(Bunny has outdone herself on this week’s Show Notes. I greatly appreciate the time she takes each week to do this. – Jack)
Unshow L
Greasy Nipples:
(dictionary.com) – “The term ‘Greasy Nipples’ refers to the hundreds/thousands of comments left on each episode. The humorous moniker came about in the early days of the show, when Jack would randomly choose comments from the most recent episode and read them onpod. After a pre-determined amount of time, the winner would win a free “Greasy Spoon” meal with Jack at a restaurant of Jack’s choosing (often Denny’s. . . yeah. . . ). At one point in time, Jack recognized that he repeated the word ‘comments’ excessively while describing the game, and thus decided to mix it up, using silly words in place of ‘comments’, such as ‘nipples’, ‘ernest borgnines’, ‘cyborgs’, etc. The term ‘nipples’ seemed to be the funniest, and thus, the segment was renamed ‘Greasy Nipples’.”
Nomad Scry
Moble JFS
Ed From Texas
Cj
Dan Shaurette
Vanamonde
Nomad Scry (first of the week)
Lo Pan (bonus comment of the week)
Deadpan love to all.
Jack had some good times with his wonderful kids agian. Let’s hope this is a start of a trend.
oeuvre –
(dictionary.com) “a work,” esp. a work of literature, also “the body of work produced by an artist,”
(Merriam-Webster dictionary on line) Etymology: French ?uvre, literally, work, from Old French ovre, Latin opera — more at opera
Date: 1875 : a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer
(Wiktionary.org) A work of art. The complete body of an artist’s work.
(Urban Dictionary) buy oeuvre mugs, tshirts and magnets.
Work as in a work of art. (In french. Is not the plural of egg (oeuf).
J’aime mon neuveau oeuvre d’arte. C’est fantastique et magnifique.
(Translation: I love my new work of art. It’s fantastic and magnificent.)
(way to make me do homework, Jack)
Can we hit 600 comments this week?
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There is something not right here.
Second-ies.
*yawn* I really should have been asleep at least 30 minutes ago. Night, Pan.
Goodnight, Moonpie.
Goodnight, Mangan.
Good afternoon (?), Vanamonde.
Goodnight, Ambassador.
I need a nap.
Rise and Shine!
yeah, right…..
Morning pan, it raining it pouring. I wish I was still snoring…
CP: Unshow L
Great now I have a gentlemen Gaga song in my head.
ohhh raaaa lalala BLAAAAAAAAA
Seems I wasn’t the only one disappointed with this weeks episode of Lost:
http://www.scifisquad.com/2010/05/12/fan-rant-why-across-the-sea-may-be-worst-episode-of-lost/
this will get my mind off of Steven Josephus Allan Germanotta
somewhat NSFW http://i.imgur.com/j9EUK.jpg
I like the Mythbusters
RA RA BLA BLA BLA
awww: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppbrYIcR80
I need more sleep. but:
must reach nipple goal
RO MA OO BLA BLA
didn’t read it but the pics are cool:
http://weburbanist.com/2010/05/12/lost-tribute-fantastic-to-freaky-lost-themed-fan-art-pics/
Van, I did like Lost this week. The guy makes some good points though.
how link would really use a boomerang:
http://i.imgur.com/FYhGo.gif
sound math:
http://i.imgur.com/wFXX6.jpg
need one more reason to not use drugs:
http://pbh3.tumblr.com/post/589409713/learn-from-lindsay-lohan
I need some Tea. It’s time to actually work. fixing a sick mail server this week
Tea is steeping and I’m ready to work.
I feel like Mr. Rogers because I change my shoes when I first get to work. I need to wear steel toed shoes here and they are only comfortable for about 6-7 hours.
Morning Pan!
Got to sleep in this morning. It was nice
ooo fun DiSC profile questionnaire.
this should be fun
ok so far i had to give my gender twice. where they trying to trip me up?
Morning bunny, wish I could say the same
I hate these DiSC tests and ones like them. i get a list of 4 words and have to pick 1 for most and 1 for least. what if all 4 describe me. grrrrr
The world needs more grrrrr!
I think my hubby must have some vampire blood in him. It’s a beautiful sunny day out and he doesn’t want me to open the living room curtains until after he leaves for work
Vanamonde is playing the teddy bear again 😉 grrrr 😉
I’m sitting in my east facing office, with the blinds open, basking in the morning sun. Hubby is sitting in the west facing dining room, curtains closed, eating breakfast.
Silly hubby.
Poor Lindsay . . .
I could use some sun. My back yard soon will qualify as a great lake if it keeps raining
doesn’t sound so great to me, reaper.
I dont get the disappointment and hate for Across the Sea. What were people expecting? It was by far the second best episode of the year, and quite frankly after learning Jacob and Man in Black’s back stories I really dont give a fuck what happens to the Losties. Give me a show about those two over Jack and Kate and company any day. The guy who wrote that article missed every point completely. Everything he bitched about can be said about every episode of Lost from the beginning. “Its all just silly” is probably the single worst argument you could try to make against this show. That guy should probably try watching the episode next time instead of clearly fast forwarding. Im all for personal preference and in no way is Lost perfect, but if youre gonna call an episode “the single worst one” make some good fucking points. What a joker. “Oh no, I didnt get all the answers I wanted”. Fucking get over it. Youre not going to. If you want to be spoon fed go watch re-runs of Friends.
Lo, I did like the flushing comment. That is one thing I thought was silly. I was hoping something more (read less toilet like) would happen.
Bunny, it really isn’t that great. It is most of the reason had that tree fall over this year.
About every 50 years or so my house becomes part of this lake:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Winnebago because of flooding since I live about 100 feet from it. I have heard some make the argument it should be one of the great lakes but I don’t think it was very convincing.
I didnt see it as “flushed” at all. That just a bad pun the guy used to descried how he hated the episode. It was all good to me.
Tho Sci-Fi squad is usually retarded so I shouldnt be surprised.
Reaper, when I was young and lived on a farm, every spring the local lake would flood. It didn’t affect our property, but the waters would flood into the ditches on either side of the road. You could literally fish from the driveway during that time of the year. The jack fish were always good that time of the year. 🙂
Well I’ll avoid the sea of vitriol by bunking off to see The Hot Tub Time Machine at the flicks.
Be sure not to flush.
I wish I had a hot tub. Don’t care about the time machine part.
Have a good time, Van
You should care.
make me.
I didn’t read the LOST article. I’m too busy admiring my newly touched-up thumb and daydreaming.
newly touched-up thumb?
CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!
Yes, my little tattoo-band is all nice and colorful again!
OOhhhh I wanna admire!
How’s this Lo Pan? I care about EssBee’s new tattoo.
bwahaha
CP: Not Today, Baby — Crash Test Dummies
These can be fun to read
http://tweetingtoohard.com/
I dont care that you dont care. So nyeh!
Click on the all time top. People are so pretentious.
meh.
“Apparently I’m famous in numerous circles. At parties people stay late to meet me and at bars bouncers yell at anyone that tries to id me.
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WHAT……A…..DOUCHE
feh
John Mayer is repulsive:
I love how some dudes hate me for dating their fantasy girl, as if they were going to if I hadn’t.
Good infographics about Facebook privacy
http://gizmodo.com/5538133/graphic-facebooks-ludicrously-complicated-privacy-settings
http://gizmodo.com/5537408/the-devolution-of-facebook-privacy
228 this morning. Rock-hard abs. Looking good. I’d fuck myself if I were flexible enough.
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I’m sure that can be arranged…
Bunny, There is a ditch that runs around my house right now but the lake level doesn’t get high enough to fish from but that would be pretty sweet. though if it did getting to my house would be kinda hard so it might not be so cool.
Lo Pan, Re: flushing I was mostly referring to the sound when he disappeared.
“iPad just fell out of my bag, out of the Hummer, four feet onto concrete. Bottom corner dented, glass chipped. Ouch! ”
And the awesome comment:
This douchelord just made me so happy and sad at the same time.
There was a sound? I missed that.
[wry humor] Fuck, reading these I realize why I hate people and Im better than most everyone….[/wry humor]
Lo Pan: Agreed. Just don’t tweet that. 😉
Whats a “tweet”?
It’s a sound made by the birds in the back yard
lmfaorofl
XKCD pwns Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Malamanteau
LOL, ditto. “punclines”
Just finished Unshow L….. bless your goddamn heart Jacko. Tis you who makes this whell go round. We’re just the ball bearings. Thanks for bringing some goodness these past few years. Youre the man, good sir.
No more nights of blood and fire….
EssBee: Yep. I also liked:
“Just an interesting note
The article is 59 bytes.
This talk page is 100kb.
Nice going. -mattbuck (Talk) 14:55, 13 May 2010 (UTC)”
The whole thing is a wonderful illustration of how self-important and grumpy many of the Wiki editors are.
Lo Pan: you might be a ball bearing, but I’m da Grease Man. 😉
I’d prefer a job other than bearing balls, but whatever :Jack Mangan: needs, :Jack Mangan: shall have.
Youre a loony…
:Lo Pan:
:ditto:
:Bunny:
:Van:
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
mornin’
RE: Lost, totally good episode, so smokey isn’t Esau after all, cuz he dead!
XKCD/WIKI = radsauce.
I skipped over 2 podcasts in my queue today. I feel justified, because they weren’t ones I specifically subscribed to.
“Ill be Esau…”
“Youll be dead!!!!”
Just caught up on SGU recently. They’ve made the classic RPG blunder and split the party…
disclaimer before I head off to lunch: Jack did the greasy nipples definition. Giving credit where credit is due.
Roll for saving throw…
Why should I be tarred with the epithet “loony”, just because I have a pet ‘alibut?
I hate to say it, but I’m the “that Lost episode kinda sucked” camp. I’ll ride out on Vanamonde’s coat.
Not done getting caught up – but – Lo Pan (and everyone) – thanks for the kind werdz.
Prepare for your camp to be burned to the ground, Jacko.
I’ll grab the marshmellows.
Sweet. We’re gonna make SMokey’ORES
Ooooh. Jack fight!
*breaks out beer*
Oh yeah? Well, I’ve got this big wagon-wheel. . . . thing. . . .that does. . . something. . . . in the magic cave. . . guarded for some reason by the crazy lady. . .
Those things were handy in Ninja Gaiden.
Oh… oh youre one of THOSE, Jack….. *scoffs*
Go cry to your mother. Who isnt really your mother but sends you on a path that you have no way of winning cause shes tired of being the keeper of the light and just wants to die and knows youll do it if she pisses you off enough.
Oooooh, the first stage of the Hero Quest!
YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!!!!!!!!!! YOURE JUST TRYING TO START A WAR YOU DONT HAVE TO FIGHT
Lost pun. To much time on his hands:
http://topcultured.com/desmonds-lost-car-has-special-features/
But I like fireworks!
BANG!
Zip
POP!
KERBLEWIE!!!!!!
War is coming to this podcast.
:deadpan:
The end is nigh
Oh… we’ll if you include “KERBLEWIE” then youre good to go
Lo Pan, you forgot the “!!!!!!” those are very important also
hamster huey and the gooey kerblewie
Well wasn’t that impressed with HTTM, will have to watch Grosse Pointe Blank soon in an effort to remember John Cusack has done good movies..
Im not sure you should have go into that movie expecting to be impressed.
!!!!!!
Another 2 points (then I’m done being that annoying Lost guy):
Awhile back, I remember thinking that the “fix-up-the-van” episode was a pointless throwaway – but in retrospect, that one was pretty damn important.
And also – someone please tell me where I’ve seen that actress (the mom) before? It’s on the tip of my brain.
The fake mom or dead mom? Fake mom is Alison Janney (sp?) of West Wing fame. And other stuff Im sure
The “war” was a fizzle.
Well, time to put the beer back in the cooler.
You want blood???????? You got it!!!!
Well indeed Lo Pan, but a few more laughs would have been nice.
Theres enough laughs for a renter. Definitely wouldnt have seen it in the theater if it wasnt free.
May have already been mentioned, but just in case, Portal is free on PC and Mac till May 24th:
http://toucharcade.com/2010/05/13/iphone-game-or-not-portal-is-free-and-you-should-download-it/
The Cake is a lie and all that jazz.
Dead mom – in my dreams.
Naw. I just want some entertainment.
There doesn’t have to be blood, but apparently gladiators are fun.
I think she’s Dead Mom.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2187457/
CP: All Along The Watch Tower — Bear McCreary feat. Bt4
Yes.
Some of Ty Mattson’s artwork for Lost is now available from ABC’s store:
http://abctvstore.seenon.com/?v=abctvstore_lost_ty-mattson-art
RRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooWWWW. 🙂
I know I shouldn’t laugh but I can’t help it:
http://www.forkparty.com/2-girls-1-up/
Yeah, the ghost mom was distractingly attractive. Did we ever get the fake mom’s motives for all of the bad stuff she did? Or was it just “crazy is as crazy does”?
Hmmm…. Lost. I’m kinda lukewarm about the episode. As a series, Lost has been pretty entertaining, but my gut tells me that the writers spent a little too much time creating mysteries, and not enough time on closure. As a result this week’s episode seems a bit contrived.
I’ve always liked the idea that the characters of Lost are flawed and by taking a “true” path they are becoming complete people and their changes of survival heightened. However, with all the indiscriminate killing going on by both sides of the camp if there ends up being a “right” side, I don’t think they’ll be able to reconcile that side to be “ethical.” Which kind of shoots down the whole “ethical” journey side of things. On the other hand, if we find out that the island and it’s long term residents/stewards were just fucking with the cast, and the whole point was to escape the island the whole time, that wouldn’t be as disappointing.
(Note to non-Lost watchers: Apologies for all of the Lost geekery. I’m willing to discuss other topics too.)
Via Scalzi, Jane Sibbery is giving away her entire catalog for free.
http://www.janesiberry.com/janesiberry/music.html
Her biggest hit was probably “Mimi on the Beach” in 84. She also did a memorable song for the first Crow soundtrack.
113 messages? All I did was go to the doctor and come home. You guys were busy while I was gone.
Now I’m going to work 1:30 to Midnight today.
I’m going to need a nap tomorrow.
Anyone wanna rub my temples for me?
I’ll catch up on messages later or tomorrow.
I’m doing my part to make up for not being around much the past couple of weeks. 🙂
I miss you all.
I think the mom motives were age and weariness. She presumably had been guarding the light for a really long time, couldn’t really die (like Jacob couldn’t really die-until he did) and needed a way to secure the light and give up. Hence the “Thank you” before she died.
…which she wasn’t supposed to be able to.
Other topics than Losts? Okay, I’ve been thinking of unfollowing Sigler on Twitter because there is only so much of his Chocodiles addiction I find news worthy. =P
“I’ve made it so that you’ll never be able to harm each other”
“Being thrown in the light cave is a fate worse than death”
End of episode, Jacob throws brother into cave.
Maybe “harm” was too strong a word.
LOL
Rhettro, the only reason I don’t find Sigler’s addiction to be to much is that tweets are so short
But numerous. LOL
I follow my mostly local hockey team on Twitter and I wonder what they will send me during the summer since the season is over. BTW they won the clark cup. Go Gamblers!! yes that is there real name.
Rhettro, ya 3 today. I think he has tweeted more about Chocodiles more than I have ever tweeted
Great. Another awesome game to play, right when the fifth annual Altador Cup is about to start up on Neopets. Just what I need.
Seriously, though, I will totally get Portal and get around to playing it eventually.
This is the perfect pic to demonstrate “Pics or it didn’t happen”
http://i.imgur.com/Wr8xB.jpg
Ra La Ooh na na. Gaga fa fa fah. Papa Mamama. Ja ja oom pa pa
won ka omp pa lum ah
Dammit reaper….. fa fa koo ka ka
Fred and Wilma ma
“Yeah, sure – – you met Bill Murray while you were all dressed up as Ghostbusters. Right.”
Thanks, ditto. I dig Jane Siberry’s music – – especially that tune from The Crow.
Lo Pan, any time. I like to share the pain.
BLA BLA GA RA RAAAAA
Wow. That’s what I get for doing my job… THIS is why I can’t keep up!
Welll Amy you can add Portal to your game list on Steam without actually downloading it, so you sign up for the freebie and not be tempted till later.
Someone let us know if this cave of doom on “Lost” is guarded by a killer rabbit.
If they add that in I’ll start watching.
Brilliant!
Look at the TEETH, man!
CP: YYZ — Rush
“Look, that rabbit’s got a vicious streak a mile wide, it’s a killer!”
“…then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”
What number does Desmond have to punch into the machine every 148 minutes?
1. . . 2. . . 5! (3, sir!)
Jeremy your X-mas show is nuts.
Desmond types the number in the big dark cave…
Locke says it is all our fate…
Kate says to Jack you really need to get laid…
And Sawyer says I just hate this fucking island!
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, Lost goes on, brah!…
Lala how Lost goes on…
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, Lost goes on, brah!…
Lala how Lost goes on.
*standing ovation*
4 is right out!
Define nuts.
CP: Help Me — Harry Manx
Harry Manx manx me think of Vanamonde.
Nut is a hard shelled fruit of some plants that has an indehiscent seed. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts in English, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts. Nuts are an important source of nutrients for both humans and wildlife.
Nuts are a composite of the seed and the fruit, where the fruit does not open to release the seed. Most seeds come from fruits, and the seeds are free of the fruit, unlike nuts like hazelnuts, hickories, chestnuts and acorns, which have a stony fruit wall and originate from a compound ovary. Culinary usage of the term is less restrictive, and some nuts as defined in food preparation, like pistachios and Brazil nuts,[1] are not nuts in a biological sense. Everyday common usage of the term often refers to any hard walled, edible kernel, as a nut.[2]
Also its a very busy show with virgins being sacrificed. Its very collegy and cool. I dont mean “nuts” in a bad way.
BALLS
Rack em.
http://blog.cagle.com/2010/05/13/localend-of-penguins-season/
CP: Welcome to Planet Motherfucker — White Zombie
I knew you didn’t, heh. To me it kinda sounds like early podcasts, its funneh.
Been watching “Ashes to Ashes” season one. Good stuff. Thoughts from those across the pond?
CP: Moondrama (Gavin Russom Remix) – Chateau Marmont.
*inner peace*
I will not mention the fact that this Lost episode has a title
*inner peace*
That matches the name of a card
*inner peace*
from Magic: The Gathering
*inner peace*
*giggle* to the Penguins.
I know I’ll have to sing eventually, but I’m pretty glad I haven’t had to yet.
I’m used to skimming past T.V.-related nipples/posts/Tweets/pings/bleeps/bloops/blurbs/blobs/wuggles. Makes no nevermind to me.
I’m unafraid to unfollow anyone on identi.ca or Twitter. Some people really abuse it, some people only whine, and some people use said services as a neo-IRC. Inexcusable.
I also follow few authors, because many do nothing but market their wares. I do not need another source of ads, thanks. If you do market your stuff, you should at the very least interact with people. It’s supposed to be “social”. Even crabby old man Null knows this.
Lejon: Magic the Gathering is still around? Man, will it outlive The Simpsons?
Mental Note: “Record line for questors and quit being a flake”
Don’t the Post-Its slide off when you make a mental note?
Sorry, that was sleep-dep-inspired.
Mental note: wish Jack good luck. Jealous.
Mayhap: the Crackening is still around, yes.
http://www.wizards.com/Company/Brands/Magic.aspx
I do not need new booster packs…
I do not need new booster packs…
I do not need new booster packs…
… One day at a time…
Seriously. I remember when it first came out. It wasn’t too long before people were getting $150 for some rare cards. It’s very easy to sink a ton of money into that.
The Black Lotus was the $200 hot rarity, back when I was paying attention.
I just got a huge craving for Count Chocula cereal. I’ve had it I think once in my life, and I eat almost no junk food anymore. I should drown this craving in port.
I think I fully quit paying attention when the third expansion pack came out. There’s a place not too far from me, and the only business I see them conducting is holding Magic games. Offering a space, not even setting anything up. It’s quite a bit of square footage, and they’ve been there for a decent amount of time. Boggles my mind, but somehow they seem to keep the lights on.
Look at those show notes! Go, Bunny!!
Haven’t played Magic, but my son collects Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I’m more of a fan of games with playing pieces, so I generally avoid fantasy card games.
And go Bunny!
Rhettro: I tried it many, many moons ago. It’s okay, but I think piece-based games are far superior.
You know, the old radio show-thing Donovan’s Brain was brought up somewhere recently. That’s easily my favorite of all-time. It’d be nice to do a Deadpan remake of it.
Just sayin’.
^ For Halloween, bien sur.
I imagine Donovan’s Brain is full of Mellow Yellow.
Damn, it appears I need to be more creepy.
“Sure sure sure.”
I aint no goddamn sonofabitch… you betta think about it baby
The contents of my junk drawer was sent to the big binaries in the sky on the old HD. The HD that was struck down in its prime. So sad. It’s always the good ones.
Lo Pan: I thought you were the accursed.
Accursed!
YOU NEVER COULD BEAT ME EGG SHEN!!!!!!!
Awww, dang it. I thought it was “chen”. I fail.
Eh, tomato tomahto
Mommy, can I go out and kill tonite?
Go ahead, baby. Just be home by 5 a.m.
C: cursing my headache. Smoking anyway.
Me too on the smoking part.
Prong doing a cover of the Misfits’ “London Dungeon” = brutal and wunderbar
Yeah, I guess you’re right. I know a Ninjitsu instructor that insists that “Ninjutsu” is the only correct spelling. I guess he never noticed that Roman characters are just a little different from kanji.
Here’s hoping you’re swell
The best thing about being a functional alcoholic is
. . .
Don’t ask me!
Aks waht?
Functional?
CW: Law & Order
adsffsafSRGT RHTR
I think the best part of waking up to find the board has come alive…
is having no bloody clue what 3/4 of you are saying.
I need a clue by four.
Cj – And when you say ‘temples’, what do you really mean?
Re: what Jeremy said in his last post: Yes, that’s a good mental note to make. Scripts have now been sent out to everyone else who is involved.
Good night, questing party. :biggrin:
I didn’t start MtG until the 5th gen. I only have a few cards that didn’t get damaged when the roof leaked.
I was buying individual cards to make exactly the deck I wanted. Which is probably listed as a warning sign in the DSM.
My son had a huge pile of YuGiOh cards. When my brother came up for the wedding, he went through the pile and sorted them into authentic and fake cards.
“They” make fake YuGiOh cards!
Re: “I imagine Donovan’s Brain is full of Mellow Yellow.”
That’s funny ‘cuz Morrigan’s brain is full of Mountain Dew.
Goodnight :metal:
RE: Ashes to Ashes
although I’ve enjoyed the series (the last season (3) is airing now in the UK), still don’t think it’s as good as Life On Mars.
JFS you should check out Luthor when it crosses the pond, a new police detective series that has totally over the top female villian.
The last two hours:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!
Caught up on comments. Comprehension level running at about 5% – and that was the stuff related to Magic: The Gathering.
*Opens email box*
SFX Creak
Hears crickets…
Damn
*closes Email Box*
Currently:
Updating the boy’s mp3 player with WeatherBrains, a podcast by a pile of weather nuts, and Princess Scientist, a book club podcast by er… The Pink Tornado, I think?
Yay!
Inside joke: sfx
sfx = Sound Effects.
Morning, DP!
I read a blog called Feministe which does a weekly LOST roundtable. They also hated the last episode.
I loved it. For me, it echoed back to Smoke-Locke saying that he identified with Claire’s son because he had a crazy mother too. Now we know what he was talking about!
Indeed!
[obscure Ween reference] “The sun comes up and Im all washed out… is this what Smokey was talkin about? “[obscure Ween reference]
The best part of wakin’ up, is Deadpan in your cup.
The best part of wakin’ up, is two girls and one cup?
*dry heave*
CP: Legend — Nelly Furtado
That is foul, Lo. Truly foul. I was away from DP when you guys were talking about that, but Sly B filled me in and made me watch the video. What. The. Hell.
The best part of waking up is umm waking up.
Means God has resisted another chance to get you in your sleep.
Disclaimer – that was a Spike Millighan joke and does not imply belief or disbelief in any deities that maybe watching.
EssBee: Wait, you still watched the vid AFTER Sly B filled you in? Oh…my….
Van: Well I wish hed stop resisting….
I didn’t watch THE video. I watched the video of people watching THE video. That was bad enough.
[not obscure Ween reference] “Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land that you understand, Ocean man, t“[not obscure Ween reference]
EssBee, I never saw the video either and I agree reaction videos are more than enough.
…and I still laugh every time I see the 2 girls 1-up pic I linked to yesterday.
Anyone Else listen to CNET’s Buzz out loud?
I have been listening for about 4 years and at the time the show was mostly Tom, Molly, and Veronica. Veronica is gone and I think the show is less fun but with Tom is being replaced by Rafe. I don’t know if I can take him everyday. The show is even less fun when Rafe is on IMO. Maybe I’ll stick around for the Molly rants but I just can’t see the show being as much fun.
It would be like Deadpan with out the nipples
Oh Rhett….GREAT fucking song
I do not listen to said show, reaps.
Anyone else seen the trailer for Human Centipede? Blech.
it’s official no more flashfoward (and others)but V will be back:
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/05/13/abc-cancels-romantically-challenged-scrubs-ted-flashforward/
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/05/13/breaking-abc-renews-v/
Blech… I just realized that going from Two Girls One Cup to Human Centipede is a seamless transition.
Good thing I watch none of those shows.
Aw – I would have voted the other way: Keep Flashforward, cut V. But I like them both, so glad one is hanging around.
Lo Pan.
That was foul.
High Five!
I prefer V myself. I tend to gravitate toward Scifi dealing with space in some way more often than not. I also have fond memories of V in the 80’s.
Much like 1-UPs original lineup on 1UP Yours, the original lineup on Buzz Out Loud was the best. They had exactly the right chemistry.
And sadly, that’s over. 1UP is a memory. BOL wasn’t as good with Jason, but it wasn’t bad. Then it really dropped off when Molly went missing and they imported all the younglings. Tong was enough to get me to quit, all by himself. Putting him and Del Conte together was a disaster. I like Rafe, especially when Tom’s got him flustered by saying something patently ridiculous, but… It’s Tom that has been the backbone of BOL, the only constant. And while it has been nice enough having Molly back, BOL -is- Tom now. When he goes… so does the heart of the show.
So.
I just wish Leo had been able to snag Molly when he tempted Tom away.
I could go on… =)
Thanks Nomad….. *low five!”
Hey I have something for you….
demoncat said:
cute dog Ryan looks like he is upset over trying to figure out how not to harm the thing. plus the picture looks like he is just putting on the motion capture suit that will produce a computer image of him in the green lantern suit.
Posted 05/13/2010 at 05:49:12 PM
WNDRWolf: Check the wanderradio at gmail account. I sent your script there.
NS: Yes, that’s correct. Princess Scientist’s Book Club is indeed hosted by the kid heretofore known as The Pink Tornado. 🙂
Again….. nearly coherent in his thoughts. Better meds perchance?
I knew a girl once whos nickname was “The Pink Tornado”….. but thats another story for another time.
Sounds like a fun girl.
lol. This picture is funny.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/14/call-me-juvenile-but.html
Taking down the Email server this afternoon. So, I sent out and email about that. What question do I get…
“So does that mean Internet will go down.” “Will we be able to use the ERP System.”
those are not email.
The one question I would love to get is:
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” that would make me LOL, but I don’t think anyone here has seen the IT crowd.
I think I would have picked Flash Forward as well.
Well, at least it looks like Chuck survived the cut.
demoncat makes my head spin. zoom zoom zoom goes my head.
he also steals all the capital letters.
he’d say that’s a capital idea but that sort of humor would go over his head like a boeing seven fourty seven.
I also knew a girl nicknamed “Turbo Slut”, but thats much more self explanatory.
Oh Nomad….. me n’ you, buddy. Me n you.
I think we should all talk like him for one day with random un-capitalizations and punctuation.
Catchy song…
CP: Let’s Start It All Again — Head Like A Kite
http://feeds.kexp.org/~r/kexp/songoftheday/~3/UnNF07B1Pow/fed08c8e-53f5-4adf-a4f3-2b6828affbe0.mp3
that… can’t… not… be
Ive enjoyed HLaK for years. he’s real good like hims got good catchy tunes thats make me feel fine like wine i listen to them especially. noisy at the circus. i did not know they had a new. album out thank you ditto
welcome you are lOpAn
NS, “I like Rafe, especially when Tom’s got him flustered by saying something patently ridiculous”. That is the only time I like Rafe but it looks like those days are over. Tom’s dry humor got me through the Molly-less days but that is gone also. Tong isn’t easy to listen to either but when Nichole Lee was on I deleted the episode with out listening.
At one point I listed to BOL and 404. One had to go because it was to much over lap BOL won but i might give 404 another try. I just can’t bring myself to not listed to some tech podcast and i would prefer a daily one.
we laughed alot because this firl thawas nicknaed ‘turbo slut. she was a slut but refused to hump my friend it was funny.
we laughed
we cried
we did cry because half the. group had chlamydia because of her turbo slut.
tur.bo slut does… it with gust.o
turbo slut sound like: the makings of A grate rocK sOng¿
“I’m your turbo lover.
Tell me there’s no other.
I’m your turbo lover.
Better run for cover.”
youare all correct and aslo rite.
rhTTro breaks out the judas priest and it is good also that video is the hokiest video evar
turbo slut ? turbo lover
turbo slut >= turbo lover
turbo (slut >= lover)
1 >= lover / slut
I don’t like this game anymore. demoncat mode:off selected.
CP: She Ain’t Pretty — The Northern Pikes
There are idiots in every crowd.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/05/13/montreal-habs-post-game-riot.html?ref=rss
Reaper – I like Lee. She gives good advice with the right amount of decorum and tech excitement. And I cannot stand the 404. I listened a few times and … yeah. Not for me.
Although I’d rather listen to them than read demoncat.
Humph.
we have broken poor. nomad and he is not Happy.
CP: Not A Pretty Girl — Ani DiFranco
In my book, “Ocean Man” is a real weener. 🙂
Ocean Man is not an island
NS, I don’t like Lee because of how she talks thats all.
To be fair, my knee has hurt all week long for no reason, I gave myself a cardboard cut under my thumbnail that comes out through the cuticle, and I am coated in blue ink to my arm pits from work.
Demoncat is just the insult to my injury.
(See what I did there? I’m like a special flower.)
http://thebigcaption.com/post/508164766/fuck-you-flowers-original
(Oh shoot.)
Ack. Sorry, that flower link contains profane language and therefore may not be work safe and I always try to be aware that other’s may be monitoring your activities!
I lost my coffee.
Over on FB, some folks have been discussing
http://www.joshlindstrom.com/2010/05/fence-me-in.html
That guy.
I’m not sure if we can discuss this here, as it borders heavily into the religious, but I’d really really like to know what the ladies think of his safety plan. I’m very curious if the reaction to his plan is divided on a gender gap as well as a religious one.
I hear an echo. 😉
NS: He’s an idiot. They may prefer to structure their relationship that way, and they have a right to do so, but if you can’t base a relationship on trust then you have nothing.
NS: I read to “. . . time with the Lord” and came back here.
http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2010/05/little-girl-stomps-some-flowers.html
Ah NS beat me to it.
Grinds teeth in frustration.
NS, because the link has the word fuck you in it I thought it was selfexplanatory
If JN was dead this would make him spin in his grave:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18844-innovation-the-wifi-database-that-shamed-google.html
I beat you both. 😛
XKCD is awesome today.
CD: at the cinema, waiting for the new Robin Hood to start.
Cate Blanchett…./swoon
Jack, Black lotus is still the chase card of all time, but $200 would have been cheap…
http://www.gatheringground.com/store/showproductdetails.asp?product=29521&client=
Van, I agree with that swoon.
I’ve got a ton of MtG cards. Even a few of these:
http://quazen.com/recreation/collecting/the-20-most-expensive-magic-cards-ever-printed/
No Black Lotus. 🙁
Cate is very swoonable. 🙂
CP: Aneurysm — Nirvana
Time to get some lunch.
I want this card:
http://aspergers.dasaku.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/chuck-norris-magic-the-gathering-card.jpg
I refuse to watch the new Gladiator remake…er… Robin Hood. However Cate is not only swoonable but also “last 10 minutes on-able”.
“last 10 minutes” – haha
This makes me want to throttle someone:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/sara-isaacson-rotc-cadet_n_576401.html
Cate is definately on the swoon list.
[geek]I may get to rebuild a bad RAID array on my mail server today. Fun fun fun. I hope the Firmware/Driver update fixes the errors but I expect it wont. [/geek]
dance
Shine I’ll stand by you
Don’t try and push me away
’cause I’m just gonna stay
You can shine I won’t deny you
And don’t be afraid it’ll all be ok
Do you know my name
Well I ain’t gonna take that big time line
won’t be beat by a lie
Gonna call out to these embers waiting to ignite
Gonna pull you up
By your love, by your love and tell you
Shine I’ll stand by you…
I can see the frown you wear
All around like some faded crown
Like a watch over wound
Gonna call down to this diamond buried underground
Gonna pull you up by your love, by your love and tell you
When it’s said and done
What you need will come and time won’t let me
Let you let me waste it this time shine…
/dance
Thats a touchy article, EssBee.
I listen to the podcast of a local political radio host and one of the things I enjoy most about the show is how he goes off on tangents. Todays odd topic: whos the best musician named Steve (or a variation of it) this grew from an earlier tangent about names.
Clearly Steve Winwood wins.
Just as I suspected Raid consistency failed. let the fun begin.
cover me I’m going in!
Stevie Nicks!
Stevie Wonder.
Rick Steves
Hmmm… that joshlindonstrom is one paranoid dude.
And, now I’ve caught up.
RE: MtG – I have several cards that I value, even if I never play the game again. Although, at this point it might be wise to simply build some play-decks for the inevitable “itch to play”, and bulk sell the rest.
It was a good game for a very long time…
Pair of Noids???
pIZZA pIZZA
That Dominos pizza founder was a paranoid dude, too. LOL
Steve Winwood (yelch)
While his song “hey, hey, Rachel, dear” may never be a huge hit:
Steven Wright…
Stevie Nicks
And I’m alone… Time to run around the Unterwebs nekkid!
Nicki Sixx
Lejon… running Nekkid
[geek]
RAID array reset and consistency to be checked soon.
waiting for background initialization to finish so I can start the check than off to copy data
[/geek]
with scissors…
hehe or is it funny?
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1390.jpg
Hopefully he doesn’t cut anything useful…
AHHHHHH it is only .55TB how long can it take to prepair! AHHHHHHH
I’d be pulling my hair out with anticipation if I had any.
You shall never betray the Friends!
http://mos.totalfilm.com/images/2/20th-century-boys-800-75.jpg
An-ti-ci-pation
An-ti-ci-pa-A-tion.
Is makin’ me late!
Is keepin’ me wa-A-A-itin’
…the usefulness is biased on who you ask…
ditto, that song in regular bumper music on that political talk show I listen to so I here part of it at least 3 times a week
CPIMM: “Say It Ain’t So” – Weezer
Thanks a lot Rock Band.
reaper: I had to read that a couple of times to figure out what you were really saying.
That being said, you have my sympathies.
now they can hover too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://i.imgur.com/AcYEu.jpg
Goose of Doom!
Thanks ditto. That talk show host likes to keep some bumper music in rotation a bit to long.
yes it is running
http://i.imgur.com/biicP.jpg
[geek] great background initialization failed no I have to talk to Dell
[/geek]
Nasty virus PoC (Proof of Concept):
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/update-new-attack-bypasses-every-windows-security-product/8268
CP: No One’s Gonna Love You — Band Of Horses
Sweet, sweet, sweet song
Ah, the Anti-Telly Savalas
This is what happens when the NYT starts publicly illustrating your privacy problems: Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/13/2246235/Facebook-Calls-All-Hands-Meeting-On-Privacy
Though the NYT was very late to the party, they are what Facebook fears the most: publicity that the average, non-techie user will pay attention to.
[geek] crap replaced one bad drive but i have 3. that sucks. I only have one more spare
[/geek]
Hands reaper baseball bat – wood of coarse.
“No One’s Gonna Love You — Band Of Horses” = ex-girlfriend song = cant listen to anymore. Too bad cause it is a really good song.
CP: Charmer — Kings Of Leon
Sorry, Lo.
I’m going to go all office space on it’s ass!!!!
So’kay EssBee. I have the Misfits…
CP: Sick Of You — Lou Reed
CP: Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing — The Antlers
[geek] bringing exchange back up hope MSbackup works well. [/geek]
If I cut off your arms and I cut off your legs would you still love me, anyway?
Misfits of Science… Why hasn’t that been put on DVD?
My days exploits. I’m sure most won’t be interested or have any idea what i am talking about here but for those who do:
[geek] well that when better than expected. I took a backup of the exchange 2007 drive minus the stores and logs (that was the only thing on it) after I emptied all the stores by moving mail boxes to a new server. than i deleted that exchange drive and removed 2 bad drives. i had one spare so i put that one in and recreated the array after formating the drive I restored the exchange drive.
The only store I could’t move was the public folders. so I dismounted the store copied the .EDB file to a different drive and copied it back when the array was ready.
The only other percoution I took was before deleting the bad drive I set all the exchange services to manual and restarted the server. when when the array was back i set the services back to automatic and restarted again. Exchange works exactly as it did before. Now i just need to get another drive so i can grow the array back to the original size so I can start moving users back to the old server. for backup and restore I just used MS Backup for the whole thing. [/geek]
Lo Pan, as long as you didn’t start calling me Matt…
Or Helena?
For the gamers on here: We all thought it would never happen…
Footage from DNF
Woot! My Podthology book just arrived!
Woot!
Happy hour commenseth
Woot! Um . . . I bought compost today?
CP: Amazon — M.I.A.
Thunderstorm! I love thunderstorms.
DNF is still not going to happen Amy. The developer 3D Rhelms went under last year. This is recycled footage from 2007 I believe. That doesn’t mean some other company couldn’t purchase the intellectual property and make DNF, but as far as I know, that hasn’t happened yet.
As a side gamer’s note, I finished Mass Effect 2 this week and didn’t loose any of my squad mates. I think ME 1 & 2 standout has having one of the most satifying end game sequences in gaming history. Can’t wait for ME 3. At some point I’ll go back and create a real asshole of a character and play through ME1 & 2 again. LOL Now I need to finish Batman, Fallout 3 and Dragon Age.
*SPOILERS***
I did however loss my redheaded personal assistant *sniff*
Trying to catch up before we go out to an excellent Indian restaurant.
reaper: I stopped listening/watching BOL right around the time whasshername left. It was getting less and less funny, and I found it to be on the light side, depth-wise. I need more meaty geekiness.
My last post done got eaten by the WP-demon.
There are days around here when it’s a good thing some people who call me are 3,000 miles away…
Rhettro: :blush: I sure wish I had known that before I made that post… sorry.
No problem Amy. I’m sure at some point someone will make a proper Duke sequel.
And still more gaming info.
http://tinyurl.com/39mzgvd
I played quite a bit of this while at the hotel in Atlanta last week. I have to say this is one of the best portable games I ever played. But there are a couple of big caveats. The first is you really need to be a fan of turned based strategy games to enjoy this, the second is, the game functions on a much broader spectrum of DnD 3.5 rules that one might expect. So it takes a while to get a feel for the interface and truly understand how to play the game. But once you do, you have a sort of portable Neverwinter Nights / animated DnD Minatures game to play. All the negative comments at Amazon are accurate, the interface needs to be streamlined, there should be a group follow option, primary attacks should be mappable to a hot key etc. But what the negative reviewers won’t say is that there is almost 100 hours of gaming to be had to finish. The game has a lot of replayability value, and there is way more depth than a quick glance would tell.
Crap. I really don’t want the Flyers to win.
Holy moley. . . . . .
Catching up…
DL’ing Portal at present. Moist delicious cake…
Funny y’all should mention it, I had my hands on Black Lotus this very evening. Er, Bl4k Lotus, actually, my high school buddy Brandon Patton’s alter-ego with MC Frontalot. It was a good show, Brandon opened with a six-song solo set, then after a little Vilification Tennis, MC Frontalot took the stage.
Ran into a couple other folks from good ol’ St. Paul Central, it was a fun time
My PSP and DSI gather dust these days, do most of my gaming on the phone.
CW: Latest Fringe
oodles of parallel world goodness
Vanamonde: I guess my post has disappeared into the ether(net). Thanks for the link. The thing is, it’s been done before, just not by Google. Companies for years have been cataloging MAC addresses and such to use for hyper-accurate positioning. If your cell has wifi, for example, you can be traced to roughly within six inches. Maybe a foot, tops.
Since this is Google, now it’s hit the front page for average Jane and Joe.
Rhettro: That game sounds like something right up my alley. I really like turn-based tactics games. Final Fantasy Tactics was really good, for instance. Hopefully I can find something in Linux land like it, as I don’t have any consoles apart from an NES.
I personally have a very hard time with large-scale tactics games. If there’s a couple parties fighting, I’m good. Have to manage armies across a country, and it’s too much for my small brain to handle. I lose. Badly. Epically.
While it’s not a tactics game, I actually have Lunar: Eternal Blue, but no system. I tried to get an emulator to run it on my desktop, but to no avail. I may try again someday, or just break down and buy a used system.
You could give Kgen Fusion a try JN:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kega_Fusion?wasRedirected=true
there is a linux version available.
Lunar is for the Playstation. Thanks, though. Going through games, I’ve found Battle for Wesnoth. I’ll check that out.
http://www.wesnoth.org/
An easy mistake to make:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar:_Eternal_Blue
The playstation version was the sequel.
Vanamonde: Crap, I’m terribly sorry. I meant the Silver Story Complete.
CP: Dragon’s Lair on the iPhone
The video looks rather spiffy on the iPhone screen, still hard as nails though even with the on screen directions.
CP: The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe
I’m impressed with Wesnoth. It looks as though it has a Warlords aspect to it, so I may suck at it. But I’ll mess with it a bit.
Fall of Imiryn looks like a pretty straight-forward FF-ish RPG.
Stone Soup looks quite old-school, but should be a good amount of fun, as dungeon-crawlers go.
Now all I need is time to play.
Well tonight I finally completed Dragon’s Lair, after a ‘mere’ 27 years.
Yah!
???
Whatever will you do with the next 27 ?
Space Ace…
Vanamonde: Way to go!
post 1 of 4
Space Ace was the PERFECT answer.
2 of 4
What happened at LepreCon: My two little ones joined me on stage for a live performance of “Keeper”, both of them in costumes.
3 of 4
Internet rumors are flying, stating that Ronnie James Dio has died. I hope it isn’t true. There’s no sign of the morning coming.
4 of 4
Goodnight :mush:
Re:
2 of 4 – Awesome.
3 of 4 – I haven’t seen anything yet… but I’ll go find out now.
4 of 4 – Sleep well.
From DigitalJournal.com :
I guess BlabberMouth is an arm of RoadRunner, so maybe they are a trustworthy source? They say that they reached out to Dio’s manager and she said:
So, as of this morning, he’s still with us. He has a twitter account http://twitter.com/OfficialRJDio so that may be the place to stay up to date.
This has been the Nomad Scry News Network, your source for stuff since a while ago!
Really enjoyed the second of this months Clarkesworld magazine story:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/pi_05_10/
Also in audio via the CW podcast.
-story +stories
Works best if you hum the x-files theme tune:
http://www.informantnews.com/phobos/index.html
I like the infrared “photos of an underground city.” Looks an awful lot like image compression artifacts to these eyes.
Missed this one at the time:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/08/farewell-to-the-creator-of-feminisms-forgotten-legend-modesty/
The Nebula Awards have been posted, though it’s easier to find the results on Tor.com than on the actual Nebula Awards website. None of the big publishers had a win.
NULL!
Something something something about Google collecting WiFi info in the EU, something something about happening before so what’s the big deal.
IMO, because it is the EU, it just means that this is the first time they’ve become aware of it. I gotta respect the way that they are willing to ignore what has gone before. Just because it went unsung then doesn’t mean that now that they are aware of it they won’t scream bloody blue frogs. Sure, they probably only found out because Google is big enough for people to spend all of their time watching, but that doesn’t mean the EU was “allowing” it before.
It’ll be interesting to see if the EU continues to find that publicly available information is collectible or if they’ll decided that it isn’t.
And before I forget again, thank you all for taking the time to poke at that safety wall guy. I appreciate it.
CG: Heavy Rain
:metal:
[sad post]
RIP dio
[/sad post]
[happy post]
Blackhawks yay!
[/happy post]
Greetings, Pan.
I doubt I’ll get caught up on comments as I’ve been out of pocket for the last couple of days. A long time friend and Godfather (and, naturally, he’s Italian) of my daughter got married this weekend. He was long overdue for finding someone. Had a great time and got to see some friends from college that I hadn’t seen in real life in many years.
Hope Deadpan had been going well.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140129
=(
Nomad Scry: So, two points. One, I am an American. That means, the globe has two countries. One is America. The other is the country of the Others. I have completely fallen all over myself to show that the U.S. is the only country I care about or have any knowledge of. I apologize to the rest of the globe, I have become the arrogant American I should strive to not be.
Second: Good point. I have long applauded the E.U. for having the balls that the U.S. has long either tucked or completely torn off. Again, I was being completely U.S.-centric.
My only excuse is the majority of data I get is U.S.-centric or -specific, but that’s not enough.
That out of the way, isn’t Google claiming it accidentally gathered the info kind of like claiming that the Hubble telescope is accidentally gathering deep-space info?
Null – I love you.
(Also, the way I read it, Google isn’t claiming to have accidentally gathered the info. They are saying, “Uh… yeah, it’s available in the air and we just wrote down what is there. No biggie.”)
Ed: That’s great. The daughter of one of my dad’s coworkers got married today. My parents went and took pictures, but I didn’t go because I had to go to my Saturday class.
I did have an eventful weekend, though. This weekend was our town’s Relay for Life at the local high school, and I had the privilege of being on the school staff team. I think I got about 45 minutes of sleep the whole night. (Some people can fall asleep when there’s noise around them, but I need absolute quiet.) Today I went to church, came home, and slept all afternoon. Then we went out to dinner with a friend.
Uhm. I meant… temples.
[still catching up]
reaper: I am watching The IT Crowd on Netflix streaming… into about 7 or 8 episodes so far.
Turbo Slut was what I was going to call my band.
Ronnie James Dio – …. sadness 🙁
I want Dragon’s Lair for my touch.
oooh that reminds me of a story.
Maybe I’ll call the voicemail on my way home and tell my story.
it’s not technically a dumbass memory but it’s a cute memory or … a teenage 80’s memory?
Maybe if I call it in, :jack: can put 80’s music behind it…
[/done catching up]
So, who wants to know what’s been going on with me?
Well – I wish I’d gone to LepreCon! Sounds like I missed something amazing there!
I am waiting for some more bloodwork results from my doctor, but he made some changes for me that I requested and I think I’m feeling better so that’s an upside.
My company had its yearly picnic this weekend and I was able to take my kids and it was super fun! They climbed rockwalls and jumped in bouncy houses and ate snowcones and cotton candy… all around good time.
I’ve been reading a book called Fidelity Files (http://www.jessicabrody.com/fidelityfiles.html) and I’m enjoying it. Mostly I’m just enjoying reading. My love of WoW is on the backburner. I’d really just rather be reading these days. I go through phases of wanting to read and when I do, I tend to disappear into my books. Reading helps me relax and re-center and I’ve been very scattered and unsettled of late.
OK this is turning into a blog post! Ugh.. Sorry…
Speaking of blogs – I’m rebuilding mine. I’m sure you are all thrilled! :tongue:
*snuggles*
RIP Ronnie James Dio. My cassette of “The Last in Line” is still in my old room at my mom’s house in NJ. If only I could get ahold of that and my old one-speaker Emerson radio. . . .
Cool if rather silly:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/canon-dslr-shutter-remote-hacked-into-atari-joystick/
The sun’s up. I guess that’s a start.
Glad to see Cj is doing better. Hows the job front going babe?
In my medical news, I think I’m having a reaction to some of my meds. It took me almost an hour last night to convince hubby I didn’t need to be taken to the emergency room.
When he left today he told me to basically stay off my feet. Like that’s really going to happen. Doesn’t he realize it’s Monday, my busiest day of the week?
On the up side, I got a new monitor on the weekend. My computer is now fully 3D. I don’t think I’ll ever play a game any other way. It’s awesome.
I was playing Assassin’s Creed 2, hubby put Unreal Tournament 3 on, and we spent most of the weekend shuffling for play time (on MY computer).
Tomorrow will be movie day for sure. I’ve cleared my calendar.
Where is everybody? :cwy:
Getting my car serviced
Ohhh, ditto leads an exciting Monday :biggrin:
I think it’s time to sit out and do some reading.
CR: The Desert Spear – Peter V. Brett
Sorry, living on the left “coast” means I get up a little latter than the majority of panners. Still on a reduced time schedule at work, 4 day work weeks, so today is my day “off.” The misses left early for a meeting in Tempe, I need to get the kids rounded up and headed for school. Then I need to send a GPS watch in for warranty service and re-caulk the shower. Exciting I know.
Joy, I know. 😉
Okay, I’m obviously living in the past, 3d monitor?
Van, me too!
Good morning!
Bunny, I hope the meds get straightened out. The job is the job. So far it’s AOK, but I’ve officially applied for a new position. Wish me luck! :bitingnails:
Fletcher is no longer in school – officially summer break, so no more mornings to myself, but looking forward to Sarah being out of school too so that I can sleep in a little later! Right now I’m off to take her to school!
Still living in the past, I preordered an iPad, just a wifi one.
Van http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Main.html
You need a special 120hz monitor to handle the 3d graphics (see system requirements)
The vision kit also came with Avatar the game. Not something I was really interested in, but I can see the tie in.
Thx TEB.
Nomad Scry: Thanks! Glad I don’t piss off everyone.
I read a blurb somewhere that claimed Google said that the gathering was inadvertent. But I obviously am not paying much attention to it all, and therefore should probably shut the hell up.
So I’m in an arms race with this woman on FB with Cafe World. To keep ahead of her I’m having to add as many CW players as friends as possible.
Ugh
I need to stop being stubborn..sigh
Good Morning, :pan:
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Gooooooood Morning Lejon!
I’m currently optimizing.
Morning gang busy start to the week.
CP: Murder at Avedon Hill, Chapter 2
Cj: optimizing?
socializing?
CP: Quentin Harris – Travelling
I. . . . . The. . . . . Yeah. . . .
So this article says the issue was actual capturing of traffic, more so than MAC addresses and ESSIDs.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/05/14/financial/f135550D39.DTL
CP: pickle – podictionary 212
CP: Red Panda (60) The Great Fall – Decoder Ring Theater
CP: Hour of Slack #964
Just finished my owed NHL song and it turned out awesomely…
awesomely bad that is.. but I guess that’s sort of the point. But fair warning if you want to skip this week’s episode. LOL
Yeah, mine really wasn’t very good either.
CP: P Machinery — Propaganda
Oh I love your voice ditto… you leave me wanting more. 🙂
CP: Matricide – Nevermore
Trying to get my computer running more optimally = optimizing.
CP: Murder at Avedon Hill, Chapter 3
CP: Jet City Woman — Queensryche
There is something quite restful about watching all the death animations in Dragon’s Lair.
CP: 145 MM Returning to the Workplace
CP: Slice of SciFi #264: VoiceMail Show
Performing waking somnambulism in the workplace
Lejon does that require candles and a pentagram?
And chickens?
Well, maybe eggs before the chickens, but only at the points of the pentagram, and the candles need to be black and made from beeswax.
Or maybe the chickens come first…
JN: You are in for an awesome ride with Murder at Avedon Hill. Enjoy!
WNDRWolf: I’m 5 episodes behind you, on episode 56. I just got caught up with Black Jack Justice yesterday. I started listening to that series from the beginning back in late March.
OHNO! Sharks and Canadiens each lost one game?! Curses..
Oh yeah, the NHL playoffs are on. . . . . Go Hartford Whalers!
On top of the head-spinning weekend, I’m still having trouble processing a world without Ronnie James Dio.
Truly this year in its still infancy has taken 2 gods of metal, and two good people, from us. I’m still in my Type O-Negative at all hours phase. Now I must include Ronnie.
Agreeing with Jack’s and Long Pan’s recent nipples.
Playing with my water snake.
Delaying Monday until Tuesday doesn’t actually make Monday go away.
Dammit.
Antelope!
Where the deeeeeeeeer and the antelope play.
:tumbleweeds:
Sorry I’ve been sparse for the past few days. My thoughts have been just as scattered. Getting back on track, though.
Goodnight :moon:
Today’s woot shirt is absolutely horrid.
I think it needs to be debugged.
must sleep
Sleep well.
The sleep is a lie!
Started playing Portal last night with my kids. My daughter is often able to see the ways through before I do.
The first 10 episodes or so of Murder at Avadon Hill are pretty dry writing, but the story picks up after that. Overall, I’m glad I didn’t give up on it, but the beginning could really stand a rewrite.
A cloak room moment.
Watching the latest Big Bang Theory, and notice B-Stoff and C-Stoff written Sheldon’s whiteboard.
Those were the codenames for the fuels used in the Me-163 rocket plane.
I’ll get my coat.
Bad news for sausage and bacon eaters:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8688104.stm
Grab your coat and get your hat
Leave your worries on the doorstep
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street
Can’t you hear the pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step
Life can be complete
On the sunny side of the street
I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade
But I’m not afraid because this rover crossed over!
And if I never had a cent
I’d be rich as Rockefeller
With gold dust at my feet
On the sunny side of the street
Van, I don’t think that article said anything new. Here, at least, the news is always harping on healthy foods.
Our yard is supposed to be completely redone starting some time this week. I have (had?) an apple tree in my front yard. We’ve had a number of people actually quite upset with the idea this tree would be gone. To the point, a friend of ours came on the weekend and took it for their yard. As it was coming out, the neighbours came by. When I took them all the trees and bushes were coming out, they were rather upset. I don’t understand, I always thought it was a bit of an eyesore.
Did take a whole bunch of “before” pics on the weekend, though. The work should be done by the first week of June.
If you want to prepare yourselves, this is the movie we’ll be watching this afternoon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/
You can’t go wrong with Nazi Zombies at a ski lodge. 😆
Watched Daybreakers last night. As far as vampire movies go, it was above average. There were a few things that made you go hmmm (like a hummer that had a bridge strut go through the windshield, then the vehicle exploded), and some parts that made you think there was a story thread that might have been cut, but over all, not too bad.
Today is the day our recycling is picked up. It’s always interesting watching the people come by and rummage through all the bins looking for bottles. I’m afraid this guy is going to be out of luck. Someone beat him to it, coming by a couple of hours earlier.
Morning, DP.
Bunny, I’m totally interested in your before/after pics. Landscaping/gardening is my fave.
I’m not really much of a yard person, EssBee, that’s why I hire people to do it for me. :cheerful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPHIfCstm5A
Just because.
Well :pan: I’m off for a bit. Catch you after lunch for the matinee.
Even better! Pictures of what pros do!
Once it’s done, I’ll e-mail you a couple of before/during/after pics.
Awesome.
I have an earache and feel like poo.
One more thing before I go. These are the guys doing the work in our yard, EssBee. you can have some idea of what they’re like.
http://www.assiniboinelandscaping.com/our-work/
Assiniboine…
CP: Superstition — The Kills
CP: Maxwell Murder — Rancid
Cuz I really need to wake up.
Highly recommend that PS3 owners give Heavy Rain a try.
Wow, you guys, I just got unfriended on FB by someone I was very close to at one point.
Just a few weeks ago, I contemplated unfriending someone, and I am now really glad I didn’t do it. It’s cruel, petty, and feels pretty awful.
*hugs* EssBee
Cj, NS: Even I am a little grossed out by that shirt, and bugs don’t normally bother me.
TEB: During the summers when I was 9 and 10 years old, I was one of those people looking through the recycling bins when they were out. I wasn’t looking for bottles, though, just the points that Pepsi was putting on their packaging that you could redeem for prizes. I got a beach towel and a cool folding chair out of the deal. 🙂
*hugs* EssBee.
Please remember Steve Should Not Eat It
Fecking :ftb:
OK, so I typed a bad email address… FeH!
More hugs for EssBee. 🙂
Good Morning, :pan:
There will likely be a released comment a little later about “Steve”.
In the meantime, Does it feel weird yet?
Thanks, guys!
I haven’t baked in a while so I decided to make cookies. That’s going to make hubby both happy and upset with me.
Happy because, well, I made cookies. Upset, because I’m not suppose to be on my feet (see medication reaction above). While I don’t really follow that rule, there’s not usually any direct evidence of such willful disregard for the rules 😉
Not sure if i did it earlier so here’s a hug for EssBee also.
[insert witty, fascinating comment]
Woo!
Woot! For Scry’s witty comment :w00t:
Ok, I’m gone for a little while again.
The Hartford Whalers didn’t really get reincarnated, did they? I’m a terrible New Englander to not know the answer to that, I guess.
Thanks, Amy. Thus far, I’m enjoying it.
As Ed from Texas touched on, it seems a bit dry and formulaic a bit now, but it’s overall well-written. It seems to be a story that picks up steam as it goes.
TEB: I’ve heard several people recommend that movie. I’m anxious to find out what you thought of it.
You may get a kick out of this :cth:
http://www.zachreddy.com/2010/05/18/tentacular-tentacular/
CP: We Stood Transfixed in Blank Devotion as Our Leader Spoke to Us, Looking Down on Our Mute Faces with a Great, Raging, and Unseeing Eye — Red Sparrowes
JN: The Whalers became the ‘Canes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Whalers
CP: Crucify — Tori Amos
Nothin I do is good enough for you.
OK peeps! Grab your big tub of popcorn and your huge cup of coke. It’s movie time!
Just a reminder, this commentary will be spoiler heavy, so if you have any intention of seeing the movie on your own, you may (or may not) want to hide your eyes
The movie is Dead Snow. The DVR write up:
Vegar Hoel stars in this inventive screamfest about eight medical students who come face to face with a battalion of undead Nazi soldiers during a holiday ski trip in Norway.
My bloodwork results came back today and… all normal.
So what do I do now?
Just plod on I suppose.
I have no answers.
Also, no criticizing the spelling or grammar. Typing as I watch so it’s hard to be quick and accurate.
Cj, I’m in a similar boat. My “doctor” treated a couple of symtoms and ignored some test results. I’m at a point though where I can live with it so I figure I’ll also just plod along until I collapse again.
Pressing play now…
Ohhh, it’s in HD. Love hi-def blood and gore
Go for it, Bunny.
Yellow BAstard Productions
There are a lot of trees on this hill. Can’t be much good for skiing
Fell and hit her head. Hear they come!
Look at the hip young kids.
This is subtitled. Now have to watch, read and type.
“Hanna says she’s very single”
What does that mean? How is very single different from single
“Any chance of a rear entry?”
C: Smoke break
The girls and guys are in separate vehicles. The better to talk about eachother
Cell phones don’t work… Now they’r asking for trouble.
Counting off movies that start with a gourp of friends who are alone in a off the track cabin with no telephone availability.
Why hasn’t Sara arrived? She was suppose to be there before them.
That’s not how you make a fire!
Innertubing from a snowmobile
I never have this much fun in the winter
Sufficating her with a pillow is foreplay
OMG they have to use an outhouse. I would neer survive.
Hello?
Are you sure it wasn’t a moose?
I’m still stuck at “rear entry”, Bunny.
Enter scary older man, about to tell them stories
Hey Bunny, just logged on, I’ll have to leave to do a bank run in 10, but should be back 15 after that. Please continue.
The coffee’s terrible
The rear entry is definately a test of one’s parking skills.
Oop, got a work e-mail. Time to pause. Back in five
While I’m taking a break you can all discuss why this scary older man suddenly shows up at the door of the cabin and asks for coffee.
I’m back!
Now where was I? Oh yes, strange man…
The terrain is the least of your worries…
Einsatz
Stories of people being tortured in the area during the second world war.
The people revolted.
Calling upon the devil to help escape to the mountains.
I can’t stand people who use their coffe to put out their cigarettes. It’s just a quirk I have.
What will you do if your limbs are torn off?
I sleep nakid, but I keep my toque onmy head so I don’t get cold?
was it a dream?
Ok, scary old man sleeps in a tent in the woods. Really?
If you sleep alone in a tent in the woods, you know you’re not long for this world. Scary old man is the first (second?) to die.
Time to look for Sara. Let’s take the snomobile and leave the others without transportation. The vehicle is an hour of so away.
A slice of bread with a slice of cheese on it makes a good lunch
Didn’t find Sara but found scary man’s tent
Hey, one of the headlights is out on the snowmobile. Not relevant to the movie, just making an observation
Hey, what’s this?
Who does all this gold belong to? Could it be… zombies?
Ow, that look liked it hurt
“I’m going for a shit”
“Name it after me”
WTF?
really? It’s all yucky in there. I wouldn’t do that.
CP: Blood Gulch Blues — Trocadero
“You know what, you could bitch about anything, couldn’t you? We’re gonna get a tank, and you’re worried about chicks. What chicks are we gonna pick up, man?! Frig! And secondly, how’re we gonna pick up chicks in a car that looks like that?”
Coin dropped. Ucky hand picks it up
Another one bites the dust
I thought I heard something…
A shotgun above the door. All right!
Wait, I didn’t see any bullets. Is it loaded?
Found Sara’s backpack but no Sara or Chris
That would freak me out too
Check deposited, lunch being eaten.
Here come the zombies
“Don’t worry, they cant get in”
FAmous last words
CP: Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child — Mojo Nixon
Shotgun did have bullets by the way.
There goes another one.
Meanwhile…
We have the guy on the snowmobile looking for sara
Lets stay here and lit the problem fix itself.
Wow, they’re covered in blood
[local stuff]
opening day at my “More” local baseball team class A:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6StzGLuPY&feature=player_embedded
this inspired a choice for a bobble head they they might give away:
http://tinyurl.com/2eapwps
thats the one I voted for
[/local stuff]
Oh look, I made a torch
An SS flag. Could this be the daytime home of the zombies?
Found Sara, or her head anyway
Or Jesse James’ girlfriend?
Fighting the Nazi Zombie
fully loaded:
http://i.imgur.com/S7x3d.jpg
Here comes another one.
Aww she has little pink hearts on her touque
*places nipple goal on the T*
BATTER UP!
REally girls, grab some snow and wash your faces. That blood is not becoming.
The best way to kill a Nazi zombi is a dagger through the eye.
Nazi zombi guts makes a good rope
Ouch
Yeah, that’s never a good thing to wake up to.
Boom!
Wait a minute, where did the explosive come from
I never understood why zombie’s ooze black goo. Where does it come from?
The birds! The Birds!
Did you know zimbies could climb trees?
I completely lost track of the body count. I think there’s only a few of them left.
Avalanche!
Good shot! Now the cabin’s on fire.
“Fucking Nokia!”
A chainsaw. All Right!
ewwww! are you insane?
Duct tape has all kinds of use
Which way is up? Time to spit.
Yeah, she dug her way out.
Music started, let the carnage begin.
Ok, that was cute
They’re making this look fun
Did we win?
Nope. More zombies still. More death
Wow. Strong zombies
You dip!
Time to end this death scene. Here comes the general.
Limited ammo, go figure
Isn’t your grandfather half Jewish?
Ewww, he cut his own arm off with a chain saw
No, don’t!
HOly crap that’s a lot of Nazi zombies!
The whole Nazi zombie army is after them
It’s actually quite tough to keep dyping Nazi Zombies
Boy they like to do the string out the guts effect
Hey! That’s my Nazi zombi treasure.
ON a side note, I don’t think my cat likes this movie. She keeps meowing at me
The landscape is quite pretty
He found the car. Could this ordeal finally be over
Maybe not…
It’s over? Interesting.
All and all, not a bad movie. Still B movie, but maybe a B plus as far as zombie movies go. Still kind of silly though but I guess that’s what you’ve got to expect from these kind of movies.
Now must do some work…
I noticed that “Dead Snow” is available as a streamable movie via Netflix. Added to que.
I may have under (or over) stated some of the scenes, Rhett.
CP: Dreamline — Rush
Oh, I’m always up for a B zombie flick. I don’t think you oversold it. LOL
Ok Rhett. You can tell everybody how accurate my comments were.
Need to do some sewing but not sure I’m in the mood.
Might read instead
CR: The Multiplex Man – James P. Hogan
So Happy Town has been put on hiatus. Too bad, I was quite enjoying that show
Bunny, that show premiered at the worst time possible. I really wanted to see it but I just have to many shows on right now and some are going away.(lost, flashfoward)
Stoopid bloody TV networks, Happy Town was getting interesting.
Apparently it’s going to come back in the summer. We’ll see.
I blame reaper for it going on a break :cheerful: