April 26, 2011
— Maetenloch Hey the ONT isn't all whiskey and midget pr0n - sometimes it has useful stuff too...
Tech Tuesday: Introducing Dropbox
Dropbox is a free 'cloud storage' service that synchronizes files across all of your computers (PC, Mac, or linux) and your mobile devices (iphone and android). The way it works is that you create a Dropbox folder on your computer and any file you put into it is quickly and automatically synced across all of your other systems. It's still saved locally but now you can access it anywhere and even through their website. Functionally it's like having a common directory on every single device you own. Plus all the cool kids are using it these days so here's your chance to get in on some of that action.
Initially they give you 2GB of space and you can get more by buying it or getting others to sign up. I've been using it for several months and have been very happy with it. It's convenient enough that it's essentially replaced my using a memory stick for copying files around. Plus if everyone in your family has a shared Dropbox folder, this makes it hassle-free to share pictures and video without having to upload them to a website.
And it's really come in handy at work where I can collaborate and share files with co-workers across the country using it's shared folder feature. I can drop a file in the folder and within a minute it's on my co-worker's computer where ever he might be. Also it replaces using FTP or a service like YouSendit for sending files too big for email since you can just send someone the url for the file in your Dropbox Public folder and have them download it directly. Another nice thing is that Dropbox automatically keeps backup version of your files so if you ever accidentally delete something, you can access previous copies from up to a month before.
Now supposedly Dropbox encrypts your files while they're stored on their servers, but if you're really concerned about sensitive documents I would encrypt them myself using TrueCrypt or forgo the service. But for casual stuff it's very convenient.
So give it a try - it don't cost nuthin.
[Sadly neither I nor Ace are getting anything for this endorsement. 
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Mark Steyn Is Pissed
At the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Not so much at how they treated him but mostly over how they treated stand up comic, Guy Earle, who had the temerity to respond to some lesbian hecklers at his show with some anti-lesbian heckler insults. For that he has been found guilty of a hate crime by the tribunal, fined $15,000 and effectively black-listed from ever performing again.
And Steyn really, really loathes head Commissar Murray Geiger-Adam:
No "human rights" law is infringed if I launch a blizzard of four-letter words at a fucking dickhead asshole cunt like Geiger-Adams. But, if Ms Pardy is around, the vulgar, witless boorishness that is the stock in trade of the average "comedy" club gets dramatically upgraded to "discrimination in the provision of a service customarily available to the public, on the basis of her sex and sexual orientation" - in other words, a hate crime.Sadly in Canada not only do they have speech police, but they also have speech courts with the power to destroy your life.This is an assault on one of the most basic principles of justice - equality before the law.
Glenn Reynolds: Old Enough To Fight, Old Enough To Drink?
Well I say if you're old enough to vote, join the military, hold political office, own a gun, get married, have a child, adopt a child, buy real estate, enter a contract, own and drive a car, own and fly a plane, and form a corporation, then you're old enough to drink.
And yes I'm still mad at Liddy Dole for blackmailing states into raising the drinking age, which is why I will never support her for any office or position.
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Much Needed Courses For Men And Women
For the ladies:
101 Avoiding Walking in Front of the TVAnd for the guys:102 Doing Housework Without Complaining
103 Shopping: Buying What You Can Afford, Not What You Can Charge
104 Going to The Washroom Alone (formerly Coping Without My Friends)
105 Understanding the Male Response to “Do I Look OK?”
106 Exercise: How it Keeps You from Looking Like Your Mother
101 Combating Stupidity102 You Too Can Do Housework
103 P.M.S. – Learning When To Keep Your Mouth Shut
104 How To Fill An Ice Cube Tray
105 We Do Not Want Sleazy Underthings for Christmas – Give Us Money
106 Understanding the Female Response To You Coming In Drunk At 4 AM
Dating Dealbreaker: He DoesnÂ’t Believe In Global Warming
Actually the guy she dumped seemed like a pretty decent dude overall. And he's lucky he dodged this bullet:
“Global warming isn’t scientifically proven,” he wrote.WHAT??? Does he think the world is flat, too? I thought in horror. I’m from California. I’ve been recycling and saving dolphins since I was in the womb. Suddenly, memories came rushing back to me like a horrible movie montage: The arguments we had about hybrid cars—he contended that it didn’t make a damn difference, since car companies still pollute in other ways. I thought he was just defensive about his decidedly not-green race car. And the way he would constantly rib on Al Gore, even after “An Inconvenient Truth” won the Academy Award… He was always so skeptical about the merits of organic food, too. And, hey, did he even have a recycling bin?!
And poof! Just like that, my desire for him zoomed off into the sunset.
25 Years of Radiation
It's been 25 years since the disaster at Chernobyl and here's the photographic journal of Alexander who was there for the aftermath.
These operators are heroes, either because of their recklessness or ignorance. They were paid a 5 time higher wage and promised the “Zhiguli” without standing in a queue. But very few of them seem to have managed to get this car…The radiation level in the place of a photographer was 2 r/h, in the place of operators – at least 20 r/h. It means it was safe to work here only for an hour which was actually impossible in such circumstances.
Besides, Russian people pursuing big money and the “Zhiguli” left their dosimeters in a “clean area” so that they wouldn’t be sent away from the “hot area” before time. That’s the paradox of the USSR – the “Zhiguli” at the cost of life.
Lady Gaga Is Horny
Okay I think this is one look that she didn't copy from Madonna.
9 Things You Didn't Know About Bobcat Goldthwait
He toured with Nirvana and no he's not on drugs among others.
The Yahoo AoSHQ group. You know the way.
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here and elsewhere.
There's a Jump Off A Cliff aspect to the news lately and it's getting worse, day by day.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 26, 2011 06:18 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 06:19 PM (FBv5r)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 26, 2011 06:20 PM (1x4XR)
Sam, you're better off. Come on over here and you'll get all the attention that you deserve...
Posted by: Oliver Willis (Like Stupid) at April 26, 2011 06:20 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 26, 2011 06:21 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: CanaDave at April 26, 2011 06:21 PM (6FX+Y)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 26, 2011 10:20 PM (1x4XR)
I'll have to search my memory from the PA/DE/MD meetup back in Nov to draw up a list of suspects...
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:21 PM (c0A3e)
I can put together a photo lineup if necessary.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 26, 2011 06:23 PM (1x4XR)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 06:24 PM (sJTmU)
Police then tased the man because they thought he was armed with a nightstick.
Wonder what that did for the frappers moment....
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 06:24 PM (FBv5r)
Syria Escalates Crackdown as Tanks Go to Restive City
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:26 PM (c0A3e)
Actually, I added that. Didn't really happen, but it sounded funny.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 26, 2011 06:26 PM (1x4XR)
Sadly neither I nor Ace are getting anything for this endorsement
Oddly, I saw a post somewhere (Patterico? Legal Insurrection? I honestly don't remember) on the rightosphere extolling the virtues of this product earlier this week. I assumed they were getting some compensation, frankly. Sorry you guys aren't!
chemjeff,
Did you get your haircut yet?
Posted by: Y-not had tasty tasty baby back ribs tonight at April 26, 2011 06:27 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: RushBabe at April 26, 2011 06:27 PM (Ew27I)
Obama in mourning: inventor of the Teleprompter is dead at 91.
Posted by: Pigilito at April 26, 2011 06:27 PM (CU+o0)
Cloud computing?
So this is the new thing, the "thin server" concept from years ago? Do you still own your stored data? Something tells me that this might not work out so well in real life as it does in story books.
Invest in some flash drives and keep you data there, if you don't want to clog up you hard drive.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 06:27 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Y-not had tasty tasty baby back ribs tonight at April 26, 2011 06:27 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 06:28 PM (9rOMf)
Posted by: TexasJew at April 26, 2011 06:29 PM (u33Mv)
I think I have identified the culprit - ya2daup
His wise-mentor demeanor isn't fooling anyone anymore, particularly me.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:29 PM (c0A3e)
chemjeff,
Did you get your haircut yet?
You, sir, have a way with setting the tone of an ONT. Those pix of Joe Dirt and the "bowl" comment were too much. Do you have a query lined up for tonight?
Posted by: RushBabe at April 26, 2011 06:29 PM (Ew27I)
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:19 PM (FBv5r)
With dropbox it's stored on both - so you have a local copy and a cloud backup.
Posted by: Mætenloch at April 26, 2011 06:29 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 06:29 PM (FBv5r)
Posted by: garrett at April 26, 2011 10:29 PM (BDSPt)
--I don't get it on TV here, but the radio will do.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 06:30 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet at April 26, 2011 06:30 PM (asiq+)
Posted by: Y-not had tasty tasty baby back ribs tonight at April 26, 2011 10:27 PM (pW2o
If the content is in place for more than 180 days, it's considered 'abandoned' and they don't need to get a warrant...
Posted by: CanaDave at April 26, 2011 06:30 PM (6FX+Y)
Did you get your haircut yet?
no, no haircut yet
will go next week
the salon I was going to go to, apparently they are closed for good
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 06:31 PM (7mSYS)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 10:29 PM (7mSYS)
No, Liz Lipshitz...
Posted by: TexasJew at April 26, 2011 06:31 PM (u33Mv)
Posted by: Waterhouse at April 26, 2011 06:31 PM (4e1Nd)
Okay I think this is one look that she didn't copy from Madonna.
Someone tell Gaga that the cone bra isn't supposed to be worn on the shoulders.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2011 06:32 PM (7YzRS)
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 10:28 PM (9rOMf)
--That may make some Morons want to worship Carrie.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 06:33 PM (BP6Z1)
Ya Maet, I was just being a wise ass... Actually we moved a lot of our servers to virtual from real servers and the whole lot of them went down when the NetApp machine bit the dust.. so the whole cloud thing is a issue with me..but i'm just a mainframe guy....
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 06:33 PM (FBv5r)
Posted by: steevy at April 26, 2011 06:33 PM (IIEE5)
I'm carrying under-wood right now.
It's funny 'cause it's true.
Posted by: The Todd at April 26, 2011 06:34 PM (4e1Nd)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2011 10:32 PM (7YzRS)
Ziiiiiiiiiiinnnngggggg!
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 06:35 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 10:29 PM (7mSYS)
it's John Belushi on that SNL skit..
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 26, 2011 06:35 PM (UqKQV)
I'm carrying under-wood right now.
It's funny 'cause it's true.
Posted by: The Todd at April 26, 2011 10:34 PM (4e1Nd)
--and people think Tony Romo got an upgrade with Jessica Simpson. Feh.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 06:35 PM (BP6Z1)
will go next week
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Make sure to chat up the stylist!
How about glasses? Do you wear glasses? If you're looking to jazz up your look you could get a slick pair. My hubby got some Oga frames and they're really something. They look expensive, in a good way, and kind of make him seem more sophisticated.
Also shoes. Good shoes are sexy.
Posted by: Y-not had tasty tasty baby back ribs tonight at April 26, 2011 06:36 PM (pW2o8)
--That may make some Morons want to worship Carrie.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 10:33 PM (BP6Z1)
Oh yeah she's smoking and certainly looks good in that. But she sings it really well too.
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 06:36 PM (9rOMf)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 06:37 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: Batty Old Lady at April 26, 2011 06:37 PM (ahMPS)
yeah I wear glasses, but I hate that style of frames with the really thick, fat sides like that
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 06:37 PM (7mSYS)
Repo Man meets Jeopardy meets cultural decay
can't make this Shit up..........
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 26, 2011 06:37 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: Y-not had tasty tasty baby back ribs tonight at April 26, 2011 06:38 PM (pW2o8)
--and people think Tony Romo got an upgrade with Jessica Simpson. Feh.
Posted by: logprof
I heard Jessica had really big ears.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 06:38 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: CAC at April 26, 2011 06:38 PM (Gr1V1)
Posted by: Picric at April 26, 2011 06:39 PM (vYe4O)
Posted by: model_1066 at April 26, 2011 06:39 PM (2j/Mv)
Posted by: Batty Old Lady at April 26, 2011 06:39 PM (ahMPS)
although I guess it's about glasses frames and shoes and the picture of Liz, I guess it's Liz Taylor
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 06:39 PM (7mSYS)
No, in fact, I think you should be using some more stringent filters. Also ask them about longbows and Val-U-Rite. Give them a practicum - provide a snack-pack of chocolate pudding for the people you physically interview and see what they'll do with it.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:39 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Picric at April 26, 2011 06:40 PM (vYe4O)
You aren't wearing them for you! ;-)
These are nice. I like the split side pieces.
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 06:41 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Picric at April 26, 2011 06:41 PM (vYe4O)
Here's a case where I thank my lucky stars that my Internet is too unreliable to use the PSN.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:42 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CDR M at April 26, 2011 10:40 PM (5I8G0)
Well I remember signing up for the PSN for my PSP but I don't recall buying anything - so I wonder if they actually have a credit card number for me.
Posted by: Mætenloch at April 26, 2011 06:42 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 06:42 PM (7mSYS)
Posted by: TheLastDJ at April 26, 2011 06:42 PM (ofeYG)
Posted by: CDR M at April 26, 2011 10:40 PM (5I8G0)
Can you go back in and change the ones you have on the PSN? That should be an option or they should certainly make it so. And remember, you don't have to answer honestly on those, just as long as you remember what you put in.
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 06:44 PM (9rOMf)
Obama speechless (stolen from earlier thread...)
Did the guy actually die? I thought the whole thing was a joke!
Posted by: Mama AJ at April 26, 2011 06:44 PM (XdlcF)
Posted by: political correctness czar at April 26, 2011 06:44 PM (UPNlB)
Posted by: Palerider at April 26, 2011 06:45 PM (dkExz)
Storage is abandonment? WTF?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 26, 2011 06:45 PM (0vDuM)
Posted by: Picric at April 26, 2011 06:45 PM (vYe4O)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 26, 2011 06:46 PM (npr0X)
I don't - I like to have my frames as thin as possible. I suffered with thick glasses frames throughout high school and I won't bear that indignity again.
While the thinner frames don't make me look less hideous, I still find them more convenient. And they are easy to bend back into position without assistance should the frames be bent by an errant blow to the head, which I'm apt to incur.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:46 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Batty Old Lady at April 26, 2011 06:47 PM (ahMPS)
Thank you all for the kind words the other night after I told ya'll about having him put to sleep. I greatly appreciate it.
He is greatly missed, and he were a good dog. Though he was in bad shape and it was pretty clear there was nothing we could do to improve his quality of life and he was suffering. Still not an easy decision.
But I think the cat misses him the most. I think. Very hard to read, cats. But her big stinky buddy is gone and she has no one to bother anymore or get in the way of.
Again, I thank you all.
Good night, 'Rons!
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2011 06:47 PM (4q6A5)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 10:39 PM (c0A3e)
Kratos, the military is lucky to be getting its camo paws on you.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 26, 2011 06:47 PM (Ew27I)
Posted by: Ben at April 26, 2011 06:48 PM (DKV43)
Isn't he marrying some TV weatherbunny?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 26, 2011 06:48 PM (0vDuM)
The Lost Weekend was on. So Ray Milland is an alcoholic, and does all sorts of terrible/pathetic things to get more booze and - get this - the people around him actually want to get him help to quit the habit. Bunch of hate-filled bigots! Don't they know the proper way to deal with his addiction is to just make sure he gets lots of free, clean booze and then give him a nice, clean room to drink it in until he dies? That way he doesn't have to worry. I mean, have these people never heard of needle exchange? Have they never been to Vancouver? Most of all, don't they understand that he was born that way? Probably a bunch of bible-thumpers. Lady Gaga would not approve.
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 06:49 PM (PY4xx)
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 06:49 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 26, 2011 06:49 PM (seRb5)
Is there a glossary or something that moron-wannabes can read to get up to speed? Help a brotha out, eh?
Posted by: TheLastDJ at April 26, 2011 06:50 PM (ofeYG)
Except you must be 21 to purchase handgun ammunition.
Must be humiliating for 20-year-old police officers, to ask their partner to stop in at Wal-Mart before target practice.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at April 26, 2011 06:50 PM (2Oas0)
That's my number one plan (as a biochemist) at the moment, although I am looking around for other post-docs. I'll see what jumps out at me. Maybe I'll get lucky.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:50 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Picric at April 26, 2011 10:41 PM (vYe4O)
Oh no, you raped the dolphin didn't you?
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 06:50 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 06:51 PM (pW2o8)
The problem with that is the desire for success drives a thriving culture.
"Success" can be defined in many ways of course, but if you want to look at say a core difference between Reagan's America and Gorbachev Soviet Union, it would be the former offered all people the option to succeed, while the later all but guaranteed success for a chosen few and put it out of reach for the majority.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2011 06:51 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: Louis Tully at April 26, 2011 06:51 PM (BZEkR)
Anyway, Baby is awesome! Best thing in the World to wake up to a smiling baby and her Momma. Then to come home to the same thing? What did I do right in this lifetime?
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 06:52 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 10:50 PM (c0A3e)
Err, watch out for the State Media, they'll accuse you of being the anthrax mailer if there are any turtle traps near your house.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2011 06:52 PM (bgcml)
No, you cannot sign on. It's hard down.
Posted by: CDR M at April 26, 2011 10:48 PM (5I8G0)
Oh so they still haven't brought it back up yet. I wonder when they knew that personal information was available to whoever hacked it. They really should have erred on the side of caution and said it might have happened and recommended taking the appropriate measures before today.
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 06:53 PM (9rOMf)
If the kitteh gives you a loud, plaintive yowl out of the blue, she misses him.
Chloe did that to me after we put down another cat. My inter-species tranlator came up with "Where is he?"
Posted by: fluffy at April 26, 2011 06:54 PM (SwkdU)
Isn't he marrying some TV weatherbunny?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 26, 2011 10:48 PM (0vDuM)
--Not sure what he's up to now, but the Carrie to Jessica switch was a couple years back.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 06:54 PM (BP6Z1)
Diversity liberals don't like:
Thought, belief, spoken opinion, goals, personal achievement, housing, transportation, taste, opportunity, experience, priorities, entertainment, and income.
Their ideal world is one in which people of all races live boring, cramped, identical, conformist, minutely-regulated lives except when fucking.
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 26, 2011 06:54 PM (Tbd7n)
Since I seldom venture outside, there should be no danger of that.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:55 PM (c0A3e)
Guaranteed, or forced? I'm thinking of Olympic athletes...they were pretty much slaves to the state, but occasionally the gold medals went to athletes from non-bloc countries.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 26, 2011 06:55 PM (0vDuM)
I've been house-hunting. It's absorbed a lot of time so I tend to miss the ONT or just pop in briefly. We found a place. The inspection is Thursday. Fingers crossed!
That's wonderful about your little one. 'Seems like we've had a few new babies around here lately!
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 06:55 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Theresa D at April 26, 2011 06:55 PM (5axVp)
But I think the cat misses him the most. I think. Very hard to read, cats. But her big stinky buddy is gone and she has no one to bother anymore or get in the way of.
When I was younger I had two dogs, when one of them died, the other one went from being 35 pounds to about 75 pounds in 2 years.
They certainly get depressed like people do.
Posted by: Ben at April 26, 2011 06:56 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: mbruce at April 26, 2011 06:56 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: Ben at April 26, 2011 06:56 PM (DKV43)
I avoided that project! ;-)
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 06:57 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: mbruce at April 26, 2011 06:58 PM (Fr8N6)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 06:58 PM (RZ8pf)
*hides massive stash of Shannon Tweed nostalgic 90's pron*.
*ahem*. What pron? I'm as pure as the wind-driven snow!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 06:58 PM (c0A3e)
did you have a lab full of mutant crab people?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 06:58 PM (7mSYS)
Then we got another cat (kind of by accident), and all of Original Cat's irritating habits went away.
It was funny for the first couple of months because he was a neutered male and she began going into heat. She'd fling herself at him, he'd start to respond . . . and then completely lose interest and wander off.
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 26, 2011 06:59 PM (Tbd7n)
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 06:59 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:01 PM (RZ8pf)
did you have a lab full of mutant crab people?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 10:58 PM (7mSYS)
Be careful, they want to turn all men gay and are responsible for global warming.
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 07:01 PM (9rOMf)
Oh no, you raped the dolphin didn't you?
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 10:50 PM (MtwBb)
I was too busy tying the cynder block to my feet and jumping into the tank, to end my misery.
Posted by: Picric at April 26, 2011 07:01 PM (vYe4O)
My first lab adviser was a biophysicist...kinda. He wasn't a member of the crab people race, but he was from Georgia.
/The country, not the state.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:02 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: garrett at April 26, 2011 07:02 PM (BDSPt)
Posted by: mbruce at April 26, 2011 07:03 PM (Fr8N6)
TrueCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption software
I've used the feature where you create a mountable encrypted volume in a big file on your HD for a long time but I recently did the whole drive encryption deal.
Nice. I can't tell any performance degrading at all.
Posted by: toby928™ at April 26, 2011 07:04 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 07:04 PM (Kr+ja)
A few prequel NCIS episode pictures for you:
8.23 Baltimore
Mark Harmon/Michael Weatherly article (promoting the above)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 26, 2011 07:04 PM (170sK)
lol. The Cloud - making photoshopping pictures and hiding deviant deeds even more efficient.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:05 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:05 PM (cDRYC)
Get a fellowship. Assuming you're American, you should at least be able to get an NIH or NSF individual postdoctoral fellowship. Then use that as a bargaining tactic to get a bigger salary (at least a few grand) since you're be "free" otherwise.
Unless you enlist or whatever in which case I got nuthin'.
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 07:06 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: booger at April 26, 2011 07:06 PM (9RFH1)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 07:08 PM (7mSYS)
Not necessarily. However, to avoid discrimination lawsuits against particular religions (Jews or Christians vs Muslims), instead. give them a double shot of their choice (bourbon, rye, scotch, gin, vodka, tequila, slivovitz).
If they don't choose to drink, stop there, and say: we don't see a good fit with our workforce, or some-such.
If they do, then hand them 3 arrows, and a longbow.
If they can hit a man-sized target (that you tell them is named Mohammed), at 220 yards, they are the best of the best, and they're in.
If they try, but can't hit the target, maybe they can go to the guys you know just down the road.
BTW: What's the job you're hiring for, anyway?
Posted by: henryV at April 26, 2011 07:08 PM (vXagV)
Posted by: booger at April 26, 2011 07:09 PM (9RFH1)
Posted by: Waterhouse at April 26, 2011 07:09 PM (4e1Nd)
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 26, 2011 07:09 PM (Tbd7n)
That's why you're an awesome friend, PGiS. You alert me to all things Pirates.
Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom & Sith Lord at April 26, 2011 07:10 PM (YxBuk)
Fixed that for the menfolk.
Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom & Sith Lord at April 26, 2011 07:11 PM (YxBuk)
Posted by: Jean at April 26, 2011 07:11 PM (7P7Ij)
Microsoft has a version too. I'm getting old and cranky though, I don't want my stuff on a "cloud"
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:12 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 07:13 PM (Kr+ja)
Posted by: soulpile is... an expendable sith padawan at April 26, 2011 07:13 PM (afWhQ)
Usually someone with poor social skills who is therefore perfectly willing to spend a lot of time in dark basements collecting data.
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 07:13 PM (pW2o8)
Miss80sBaby, thank you, that helps. Though I get the vibe from the article that EJ isn't going to get the grisly death I am willing on her.
Did you watch Dr. Who last weekend? I am waiting until Saturday so I can watch both parts together.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:13 PM (RZ8pf)
lol. It couldn't have been you, as the real culprit is in jail and I seriously doubt you're that old.
Were you jealous?
Awww...you all got a piece of it though! Ah, that brings me back...mmmm. I need to learn how to make my own gingerbread Blade of Olympus.138 Shannon Tweed porn is classic? God I am old. I still love Bettie Page.
Good to know you're thinking 4th Dimensionally.
139 What's the plan on the postdoc, Kratos? I mean, do you want to learn a new technique, try a new system, or do something completely different?
I'd rather learn a new technique and/or system and enhance my current skill set rather than do something completely different, but I'm not limiting myself just yet. Given the conditions of the job market, I'm keeping myself as flexible as possible.
And yes, I'm American through-and-through, so I'll look into your suggestion. I always have the military as an option if nothing "jumps out at me" post-doc or fellowship wise. I'm young and don't plan on starting a family, so I have the benefit of maximum flexibility on this.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:15 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Trimegistus at April 26, 2011 07:15 PM (Tbd7n)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:15 PM (cDRYC)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:15 PM (RZ8pf)
The front of those specs is functional, unobtrusive and strong.
But no one should ever wear thick side-pieces. I have a pair of Italian sunglass frames from the early 80's (they went with an Alfa I had...)
With very dark lenses, they are entertaining -- qua sunglasses -- because you get the optical equivalent of noise-cancelling earphones. They just shut everything out, all the nasty bright goes away, and you're in your quiet safe place. Do NOT try working (or driving) in that status.
Your peripheral vision is completely blocked. Anyone can sneak up on you. You can't see who's trying to pass; your blind spot is total. Not even safe for walking down a hall. And that's the image the hipster doofus projects as he sports them: too coo fo skoo, take me I'm yours.
Spectacle style is all well and good, after you establish your range of vision. You'll never see me wearing those. Because I'm sneaking up on you.
Posted by: comatus at April 26, 2011 07:16 PM (W5ilH)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 10:50 PM (c0A3e)
We've been scouting you, young man. We think you have a future in blade phosphorescence.
Posted by: Blade of Olympus Institute at April 26, 2011 07:16 PM (Ew27I)
Stay away from the horseshoe crab sperm then.
Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 26, 2011 07:17 PM (72afg)
The biophysicist I knew was pretty outgoing and always had a well-stocked liquor basement for get-togethers at his house.
Of course, he had a considerable cadre of people who collected biophysical (i.e. thermodynamic) data while he spent all his time in his office playing with his infernal computer algorithms and writing grants.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:17 PM (c0A3e)
hee, hee. I guess I had ulterior motives for convincing my husband to get them.
Posted by: Y-not at April 26, 2011 07:18 PM (pW2o8)
Posted by: soulpile is... an expendable sith padawan
Yes, yes it is evening. Dark all night. Followed by widely scattered light in the morning.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 07:18 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 26, 2011 07:19 PM (UzGfz)
You don't say?
Well, that is until I bio-engineer a race of superior beings that will eventually supplant humanity. And, oh look, "Splice" is on Skinemax... a perfect primer!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:19 PM (c0A3e)
Waiting on the weather to get better. Where is that damned global warming?
Posted by: Bomber at April 26, 2011 07:19 PM (d88g9)
You don't say?
Posted by: The Moron Horde, in unison at April 26, 2011 11:17 PM (SwkdU)
What?
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 07:19 PM (MtwBb)
I miss my mid '80s glacier glasses.
Posted by: J. Random Dude at April 26, 2011 07:19 PM (72afg)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:20 PM (cDRYC)
That would be awesome! I have a Darth Vader Lego man keychain one of my friends got me a long time ago. I think it's still in my car somewhere...A Jack Sparrow one would be so freakin' cool, though.
Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom & Sith Lord at April 26, 2011 07:20 PM (YxBuk)
Keyword, of course, being "basement."
Posted by: Peaches at April 26, 2011 07:21 PM (xsNrv)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 11:15 PM (c0A3e)
Skip the Ebola/Marburg fellowships.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 26, 2011 07:22 PM (Ew27I)
Granted - I was an oops. But rest assured, you don't have to worry about me reproducing.
But enough about my nonsense - what the hell is this?
Explosion rocks gas terminal near Egypt's border with Israel; forces shutdown of pipeline - AP http://bit.ly/ftyMyj
That pipeline has been attacked multiple times ever since Mubarak's regime fell. Coincidence?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:23 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: Peaches at April 26, 2011 11:21 PM (xsNrv)
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again?
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:23 PM (6neGz)
Microsoft has a version too. I'm getting old and cranky though, I don't want my stuff on a "cloud"
..........................
Hey, Hey, Get offa my cloud.
Posted by: Jagger/Richards at April 26, 2011 07:24 PM (mtXZ+)
They sell those at Ren Faire in Irwindale. It ends on the 9th.
Sweet Pickles and Honey Badger are going this Saturday. Free tickets!
Posted by: sifty at April 26, 2011 07:24 PM (5qj58)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:25 PM (cDRYC)
Posted by: Fat man in a l'tle coat at April 26, 2011 07:25 PM (fYxhX)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:26 PM (cDRYC)
Posted by: Kratos
And a poll of Egyptians indicated that they want to repeal the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Accord. Surprise, surprise, surprise (as Gmer Pyle would say).
Next up: M1A1 versus the Merkava
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 07:26 PM (sJTmU)
Speaking of basements, I finished "The Girl Who Played With Fire" last night and then listened to the audiobook of "Devil in the White City" all day today. Lots of murder/torture for one 24-hour period.
(I'll save my meager reviews for the Book Thread.)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 26, 2011 07:28 PM (xMT+4)
Next up: M1A1 versus the Merkava
Tank for tank, I'd say the M1A1 wins out, but since it'll be operated by inept Egyptian troops, Merkava for the win!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:28 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 07:28 PM (h7xd7)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:28 PM (RZ8pf)
(Safe link
Salon: Donald Trump Gave $32K to Rendell
Donald Trump has come under fire for his large donations to Democrats, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Senator Chuck Schumer, and Congressman Charlie Rangel. He gave to Dems, Trump has said, in races where Republicans have no chance.
Well SalonÂ’s Steve Kornacki has poked a hole in that argument, noting that Trump donated $27,000 to PennsylvaniaÂ’s own Ed Rendell during his 2002 campaign for Governor well before Rendell was certain to win, and $5,000 in 2003 after he became Governor.
You should read the entire piece.
To sum it up, Kornacki suggests (probably accurately) that it was a business decision for Trump. Rendell was the pro-casino candidate, and Trump had an interest in competing for some of PAÂ’s gaming licenses (he was later shut out).
Nonetheless, itÂ’s another name in a long list that Trump will need to live down.
Posted by: Ed Anger at April 26, 2011 07:29 PM (7+pP9)
Tank for tank, I'd say the M1A1 wins out, but since it'll be operated by inept Egyptian troops, Merkava for the win!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 11:28 PM (c0A3e)
A friend of mine told me that the Egyptians M1A1 lacks quite a bit of the awsomeness of ours.
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 07:29 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 11:26 PM (cDRYC)
--A honey brown beer with a hell of a bite that makes you wake up with a swarm of angry bees around your head.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 07:30 PM (BP6Z1)
Lincolntf, I loved "The Devil in the White City" did you like it?
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:30 PM (RZ8pf)
My mother had a friend (she'd been his babysitter) who did well at state college, went into the Army "Chemical Corps" for a couple terms, and later retired grandiloquently from Lilly. While he was at Fort Meade doing whatever they were doing in 1962 (we didn't ask), he got married. The bride's family were teetotallers recovering alcoholics did not drink, so the reception was expected to be tiresome. But each of the chemical engineer's lab buddies cuffed one test tube of 200-proof lab alcohol into the punchbowl. It was the first drunken brawl I'd ever seen up close.
Forget anthrax. Think what a Plum Island researcher could do to you for a joke. Are we not men?
Posted by: comatus at April 26, 2011 07:32 PM (W5ilH)
That must have been on the previous planet I lived on.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 26, 2011 07:32 PM (ENKCw)
Posted by: Ed Anger at April 26, 2011 11:29 PM (7+pP9)
If I was him I would just say that this is the kind of shit you have to do if you're in business now. It's got that corrupt and I am going to change that.
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 07:32 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 26, 2011 07:33 PM (seRb5)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:34 PM (cDRYC)
>Canadian lesbians should be ashamed of themselves for letting the general population think that they are so pathetic that they need this kind of stomping on speech.
I look forward to Ace's upcoming lengthy and exhaustively researched post exploring the nexus of fascism and Canadian lesbians
Posted by: Jones at April 26, 2011 07:34 PM (cUNcx)
A friend of mine told me that the Egyptians M1A1 lacks quite a bit of the awsomeness of ours.
No doubt. And the Egyptians probably don't keep up on tank maintenance well either.
First time I saw an M1A1 tank up close was during my first year of Army ROTC. I had heard of these wonderful machines and seen them operate in some news clips, but I never fully appreciated their glory until then (and it was too bad they didn't fire a round for us). What was really impressive was hearing the stories about their service in the First Gulf War, that the Iraqis would fire RPGs at the tanks but all the rockets would do is stick out of the tank chassis like porcupine quills, not affecting the service of the tank at all.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:35 PM (c0A3e)
So much for victim's rights and swift justice.
Posted by: tcn at April 26, 2011 07:35 PM (QuGK2)
Posted by: league for the promotion of haggis in school lunch programs at April 26, 2011 07:35 PM (HALI+)
Posted by: Bomber at April 26, 2011 07:35 PM (d88g9)
112 Howdy, all! Just found out my rent's gonna get raised in the next month or 2.
I'd tell them to go fuck themselves.
Posted by: mghorning staying on my brothers porch at April 26, 2011 07:36 PM (Neafo)
I'd tell them to go fuck themselves.
Posted by: mghorning staying on my brothers porch at April 26, 2011 11:36 PM (Neafo)
We did that, then found a better place for cheaper. Asswipes.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:36 PM (6neGz)
Next up: M1A1 versus the Merkava
Tank for tank, I'd say the M1A1 wins out, but since it'll be operated by inept Egyptian troops, Merkava for the win!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 11:28 PM (c0A3e)
The Egyptian M1A1s don't have the same fire control systems as the American models. They are very hard to destroy, but the Merkavas could probably disable them and use their mobility to a big advantage.Posted by: Ed Anger at April 26, 2011 07:37 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Ed Anger at April 26, 2011 11:29 PM (7+pP9)
You mean like the $50k he gave Emanual Rahm just recently? He's a conservative all right.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 26, 2011 07:37 PM (ENKCw)
Yards and yards of frumpy plaid flannel, smelling faintly of maple, lager, and desperation.
What to do on Friday?
Perhaps screen Bound again while eating some donuts.
Let's do.
Posted by: sifty at April 26, 2011 07:38 PM (5qj58)
Posted by: comatus at April 26, 2011 11:32 PM (W5ilH)
I've never heard of Plum island until today when mpfs informed me of its existence. "Officially" it is a facility for researching animal plagues, but Lord only knows if it is just a front. We're not allowed to research offensive biological weapons by treaty, but we'd be fools if we didn't have some secret bio programs and rely just on USAMRIID for defense against such insidious weapons.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:38 PM (c0A3e)
A friend of mine told me that the Egyptians M1A1 lacks quite a bit of the awsomeness of ours.
Posted by: robtr
Operating armor in the desert (sand) requires quite a bit of preventive maintenance. Air filters need to be cleaned religiously, etc. I remember seeing quite a bit about this prior to the Gulf War in '91. And some alleged expert critiquing the M1 operating in the desert. How'd that turn out?
I also wonder about the discipline of the present and future Egyptian Army, especially as it appears that the MB will gain the upper hand after "elections" this September. Will the US begin to withdraw military advisors and training if such a thing takes place?
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 07:39 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: sifty at April 26, 2011 07:39 PM (5qj58)
OK, haven't read a single comment, but I just watched the most gorgeous sunset. Picture this: Firey orange orb slowly sinking behind the snow capped Olympic Mountains across Lake Washington from me. People were stopping their cars and pulling over, as well as standing on the sidewalk, mesmerized.
I was coming back from watching that new Jane Eyre movie. If you haven't seen it yet, and you like that "Tea On The Lawn" genre, run and see it before it's gone. It's soooo good. I cried several times during the movie, it was great! (So cathartic).
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:40 PM (ihSHD)
I was coming back from watching that new Jane Eyre movie. If you haven't seen it yet, and you like that "Tea On The Lawn" genre, run and see it before it's gone. It's soooo good. I cried several times during the movie, it was great! (So cathartic).
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 11:40 PM (ihSHD)
Mr. runningrn got to go fishing instead, though, right?
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:41 PM (6neGz)
>So, which one of us markets the first Honey Badger Booze, what is it made from.
Jack Daniel's beat you to it
http://tinyurl.com/6jh48v7
Posted by: Jones at April 26, 2011 07:42 PM (cUNcx)
That happens every day, you know.
Posted by: the other 56 states at April 26, 2011 07:42 PM (SwkdU)
And Steyn really, really loathes head Commissar Murray Geiger-Adam:
Wow! I've never seen Mark Steyn swear before. You'd almost think he's been hanging out in Breitbart's den, reading AoSHQ's comments together (although, he probably would have said "Scrunt"). It's actually kind of hawt!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:42 PM (ihSHD)
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265589
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 07:42 PM (PY4xx)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 26, 2011 07:43 PM (seRb5)
That happens every day, you know.
Not so much here as of late. Hopefully, we will finally get some decent weather. Although, snow is predicted for tomorrow!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:43 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2011 07:43 PM (XBM1t)
Not till 2013 at the earliest.
Posted by: Bomber at April 26, 2011 07:44 PM (d88g9)
I only makes sammiches for Corky.
Posted by: Violet at April 26, 2011 07:44 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 07:45 PM (PY4xx)
Not so much here as of late. Hopefully, we will finally get some decent weather. Although, snow is predicted for tomorrow!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 11:43 PM (ihSHD)
I just watched the weather. Lousy the rest of the week, Gorgeous this Weekend, then back to lousy.
It's supposed to hot on Sunday, 60!
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 07:45 PM (MtwBb)
Mr. runningrn got to go fishing instead, though, right?
Geez, do you really think I'm that cruel that I would drag him kicking and screaming? I went with a girlfriend. We both were sitting there simultaneously breaking out our kleenex at one point.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:45 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: nerdygirl
One word: Cashcab
Reality - game show all rolled into one. Novel, but actually kind of dumb.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 07:46 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Corona at April 26, 2011 07:46 PM (fh2Y7)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:46 PM (RZ8pf)
>So, which one of us markets the first Honey Badger Booze, what is it made from.
Jack Daniel's beat you to it
http://tinyurl.com/6jh48v7
Posted by: Jones at April 26, 2011 11:42 PM (cUNcx)
--I saw that on the ONT the other night. Not arrived here in MB, but maybe when I go to TX in a couple days I can find it.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 07:46 PM (BP6Z1)
what? you're kidding right? that's dumb, and insulting too
it's another way to laugh at people who are going through a hard time
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 07:46 PM (7mSYS)
That movie (Outbreak) is my impetus in considering the military as a career. In hindsight, several aspects of the movie were ridiculous (the lab tech getting infected because he reached inside a spinning centrifuge - there are safety locks against that, the dumbass punk kid, one monkey providing enough anti-serum for an entire town, Donald Sutherland's somewhat over-the-top villainy), but I still like watching Overbreak. The helicopter chase scene is pretty cool too.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:47 PM (c0A3e)
It's supposed to hot on Sunday, 60!
Wow, a veritable heatwave!
All I care about is Saturday's weather. My best running girlfriend is running her first 50k. Hubby and I are going to go support her after we're done doing our run around Lake Sammamish. After Sat., I don't care what it does. (Well, I do, but I really want good weather on Sat.) Is there a patron saint of weather?
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:47 PM (ihSHD)
>Not in favor of lowering the drinking age.
so an 18-yr old can take a bullet, but not a Budweiser?
Posted by: Jones at April 26, 2011 07:48 PM (cUNcx)
Geez, do you really think I'm that cruel that I
would drag him kicking and screaming?
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 11:45 PM (ihSHD)
No. Just lookin' out for a brah!
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:48 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:48 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 07:49 PM (HALI+)
From Chuckit's link:
What the Obama bashers fail to realize is that actions speak louder than words. Obama and his family attended services at a Washington Baptist church and continued the Easter tradition with kids Monday.
Bwhahaha! That's some unintentionally funny stuff right there. Dumbass Obamabootlicker.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:49 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:50 PM (6neGz)
#101 on the Course for Women is easily negated by the removal of clothing. Or really, really sheer full length gowns you can watch TV through but don't care.
Posted by: epobirs at April 26, 2011 07:50 PM (cSH12)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:50 PM (RZ8pf)
50K? Wow.
Yeah, I say anything over a marathon is crazy! The prevailing wisdom is that since it's all on trail, people don't get as beat up as they do running a marathon on pavement. I say baloney! Although, you do run slower because you're on trail, but it's more time on your feet!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:51 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 11:50 PM (RZ8pf)
First time? Damn - been doing that for 2-weeks.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:51 PM (6neGz)
hola
you know, normally being the dick i am i would use this time to laugh at the playstation gamers but since i am with the alienware pc crew.....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAbreathHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: navycopjoe aka peroni beer czar at April 26, 2011 07:51 PM (EOu3d)
But there are so many good things about high gas prices! The MFM told me so. Such as...
/Can't think of one that doesn't sound completely stupid.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:51 PM (c0A3e)
I paid $4.00 a gallon on Sunday. Wheee.
Yup, we paid 3.99 a gallon last week. I did see that it's 3.97 at the gas station by robtr's house.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:52 PM (ihSHD)
Currently 80 degrees in Houston, 75% humidititty. Like walking outside into a high traffic community shower room. That temp and humidititty reverse by 6 am.
Big break tomorrow night with a 54 degree low, 20 degrees cooler than what we've been having the last 2 weeks or so.
No significant rain predicted for next 10 days. Extremely dry conditions.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2011 07:52 PM (XBM1t)
But honey does ferment, although not real easily. Vikings drank mead. With spices it's metheglin, with fruit, melomel. Real old words.
We have the honey end pretty well covered (shouldn't this be a weekend contest post, anyway?) I'm concerned with finding a relevant, politically appropriate approach to the Badger part. Some Wisconsin thing?
Posted by: comatus at April 26, 2011 07:53 PM (W5ilH)
Bwhahaha! That's some unintentionally funny stuff right there. Dumbass Obamabootlicker.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 11:49 PM (ihSHD)
He forgot the part how Obama was so engaged in Easter Service that he and the family left a 1/2 hour before it was over.
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 07:53 PM (MtwBb)
Snow? I need to have a heart-to-heart with someone
At least you guys aren't having to go up that bigass hill any more. Although, are you living on a new bigass hill?
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:53 PM (ihSHD)
Yup, we paid 3.99 a gallon last week. I did see that it's 3.97 at the gas station by robtr's house.
Posted by: runningrn
It's all about the strong dollar the Tim Geithner was talking about!
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 07:54 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:54 PM (cDRYC)
Yeah, Editor, it was below 4.00 before. 3.97. Those .3 a gallon were major, that's like a latte or something.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:54 PM (RZ8pf)
$3.959 this AM.
But there are so many good things about high gas prices! The MFM told me so. Such as...
I wish to re-affirm my promise to rub one out at the pump while paying over $4 for the first time.
Posted by: fluffy & gassy at April 26, 2011 07:54 PM (SwkdU)
Give him a break. He saw them getting ready to pass the plate, and remembered that he had somewhere more important to be.
Posted by: Bomber at April 26, 2011 07:55 PM (d88g9)
He forgot the part how Obama was so engaged in Easter Service that he and the family left a 1/2 hour before it was over.
Or how Obama, the man of deep faith and religious conviction, who's weekly attendance at Rev. Wright's church was so important to him, he hasn't attended church regularly since he got in the White House.
(I know that's a horrible run-on sentence, but screw it, it's the ONT!)
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:56 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: President Jugears McFuckstick at April 26, 2011 07:56 PM (cUNcx)
Yup, we paid 3.99 a gallon last week. I did see that it's 3.97 at the gas station by robtr's house.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 11:52 PM (ihSHD)
You should have stopped in. I taped one of the Obama posters on pump 8 last night when I got gas.
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 07:56 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: comatus
Leinenkugel's! Just wanted to use that word (Wisconsin beer).
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 07:57 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 07:57 PM (cDRYC)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 07:58 PM (U6ObX)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 07:58 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:58 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 11:47 PM (c0A3e)
Hate that movie. The stereotypical villain wearing Special Forces tabs....the military as villain in general (all to preserve their "weapon") etc. The near instantaneous healing of an advanced case of Ebola (your liver is turned to pudding, you're *this* close to death from exsanguination, but a single injection of serum will heal all the damage and rebuild your organs?).
But the worst is Cuba Gooding calling superior officers "sirs" which is not only incorrect, but it sounds stupid. The correct form of address for multiple superior officers is "gentlemen", or "ladies" as the situation warrants. That always nagged at me.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2011 07:58 PM (7YzRS)
Give him a break. He saw them getting ready to pass the plate, and remembered that he had somewhere more important to be.
He gave Sheriff Joe F'N Biden a call tout suite:
"Hey Joe, where do you think we could get some really huge collection plates? Do you think you could do some research on that?"
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 07:58 PM (ihSHD)
I just started watching Archer on Netflix, good show.
Posted by: booger at April 26, 2011 07:59 PM (9RFH1)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 11:58 PM (RZ8pf)
*cough* robtr showed up for a meet-up, for once *cough*
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 07:59 PM (6neGz)
Right you are! I don't remember, was Kevin Spacey's character saved?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 07:59 PM (c0A3e)
(looking at calendar)
Wow, Sunday we are actually free! We've got 3 things we are supposed to do on Saturday after our run. (I'm thinking about skipping the one party, though.)
Yes, we'd love to come by if you guys are all settled in.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:00 PM (ihSHD)
There's more on this at HA.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 26, 2011 08:01 PM (ENKCw)
Here might be a better option. Easily maintain your own cloud with something like this... http://tiny.cc/yjlew
Posted by: dogfish at April 26, 2011 08:01 PM (N2yhW)
*cough* robtr showed up for a meet-up, for once *cough*
All this time, I thought he was some evil genius robot (when I first saw his handle, I read it as robotr--heh!), and he's not! He's real! I saw him with my own eyes! I think I even shook his hand!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:02 PM (ihSHD)
I hear Yuengling expanded by actually buying an unused brewery, though. They're not my favorite, but God bless 'em anyway. I'll never forgive Anheuser for taking Rock out of Latrobe.
Posted by: comatus at April 26, 2011 08:03 PM (W5ilH)
Oh, a meet-up thing. OK then. I couldn't really picture runningrn in a trenchcoat skulking in bushes anyway.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 08:04 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 27, 2011 12:01 AM (ENKCw)
I saw that earlier, the cop was unimpressed with that moonbat. heh
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 08:05 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Truman North at April 26, 2011 08:05 PM (8ay4x)
Oh, a meet-up thing. OK then. I couldn't really picture runningrn in a trenchcoat skulking in bushes anyway.
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2011 12:04 AM (RZ8pf)
How could she stalk me at my house if I am stalking you at your house?
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 08:06 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2011 12:04 AM (RZ8pf)
Are you kidding? I'm surprised we're able to keep her in a seat at the table long enough to eat. I keep expecting for her to spontaneously jump up and a run around the restaurant. "Okay, I feel better."
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:06 PM (6neGz)
He forgot the part how Obama was so engaged in Easter Service that he and the family left a 1/2 hour before it was over.
Did he have Bill Clinton come and take his place in the pew?
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 08:07 PM (9rOMf)
Leinenkugel's! Just wanted to use that word (Wisconsin beer).
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 26, 2011 11:57 PM (sJTmU)
--Look forward to BWW in Fargo in a couple days since they have the Sunset Wheat on tap.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 08:07 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2011 11:58 PM (7YzRS)
Hate that movie. The stereotypical villain wearing Special Forces tabs....the military as villain in general (all to preserve their "weapon") etc. The near instantaneous healing of an advanced case of Ebola (your liver is turned to pudding, you're *this* close to death from exsanguination, but a single injection of serum will heal all the damage and rebuild your organs?).
No argument from me. But call it nostalgia or denial or whatever, but I still like Outbreak, and it's military bashing wasn't as widespread as in other films - Donald Sutherland likes depicting the military as evil (I didn't know until later that DS was involved in a Vietnam anti-war play called "Fuck the Army"). I didn't catch DS's character was wearing Special Forces tabs, although I'm not surprised.
But even when I watched it as a teenager, I realized that I wouldn't care if we were performing offensive biological weapons research despite the treaty we signed. Why should the Russians or the Chi-Coms have all the fun? Hell, I'll bet the Chinese have at least a dozen facilities where they work on all kinds of nasty bugs. Biological weapons aren't called the "poor man's WMD" for nothing, and we're probably funding such research.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:07 PM (c0A3e)
why not?
Posted by: chemjeff at April 26, 2011 11:48 PM (7mSYS)
I lived through the previous era of lowered drinking age. Too many totally fucked up, wasted, blitzed teens driving. Including myself. God piloted me home safely on many an occasion.
Today's enhanced DWI/DUI laws are way more severe than they were back in the day, thanks to MADD, thanks to too many people dying at the hands of young drunks back in the day. Lower the drinking age and many more kids are gonna screw up and get nailed for DWI/DUI. Convictions can and do lead to loss of employment opportunities.
The cause-effect gene seems not to fully activate until early 20s. Thus young males jumping off roofs of hotels or upper balconies attempting to land in the hotel pool, but not quite getting the physics worked out accurately. Young ladies making very bad judgement calls (e.g. that blondie down in Aruba who's body has yet to be found)
We don't need more of this that will result from lowering the drinking age.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2011 08:07 PM (XBM1t)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 26, 2011 08:08 PM (cDRYC)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 08:08 PM (U6ObX)
Are you kidding? I'm surprised we're able to keep her in a seat at the table long enough to eat. I keep expecting for her to spontaneously jump up and a run around the restaurant. "Okay, I feel better."
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 27, 2011 12:06 AM (6neGz)
When I told her where I lived she said hey I could run to your house. I was thinking wow they don't have a car.
Posted by: robtr at April 26, 2011 08:08 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: zombie caesar at April 26, 2011 08:09 PM (Y1DZt)
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 08:11 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 27, 2011 12:01 AM (ENKCw)
Geez, what an emotional roller coaster I've had! I was all cried out from watching Jane Eyre and then laughing hysterically while watching this video. Heh! Thanks for posting it!
Bad thing though, this fat scrunt in her uglyass purple dress will probably sue the cop and Allen West, and the Town Hall organizers. Oh, and Mrs. West to for "trying to take my camera."
I love what West said: "At the end of the day, I need to have 3 things: my honor, my character, and my integrity." Amen! I also didn't know that he came from a military family. Wow.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:12 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Al Gore at April 26, 2011 08:12 PM (ihSHD)
Nope.
Darn,
. Here's a little biological weapons fun fact. During the 80's, until the reign of the "reformer" Gorbachev, the USSR developed a way to preserve Ebola virus if it was deployed on the battlefield (essentially, they lamented the virus thus extending its lifetime) and they also developed special munitions to spread smallpox virus in major population centers should a war have broken out between us and them.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:13 PM (c0A3e)
Oh, don't use flash drives for ongoing storage of critical info unless you have it backed up elsewhere. Flash memory WILL fail at some point, it has a limited number of read/write cycles, which is one of the disadvantages of SSD drives. Yeah, I've had flash drives fail on me.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2011 08:16 PM (7YzRS)
Just talked to dad... and he drops this on me... your niece has Kevin Spacey's refrigerator.
Don't even ask....my family is a running reality show.
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 08:18 PM (iHfo1)
Just talked to dad... and he drops this on me... your niece has Kevin Spacey's refrigerator.
Did she check it for body parts?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:20 PM (c0A3e)
Just talked to dad... and he drops this on me... your niece has Kevin Spacey's refrigerator.
Don't even ask....my family is a running reality show.
Posted by: journolist at April 27, 2011 12:18 AM (iHfo1)
I have John Voight's car.
Posted by: George Costanza at April 26, 2011 08:20 PM (6neGz)
The cause-effect gene seems not to fully activate until early 20s. Thus young males jumping off roofs of hotels or upper balconies attempting to land in the hotel pool, but not quite getting the physics worked out accurately. Young ladies making very bad judgement calls (e.g. that blondie down in Aruba who's body has yet to be found)
We don't need more of this that will result from lowering the drinking age.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2011 12:07 AM (XBM1t)
Actually just learned about this today. At least according to our lecturer, the myelination of inhibitory tracts in your brain isn't complete til about the age of 24.
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 08:21 PM (PY4xx)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 08:21 PM (RZ8pf)
Hahahaha, I hadn't heard the weather forecast when I made my comment. Guess I was right.
Fricking Nostradamus!
You should have stopped in. I taped one of the Obama posters on pump 8 last night when I got gas.
For realz? Wow! I wish I would have!
How could she stalk me at my house if I am stalking you at your house?
Bwhahaha! And I do have a trenchcoat, btw, PGIS!
Posted by: Al Gore at April 26, 2011 08:22 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 27, 2011 12:20 AM (c0A3e)
<I'm thinking... maybe a case of Kaiser Soda.
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 08:22 PM (iHfo1)
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 08:22 PM (PY4xx)
Posted by: ParanoidAnxietyGirlInSeattle at April 26, 2011 08:23 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: steveha at April 26, 2011 08:23 PM (TMG3G)
well i am out, dog says it is either time for bed or time to chase squirrels. i am going with sleep. he'll be disappointed.
Good night, girlfriend!
Hey, when are we going to do lunch or hit the mall or something?
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:23 PM (ihSHD)
Geek OUT!
Seriously, I know we all speak this language, but has anyone, ever, actually done the "collaborate and share files with co-workers across the country" thing?
Posted by: Henry, and I've got a One-and-a-half at April 26, 2011 08:24 PM (ia6u7)
Are you kidding? I'm surprised we're able to keep her in a seat at the table long enough to eat. I keep expecting for her to spontaneously jump up and a run around the restaurant. "Okay, I feel better."
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 27, 2011 12:06 AM (6neGz)
When I told her where I lived she said hey I could run to your house. I was thinking wow they don't have a car.
I know, runningrn was the model for the energizer bunny.
Me, I was the model for the La-Z-Boy.
If you were the model for La-Z-Boy, I'm the model for the lift chair.
Ha! Ha! You guys are killing meeee! Good think I'm not eating or drinking anything!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:26 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 26, 2011 08:26 PM (U6ObX)
Posted by: journolist at April 27, 2011 12:22 AM (iHfo1)
The man is psychotic. Why is he even still here, I thought he considered the Chavez-run Venezuela to be Paradise on Earth?
/I did offer my moving services to Alec Baldwin after the 2004 election when he threatened to move to France. I would have helped him pack for free!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:27 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: DaveyNC at April 26, 2011 08:27 PM (uS/wA)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at April 26, 2011 08:28 PM (BP6Z1)
The refrigerator is now chillin in Texas.
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 08:28 PM (iHfo1)
http://tinyurl.com/27d9jhr
Haha, damn, somebody needs to cut back a bit on the sherm.
Posted by: booger at April 26, 2011 08:31 PM (9RFH1)
Its the price we pay to have the scenery green - rather than dry crackly brown.
In fact, the last few days when the sun has been out, I've been pulling the shades in the house. It's too bright and I want the cloudy gray sky back.
Posted by: some wench at April 26, 2011 08:32 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: ya2daup, an iPhone iMpeded iPosting at April 27, 2011 12:26 AM (U6ObX)
Real fucking funny Sutherland; while the method of payment was ludicrous, even the intent of buying "spring spheres" for the Black Panthers is no laughing matter. Eastwood should have kicked his ass right there, friend or not.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:33 PM (c0A3e)
Its the price we pay to have the scenery green - rather than dry crackly brown.
In fact, the last few days when the sun has been out, I've been pulling the shades in the house. It's too bright and I want the cloudy gray sky back.
Posted by: some wench at April 27, 2011 12:32 AM (bqjJT)
--I crack up when I hear of people complaining about the rain in Ireland. How do they think it gets so lush and green?
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 08:33 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: steveha at April 26, 2011 08:34 PM (TMG3G)
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:35 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2011 12:35 AM (bxiXv)
You should put the mask back on.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:36 PM (6neGz)
Real fucking funny Sutherland;
while the method of payment was ludicrous, even the intent of buying
"spring spheres" for the Black Panthers is no laughing matter. Eastwood
should have kicked his ass right there, friend or not.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 27, 2011 12:33 AM (c0A3e)
Yeah. Some people really step their foot in it by trying to pay for embarrassing things by check.
Posted by: Bob Beckel at April 26, 2011 08:36 PM (7YzRS)
Posted by: runningrn at April 27, 2011 12:35 AM (ihSHD)
those and the Jolly Rancher gummies kick ass
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 08:36 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: steveha at April 27, 2011 12:34 AM (TMG3G)
We have plenty of water, we need less politicians.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 08:36 PM (bxiXv)
You should put the mask back on.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 27, 2011 12:36 AM (6neGz)
I will. I just have to get up to complain a bit, then I'll lie back down.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 08:37 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2011 12:37 AM (bxiXv)
Spill it.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:38 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: ktnxbai *cough* at April 26, 2011 08:39 PM (3TH2b)
Posted by: grouchyunderalls at April 26, 2011 08:39 PM (q79eG)
Posted by: grouchyunderalls at April 27, 2011 12:39 AM (q79eG)
Really? 'Cause they're Canadian... or from Chicago.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:40 PM (6neGz)
Spill it.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 27, 2011 12:38 AM (6neGz)
Not that kind of sick.
Just completely exhausted.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 08:40 PM (bxiXv)
You can have some of ours, the lake is 1' over flood stage theres still snow melting in the mts and we just had a storm roar thru dumping 3/4 of inch more...would almost rather see snow at this point...
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 08:42 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 08:44 PM (Ig1Wo)
All I got to say is that somebody mentioned running, and it reminded me of "W"s news item today. I was hit & miss on that guy, on an issue-by-issue basis, but it was just so great to see even a former president act with such class and perfect grace.
The new guy is such a self-promoting child, and a bully. In speeches to the nation, he sounds like the psycho school master, sternly telling you stuff, making crazy assertions, and demanding things, while you sit helpless to do much of anything about it. In speeches to a smaller crowd of his cronies, he comes off more like a snarky stand-up comedian.
You know, in an energy speech I saw the new guy make, I literally kept thinking "25th Amendment". It was this weird mixture of facts (including many I was surprised he admitted to), with conclusions that didn't come close to following from the premises he set down. He sounded like a crazy, confused old person. But now I'm ranting...
Posted by: Optimizer at April 26, 2011 08:46 PM (2lTU+)
Don't they already have that as a service for the male Canadian players?
I don't know much about hockey, except that it isn't ghey like soccer is.
*runs from the resulting chaos!*
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:46 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CDR M at April 27, 2011 12:44 AM (5I8G0)
Is that where they match up a hockey player with the best matched veneers?
Posted by: Tim Whatley at April 26, 2011 08:46 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 08:46 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 08:48 PM (PY4xx)
You'll probably see ol' eHarmony commercials there.
Posted by: CDR M at April 27, 2011 12:47 AM (5I8G0)
Heh. Heh, again.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:48 PM (6neGz)
Nope. I get the ones for he eHarmony-ish dating sites that are 55 years and older!
Posted by: grouchyunderalls at April 26, 2011 08:49 PM (q79eG)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:49 PM (6neGz)
Dude, if you want to get liberal cootchie, just lie to her. If she believes all that liberal crap, she's used to being lied to and screwed over. Trust me, I'm Joe Biden(my time).
Posted by: Joe Bidenmytime at April 26, 2011 08:50 PM (h6OME)
LincolnTF--did you enjoy "The Devil In White City"? I really like that author, Erik Larson. He lives in Seattle. Another really good book he wrote was "Isaac's Storm" about the Galveston Hurricane that eradicated practically an entire town. It was really good.
I just went back and read over the comments. Yeah, it sucks that Mumia gets a new sentencing hearing. Fun fact: My parents used to volunteer at a rescue mission in Philly. Mumia was in my dad's Sunday school class (til he dropped out to form the Black Panthers). He was Wesley Cook back then. My dad said he was really smart and articulate (didn't mention if he was clean and bright, though). My dad always thought he was going to be the one kid that was going to get out of the hood and make it big. I guess my dad was kind of right.
My dad took all the high school kids to Atlantic City (B.C.--before casinos) for a day at the beach. I was absolutely stunned. I was like 6 years old and couldn't believe that these teenaged kids had never seen the ocean before or been to a beach (something I took for granted, we went almost every summer). We also had them all over for a BBQ at our house. They thought we lived in the country (we lived in the suburbs) and that we were rich because we had a big house. I was shocked (because they always dressed better than I did!)
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:51 PM (ihSHD)
Let them try and pull my fat ass out of the basement. I dare them.
The only things good than have come from Canada are oil, Mark Steyn, and some of their alcohol. Hockey...that's debatable.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 08:52 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: CDR M at April 27, 2011 12:51 AM (5I8G0)
Oh sure, now get some digs in on me.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:54 PM (6neGz)
those and the Jolly Rancher gummies kick ass
Is it wrong that I'm rooting around in the bag and picking out the ones I like?
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:54 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: steveha at April 27, 2011 12:34 AM (TMG3G)
We have plenty of water, we need less politicians.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2011 12:36 AM
-------------------That looks like a good place to jump in this fiiiiiine evening.
We have plenty of water, but it's all going to the wrong places. Owens Valley river kidnapped to feed the Hollywood liberals and illegal aliens. Of course it's one beatdown of Mother Gaia that no liberal wants to undo.
Evening, m&ms.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 08:54 PM (qLrt/)
Is it wrong that I'm rooting around in the bag and picking out the ones I like?
Posted by: runningrn at April 27, 2011 12:54 AM (ihSHD)
fuck no, always start with the apple
hmm Amazon has Criterion blu-rays on sale....wish I wasn't broke
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 08:56 PM (Ig1Wo)
fuck no, always start with the apple
ha! I started with the cherry, then the apple and blue raspberry!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:57 PM (ihSHD)
(it would have been a good dig
)Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 08:58 PM (6neGz)
Nah. You got any Laffy Taffy's? Cherry is really good.
I had some of those at my SIL's. (I was stealing out of my nephew's easter basket). They are good, and cherry is always my favorite flavor! I gravitate towards that one too.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:58 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 08:58 PM (NnuEP)
Oh, well, the wife's been taking plenty of video with her iPhone. I am waiting to pull out the HD camera until she's at least crawling
You might want to start earlier. She's doing so many cute things already!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 08:59 PM (ihSHD)
I'm still pissed that they don't sell the Sour Starburst's anymore.
I hear you! I really like sour stuff too--Sour Patch candy is pretty good.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:00 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 09:00 PM (6neGz)
8 1/2
Breathless
Wings of Desire
$17.99
Amarcord
Army of Shadows
M
The Naked Kiss
Paths of Glory
Senso
The Seventh Seal
Shock Corridor
Still Walking
$18.49
Broadcast News
Fish Tank
Modern Times
The Red Shoes
Sweet Smell of Success
$18.99
Blow Out
The Double Life of Veronique
Kes
Le Cercle Rouge
The Mikado
Topsy-Turvy
White Material
$19.99
Au revoir les enfants
Yi Yi
$21.49
The Leopard
$28.99
Yojimbo & Sanjuro
$52.99
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
wish I had the money for Shock Corridor
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:00 PM (Ig1Wo)
Twizzler's or Red Vines?
Posted by: CDR M at April 27, 2011 12:59 AM (5I8G0)
red vines, they don't taste as waxy as Twizzlers
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:01 PM (Ig1Wo)
Twizzler's or Red Vines?
I prefer Twizzlers. I think they have better flavor and texture. Eating red vines is almost impossible if they aren't fresh. Then again, I grew up on the East coast, and we didn't have red vines. So maybe it's an aquired taste. (I didn't see them til I moved out here.)
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:02 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:02 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 09:02 PM (PY4xx)
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:03 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:03 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 09:03 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: Adrian at April 27, 2011 01:02 AM (PY4xx)
This may be a bit broad, but I still think personalized medicine will come out big within a decade or so, especially since the cost of sequencing genomes continues to decrease.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 09:05 PM (c0A3e)
tomorrow we're supposed to split into groups and come up with predictions for great public health achievements in the next hundred years. i predict lavish praise of michelle obama's obesity initiatives, and then my head exploding.
I'm sure the wonders of Obamacare will come into the conversation too--you know how everyone is now covered because nobody had coverage before, and how you need to stop the evil Republicans from preventing it from happening.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:05 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:05 PM (NnuEP)
During the long exercises, I have a big jar on the desk loaded with Laffy Taffy, Starbursts, Warheads, Sour Punch Straws, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Mini-Snickers. It's all good.
CDR M, I always knew we were kindred spirits! I give your candy jar an enthusiastic 2 thumbs up!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:06 PM (ihSHD)
ot: fox news running a live sky feed of royal wedding rehearsal
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:05 AM
------------------
What!!??? (changing channels)
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:06 PM (qLrt/)
Predict a thinner population that cannot afford to eat...least if the socialist/commies stay in power..
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 09:08 PM (KZLoo)
and runningrn, yes, i'm sure they will. i definitely picked the wrong week to stop huffing paint.
Posted by: Adrian at April 26, 2011 09:08 PM (PY4xx)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:08 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:10 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 09:10 PM (6neGz)
What? Who wants to watch a wedding? I'd rather watch golf, or water polo, or even paint drying on the wall.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 09:11 PM (c0A3e)
Killing granny with death panels?
Forcing abortions on women carrying Downs children?
Posted by: some wench at April 26, 2011 09:11 PM (bqjJT)
fox news channel arhooley
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:08 AM
Got it, tnx. It's nice, but of course nothing counts until we see The Dress.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:12 PM (qLrt/)
Well and some of teh gais are excited too. straight men, not so much.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:10 AM (NnuEP)
--I won't wake up at 3 A.M. to watch the coverage, but I'm still snickering that 0 and Mo won't be there. Hell, I have a 6:20 flight to catch, and I know Fargo's airport has TVs (the only airport I know that shows FNC instead of CNN) so I'll probably see a good chuck while waiting to board.
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 09:12 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:13 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: CDR M at April 27, 2011 01:11 AM (5I8G0)
I recommend the jar of his own farts.
Posted by: Gerald Broflovski at April 26, 2011 09:13 PM (6neGz)
Oh boy, that's a conundrum. Fortunately, there's always the "Play God of War 3 for the umpteenth time" option,
. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 09:13 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:14 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 27, 2011 01:11 AM (c0A3e)
Yeah, really. I mean, come on, what an overrated, overblown event.
Seriously, I'm glad I wasn't invited. Fuck Will and Kate!
Posted by: President Poutypuss at April 26, 2011 09:14 PM (BP6Z1)
great public health achievements in the next hundred years
Ball gags for actors with diseases who testify before Congress.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:15 PM (qLrt/)
In other words, I've never cared less about anything else in life.
Posted by: grouchyunderalls at April 26, 2011 09:15 PM (q79eG)
predictions for great public health achievements in the next hundred years.
Predict a thinner population that cannot afford to eat...least if the socialist/commies stay in power..
Shorter life expectancies as we live "greener" with leaner carbon footprints (no more combustion engines, no more oil, coal or hydropower), etc.
The big trend (at a lot of the hospitals in my area) is minimally invasive surgery (so in theory, quicker healing and recovery times, less risk of infection). People are able to get back to activities of daily living (like work) more quickly. Our main campus has 3 robots and one of the other satellite hospitals is getting one. The thought is that in the future, surgery will be able to be done remotely (surgeon controlling the robot is not present, but at another location) which will work well for people in rural/isolated areas. With the advent of Obamacare, I can forsee those procedures no longer being done by surgeons, but by teenaged boys with mad gaming skilz. We're talking increased axcess and less expense. Win/Win!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:16 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:14 AM
I wonder why it's at Westminster Abbey and not St. Paul's.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:17 PM (qLrt/)
Posted by: arhooley at April 27, 2011 01:17 AM (qLrt/)
not enough access for the media
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:18 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:18 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 09:19 PM (iHfo1)
What? Who wants to watch a wedding? I'd rather watch golf, or water polo, or even paint drying on the wall.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 27, 2011 01:11 AM (c0A3e)
I'm happy for the horsies. They seem to sense there's a very special day impending.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:19 PM (qLrt/)
Oh, heh - runningrn, you guys are of course welcome, but no promises on being completely settled in, IYKWIM.
We can wait if you want. Whatever works best for you guys!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:20 PM (ihSHD)
Kratos, I'm doing well. Living in the moment.
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 09:20 PM (iHfo1)
Posted by: Adrian at April 27, 2011 01:02 AM (PY4xx)
Truly great public health achievements in the next hundred years would necessarily include full repeals of many of the "great (big nanny socialist) achievements" of the past hundred years.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2011 09:20 PM (XBM1t)
arhooley, because the Abbey is protestant.
Posted by: journolist at April 27, 2011 01:19 AM
But Charles and Diana were married at St. Paul's.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:21 PM (qLrt/)
I feared that the game would be OT. It was not exactly going on a limb.
Good night, all!!
Posted by: logprof at April 26, 2011 09:21 PM (BP6Z1)
/I guess I'm obsessed with games having titles with the preposition "of War" at the end.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 09:21 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:22 PM (Ig1Wo)
great public health achievements in the next hundred years
How about gene therapy for people who can't salsa?
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:22 PM (qLrt/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2011 09:23 PM (XBM1t)
CDR M - Obama is the gift.
Too bad nobody bothered to look the gift unicorn in the mouth first. Seriously, our Precedent was completely unvetted.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:23 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:23 PM (NnuEP)
Night night, logprof!
Wow! I'm outlasting some of the Denziens of the ONT--PGIS, Chemjeff, logprof--I'm quite impressed with myself!
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:24 PM (ihSHD)
The first one came out in 2004 - that's a straight-up RTS, except instead of having individual units, you command squads. There were several expansion packs, Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, and Soulstorm.
Dawn of War 2 is still an RTS, but it also has some RPG elements (as The Dude explained the other night).
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 09:24 PM (c0A3e)
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 09:24 PM (iHfo1)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:26 PM (NnuEP)
And in the Twizzlers versus Red Vines, it's Twizzlers for me.
Posted by: Theresa D at April 26, 2011 09:26 PM (5axVp)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 27, 2011 01:24 AM (c0A3e)
GOTTA GET THAT FAT LOOTZ
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:26 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 01:25 AM (KZLoo)
curling is awesome though
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:27 PM (Ig1Wo)
No, I'm going to wait. I've got a thesis to finish first - SC2 will be my reward to myself after everything is finished.
Dang, it's getting late here. 'night all.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 26, 2011 09:29 PM (c0A3e)
I know this was discussed earlier today, but I didn't realize that circumcision status was one of the items listed on the questionnaire for the new passport application.
From The Blaze:
Who was present when you were born? Can you remember every address youÂ’ve ever had? How about every place youÂ’ve ever worked? Were you circumcised?
You can go there to see the form. Oh, and if you wanted to protest or comment on anything on it, you had to do so by this past Monday.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:29 PM (ihSHD)
Shuffleboard at the bar is much better.
Ha! ha! One of my fondest memories is playing shuffleboard as a teenager down the shore.
Posted by: runningrn at April 26, 2011 09:30 PM (ihSHD)
Well I think I heard she designed her own - which is pretty cool considering every designer on the planet was vying for that gig.
Besides, it couldn't be worse than Dianne's. Good lord that thing was fugly. Even by 1981 standards.
Posted by: grouchyunderalls at April 26, 2011 09:31 PM (q79eG)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:32 PM (NnuEP)
Shuffleboard at the bar is much better.
Posted by: CDR M at April 27, 2011 01:28 AM (5I8G0)
shuffleboard bowling
Posted by: The Dude at April 26, 2011 09:32 PM (Ig1Wo)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 09:32 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2011 01:32 AM (bxiXv)
I knew you'd forget the mask.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 26, 2011 09:34 PM (6neGz)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:34 PM (NnuEP)
______
FIFY
Posted by: Anachronda at April 26, 2011 09:35 PM (6fER6)
while being a sport of concentration and muscle control and something I'd watch over teh one, aka teh Gift ®CDR M, playing golf watching people sweeping the ice fearlessly isn't my particular need in entertainment..
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 09:35 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: journolist at April 26, 2011 09:36 PM (iHfo1)
Kate is not gonna vow to obey Will, so I hear.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2011 01:23 AM
Well, it's moot. She's a commoner and he's a royal, so he can make her get down on her knees and bark like a dog if he wants.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:39 PM (qLrt/)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:42 PM (NnuEP)
Kewl, I could think of better things then barking but why aren't the feminazis all over this??
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 09:42 PM (KZLoo)
I knew you'd forget the mask.
Posted by: Papa Editor at April 27, 2011 01:34 AM (6neGz)
Who are you again?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 09:42 PM (bxiXv)
Someone called?
And officially it's a private wedding and not a state wedding so the smaller Westminster is being used.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 26, 2011 09:42 PM (Y1DZt)
Whatever you like.
Arf arf arf!! Woof woof woof!!
Posted by: Princess that was passed by at April 26, 2011 09:43 PM (q79eG)
Doesn't she become a royal upon marriage?
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 26, 2011 09:43 PM (XBM1t)
Kewl, I could think of better things then barking but why aren't the feminazis all over this??
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 01:42 AM
Because it's fake. But hey -- let's start a rumor!
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:44 PM (qLrt/)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:45 PM (NnuEP)
Just popping in for a minute here to say I think one of the Glee writers must be an ONT lurker. Was watching last week's DVR'd episode, and the Jane Lynch character (Sue Sylvester) has a scene where she talks about hunting hobos, and then nicknames another character "honey badger." She says "it's on YouTube, go look it up."
WTF, Glee of all shows referencing AOS icons?
Posted by: Mayday at April 26, 2011 09:46 PM (TRgli)
Isn;t she an hrh once he says i do?
Hmmm, I'm not sure if that's an automatic or if it's a separate Benny Hill joke. Well, I suppose we shall soon find out.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:46 PM (qLrt/)
WTF, Glee of all shows referencing AOS icons?
Posted by: Mayday at April 27, 2011 01:46 AMWow, Andrew Breitbart and Glee writers. When do we get our damn cut?
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:47 PM (qLrt/)
WTF, Glee of all shows referencing AOS icons?
Posted by: Mayday at April 27, 2011 01:46 AM (TRgli)
Well, the Honey Badger is everywhere, so that's nothing.
I am surprised by the hobo reference, though frankly I think the expression has been in a few movies and Hobo With A Shotgun just came out, so it could be a coinquidnunc.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 09:49 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 27, 2011 01:43 AM (Y1DZt)
I think the word you're looking for is "douche."
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 09:50 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:50 PM (NnuEP)
Ooooh, ok. you are the writer, hit us with it!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:45 AM
Well, eh, the barking like a dog thing was basically it. I must have shot my wad helping someone with their resume today.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:52 PM (qLrt/)
Posted by: arhooley at April 27, 2011 01:52 AM (qLrt/)
...
What kind of resume was it?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 09:53 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:54 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:55 PM (qLrt/)
heh. hey! i may hit you up on that resume thing. gushie just hooked me up with a friend that's a headhunter, but i don't know if they do resume work.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:54 AM
I have been known to make people look pretty damn good on paper.
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:56 PM (qLrt/)
Sounds like a candidate for Merovign's sith troupe....
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 01:56 AM (KZLoo)
Nah that sounds more like she's qualified to join the Mandalorians.
Posted by: buzzion at April 26, 2011 09:57 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: arhooley at April 26, 2011 09:58 PM (qLrt/)
Posted by: davidt at April 26, 2011 09:58 PM (u8VNX)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 09:58 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 27, 2011 01:58 AM (NnuEP)
OK, I'm out before *that* story gets told.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 26, 2011 09:59 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at April 26, 2011 09:59 PM (s5aNX)
You didn't happen to do a Kenyan guy a few years back??
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:00 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 10:00 PM (NnuEP)
Posted by: rdbrewer at April 26, 2011 10:03 PM (qhxE0)
Posted by: GT 5.0 at April 26, 2011 10:05 PM (3W1+C)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 26, 2011 10:06 PM (NnuEP)
Ya I was reading a article somewhere on how leftards always now use monetary gains as propaganda ammo agin the corps.. just remind him that profiteering is reflected as a 7% gain and same as HealthCares 4 or what ever it was, it's not much..
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:12 PM (KZLoo)
ya I just did a fumes left in tank fillup with the cheap grade 49 smackers.. truckers can pass it on can't they? kinda legit reason for increase in cost...
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:16 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable, s.a. at April 26, 2011 10:18 PM (afWhQ)
Holy eff, where in LA County is that? That's what I pay for premium.
Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom & Sith Lord at April 26, 2011 10:22 PM (YxBuk)
Laffy taffy sounds interesting soulpile.. where'd your link in your sig go?? I was checking out your beads and their really cool. so their like stone you drill and polish?
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:23 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: yakima o' canutt, in below the sexy shoes at April 26, 2011 10:30 PM (tdbEf)
Was posting from my phone - it takes too long to type out the url on that thing.
Actually, the beads are made by melting glass rods over a torch onto a hand-spun mandrel. We clean out the holes with a drill - but I don't have the bits for that yet. Sometime... I'm actually a little excited 'cause I just got a whole bunch of glass delivered for Rum's gift.
I'm actually working on the site right now to add in some more galleries and a menu. Hoping to get it up this week.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 26, 2011 10:36 PM (afWhQ)
Hemp History Week, set for May 2 through May 8.
This is in Richmond which was hit by severe thunderstorms tonight..a guy was hit by a strike and is in the hospital
leftards will claim it's gorebull warming but it might be the DEA and almighty are in cohoots.
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:39 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: steveha at April 26, 2011 10:46 PM (P0N+7)
so the glass rods are colored? your using like a regular shop acetylene torch or does it have to be hotter? sounds kinda fun except for the heat aspect..
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 10:47 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: steveha at April 26, 2011 10:47 PM (P0N+7)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 10:50 PM (qIHlG)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 10:59 PM (qIHlG)
Posted by: cheap golf at April 26, 2011 10:59 PM (PZLN8)
Posted by: not the droid you seek at April 26, 2011 11:00 PM (ky0Rw)
Ya did it your now a pro linker...I think a lot paste in the http instead of using the drop down box.. Nice catch by the ball girl who should be replacing the right fielder..
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 11:01 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 11:01 PM (qIHlG)
Yep. Hmm... I think you can use a regular torch for the soft glass... propane for the HotHeads, I believe. If you use a Minor, I believe you use propane and oxygen. Or natural gas and oxygen. Either type goes. Have to have proper ventilation.
It's very fun and kind of relaxing. I did get a nice burn to remind me to wear long sleeves!
Here's a video of someone working soft glass. (that's a Minor torch)
Borosilicate takes a hotter flame, if I remember correctly. I've only been doing this for maybe a month... and only in soft glass, so I have a lot of lapse in knowledge.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 26, 2011 11:01 PM (afWhQ)
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 26, 2011 11:18 PM (afWhQ)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 11:26 PM (qIHlG)
It looks like it is,, we have lots of crafty peeps and glass blowers around here but I had never seen the melting glass craft.. good for you its good YOU time and a chance to be creative.. (URL) ya I clicked on it and wouldn't connect but thought you were working on it
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 11:33 PM (KZLoo)
While the translucent ones on your site are my favorite I could see the caricature type being good sellers.. they are the cute..
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 11:42 PM (KZLoo)
Yep! It's also something crafty I can do with my mom 'cause she enjoys it a lot more than ceramics. The biggest difference is it's easier to set up/clean up and get into making some beads than throwing pots (messier and lot more down time). Someday... I'll merge the two into a real home studio.
I really wanted the .com extension, but someone's sitting on it, as usual. So I went with .net, and always try to type .com anyway. Here, I can't see it in the URL box... so of course I assumed that it was the correct extension. Wrong computer, d'oh.
I am still in such awe at glassblowers. Cannot comprehend it yet, but it's so fascinating to watch.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 26, 2011 11:46 PM (afWhQ)
just leave them till teh Donald wins and waterboarding training will be needed to get our intelligence service back up to speed...good use of libtards...
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 11:46 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 11:51 PM (qIHlG)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 11:53 PM (qIHlG)
Yes to me any of that fire stuff, blacksmiths, iron sculpting, glass, is pretty intense... most of them around here are of the leftarded variety so it's hard for me to appreciate what goes into the craft.. I was around a working smithy shop for a few years and watched.. lot of work rewarding results.
Posted by: beanervt at April 26, 2011 11:55 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 26, 2011 11:58 PM (qIHlG)
The bumpy ones? I love making the bumpy ones and the raised designs (my favorite so far is the blue and white squarish bead...). It's a textural and bright colors thing. And they can be so alienoid too. I love making the flowers, as well. Actually, I like it all. Ha.
Right now, I'm working on shape - getting the ends right. Back to simple beads and then I'll try making the cylinder beads again later.
I never know what to do with the transparent colors - other than as encasements and air bubbles. It's easier to see how the opaques will look. But the transparents can be so beautiful - I really want to play with them some more and find inspiration from the really talented artists out there.
I love this lady's work. Whimsical and the patterns she uses are fantastic.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 26, 2011 11:58 PM (afWhQ)
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 03:55 AM (KZLoo)
Yeah... I've found that the lefty artists are the most vocal. If there are conservatives around, they don't show it. I go into any website, class, or craft assuming that everyone else is a liberal. So far, no one talks politics and all is well. 
Metalworking is fascinating as well - I haven't gotten to see any of that yet, but I would love to sit in on a sculpting class if I could find one. Just to watch. Amazing.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 27, 2011 12:06 AM (afWhQ)
The bumpy ones?
I could foresee huge profits from the "Moron horde" for the right bumpy ones... just kidding but that was the caricature type along with the square green bot type? and cyl.. I also knew a guy who made oddles of money as a marine wielder then quit and became a metal sculptor.. he was really good blending metals and creating out of junk.. he did pretty well at that and left VT..
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 12:21 AM (KZLoo)
(The little square green bead with bumps is really, really tiny. Like the size of a pinky fingernail. I hate the bumps on it, though. Too sharp.)
I also knew a guy who made oddles of money as a marine wielder then quit and became a metal sculptor.. he was really good blending metals and creating out of junk.. he did pretty well at that and left VT..
That's awesome. I love hearing stories like that. Somehow, it makes it better knowing that someone came out of a job like welding with an artistic career.
I'm signing off, so have a good night, all!
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 27, 2011 12:30 AM (afWhQ)
Holy Crap her stuff is good nice little animals ..must have been at it quite a while.
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 12:31 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 12:37 AM (qIHlG)
Have to to stay one step ahead of the muzzie horde there..
Posted by: beanervt at April 27, 2011 12:55 AM (KZLoo)
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Good idea. For some odd reason, she wasn't thrilled with the cat filter.
Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 01:49 AM (6rX0K)
No RedEye till...
Friday, Friday....
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