/03/engineering-attractions-helped-illuminate-night-of-the-open-door/
Sheer awesomeness!
Woot! Mangan child spotted!
wOOt x2.
As an aside, through genetic manipulation, I have witnessed female versions of Jack and myself playing a Lego simulation device together.
Rhett was Tom Hanks, I was Peter Scolari.
LOL
Now you just have to train them to promote Spherical Tomi. 😉
And how to build one. 😉
Über Awesomeness. Lil’ Mangan was thrilled, Im sure.
🙂 If I’m correct, that males 2 Lil’ Mangans in the spotlight now.
Jack has made a porn?
-males +makes
A porn? No, not A porn.
[Disclaimer for those eager to create trouble] This is satire. [/Disclaimer for those eager to create trouble]
Satire? Half man, half horse?
Phew! After saving multiple mannekins from impending cardiac doom, a girl needs some delicious food to re-energize. SomeBurros is on tap for lunch grub… (A definite must-have for any visitors to Phoenix.)
*cough cough*
If only I was more cosmopolitan in my tastes.
Cosmopolitan?!!?
Why, YES please. I’ll have one.
I am, in the local lingo, a parky eater.
-How to drive your pesky eater wild in bed.
-How to punish men for being scum.
-Why you’re too fat and not good enough.
In this month’s issue of Cosmopolitan!
I’m wondering if Jack had a hand in this article.
http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/7680767/new-jersey-devils-bad-reputation
I heart every word of that article. I heart Buccigross.
shameless plug/
Say! Wasnt he a guest on Jack Mangan’s Deadpan? Say… around episode 78?
/shameless plug
We should invite him back. 🙂
About 90 minutes until some homemade bread is out of the oven. 🙂
You know, I don’t think scripted telemarketing calls using computerized voices should self-identify as John or any other name. Unless they are an AI. And I can’t believe an AI would be conservative.
Or they should go with names from Epic Fantasy.
“Hello, this is Azarbargoth Doomgorr calling to notify you that your Cable Bill is past due.”
Lets Go Coyotes!
Lets Go Devils!
…we have playoff spots to nab (& horrible movies to make the losing players watch. Muahahahha)
Go WHO now?
*cough* 😉
Avs/Devils great game so far but OMG Avs are losing their legs fast!
Well if it cant end in a tie… and the Avs cant win… I’ll take this outcome 🙂
FUCK of a game. Wow.
Marco!
Polo?
The Flames are burning up the Yotes so far. Curses.
I’m pulling for the Yotes this season. I really am. They deserve the playoffs.
As long as it doesn’t affect the Avs… 😉
I like the Avs a lot, but I may have to scream obscenities at them on the 22nd.
1. Go CU Buffs
2. Go Ohio Bobcats
That is all.
In the immortsl words of Stryper: “To Hell With the Rangers.”
Er, something like that. . .
North American only, but You may still have time to grab this freebie:
http://bastardbooks.tumblr.com/post/19345983253/free-copy-of-the-winds-of-khalakovo-by-bradley-p
Have you read this author?
Nope, the reviews I’ve read about the book have been favourable though.
… at first this made me laugh. Then I thought about how guy is a contender for the US Presidency and it became less funny.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/12/in_his_heart_rick_santorum_knows_that_dutch_people_are_forcibly_euthanized
“Santorum knows in his heart that elderly Dutch people are routinely euthanized against their will by doctors. He believes this to be true, no matter what the elite media tries to tell him.
It’s the same way I know that one in four Laotians are born with an extra finger and that the most common name in Chad is Chad. It’s just what I believe. “
A country full of Chads, what a wonderful world that would be.
Well, as long as they’re not always just hanging.
What if they dangle?
Puts a new spin on the term “Hanging Chad”
Ok, so everybody beat me to it *sigh*
I guess it was just too obvious
Morning Pan
I decided not to wear my contacts today. No reason, just because.
Going for the haughty Librarian look today?
Didn’t Maggie Gyllenhaal nail that in Secretary? 😉
*breathy sigh* How shall we work out your late fees? */breathy sigh*
^winning!
Word of the day: princesse lointaine
An ideal but unattainable woman.
Sounds like an anime character. 😉
Thank you, Mario, but your princess lointaine is in another castle!
Lointastic?
I think I need to bake some cookies. Now to decide what kind…
Votes for something with nuts and/or chocolate.
Or perhaps lemon drop cookies with powdered sugar dusting.
You’re right, that’s a difficult choice.
I’ve decided to make cookies that do have nuts, chocolate chips, coconut, maple syrup and a bunch of other good stuff in them.
Looks like a nice day to air out your Chad.
“I love the smell of …” no, I just can’t go there.
My first batch of cookies are in the oven, happily baking their brains out. In about ten minutes I’ll put in the second batch.
At the flicks waiting for ‘The Raven’ to start.
Judging from the reviews, a diaster awaits..
If Poe is killed by an insect-like gem hidden behind an eyepatch, I’m suing.
A waste of Mr Cusack’s talents.
Still Joan Cusack didn’t pop up anywhere in the film I could see.
CP: Mr. Pessimist — Tears for Fears
Hi, everybody!
Back home, yippee!
I am so-so-so enjoying the Danish version of The Killing. Mwah, Van.
You welcome home you!
I am very, very torn about the Dharum Ravi charges, and now verdict. I think he clearly violated Tyler Clementi’s privacy, and I think that I would consider what he did hateful. I struggle with “hate crime.” Maybe. I’m just not sure. And I think it’s super problematic to link the cyber-bullying to the suicide. I just do. That’s all very difficult to say given the stats of gay teen suicides.
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/16/whats_the_right_sentence_for_hate/singleton/
Yuck. The whole thing… just yuck. This never should have happened in the first place.
Judging only by the facts presented in the Salon article, it sounds like this kid could be facing a 10 year sentence and deportation for being a dick.
Ironically I was just explaining to a young girl today that, while boys were trouble they weren’t generally “evil”.
“Speaking from experience, boys are trouble because we tend not to think beyond the initial “BIG IDEA” – ‘Hey … I’ll bet I can hit that cat over there with this BB Gun’, ‘Hey, … I’ll bet if I timed it just right, I could drop this rock from the overpass and hit a car’, ‘Hey, instead of hauling this trashcan full of leaf clippings to the street … I could just pour some gas on them and light a match.’
Young guys just don’t tend to think beyond the initial ‘Hey, I’ll bet I could …!’
This seems to be one of those cases. ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if some of the guys could access this camera.’
No real thought to what happens next.
How any of us survive our youth is really pretty remarkable.
And, the front yard is now weeded, trimmed, and mulched. At least I’ve only got one front yard to deal with now 🙂
“weeded, trimmed, and mulched”
Audacity 2.0 has been released.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/news?id=2012-03-13/2.0-release
Crashes twices as fast, wipes twice as much data, and removes two times as much hair from your head!
Oooh, sign me right up for some of that!
Did a bit of crude editing with version 2.0 recently and it never crashed.
Very unsporting of Audacity I thought.
I must be lucky. Audacity has never crashed on me.
I’m in a dress. We’re going to a wedding in two weeks so I’m trying to decide what I want to wear. The one I want to wear makes me look overly busty. Will wear it till hubby comes home and see what he thinks
*overly busty*
Deadpan has finally corrupted me.
Sometimes you have to choose a dress by how it looks on the rack.
Nice rack Jack
*win*
Nice platform puzzler in flash (no iPads):
http://armorgames.com/play/12409/one-and-one-story
My doorbell rang. I’m in this fairly form fitting dress and white swat socks and I had to answer the door. I’m not sure what the delivery man thought of my fashion choices
swat = sweat
Good clarification. I was going to ask you to bring some swat socks with your bag of goodies to Az.
Swat socks might come in handy for a single woman, home alone at night.
I gave Woody (my troublesome orange tabby) several timeouts today, hoping they would deter him from ruining my ever-so-precisely placed rabbit ears antenna.
After the third timeout, I think my deterrant resulted in success.
That’s 1 for the human race.
I have to give my woody several time-outs as well.
Er… I’ll get Van’s coat
University of Denver hockey just made it to the finals of the WCHA Final Five.
Next stop… the Frozen Four tourney.
Finished ME3. It wasn’t very long. I think I only put in 15 or 20 hours.
Really, I’m already at about 13 hours and still have an inconceivable amount of work to do, at least judging from my galactic readiness rating.
My fighting strength is up around 1400, but I’m still at a 50% effectiveness, so I don’t even have the minimum yet to launch my counter attack.
*hint*
Try it with out the dark sunglasses on.
You will never get above 50% unless you do the online PVP. What you need is to fill your green bar to be ready to fight. I had just under 7,000 troops when I went for the end game.
“Inconceivable” is the only word I saw there.
Episode relevant:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/06/nick-hornby-mp3-record-shops
Crap joke for the day:
Just been stopped in the street today by a Lady conducting a survey…
She asked me what I knew about dwarfs…
I said ”Very Little”
That’s the short answer.
Still amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzTt1VnHRM&sns=em
I have a friend who works with Very young deaf kids. She’s currently working with a three year old that just recently got an implant. Apparently it’s an interesting thing watching them learn of a whole new world
My laserdisc player appears to be dead. The true story of Han Solo vs. Greedo may end up getting lost in the mists.
We do have a DVD with the original “real” Star Wars. As well as the laser disk
We are off to catch “John Carter” at the matinee. It will be interesting to see how it compares to the book, although I can already tell some differences from the previews.
I enjoyed the movie. It was a popcorn flick. Have just started reading Princess of Mars for comparison.
Strange things happening down on the farm:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/mysterious-hog-farm-explosions-stump-scientists.ars
Dog update: We got the blood results back from the vet and Ginger doesn’t have any organ damage. She is doing much better after the last couple days of antibiotics and her appitie has returned. Looks like we are going to be dog owners for a little longer. 🙂
Great news.
Thanks Van.
Woo Hoo for a clean bill of health for Rhettro puppy :cheerful:
Yea!
Awwwww wonderful news! Enjoy your family member that much longer, Rhettro. :o) Our four-legged family is so vital to our own happiness.
w00t!! Show us the picture to celebrate!
It’s somewhere. LOL
Hubby is installing Dragon Age Origin on his Xbox as I speak
The strange thing about his DAO is, when we went to the store DAO new was $30 or he could get DAO collectors edition with all the DLC new for $20. *shrug*. Who can explain the strangeness that is EB Games?
I did a favour for my Boo today. She sent me a text that said, “less than three”. It took me a half hour to figure out what she meant. Doh!
Well I’m glad you worked it out, I would have still been befuddled.
Saw this guy playing at the folk club tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENcOuPxWPW8
The family enjoyed John Carter. We caught it in 2D as it sounded like it was a conversion job for the 3D and I’m not wasting my money on those anymore.
The movie is rather loosely based on “A Princess of Mars”. The book itself is a fairly convoluted tale, but I think in some ways the movie made things more convoluted on top of that than it needed to be. Still, for $5/ticket at the early showing, not a bad deal.
Colorado. Avalanche. Hockey.
CD: Guinness Draught
CE: Homemade pizza
Hello from a St. Patrick’s Day house party on a wet, rainy day in SoCal!
I’ve been busy most of this past week with a special project for my former boss. Yes, he’s paying me.
I’m currently a little more than halfway through the book version of High Fidelity. I plan to finish it, then watch the movie, then catch up on Deadpan episodes, then record and send in my own thoughts.
I know I owe an Earbuddies recording, and I will get it in when I can. I also want to participate in the hockey playoffs again this year. I don’t know which team or movie I want yet, though. I’ll get back to you on that.
It’s cool, Amy. Other people are still getting up to speed too. We probably won’t pick our NHL Playoff teams until next week.
Glad things are going well for you! We missed Pi day without your reminder, though. 😉
So my “green” beer for St. Patty’s was Great Divide’s Fresh Hop. A good IPA but not really any amazing hop aroma or flavor.
An Ommegang Rare Vos for me, s Boddington’s Pub Ale for the lady.
New York Belgian and English. . . Sorry, ancestors.
Can you smell the faint whiff of desperation;
http://boingboing.net/2012/03/18/kindle-astroturf-for-sale.html
Though, functionally, not all that different from “marketing”, just more honest about it.
The tumbleweeds are on the rampage today.
Lesser known is the story of how St. Patrick drove out the tumbleweeds on the following day.
So, was kind of drink does fermented tumbleweed give you, anyway?
I assume it tastes like Diet Mountain Dew.
This is the song he sang while driving the fermented tumbleweeds:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/The+Hunter+s+Purse/3sdLqQ?src=5
Slept in, rainy morning here. Hopefully the sun will dry it out and we can bike ride later. Now to finish up Landry.
My head has been full of tumbleweeds today.
I must remember NOT to go for seconds when the Bushmills is being passed around.
Looks like the NHL Western Conference has left the Deadpan speechless today.
A win is a win.
Likes alot 🙂
Uncharacteristically lousy Sunday weather led to watching Annie with the kids. I was all set to click away to an alternative if they started throwing rotten fruit at the computer, but – – they liked it a lot. I recommend giving it a try, if you find yourself in the presence of little ones.
You know how am I with musicals. . . but I was pretty damn pleased to find something that they’d connect with so deeply.
Goodnight :hard-knock life:
My daughter is also particularly fond of Annie. It’s not my favorite musical, but I hope to use it as leverage to get my daughter to watch some other musicals at some point or other.
ZP puts the boot in on the Syndicate remake:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/5478-Syndicate
Vintage anti-STD posters:
http://www.medicalbillingschool.org/blog/50-vintage-std-propaganda-posters
Morning Pan
Today is starting the same as every other Monday morning. *sigh*
It’s the Monday blues..
In our case, it’s the Monday whites. Suppose to get a whole heap of snow today.
… aaaand, Cue the retraction.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/ieconomy/acclaimed-apple-critic-made-details
“My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism. And it’s not journalism. It’s theater.” – Mike Daisey
Interesting…
I can now use my iPhone guilt free..yeah!
Cough
It was hard to enjoy mine as much after hearing the story! Although you can’t really buy anything comparable not made in China in those sweatshops.
I heard the original story – haven’t heard the retraction from this weekend yet. The thing that stinks about this, beyond Mike Daisey lying, is that the light his story shone on deplorable working conditions at Foxcon is now shining elsewhere.
Is it wrong that, even though I was aware of this story, I still had no problem using my iPhone and iPad?
Not in the least.
To be ABSOLUTELY clear … There is almost NO electronic product that you can buy that doesn’t come with some component that is made at that Foxcon plant. Many PC based devices are manufactured completely by Foxcon.
One of the “red flags” that should have been noticed when this story first came out was how Daisey kept pounding the Apple name and never mentioned all of the other product that are made at Foxcon. This guy was seeking attention and big headlines so he made this a story about the company that is currently getting the most attention and headlines.
Adventures in kiting this weekend:
Air. Kite eating tree. Air. Windmill. Air. Powerline. Cow Field. End of kiting adventure.
Next week … chainsaw juggling!
I initially read that as adventures in killing….
Then knitting…
Then the penny dropped.
Well I do knit, but I wasn’t going to share that adventure with you 😛
The sun will come out… tomorrow.. bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow… there’ll be sun.
My dollars don’t have bottoms, just heads
woah..
It’s official, hubby’s moving to the high school in September. However, in a convoluted way that actually makes a lot of sense, will will be AP there. It’s a lateral move but still one he wanted.
Congratz!
AP?
Associate Principal. VP just spelled differently. He’s currently AP of a middle school. Will move to the high school in Sept
Did you ever just want to smack a coworker in the back of the head? I do today
Consistenly.
But I’ve been told that I have a violent streak at times.
:wicked:
She has to re-enter half the data because she did it wrong. However, because she overwrote the old data instead of starting a new page, I have to go back, as much as a year, to find the old data and re-enter that myself *sigh*. Luckily I caught her error before she finished entering. I’d hate to have to redo it all
CP: Disintegration — The Cure
A rather cool short film:
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/03/short-film-ruin/
Le sigh.
Le mew
LOL. I just realized Spring came while I was sleeping:
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox
Now if my brain wasn’t rotted from years of taking statins I could probably work out your rough latitude from that statement
No spring till till midnight in the UK.
Looks like Lo is going to have to make room at his place for Peyton Manning.
Denver, where busted up superstars come to retire.
I prefer that than having Tebola 😉
Early rumors are that it may be spreading in Jacksonville.
Where it began…so shall it end.
Lets hope it does NOT spread to Arizona!
Let us bend a knee and pray for no Tebow.
Can I bend a finger instead?
You can pull one if you like…
Yeah! My taxes have been filed!
I hope Uncle Sam is good to you.
If he is, that’ll be quite a shock. Being Canadian, I don’t have an Uncle Sam.
… Although, I do keep getting emails saying the IRS owes me money :happy:
hehe
I think they’ll accept Coffee Crisps as payment.
But is there some Canadian equivalent of an Uncle Sam character? Perhaps Aunt Loonie?
Marvelleous:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/03/this-amazing-device-just-made-wheelchairs-obsolete/
“404 not found”
*mutters* Stupid Internet.
SO fucking awesome and wonderful!
Finally saw this. What Lo Pan said 🙂
Let me repeat a phone conversation I just had:
Phone: *ring*
Me: Hello?
Phone: Is Ryah there (they pronounce my name wrong btw)
Me: Speaking
Phone: I’m calling on behalf of the Wild Rose Pa-
Me: *interrupts* I don’t have time for this.
Phone: Well, why don’t I call back later?
Me: Or not at all
Phone: *pause*
Phone: *pause*
Phone: … yes… I could do that…
Me: Good *click*
Ah yes, showing all that I am indeed the stereotypical polite Canadian :biggrin:
The suspense is killing me! What comes after ‘Wild Rose pa—-?”
Sorry, we’re going to have a provincial election soon. The Wild Rose Pary is just another group asking me to vote for them
YOB! YOB! WHERE’S MY YOB! YOB YOB! WHERE’S MY YOB!
I know I’m going to regret this… What’s a YOB?
Part of my childhood… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKm6jlR9Gw
Ah, reentering childhood are we?
Not a day goes by I dont…
*hugs Lo Pan*
I think that the voice of the Dad in that cartoon might be a very young Stan Freeberg.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yobbo
But thats…not… it… at all
*hugs Vanamonde* 😆
FWIW: That’s the “yob” I thought of, too.
In good news, we never did get the massive amount of snow we were warned about. In fact, we didn’t get any snow at all
Probably saving itself for next year.
CW: Latest US Shameless
“US Shameless”
Wasn’t that one of our Navy Aircraft Carriers that kept getting in trouble for bad behavior by the crew?
Close, that’s USS Shameless. Not to be confused with HMS Shameless, of course.
Interesting:
http://www.thetutuproject.com/
Looks like it’s going to be a seriously wet day here in “flyover” country.