June 14, 2012
— Maetenloch
Then the US Army (Happy Birthday BTW) wants you...to help test out their less-than-lethal weapons:
That's right, if you are over 18 and live in the greater New Jersey area, you too can get $20/hour to be whacked with batons and shot with rubber balls! The testing takes place in a non-descript one-story building, known as the Target Behavioral Response Laboratory, located a few miles from Picatinny Arsenal, the Army's research and development center.
...To that end, the Army actively recruits volunteers from local colleges and libraries to pretend to be part of an angry mob, paying them $20 an hour with the small chance of permanent injury (though all tests are supervised by the Picatinny's Institutional Review Board).
On the plus side you do get bonuses based on how many rocks you can toss through the guards.
Yep the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam is back with a fresh new batch of puppies to keep you entertained and take care of that pesky too-much-free-time problem.
Egypt: Yeah We're Done With That Tourism Thing
Despite accounting for at least 12% of their jobs and economy. Possible replacements include coups, camels, and sharia and sharia accessories.
Michael Totten has declared Egypt a no-go area for women due to routine sexual assaults there:
I've heard one extreme sexual harassment horror story after another from women I know who have visited Cairo. I don't personally know anyone who has been sexually assaulted in Egypt, but from my informal survey of female travelers there it appears the likelihood of a foreign woman experiencing extreme harassment approaches 100 percent.
I have no idea why this is such a huge problem in Egypt. It's not because Egypt is Arab or Muslim or Middle Eastern. Lebanon isn't like this. I understand Syria isn't either, though I'm less certain.
...The stories I've heard from women in Egypt, however, involve harassment that is aggressive, physical, and sometimes terrifying. I will never take my wife to Egypt. Never.
Meanwhile the Egyptian government itself is now running ads that discourage Egyptians from having anything to do with foreigners - otherwise they might possibly hear local complaints and learn precious souq secrets.
"Liberals are sure they're in the reality-based community and anyone who disagrees with them either has a bad brain, or in some other way rejects empiricism and science, and they are the only ones working with the building blocks of facts and reason," says National Review's Jonah Goldberg, author of the new book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.
"And I call bullshit on that.
Speaking cliches != thinking and in fact inhibits actual real thought.
The World's Worst Password Requirements List
This one is from the Attorney General of Texas Child Support website. Any password policy this complicated is just asking for people to come up with some kind of guessable system so they can possibly log back in without having to go look it up. Too bad the AG's office doesn't read XKCD.
10 Great Science Fiction Books for People Who Don't Read Sci-Fi
Sadly I've only read three of these but then I'm probably the anti-target for this list. But here's one that's a true classic and deserves more recognition outside the sci-fi ghetto.
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
If you are a staunch reader of the classics and only the classics, you may have to bend your rules for this one - an excellent sci-fi retelling of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, and an early anticipator of the cyberpunk genre. It's an epic, blood-pumping adventure, furious and darkly comic, and it will probably make you dream of jumping wherever you want to go on a moment's notice. Plus, though written in the '50s, it still winds up on just about everyone's top 10 list of sci-fi anything, so you'll garner yourself a little bit of geek cred in the process.
Oh Noes: House Hunters Is Fake?!
Well that's bummer since House Hunters and House Hunters International are quite popular in the old Maetenloch homestead. There's no joy quite like judging complete strangers on their decisions, wardrobes, hairstyles, speaking styles and personalities - especially when they're 27 years old and declare a 3300 sq ft house to be way too small for their needs, a new kitchen from 2006 to be 'dated', and have yet to find a house they like despite viewing 100+ homes.
Now I always figured that the producers did punch story lines up for a bit more drama, but I had no idea the entire premise was fake:
The premise of 'House Hunters' is that viewers follow a buyer as they anxiously decide between three different houses. Jensen says that, in fact, one house has already been purchased--the producers wouldn't even finalize her as a subject until after the closing. "When I watch other episodes of the show now I can usually pick out the house they were getting based on hair-dos alone," says Jensen. Houses are sometimes shot months apart. While the two rejected properties may be on the market, in Jensen's case, "They were just our two friends' houses who were nice enough to madly clean for days in preparation for the cameras!"
A former subject of the spin-off "House Hunters International" confirms that one house on the program has already been bought before filming begins.
Well I guess we can still judge - but now with only a third of the usual self-congratulation.
Fuckin' erections, how do they work? And calling them boners is more true than you know.
Yahoo group. That is all.
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Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2012 05:52 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at June 14, 2012 05:54 PM (1zwZo)
Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2012 05:54 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: MrCaniac at June 14, 2012 05:56 PM (1grxW)
Cordelia's Honor Lois McMaster Bujold
1632 Eric Flint
Ender's Game rocks as well.
Posted by: Al at June 14, 2012 05:56 PM (5a/pJ)
Yeah, that. Egypt was always "sexist", so it never had ruling queens; but it also had history's first female kings.
This casual sexual assault, this assumption that a non-burka'ed woman is free for the taking - that's new. As one defines "new" in a place like Egypt.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 05:58 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Thorvald at June 14, 2012 05:59 PM (OhenJ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 14, 2012 05:59 PM (EmK13)
Posted by: endeavor to persevere at June 14, 2012 06:00 PM (zZJJp)
Well, I'm sure I need to know more about boners CC.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 14, 2012 06:01 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 14, 2012 06:06 PM (EmK13)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 14, 2012 06:07 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 14, 2012 06:07 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 06:07 PM (fVgpT)
Posted by: joncelli at June 14, 2012 06:09 PM (708Gm)
Posted by: Meghan McCain at June 14, 2012 06:09 PM (9F2c1)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica Sanitation Department at June 14, 2012 06:10 PM (Fs7RJ)
Posted by: Mjölnir the banhammer at June 14, 2012 06:10 PM (Jls4P)
Posted by: Anna Wintour : Vogue Editor at June 14, 2012 06:11 PM (c3mby)
Leather bustier, stiletto heeled boots and a cat-o-nine.... knew that she was an S&M freak
Posted by: Mjölnir the banhammer at June 14, 2012 06:12 PM (Jls4P)
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 06:12 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 06:13 PM (fVgpT)
They're all fake.
Hell, they don't even actually them reality shows anymore. They're now simply "unscripted".
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 06:13 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: teej at June 14, 2012 06:13 PM (ETWo2)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:15 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 14, 2012 06:15 PM (Dnbau)
Good evening, good people. Another sparkler of a day here.
Went to a Flag Day ceremony at our elementary school this AM. They have a breakfast for the vets and AD personnel, followed by some songs by the kids in honor of us.
I was struck by how thin the ranks of the WW2 vets have become.
One small bad spot during the playing of the Anthem, the young man next to me thought he would remain seated, I stood him up. He turned and looked at me, I looked right back and said nothing, just stared. He stood quietly after that.
Aside from that incident, it was the same touching ceremony as always.
Posted by: iron grampa at June 14, 2012 06:15 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 14, 2012 06:16 PM (DGIjM)
No Heinlein? WTF?
Gun with occasional music? WTFFF?
Cloud Atlas? WTF? Kafakaesque??? WTFFF?
Maet? WTF? I mean.. WTF? Do you actually read sci-fi?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 14, 2012 06:17 PM (UTq/I)
Awesome.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:18 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 14, 2012 06:18 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:19 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: happy little trees at June 14, 2012 06:19 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at June 14, 2012 06:20 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 14, 2012 10:17 PM (UTq/I)
1. Yes.
2. It's not my list - and I and you are not its target audience.
Well that about covers it.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 14, 2012 06:21 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 14, 2012 06:21 PM (qygoD)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 14, 2012 06:21 PM (B8oh2)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 06:22 PM (nrW1y)
I feel like Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon.
"They fuck you in the drive-thru!"
It's all fixed...sorta. Got another new modem router thingy. Guess it's okay. I just need to "learn it" I guess.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 06:22 PM (HWUv9)
Too bad they just have the front side IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Kal Penn at June 14, 2012 06:23 PM (krcFF)
It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss
with all these marbles in my mouth
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 14, 2012 06:24 PM (hO8IJ)
Especially Atwood. Wherever you see Atwood on a list, you know that the *list-maker* knows of Orwell and Rand, and that she - less commonly he - deliberately excluded those two. BECAUSE CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTANAZIS ARE EVIL.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:24 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 14, 2012 06:24 PM (B8oh2)
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 10:22 PM (HWUv9)
Er, TimE-Warner.
I have no idea who Tim Warner is except I know that he didn't get near my cherry asshole.
Ya know.
I mean, even if he did he'd give a brother a call afterwards, right?
Right?
*Sniff*
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 06:25 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: HungryKitty at June 14, 2012 06:26 PM (JTqSk)
Posted by: GULLY FOYLE at June 14, 2012 06:26 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:26 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at June 14, 2012 06:27 PM (44/AS)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:28 PM (QTHTd)
Proggs only read the first half of "Harrison Bergeron."
Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 14, 2012 06:28 PM (hO8IJ)
greater New Jersey area?? There's nothing great about NJ: the best you can do is the not-as-bad-as-the-rest-of New Jersey...
Posted by: affenhauer at June 14, 2012 06:29 PM (P54+t)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:29 PM (bxiXv)
For example, making my include a cap and 100% more likely I'm writing that password down and still getting it wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 06:29 PM (AUeaU)
The Pyramids in Egypt.
Did you know that they were covered with marble slabs that had Egyptian pictographic writing on them? They were quite incredible and beautiful.
Torn off the pyramids to build a mosque in what is now Cairo. About 1300 years ago, I think.
The Muslim Asian and the Muslim Arab is about the most self-destructive cultural animal force on earth. Destroyed the historical buddhas in Afghanistan in the 90's. Of course, that was the Taliban, just another manifestation of the Muslim. Sure, some of them are "sorry" now, but that's just some make-believe BS to cover up for what they really believe.
Just wait 'till we have more Muslims in the US. What a hash they are going to make of our culture.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:29 PM (sJTmU)
Lemme get it straight. I pay them $20 and they beat me? It's a bargain!
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 06:30 PM (fVgpT)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 14, 2012 06:31 PM (tKFT6)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:31 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 06:32 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: Bury My Fart at Wounded Knee at June 14, 2012 06:32 PM (IoNBC)
How old was the young man who had the bad sense to try and sit through the national anthem?
Posted by: happy little trees at June 14, 2012 06:32 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 14, 2012 06:33 PM (UTq/I)
***
Oddly it was "CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTANAZIS" that created our society, and specifically the notion of a modern, free Republic.
While past behavior may not be a guarantee of future results, making your average American Christian a villain of the sort Atwood specializes in is laughable.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 06:34 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 10:29 PM (sJTmU)
Wasn't it more like a few months prior to 9/11?
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 06:34 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:35 PM (0XbWx)
Oh, goody! Books:
Gun, With Occasional Music has now gone on my reading list. Love scifi, love pulp. Should be fun.
The Stars My Destination also sounds interesting.
Just read Ender's Game last year. Didn't like it much. Especially the ending.
Dune, as written by Herbert (I won't read the rest), was good, but the series started to devolve. Still don't get what happened in the last book. It's been a while, though.
Atwood sounds like a bore. I'll skip that one.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 06:35 PM (NJpM7)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2012 06:35 PM (JMmQ9)
Torn off the pyramids to build a mosque in what is now Cairo. About 1300 years ago, I think. ""
Yup, used to build medieval Cairo. You can still see some of the slabs near the tops of the giza pyramids, the smoother parts near the top. If I remember right there was an earthquake way back that loosened them them up. They must have looked amazing back in the day.
Posted by: Berserker at June 14, 2012 06:36 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 06:37 PM (nrW1y)
Real downer, but I thought the ending was hopeful.
A friend HIGHLY recommends Ender's Shadow, which tells the same story from a different point of view. Never read it myself.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 06:37 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: L Rob in OK at June 14, 2012 06:37 PM (7yvLv)
Posted by: Dianna at June 14, 2012 06:38 PM (mKMj1)
Yeah, that SF list is mostly for the shit.
Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut promised for years he was going to write a book about his experience in Dresden when it was firebombed in 1945 (he was there as a POW), but when he finally did it, I think he wrote it as a joke to make fun of all the pretentious twaddlers who thought they saw meaning in everything.
Player Piano, Mother Night. Those were good stories. The Sirens of Titan, funny and also full of pathos. Cat's Cradle, bizarre satire.
Slaughterhouse Five. Stupid. And everything he wrote after that was stupid. I think he began to think it was all bullshit and proved it by writing bullshit and having it accepted and praised.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:38 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Alex at June 14, 2012 06:39 PM (sy0Uv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:40 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:40 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: iron grampa at June 14, 2012 10:36 PM (SAMxH)
Heh, probably the first time in a LONG time that he's had to demonstrate respect towards anything.
Posted by: happy little trees at June 14, 2012 06:40 PM (bqjJT)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 14, 2012 06:40 PM (9+6PX)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 14, 2012 06:41 PM (niZvt)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 14, 2012 06:41 PM (tKFT6)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:41 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:42 PM (0XbWx)
I've read and like Dune, Slaughterhouse Five, and Ender's Game.
What, no Cryptonomicon???
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 06:42 PM (fVgpT)
Other sci-fi books worth reading are "Foundation" and the first half of "Foundation and Empire". Heinlein, definitely. (I already mentioned Rand and Orwell.)
And if your kid's teacher sends your kid home with Atwood, get her/him to read "Hunger Games" instead. Explode the head of a public-school teacher.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:42 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2012 06:43 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:43 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:44 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:44 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 06:44 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch - I am Breitbart at June 14, 2012 06:45 PM (otfJ1)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 10:42 PM (QTHTd)
Yep, that was my conclusion. I think I liked the first two or three and slogged through the rest. Probably not enough Alita (or whatever her name was).
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 06:45 PM (NJpM7)
It is common in the "Conservative Ghetto", unfortunately; even the important books that come out are poorly edited. Liberals won't read our shit anyway and conservatives will do all they can to give the author the benefit of the doubt.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:46 PM (QTHTd)
No books by Larry Niven, from his "creative" period?
Ringworld? A World out of Time? Protector?
Really good stories...oops! Not "Sci-Fi literature".
"The classics. Something everybody talks about but nobody reads" - Samuel Clemens
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:46 PM (sJTmU)
Posted by: Lone Marauder, pre-denounced for your convenience at June 14, 2012 06:46 PM (eHBHk)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:47 PM (0XbWx)
Here's my ten best list:
Ringworld
The Foundation Trilogy
The Fountains of Paradise
Nova
The Fabulous Riverboat
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Dune
Stars My Destination
Startide Rising
The Player of Games
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 14, 2012 06:48 PM (9+6PX)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:48 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:49 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Lone Marauder, pre-denounced for your convenience at June 14, 2012 06:50 PM (eHBHk)
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 06:50 PM (fVgpT)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch - I am Breitbart at June 14, 2012 06:50 PM (otfJ1)
Lem was like Niven except full of Marxist determinism and basically no fun at all. Except he really isn't like Niven at all.
But it is all a matter of taste. 
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:50 PM (sJTmU)
Like I said, I liked his first book a lot. I think Tyranny of Cliches would have worked better as a blog series.
Posted by: Alex at June 14, 2012 06:51 PM (sy0Uv)
Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at June 14, 2012 06:52 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: Alex Stephens at June 14, 2012 06:52 PM (1/13k)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:52 PM (sJTmU)
There's obviously some party going on that noobs like me weren't invited to.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread never gets any invitations at June 14, 2012 06:52 PM (A2LXE)
Posted by: Lone Marauder, pre-denounced for your convenience at June 14, 2012 06:52 PM (eHBHk)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 06:53 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 06:53 PM (fVgpT)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2012 06:53 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Trolling for Marxism at June 14, 2012 06:54 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: thethinman at June 14, 2012 06:55 PM (/2ODN)
Yeah, I like Harry Harrison. And the Stainless Steel Rat.
And "West of Eden".
Robert Forward was a really brilliant scientist who was an OK writer. He had some really incredible ideas he put into writing.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at June 14, 2012 06:55 PM (sJTmU)
Was it as, um, consistent as the Stainless Steel Rat books?
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 06:55 PM (FQlFL)
The Book of the New Sun (5 books), by Gene Wolfe
Might have to include The Gods Themselves, by Asimov. Not too celebrated, but includes a remarkable and very sciency-plot, and some great conceptions of aliens.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 06:55 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at June 14, 2012 10:46 PM (vbh31)
I love short stories, especially in anthologies. They make and break authors. If I'm looking for someone new to read, I'll go pick up an anthology.
It's also great when you don't have a lot of time, but want to be entertained.
The only thing I hate about short stories is when they're tacked on to a novella, but it's not clear that it's an anthology. I Am Legend was marketed as such, significantly confusing me as to the end of the story. I went through about three short stories of that book after I Am Legend before figuring out that they weren't connected at all.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 06:56 PM (NJpM7)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch - I am Breitbart at June 14, 2012 06:56 PM (otfJ1)
Posted by: Trolling for Marxism at June 14, 2012 06:56 PM (0XbWx)
Posted by: Jerry at June 14, 2012 06:57 PM (4SKYj)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2012 10:53 PM (JMmQ9)
I loved Hitchhiker's... Read it after the movie came out. Great movie, great written story. Found the end not as satisfying as the movie.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 06:57 PM (NJpM7)
When one observes President ObamaÂ’s unwillingness to accommodate AmericaÂ’s four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Catholic. But that characterization would not be correct. Although he has recently singled out Catholics, he has equally targeted traditional Protestant beliefs over the past four years. So since he has attacked Catholics and Protestants, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Christian. But that, too, would be inaccurate. He has been equally disrespectful in his appalling treatment of religious Jews in general and Israel in particular. So perhaps the most accurate description of his antipathy toward Catholics, Protestants, religious Jews, and the Jewish nation would be to characterize him as anti-Biblical. And then when his hostility toward Biblical people of faith is contrasted with his preferential treatment of Muslims and Muslim nations, it further strengthens the accuracy of the anti-Biblical descriptor. In fact, there have been numerous clearly documented times when his pro-Islam positions have been the cause of his anti-Biblical actions.
Posted by: Holy Spirit at June 14, 2012 06:57 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch - I am Breitbart at June 14, 2012 06:58 PM (otfJ1)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 06:58 PM (bxiXv)
For instance, in either the 4th or 5th book, one of the characters is almost superhero-esque, able to move as fast as lightning to outfight and slaughter his opponents. However, this super-speed requires a tremendous amount of energy (which makes sense), so he has to eat like a motherfucker after any such exertion, to replenish the exorbitant amounts he's spent.
Ever since reading that, I've found regular comic-book superheroes seem hopelessly naively-rendered, with their zero-cost "abilities".
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 14, 2012 06:59 PM (B8oh2)
Posted by: thethinman at June 14, 2012 06:59 PM (/2ODN)
-Dune
-Rendezvous with Rama
-Foundation [first half]
-1984
-The first 4/5 of Stephen Donaldson's Gap series [it could have ended at Chaos and Order, and should have]
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:00 PM (QTHTd)
The Gap Cycle.
Terrorists, well drawn out characters, and a plot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle
I couldn't put it down...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:01 PM (AUeaU)
The Marching Morons - Cyril Kornbluth. It poses a rather brilliant way to deal with millions of liberals and a lot of the dimmer politicians in D.C.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 14, 2012 07:02 PM (gCNNd)
Posted by: Lone Marauder, pre-denounced for your convenience at June 14, 2012 07:02 PM (eHBHk)
Posted by: thethinman at June 14, 2012 07:02 PM (/2ODN)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:03 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 14, 2012 07:03 PM (gCNNd)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:04 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:04 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2012 07:05 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 11:04 PM (AUeaU)
When her tongue is in your ear.
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2012 07:05 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 07:05 PM (5H6zj)
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That the one with the three-sexed aliens in the alternate universe exchanging Thorium (IIRC) with our universe to create energy?
Posted by: Anachronda at June 14, 2012 07:05 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: Assassin6 at June 14, 2012 07:06 PM (FfukH)
I don't know Scalzi, but I mostly lurk too. Lately I've been sick so I spend the day in the cylce: refresh the blogs, make rude comments, have a shot, blow my nose, repeat.
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 07:06 PM (fVgpT)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:06 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2012 07:07 PM (JMmQ9)
If she's initiating the contact rather than reacting to your comments, is a good starting point. Beyond that, you could try asking her
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:07 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 07:07 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch - I am Breitbart at June 14, 2012 07:07 PM (otfJ1)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:08 PM (mxnUd)
The Marching Morons - Cyril Kornbluth.
***
Ugh, one of the progressive eugenicists so popular from that era. Not a fan.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:08 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:09 PM (mxnUd)
Fixed.
And 1984 is science fiction? Or fiction? I think it's looking more like a documentary to me.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 07:10 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2012 07:10 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 14, 2012 07:12 PM (gCNNd)
"So what is the best way to tell if a woman is flirting with you versus just being nice?" I'm still single, so I can't help you. Them womenfolk are confounding.
Posted by: stillers at June 14, 2012 07:12 PM (gVUg0)
Posted by: Y-not at June 14, 2012 07:12 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: General Woundwort at June 14, 2012 07:12 PM (DWgdc)
---really? this book was actually written...yes 'idiocy', you really have NO BOUNDS...we get "it".
cmon 'life'....throw us a curve-ball already....this shit isnt even shocking anymore...it's expected....and kinda boring.
PS....i love you "Day Z" mod....
Posted by: george lucas's neck-pouch at June 14, 2012 07:12 PM (LzwaA)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:13 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: thethinman at June 14, 2012 07:13 PM (/2ODN)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 07:14 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:14 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, straight up. at June 14, 2012 07:15 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: CRAIGSLISTCREEP at June 14, 2012 07:16 PM (fVgpT)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, straight up. at June 14, 2012 07:16 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: moron #4 at June 14, 2012 07:16 PM (RQjPS)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:16 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:16 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:17 PM (bxiXv)
Short, hairy things are gross in sci-fi.
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 07:18 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 14, 2012 07:18 PM (gCNNd)
As for passwords, the geniuses I work for use "password" as the password. Need a lawyer? Sure, go with these high-priced dipshits (suckah).
So, 'nother day from hell. How y'all doin?
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 07:18 PM (kpCLl)
Central themes revolve around or involve technology, the future, the past through a future-centered frame, space, space-time, space-time distortions,
ripples-in-time, splinters-in-time, lasers, shadows figures, figures of pure light, dream sequences centering around dwarves. And other sundry plot devices.
Posted by: General Woundwort at June 14, 2012 07:18 PM (DWgdc)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:18 PM (QTHTd)
"Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. "
Take your bath salts
Speakers te full fucking blast
Posted by: bernverdnardo at June 14, 2012 07:19 PM (xXhWA)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:19 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:19 PM (QTHTd)
I don't think so. I love 'em, but I haven't talked about them here for quite a long while.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:20 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:20 PM (bxiXv)
Very political...I liked them too. Retief was a delightful scoundrel.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 14, 2012 07:20 PM (gCNNd)
I went down to the work dining hall, I'm fairly new at my job and I bring my lunch so I don't go there a lot.
I ordered a sandwich at the deli and the woman making it made more eye contact that you'd normally get, and we chit chatted a bit.
Later that day we had an event at work, and she was apparently working at it.
I had changed clothes and was there with my son when I ran into her. She recognized me and came over to talk to the two of us and we chit chatted some more. Then she walked away, winked at him, and then winked at me.
Like I said, nothing crazy, but I've been out of the dating game long enough that I'm oblivious to nice vs flirting, because when you are married they are the same thing really.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:21 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:21 PM (bxiXv)
--- me too....nothing says "teh stoopid" more than double authors...
Posted by: george lucas's neck-pouch at June 14, 2012 07:21 PM (LzwaA)
May just as well up the speed limit, it'll remove the conflict between the law and reality. Even here on the Northway, if you pace traffic and then check your speedometer, you're looking at 80 most times.
The cops are lenient, unless you like playing Speed Racer or Bobby Dodgem--they do not like anything that causes disruption of traffic, this is where the accidents happen.
Posted by: iron grampa at June 14, 2012 07:21 PM (SAMxH)
Yep, that's the one. Asimov has his flaws as a writer, but some of his science fiction premises are amazing.
If I imagine that I can only hand one short story to someone, so that they can understand what science fiction is all about, it might well be Asimov's "Nightfall."
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:23 PM (2IW5Q)
***
It is something of a joke that with 40 years of advances in automotive technology the "speed limit" on highways is still generally 55.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:23 PM (AUeaU)
--- no, its retarded.
the writing is schizophrenic and all over the place. contexts are out of whack and its easy to tell where one author starts and the other ends.
lazy writing that shouldnt pollute the bookshelves.
Posted by: george lucas's neck-pouch at June 14, 2012 07:23 PM (LzwaA)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 14, 2012 07:23 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:23 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 11:19 PM (QTHTd)
Hey, buddy! Fuck this day, it's over and I got beer and a day off tomorrow and if the Thunder can pull this one out, well, damn, I'm gonna be all smiley-face! How you doin?
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 07:23 PM (kpCLl)
Purp-
He wants them to be able to go to Ranger School. It's the old camel's nose under the tent (think DADT). The standards will be lowered so that the feminazis in Congress don't get thier panties in a wad because some chick didn't graduate. When that happens, the Ranger Tab won't mean a thing. Maybe for those of us that went through that relaxing summer vacation years ago, but I doubt it. This is another step in the destruction of our military as an effective force.
Posted by: Assassin6 at June 14, 2012 07:24 PM (FfukH)
***
Isn't the speed limit supposed to be the 85th percentile of drivers?
Which on most posted 55 MPH roads would be 75...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:24 PM (AUeaU)
Dragons and magic.
I liked the Janissaries: Clan And Crown stuff too. I can't recall if I read just one or both of them but bound in one volume.
I can't recall if the short story was called "Ranks of Bronze" like the novella but they were about a (historical) lost Roman legion that was sold by Mideast types to space aliens who used them to conquer planets because the space version of the U.N. had a rule about not being able to use tech higher than a native culture to conquer a planet. So the aliens used the Romans to conquer Iron and Bronze Age tech level planets.
The short story was really good. It started off without revealing their situation/location but you began reading odd lines along the lines of, "I parried the barbarian's long sword and stabbed him through the bellies covering me in orange blood..." getting you saying, "Orange blood?"
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 07:24 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:25 PM (mxnUd)
Of course, the Interstates were (mostly) engineered to accommodate--er--85mph speed limits? Except of course where they weren't.
Aw, shit, you're gonna make me go look it up now.
Posted by: filbert at June 14, 2012 07:25 PM (smvTK)
Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2012 07:27 PM (g1HXd)
Posted by: Jerry at June 14, 2012 10:57 PM (4SKYj)
John Steakley.
One of the best space-war books. It was actually two books under one cover.
I've always been annoyed that the markedly inferior Starship Troopers inexplicably got the girl (all the publicity).
Armor is an awesome book. And it has hints of literary qualities not present in much of SF. But it is a "there's a twist" book, and that limits the pleasure of the re-read. Not many "twist" books turn up on "best" lists, and I think it's because of the re-readability angle. Starship Troopers is very rereadable, and makes you think a lot, where Armor makes you feel. Matter of preference. I enjoy them both, and would not want to miss out on either, but for lasting impact, Heinlein gets my nod.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:27 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:29 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:29 PM (QTHTd)
Nathan Arizona (or my name ain't): "I dunno, they got Yodas an' shit on 'em!"
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 07:30 PM (FQlFL)
***
There's no reason you can't post 85 on the open flat parts, and lower speed limits where needed.
With an ordinary car made in say the last 10 years and an ordinary driver, 85 MPH is a reasonable safe speed.
Yes, if you full on crash it will be bad, but that's life.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:31 PM (AUeaU)
@246 Dude you missed the good ones-
"Son, you got a panty on your head"
"Re-peat-o-ffender"
"God damn, we got ourselves a family here!"
Posted by: bernverdnardo at June 14, 2012 07:33 PM (xXhWA)
"While McConnell said it’s the natural temptation of anybody in power to silence his or her critics, he believes this administration’s attempts go much further, with David Axelrod stating yesterday that Obama wants to ‘amend the First Amendment.’"
Where the love-and-kiss was THIS guy during the budget battle?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 14, 2012 07:34 PM (famk3)
Retinal scan
Comparative ranting and mouse crushing when you forget passwords.
Posted by: Not that kind of dinner party at June 14, 2012 07:34 PM (NqmTy)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:34 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 07:35 PM (bxiXv)
Nathan Arizona (or my name ain't): "I dunno, they got Yodas an' shit on 'em!"
I liked the lines just before:
Detective: Was the child wearing anything on the night of the incident?
Nathan Arizona: Nobody sleeps naked in this house, boy! He was wearing his damn jammies!
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:35 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: Peaches, goin' to hell in a handbasket at June 14, 2012 07:36 PM (kpCLl)
See, now that's the problem with modern America - liberals pass laws to protect us from "the stupid people", the laws generally make things worse though because they are written by the stupid people.
Artificially low highway speed limit are a good case in point. We've now got laws that 90% of the populace breaks, that are enforced primarily as a revenue stream, and decrease the safety on the roads.
Consider the every day event of a Prius with an O'12 bumper sticker doing 54 in the fast lane, as road ragers zip in and out of the middle and right lane to pass him.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2012 07:36 PM (AUeaU)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:40 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 07:41 PM (nrW1y)
Tank top titties...don't forget the Sci-fi tank top titties. Always chicks with tank top titties in Sci-fi, they work them in somehow.
Posted by: Berserker at June 14, 2012 07:41 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at June 14, 2012 11:40 PM (vbh31)
You are too kind, Soap, but I'd probably try to slide it into my pocket and steal it from ya. Yes, I am way out on the ledge tonight . . . but, hey, there's beer here!
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 07:44 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:44 PM (mxnUd)
Yes. The chicks are hotter in sci-fi books.
Posted by: Wilkins at June 14, 2012 07:44 PM (fVgpT)
But then, as I said before, it comes down to taste.
Taste, yes, but also how you viscerally experience the book. I experienced Starship Troopers as fundamentally plot-driven, and for me the libertarian society background was normal-SF laying-out of the unaccustomed world you're in, not significantly more like a lecture than exposition about life under Martian gravity and in artifical living environments would have been in another book.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:44 PM (2IW5Q)
Some redhead in a night gown just walked by, so it's time for the old folk.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: iron grampa at June 14, 2012 07:44 PM (SAMxH)
I guess it's one of the few preachy books I like. Normally, that puts me off, but ST's preachy-ness just makes it better. Not sure why.
The movie sucked... it's enjoyable to watch, but it pisses me off whenever I see it.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 07:45 PM (NJpM7)
Well, it's them or the busty wenches in the Conan / Gor stories... I know, decisions, decisions.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 07:46 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:47 PM (mxnUd)
The movie sucked... it's enjoyable to watch, but it pisses me off whenever I see it.
The movie was written first. Then they got the rights to Starship Troopers to attach to the movie for a franchise connection. So to claim that the movie is an adaptation of Heinlein's work should receive a cease and desist letter.
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2012 07:48 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:48 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 07:48 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at June 14, 2012 07:49 PM (oipCQ)
I like that movie. I enjoy it. But I never imagined for a moment that it had anything at all to do with the book.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:49 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 14, 2012 07:50 PM (Rhie+)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at June 14, 2012 07:50 PM (1zwZo)
NBA Officials (SCoaMF and Obamacare): We got you.
Bullshit no call at the end there. Durant should've been at the line with a chance to tie.
Posted by: NBA Finals analogy time at June 14, 2012 07:50 PM (P9313)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 11:46 PM (QTHTd)
Conan had nothing on the ladies of Gor, especially some of the later books
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 07:50 PM (tw6Ar)
The golden era of the pointy bra!
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 07:50 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:51 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: Vegan Meatball at June 14, 2012 11:47 PM (mxnUd)
Heh, back in the party days, someone would ask for a lighter and I'd say, there's a big white one in the kitchen, help yourself. Good times . . . clearly gone.
Sorry to be such a self-involved asshole lately and thanks to everyone for putting up with my tawdry shit. Two more weeks and things will be much better. It's just that I got a clear signal today that one of these assholes is gonna make the next two weeks hell on earth for me. Not a happy thought, but whatevs, just gotta keep biting my tongue and keeping my eye on the prize.
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 07:51 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 14, 2012 07:51 PM (0XPAv)
Posted by: rightlysouthern at June 14, 2012 07:52 PM (WrSvg)
I enjoyed the series--DVD recorded it all--but I never read the books so I couldn't be disappointed by comparing it to the books.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 07:52 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 07:52 PM (qmMAj)
Evening y'all.
Every time I see mama-doggies licking their babies butts...and eating their poo/pee...it makes me grateful to not be a doggeh.
Changing a poopy diaper can be gross....but compared to what mama dogs have to do...it ain't that bad.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 07:53 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: NBA Finals analogy time at June 14, 2012 11:50 PM (P9313)
The refs made the right call there, they get it right every time.
Posted by: Jeff VanGundy at June 14, 2012 07:53 PM (lzvtR)
Posted by: Spontaneous Booteh at June 14, 2012 07:53 PM (NqmTy)
Well, if you like to read, you have a treat in store for you at some point. Great series, still going strong at something like 13 books.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 07:53 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 11:52 PM (nrW1y)
they're okay as long as you've never been in Chicago otherwise they become comical in the layout of the city
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 07:54 PM (tw6Ar)
Tighten your belts, bitches, because I'm calling forth gleaming metal forged from the purest fire and steel from the halls of Valhalla.
DRAGONFORCE!
Through The Fire And The Flames
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JCb6P60Vw
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 07:54 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 07:55 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: Taqiyyotomist at June 14, 2012 07:55 PM (X2sgY)
I enjoyed the series--DVD recorded it all--but I never read the books so I couldn't be disappointed by comparing it to the books.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 11:52 PM (nrW1y)
The books are good. I can't remember which was the last one I read, but they were pretty good. I'd rate it above the Stephanie Plum (not scifi) series in terms of entertainment.
I was despondent when the tv show didn't go beyond one season.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 07:56 PM (NJpM7)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 14, 2012 11:51 PM (0XPAv)
NO SHIT!!!! But, I really think OKC is gonna win this thing. At least, I hope so . . .
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 07:56 PM (kpCLl)
I'm guessing that....that boner scientist lady -- Diane Kelly -- has probably got grant money coming at her from all directions.
I mean...judging from all the ED products on the market these days...you'd think that every guy on the planet was suffering from this affliction.
Which is probably not the case.
But it seems to be a product line that is in demand.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 07:57 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 07:57 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 08:00 PM (mxnUd)
Through The Fire And The Flames
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JCb6P60Vw
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 11:54 PM
Pretty cool, thats power metal done right.
Posted by: Berserker at June 14, 2012 08:00 PM (FMbng)
Hope so, too. They gotta get through 3 in Mia now. Ugh.
Posted by: rooting for OKC at June 14, 2012 08:01 PM (P9313)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 08:02 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 08:02 PM (kpCLl)
The books are better.
The shows that copy from the books directly are pretty faithful. (Except that they mixed up the order some). Bob in the show has more flair. And Harry carries a hockey stick instead of a staff. Harry in the books comes off as somewhat older and more curmudgeonly.
There's just a whole-lot-more terrain covered in the books.
The most irritating thing about the Dresden TV series is that SciFi killed it for no good reason. One of their top shows for the year, appealed to both guys and women. But "we want to go a different direction" -> poof.
Posted by: Al at June 14, 2012 08:03 PM (MzQOZ)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 08:03 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 14, 2012 08:03 PM (Rhie+)
Posted by: Berserker at June 15, 2012 12:00 AM (FMbng)
Having immersed myself pretty deep in power metal some years back I find Dragonforce one of the few that have any staying power. They seem to have a sense of humor about them, so it helps.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:04 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: zeera at June 14, 2012 08:05 PM (XtxRN)
Posted by: zeera at June 15, 2012 12:05 AM (XtxRN)
My God...all that blood...and gore...
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:06 PM (HWUv9)
Hey we need to focus on the important things... like Pihranaconda, and Megasharktoplatypus 4.
Posted by: Syfy execs at June 14, 2012 08:06 PM (P9313)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2012 08:07 PM (A5DYE)
Posted by: Peaches at June 15, 2012 12:02 AM (kpCLl)
Its a holdover from their wolf ancestry. They do it to keep the scent of the puppy pooh from attracting other predators that might want to pick off a few cute tasty morsels.
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2012 08:07 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 08:08 PM (mxnUd)
:^(
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 08:08 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 15, 2012 12:07 AM (A5DYE)
Yeah I've heard that the producers for that show get to go into the storage units ahead of time and plant stuff.
Posted by: buzzion at June 14, 2012 08:08 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: moron #4 at June 14, 2012 08:08 PM (RQjPS)
I've seen doggehs eat far worse, and very enthusiastically!
----------
This is true, Peaches....I've had to pull my dog away from a pile of vomit, on more than one occasion.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 08:09 PM (M2JTb)
All the traffic coming out of Hoboken and the Lincoln tunnel was funneled onto a single lane on Route 3 tonight. Brilliant. And not a single overpaid union worker to be seen. They were all getting BJs from the hookers in Jersey City.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 14, 2012 08:09 PM (nEUpB)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AxCRho2gc8
Good gravy but I love these song titles.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:10 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Al at June 14, 2012 08:12 PM (MzQOZ)
I wasn't into fantasy stuff either, except for Tolkien. The idea was horrifying. Swords and sorcery? No thanks. Never could manage to get through those George R.R. Martin fantasy books. But there's a whole new phenomenon in this area, that's worth paying attention to, and the Dresden series is a great way to pick up on it. If you like that, check out Simon R. Green's Nightside books. If you're a techie, check out The Atrocity Archives and its sequels.
And if you want to check out someone who was doing great urban fantasy (and that is the term for this new thing) long before anyone else, and who is one of my favorite authors (though somewhat uneven), pick up The Drawing of the Dark, by Tim Powers. It's set in 15th century Vienna, the enemies are Muslims, and the plot is utterly centered on beer. One of my favorite books ever.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 08:13 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: wheatie at June 15, 2012 12:09 AM (M2JTb)
OMG, wheatie, I just had the hearty guffaw . . . vomit is, like, the coolest to a doggeh. I've also seen 'em get crazed over horseshit, cat poop. Let's face it, we love 'em but there's a cognitive disconnect somewhere.
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 08:14 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: rightlysouthern at June 14, 2012 08:14 PM (WrSvg)
All the traffic coming out of Hoboken and the Lincoln tunnel was funneled onto a single lane on Route 3 tonight. Brilliant. And not a single overpaid union worker to be seen. They were all getting BJs from the hookers in Jersey City.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 15, 2012 12:09 AM
Thats insane, Rt 3 is practically the worst road in the free world.
Posted by: Berserker at June 14, 2012 08:14 PM (FMbng)
That makes sense, Buzzion....about why the mama dogs eat the puppy poo.
Zeera....there's a line of storms from Texas all the way up to Wisconsin.
You in that somewhere?
Kansas is getting hammered.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 08:14 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 08:14 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 08:15 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 15, 2012 12:07 AM (A5DYE)
you would be surprised in what you actually find in storage units, most of the time it's people who don't know what they actually have.
As for the shows, it's called filming a shit ton of auctions and cherry picking the lots. Plus, I would be shocked if the storage owners don't give the producers a heads up (they do go through them before auction) as it leads to more business for more auctions at the location
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 08:16 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:17 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Berserker at June 15, 2012 12:14 AM (FMbng)
Oh, it was epic tonight. The disconnect between government and the people is complete around here. They really don't give a rat's ass about us.
Burn it down!
[Oh, wait...am I allowed to say that? Have I exceeded my allotment of free-floating rage?]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 14, 2012 08:18 PM (nEUpB)
Peaches....my dog has been known to rub his face and mane...in the vomits.
It's happened after I give him a bath in that good-smelling shampoo...that keeps the fleas and ticks off him.
It smells divine...to me.
But the other dogs must make fun of him, smelling so good.
Because if he has to be around other dogs....after a bath....off he goes, to vomit and then rub himself in it.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 08:19 PM (M2JTb)
I think you can buy Rage Credits from the Amish.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 14, 2012 08:20 PM (B8oh2)
Posted by: Splunge at June 15, 2012 12:13 AM (2IW5Q)
talk of urban fantasy and no mention of Charles De Lint or China Mieville 
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 08:20 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 12:17 AM (Z9EHQ)
We must gather around and chant the sacred name...Tim Tebow...and his holy pubes...
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:21 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 15, 2012 12:15 AM (4qU0l)
How you doin'!
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:21 PM (HWUv9)
[Off-camera producer whispering:] Ton, it's ok to climb on those boxes in front because all the good stuff's in back.
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 08:22 PM (FQlFL)
"STFU and mind your betters in the MBM, you Cheetos eating losers!"
Via Breitbart;
Scarborough Bashes 'Cheetos' Eating Online Journalists
http://tinyurl.com/d2n4sqe
"You can stay in your motherÂ’s basement, you can eat your Cheetos, you can type on your dirty laptop, thatÂ’s all you got. But you are not the future of the Republican Party, so keep screaming at your walls downstairs, your day is done."
Posted by: kbdabear at June 14, 2012 08:22 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Peaches at June 14, 2012 08:23 PM (kpCLl)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 08:23 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:23 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 08:25 PM (4qU0l)
And I think it's pretty obvious that O'Dumbass does the rush-hour travel on purpose to screw with the locals as an in-joke middle-finger to them. He's done it for every major city I've read about him visiting. It's a pattern not a scheduling conflict.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 08:25 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 08:26 PM (mxnUd)
Peaches, the administrative access password for one the systems I work with is: admin. No lie. I love humanity, I truly do.
Posted by: J. Random Dude at June 14, 2012 08:26 PM (72afg)
Murder sounds fun. Need any help buryin' the bodies?
Hey, I am in NY you can get anything here. I can get a handful of his pubes around here somewhere. It is gonna be pricey but it is worth it to get Miss Tammy.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 12:23 AM (Z9EHQ)
YANKEE!
Think you can get me the Olsen Twins' torn out shriveled hymens?
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:26 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 08:26 PM (tw6Ar)
Uh oh.....Joe Scarborough sounds...angry.
Heh.
Conservative bloggers must be doing something right.
Joe Scarborough and Meggie Mac....the liberals favorite RINOs.
Actually, those two give RINOs a bad name.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 08:26 PM (M2JTb)
Just got back from dinner. My new favorite sushi place. 2 Pints of Kirin and Asahi later the couple sitting 1 foot away from our table are now fully up to speed on the collapse (:]).
Posted by: Journolist at June 14, 2012 08:27 PM (QWOh7)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:27 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at June 14, 2012 08:29 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:29 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Grumpy the Younger at June 14, 2012 08:31 PM (jts1f)
@TheRealRoseanne tweets:
My vagina is smarter than every fucking repiglican congressprson. My vagina hates evil pedo apologist witchburning priestclass ponzi pirates
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 14, 2012 08:32 PM (piMMO)
Burn it down!
[Oh, wait...am I allowed to say that? Have I exceeded my allotment of free-floating rage?]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 15, 2012 12:18 AM
I hated working in North jersey for the few years I did it. Its really a different world up there compared to the southern part of the state.
Posted by: Berserker at June 14, 2012 08:32 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:32 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 12:29 AM (Z9EHQ)
I'm thinking of starting a collection and need a place to start.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:33 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 12:32 AM (Z9EHQ)
You still didn't finish the job, you somomabitch!
Posted by: Yankee's still not quite dead cockaroach looking for revenge at June 14, 2012 08:36 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: iamahaiangttiam at June 14, 2012 08:37 PM (EG6oe)
Posted by: moron #4 at June 14, 2012 08:38 PM (RQjPS)
Just watched Ong Bak 2.
Glad it's nice out, now I don't have to cover up with newspaper on my park bench.
Posted by: sTevo at June 14, 2012 08:38 PM (rPtu9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:41 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: sTevo at June 15, 2012 12:38 AM (rPtu9)
it came out 5 years ago. And the only good thing to come out of 2 & 3 is the crazy stories of Tony Jaa freaking out on set
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 08:43 PM (tw6Ar)
@390, NDH...that sounds like Rosanne....stupid and profane.
Been reading the libtard tweets over at Twitchy....the ones for #ReasonsToVoteForMittRomney.
Truly vile.
Mostly crap about Mitt being Mormon.
Posted by: wheatie at June 14, 2012 08:43 PM (M2JTb)
Posted by: Grumpy the Younger at June 14, 2012 08:43 PM (jts1f)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:43 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 12:41 AM (Z9EHQ)
Seems that way. I'm not sure if it's because of the campaign or the community just evolving.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:44 PM (HWUv9)
I found that Atrocity/Jennifer somehow links to Hellboy in my mind. (The movies, not the comic)
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 08:45 PM (NJpM7)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 08:46 PM (Z9EHQ)
Fukking pussys at NRO, only
Mark Steyn
jonah goldberg
VDH
and Derb
are worth a shit
the rest, Jack Wagon all....
Been keeping up with the news lately? Anyway, your list is good, but not quite fair. Andrew McCarthy has some very worthwhile things to say from time to time, as does Kudlow, and Lowry, and others whose names I have not taken note of. There may be squishiness from time to time there, but it is on the whole a very very worthy site, and we would be much less well off without it.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 08:47 PM (2IW5Q)
Fuller Memorandum? Worth it, I think, though waiting for paperback pricing seems worthwhile. But in the meantime, check out Halting State.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 08:48 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 08:49 PM (4qU0l)
A couple of weeks ago I was at a fake car show that we put on as background for a "reality" show. What??? Reality shows aren't REAL??? Next you'll be telling me that TV wrestling is fake, too!
I can't tell you what show it is, but I'll let you know when it's on.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 08:50 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 08:50 PM (4qU0l)
Have to say, my biggest weakness is dragons, but no one's written a good scifi dragon story yet.
And no, Anne McCaffrey does not fit the need. Went through that phase. Still like some of her work, but the Pern series is annoying.
Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at June 14, 2012 08:51 PM (NJpM7)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 12:46 AM (Z9EHQ)
We're evolved to consume dead hobos and live off val-u-rite to keep warm in winter. We're perfect predators here at the HQ.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:51 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 08:52 PM (yh0zB)
Yes, I think that's right. He seems very beatable now, doesn't he? It does sap the anger, somehow. But there will be, at some point, maybe not until their unholy Convention, a series of "Obama has his Mojo back!" stories in the Democrat Media, and a more formidable foe in prospect. Then will come the long threads. And if, Heaven forbid, the Narcissist-in-Chief actually gets a second term, this place will boil. I'd settle for shorter threads, and a President who knows what the hell an economy is.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 08:52 PM (2IW5Q)
Neigh.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 08:53 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 15, 2012 12:50 AM (4qU0l)
Pick me up some showgirls, plz?
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:55 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 08:56 PM (bxiXv)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9q_W-wHpns
That brings to a close Dragonforce's Inhuman Rampage.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 08:56 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 08:56 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: moron #4 at June 14, 2012 08:57 PM (RQjPS)
Been reading the libtard tweets over at Twitchy....the ones for#ReasonsToVoteForMittRomney.
Truly vile.
Mostly crap about Mitt being Mormon.
****
Glad I missed it. I was away most of the day and it looks like twitter exploded. Alot of it seems to have been the nasty folks spouting off.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 14, 2012 08:57 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Grumpy the Younger at June 14, 2012 08:57 PM (jts1f)
Posted by: Ezra's Equal at June 14, 2012 11:51 PM (0XPAv)
Yep,WWF in the nba and nfl, great.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 08:59 PM (fHyXI)
Yeah, I got nothing. Two best dragon things I can think of are The Hobbit and Harry Potter. Neither is SF, of course.
If you liked those other two, I can't imagine you not liking Halting State.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 08:59 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 09:00 PM (Z9EHQ)
http://tinyurl.com/7c26q7z
Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2012 12:55 AM (HWUv9)
Bless you kind sir.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:01 PM (yh0zB)
You in that somewhere?
Kansas is getting hammered.
Posted by: wheatie at June 15, 2012 12:14 AM (M2JTb)
Yeah, I'm at the north end of that wall of water. Windy out ahead of it too.
I draped a 20X30' tarp over the arbor on my deck 3 weeks ago, for shade. I don't profess to be a union rigger/gaffer to any degree; that tarp was a humming and flappin tonight. FLAPPIN, not fappin...
Posted by: zeera at June 14, 2012 09:01 PM (XtxRN)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 14, 2012 09:03 PM (mxnUd)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 01:00 AM (Z9EHQ)
So you were gonna write about Tuesdays on the ONT? Cause I don't know if the world is ready for such graphic stuff...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:03 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 09:03 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 09:03 PM (Z9EHQ)
L. Sprague de Camp
Seabury Quinn
Lord Dunsany
Fredric Brown
Fritz leiber
Posted by: The Dude at June 14, 2012 09:04 PM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 09:05 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 09:05 PM (4qU0l)
the aoshq moron horde descends on society of werewolves and vampires and
victimizes, sodomizes, and serially abuses the for fun and amusement
and then has a takes their stuff.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 15, 2012 01:00 AM (Z9EHQ)
But what was the horde armed with? You know where this is headed...
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 14, 2012 09:05 PM (GE1+K)
Posted by: cm9000 at June 14, 2012 09:07 PM (lzvtR)
Adam Smith
Frederic Bastiat
Friedrich von Hayek
There are more, but that's a good start.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:07 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 09:09 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: moron #4 at June 14, 2012 09:09 PM (RQjPS)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 15, 2012 01:05 AM (GE1+K)
Saiga-12 shotguns modified by the semi-evil genius Milo Anderson. Glad he's on our side.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:09 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 09:09 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:09 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:10 PM (qmMAj)
GGE, thanks for the tip, I'll try BOTH of them next time I'm at the store.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 09:11 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 09:12 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 09:12 PM (Z9EHQ)
Frederic Brown is remarkable, but very uneven. For many of the books, I have to be in just the right mood (e.g. "The Fabulous Clipjoint", the Martians book, "The Screaming Mimi"). But "The Mind Thing" is good straight SF with a lot of tension and a great alien conception, and Night Of The Jabberwock, my favorite book of his, is neither SF nor mystery, I don't know what to call it, except I call it one of my favorite books, very easy to read, and pure fun in words. I've reread it many times, with pleasure.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 09:13 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:14 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: Blade at June 14, 2012 09:14 PM (jts1f)
Posted by: NC Ref at June 15, 2012 01:11 AM (/izg2)
They're good if you like a pale ale, not so much if you don't. IPA's are sometimes a bit hoppy for folks who prefer the pilsners. (Most American beers are marginally pilsners.)
BTW, if you don't like beer it's probably because you've only had the watered down swill sold by companies like Dale Jr's sponsor.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:15 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:17 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: Blade at June 15, 2012 01:14 AM (jts1f)
Another excellent choice, and add Thomas Sowell to that list as well.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:17 PM (yh0zB)
Milton Friedman had an amazing gift of clarity, to state something that other people agonize over, and obfuscate, in such simple terms that anyone can understand it instantly. Great choice. The only other writer I can think of who can match his gift in this area is Thomas Sowell.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 09:17 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:18 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:18 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:19 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: bigmike at June 14, 2012 09:19 PM (EqxkC)
You guys are all missing Aristotle. First philosopher to expound on the virtues of the Constitutional Republic (Politics). Nothing like the original source works.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 14, 2012 09:19 PM (GE1+K)
It takes a jimmy carter to get a Reagan, I know I was reluctant to like Romney, but as someone said earlier , he punked obama with the bus thing. Thats good enough for me.
ABO
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:21 PM (fHyXI)
Constitutional Republic? What the hell is that?
Posted by: Barack Obama at June 14, 2012 09:21 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 14, 2012 09:21 PM (Z9EHQ)
There's any number of reasons not to let a kid play quidditch. One would be the unlikelihood of grandkids because your kid nutted himself running around with a broomstick between his legs.
Posted by: Alaskan Warthog at June 14, 2012 09:22 PM (JkFDd)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:22 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:23 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 15, 2012 01:23 AM (yh0zB)
Cold 
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:23 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 15, 2012 01:22 AM (qmMAj)
Well at least you have that going for you...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:24 PM (yh0zB)
Hi Adriane!!!
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 09:24 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 15, 2012 01:23 AM (fHyXI)
Yeah, I'm all heart. Except for the part of me that's @$$hole...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:25 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:25 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:26 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:27 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 09:27 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:29 PM (qmMAj)
Then you must taste Pliny The Elder at some point. It's a party of hops in your mouth, and everyone is invited.
Posted by: Splunge at June 14, 2012 09:30 PM (2IW5Q)
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 09:31 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:32 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: Grumpy the Younger at June 14, 2012 09:36 PM (jts1f)
Posted by: Splunge at June 15, 2012 01:30 AM (2IW5Q)
I've never seen it but it rates highly at Beer Advocate. I shall keep an eye out.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 09:36 PM (HWUv9)
How's schtuff?
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 15, 2012 01:27 AM (qmMAj)
Good. I talked to my sis on the phone for two hours. We were bitchin about getting old.
How you?
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:36 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 09:37 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2012 09:41 PM (nrW1y)
Posted by: NC Ref at June 15, 2012 01:31 AM (/izg2)
The only problem with that is I work Sunday nights...FML
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:41 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Mr. Peabody at June 14, 2012 09:42 PM (jts1f)
How you?
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 15, 2012 01:36 AM (fHyXI)
Getting old ain't for pussehs. Got a twinge in my back yesterday night, so I'm self medicating tonight. So far so good.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:42 PM (yh0zB)
How you?
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 15, 2012 01:36 AM (fHyXI)
Getting old ain't for pussehs. Got a twinge in my back yesterday night, so I'm self medicating tonight. So far so good.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 15, 2012 01:42 AM (yh0zB)
Haha, yeah, I do that.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:44 PM (fHyXI)
"...a paradox and a contradiction that God should know all things, and yet there should be free will."
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 09:44 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:45 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:46 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:47 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 09:49 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:50 PM (qmMAj)
There have been moments of bitter regret of late...
And for things other than the color of the breakfast nook. Hopefully, I can keep it together for a few more years, since nothing good will come for acting on this particular regret.
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 15, 2012 01:47 AM (qmMAj)
Aww, hugs. I mean it, put your feet on the ground tommorow and be glad you have that regret, you learned from it.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:50 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2012 01:29 AM (HWUv9)
494 491I like my beers so hoppy they jump and go dig up someone's carrot patch.
Then you must taste Pliny The Elder at some point. It's a party of hops in your mouth, and everyone is invited.
Posted by: Splunge at June 15, 2012 01:30 AM (2IW5Q)
I'll see your barely bobbling brews and raise you some rabbit-bopping hoppiness -- http://blog.stonebrew.com/?p=3205
Posted by: cthulhu at June 14, 2012 09:50 PM (kaalw)
I work almost all Saturdays and Sundays in the fall and spring too, which is why I suck at all my fantasy sports leagues. But it's not a problem if you want to drink with me...we throw darts on Thursday nights and that's when the free beer is available. I'll hook you up.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 09:52 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:53 PM (qmMAj)
And on that note, I am gonna go smoke a cigarette, as I am the only one on the ont that still does so.
But I do know I will die from something related to my smoking, or something else, but I will die. I will let God decide,
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 09:53 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: Methuselah's Aching Back at June 14, 2012 09:54 PM (jts1f)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 09:55 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: 19K - B5D, has a friend in the Family at June 14, 2012 09:55 PM (4qU0l)
brb, gotta search out some self-medicationing stuff in the back-back drawer.
I swear, ossifer, it's not mine!
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 09:55 PM (/izg2)
AHA!!!
Know we know the secret to keeping all those tentacles waving in the air!!!!
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 15, 2012 01:55 AM (qmMAj)
Wave your tentacles in the air like you just don't care!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at June 14, 2012 09:56 PM (kaalw)
Ya know, to make things easier on ya.
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 09:57 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 14, 2012 09:57 PM (GE1+K)
I guess it's a power metal night for me.
This one's for BERSERKER!
Stratovarius - Soul Of A Vagabond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJ6ybCrEcA
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 10:01 PM (HWUv9)
http://youtu.be/RzVLQTovv_g
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 10:03 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 10:04 PM (HWUv9)
Fox news are idiots, still bitching about double standards in the media. So 4 years, 8 years, etc ago.
Grow up, the media sucks!!! And Fox news is cnn light.
Thats why I read non-journalists, they know wtf is going on in the world.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:06 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: Odel roo at June 14, 2012 10:15 PM (MSW07)
Ya know, to make things easier on ya.
Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2012 01:57 AM (HWUv9)
Great idea, suggest that Adriane commit a felony. Dumbass.
Section 8 USC 1324 etc.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 10:15 PM (/izg2)
http://youtu.be/JOVQ4vAmM7Y
Posted by: derit at June 15, 2012 02:16 AM (FQlFL)
Love this
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:20 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 10:22 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 10:24 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 10:25 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 15, 2012 02:22 AM (qmMAj)
I see. Will guillotine's be involved in some capacity?
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 10:28 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:29 PM (fHyXI)
Damn, now popcorn is going to be a felony, fuck these people!
Damn newyork, drop off the map ya nanny's.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:31 PM (fHyXI)
we throw darts on Thursday nights and that's when the free beer is available. I'll hook you up.
Posted by: NC Ref at June 15, 2012 01:52 AM (/izg2)
I SUCK at darts. I'm IN!!!
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 15, 2012 01:53 AM (qmMAj)
I run it through a conversion program but it seems to be resource intensive because it drags.
lou, I quit once and missed it so I un-quit. I don't miss it this time
Methusalah....you got that shit right...
Robert...here's some berserker for you.
http://youtu.be/5D-9X3ooFvo
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 10:31 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 10:31 PM (qmMAj)
Posted by: A cynical but rarely angry Adriane at June 14, 2012 10:34 PM (qmMAj)
http://youtu.be/5D-9X3ooFvo
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 15, 2012 02:31 AM (yh0zB)
That's *beautiful* maaan!
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 10:35 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 10:36 PM (yh0zB)
Good night, my beloved Hordes!
Adriane, GGE, NC Ref, Lou, Bers, Dude, Cooth, Derit, Mike what claims to be a moose, any and all assorted 'Rons representing...I bid you all ADIEU!
Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2012 10:37 PM (HWUv9)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 10:38 PM (yh0zB)
But I do know I will die from something related to my smoking, or something else, but I will die.I will let God decide,
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 15, 2012 01:53 AM (fHyXI)
Hey lou's, you are NOT the only one. I too, will be back inside after
taking 6 minutes to suck clean air thru a filter
Posted by: zeera at June 14, 2012 10:41 PM (XtxRN)
Up late working and listening to jazz.
Check out Maynard Ferguson "Hey Jude" on youtube.
Maynard Ferguson was one cool cat.
Posted by: Journolist at June 14, 2012 10:44 PM (QWOh7)
taking 6 minutes to suck clean air thru a filter
Posted by: zeera at June 15, 2012 02:41 AM (XtxRN)
No shit!!
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:44 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 15, 2012 02:36 AM (yh0zB)
And then you will eat Cheetos.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:46 PM (fHyXI)
So you're saying he's like the 80's version of the Flash? Wally West, who was merely able to do about Mach 1 in the early days after he took up the job after they killed off Barry Allen. A long running storyline was his attempts to regain his former much greater speed and lack of need to consume enough calories for an army.
You know, that comic book character with the zero-cost powers?
Posted by: epobirs at June 14, 2012 10:47 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 10:48 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 10:51 PM (bxiXv)
Easy....folks,
Before I drop my benadryl and merlot nigh-nigh...a thought.
Back in 2008 when the Republician platform looked like the racket face from the "FRENCH OPEN!!!!" I thought (again, very bad since it required much more merlot and even Sarah could not kill the intake), THIS WAS THE BEST WE GOT?????.......sigh.....and 3 years in....FUCK THIS!!!!
Now...2012 looms....and I for one better see something that looks like.....
"THE BLACKSMITHE'S ANVIL!!!" TO pound out the doctrine that is FIRST & FOREMOST to get this country clear of the cliff..
AND WOE to any Republican that wants to "reach across the isle" this time around....."BUG SPLAT!!" TOAST...FAIL!
We are in the "Last times of times" for this country, now is the time to have the LARGE BRASS ONES HANGING AND A SWINGING....
OH... the dryer just dinged which means my fluffy-comfy is done and now I can go sleep-sleeps.....
snozzers to you my "MandM's"
Posted by: Richard at June 14, 2012 10:51 PM (0jyYB)
***buys Mero a double shot of vodka 'n cherry juice...keeps the valu-rite for myself***
Feel better!
Posted by: NC Ref at June 14, 2012 10:55 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 10:56 PM (bxiXv)
When aos goes to the registering thing (sic)?, I cannot comment, you will all be sad, but know this. I will read your comments daily, and still lol.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 10:58 PM (fHyXI)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 14, 2012 11:02 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at June 14, 2012 11:04 PM (oipCQ)
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be AOS commenters?
http://youtu.be/N_a4BU09GrU
Why?
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 11:04 PM (FQlFL)
567
Mer,
The NSAID's will fry your beans (kidneys) over time, tell me , is there something else you have looked at for control? I know we have had some Pharmo-Tech talk on this issue in the recent past......
Wish to help....
Posted by: Richard at June 14, 2012 11:05 PM (0jyYB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:06 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 15, 2012 02:58 AM (fHyXI)
Sorry, just fucking with the ont. Ran everyone off. Not good with snark.
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 11:07 PM (fHyXI)
I'm working on getting those on to Kindle and Nook. The big problem is tracking down all of the contributors and arranging the accounting details.
Posted by: epobirs at June 14, 2012 11:09 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:09 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:10 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: chaz at June 14, 2012 11:11 PM (oJGIR)
Posted by: lou's a girl at June 14, 2012 11:19 PM (fHyXI)
You have to consider that one exists because of the other. Starship Troopers influence more than one generation before the first sentence of Armor was typed. There is a twenty-five year gaps between the first publications of those books.
Posted by: epobirs at June 14, 2012 11:20 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:20 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:22 PM (bxiXv)
Look folks,
If I have to give ACE my home IP in order to have the priv. of basking under the glorious shadow of the "JOLLY ROGER?"
B R I N G I T ! ! !...AND MY AVATAR WILL BE.....MOST RIGHT WINGING FLAME
2012 is saying ...."YA KNOW.....".."I'M SO DONE WITH YOUR P.C BULLSHIT!!" "SO," DRAW A WEAPON AND FIGHT!!!," "OR,"
"I'M JUST GONNA CRUSH YOUR LIBTARD/COMMIE ASS INTO A 20 DECADE TOMB!!!!!"
"RUN BITCH!!",
"RUN!!!!"
Posted by: Richard at June 14, 2012 11:28 PM (0jyYB)
Octavia Butler died in 2006, so she couldn't have voted for Obama in the real sense. And since she lived in Pasadena, CA she probably didn't vote from the grave either.
Never cared for her stuff. I got really turned off 'humans suck and need aliens to set us straight' plots a long time ago. Her contributions to that field were a factor in my disgust.
Posted by: epobirs at June 14, 2012 11:28 PM (kcfmt)
Now I take allopurinol daily, 'cause that shit hurts like a motherfucker on speed in a hurt factory.
Which is a long-winded way to say, "Sorry, Merovign -- I sympathize with your pain."
Posted by: cthulhu at June 14, 2012 11:33 PM (kaalw)
Look folks,
If I have to give ACE my home IP in order to have the priv. of basking under the gloriousshadow of the "JOLLY ROGER?"
B R I N G I T ! ! !...AND MY AVATAR WILL BE.....MOST RIGHT WINGING FLAME
2012 is saying ...."YA KNOW.....".."I'M SO DONE WITH YOUR P.C BULLSHIT!!" "SO," DRAW A WEAPON AND FIGHT!!!," "OR,"
"I'M JUST GONNA CRUSH YOUR LIBTARD/COMMIE ASS INTO A 20 DECADE TOMB!!!!!"
"RUN BITCH!!",
"RUN!!!!"
Posted by: Richard at June 15, 2012 03:28 AM (0jyYB)
They already have your IP from requests to the webserver.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 14, 2012 11:35 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:41 PM (bxiXv)
577
Mer,
Nurse Richard....in the house....just for you ...we need to talk diet on a side bar, gout as a stand alone health issue is something we can work on to your beni my borther....."I think we started this convers. years back but my #1 was in Afagan. and I lost track of our conver. I would very much like to fire this up again since you are one of the main reasons that I still like coming here
YUP
Posted by: Richard at June 14, 2012 11:42 PM (0jyYB)
Posted by: Theresa at June 14, 2012 11:47 PM (UiaWo)
Posted by: viking at June 14, 2012 11:50 PM (rw33o)
Posted by: derit at June 14, 2012 11:51 PM (FQlFL)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:56 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2012 11:58 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Rollie Fingers at June 15, 2012 03:45 AM (/izg2)
sad part is give me a week and it will be as long as Rollie's stash
Posted by: The Dude at June 15, 2012 12:00 AM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 15, 2012 03:33 AM (kaalw)
I take that, and it kind of slows the attacks down. A bit.
I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 15, 2012 03:41 AM (bxiXv)
I take four prescription medications daily: A statin, to keep me stupid and tractable; a diuretic because everyone evidently needs one or they'd back up with pee until they 'sploded; some fancy-pants something-or-other to keep me from dropping dead from some other cause than pee-'splosion; and allopurinol for the gout. The only one I worry about is the gout stuff, 'cause screwing up the dose either way is a serious chance to bring the pain.
On the flip side, I went into an examination recently and got to try out a rant I'd been concocting: "How come you keep coming up with boring medieval stuff like "gout"? Why don't you diagnose something with a latin name, like Pasteurella pestis -- or an acronym, like ALS -- or something named after a city, like Marburg....or a person, like Hansen's disease or Hodgkin's lymphoma?" My doctor actually paled a bit, and stammered out, "you wouldn't want those...." until he realized that nobody would pull a list like that out of a hat (the diseases named are Black Death, Lou Gehrig's disease, a flavor of ebola, leprosy, and a type of cancer). Punk'd.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 15, 2012 12:01 AM (kaalw)
I was out for the evening, and my apartment building caught fire.I'll be staying with family for a while, it looks like. Got to go into my apt for a few things and there was smoke damage, but everything looks pretty good. Going back later today to get stuff, as there will need to be some work done, lots of water/smoke damage. A little excitement for a Thursday night.
Unfortunately, looks like the man in whose place the fire started might not make it.
Posted by: Theresa at June 15, 2012 03:47 AM (UiaWo)
Oh, man.....that hath quite the suckage. I'm so sorry to hear.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 15, 2012 12:04 AM (kaalw)
Posted by: viking at June 15, 2012 12:04 AM (rw33o)
597
Mer,
Serious, after 29 years in E.R medicine, I've got some fine contacts and have forgotten more Renal Doc's than remembered...such is the "business" of medicine since it "evolved" from the "Healing Art!"
Posted by: Richard at June 15, 2012 12:06 AM (0jyYB)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 15, 2012 12:09 AM (kaalw)
604
I want to do this for him, I've got some DOC's I know...
Make it happen
night......and Good night to you.....ACE!
Posted by: Richard at June 15, 2012 12:13 AM (0jyYB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 15, 2012 12:17 AM (bxiXv)
606
Lets work on this then! Most of my contacts are in Burbank. I will do my best for ya.....crap!! the merlot duth drag me down
night MER.
Posted by: Richard at June 15, 2012 12:29 AM (0jyYB)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 15, 2012 12:34 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: sonnyspats at June 15, 2012 12:37 AM (Qr9Rc)
It started last Friday when I headed out to my car to take care of a friend's dog because he was going to be home much later than usual.
I couldn't find the car. Where did I last use it? I vaguely remembered that I might have pulled up in front of the garage of our unit to unload groceries. I would then have to move out on the street by the complex because my sister and mother get the garage and parking space nearby. Did I forget to move it and got towed some time in the early AM?
It took an annoying number of calls to the Sheriff's department to get an answer. Which was yes. The utter bastards in the security company the HOA hired know about all of our cars and which unit they go to. It's a requirement that we list them for the HOA. The bastards couldn't walk thirty feet to my front door and ask me to move the car?
Meanwhile, there is a fire in the hills a bit north of here and traffic is seriously backed up. I got the tow yard on the phone and had an infuriating hassle getting them to give me a proper address. And they close at 4:30 PM. It's 4 PM now. The charge is $250 and will go up to $350 if don't get it today.
Nobody can possibly get to me in time to take me over there even if I could find the place on the first try. I try directing my mother and sister to the task remotely but one cannot get away from work, which is less than two miles from the tow yard, and the other is not very good at taking directions over the phone. Or in person. Or via ouija board. I've tried them all.
So Saturday comes around and I'm driving my mother's Explorer with her in the passenger seat and driving me up the wall while trying to find the place. It finally got to the point where I parked, left the keys in the ignition and walked off. The other option was matricide. She just couldn't get it through her head how murderously angry I was and how being completely quiet was highly desirable.
After much wandering I find the place and discover it's closed on the weekend. What a fucking scam. They steal your car and hold it for ransom. And they have severely limited hours so that your chances of retrieving the car without racking substantial extra charges and/or missing work is extremely low. I didn't end up getting the car back until Monday and it cost me $450. Between that and repairs I've spent a fair bit more than the car's Blue Book value on continuing to own it.
Meanwhile, it's late Saturday morning, I'm in a mood to commit grievous mayhem, and I'm on foot about fifteen miles from home. And I walked it. No big deal in my youth. If I'd been more patient I might have caught a bus most of the way but trying to sit and wait at one of the pickup locations was too much. I stopped by two store where I might have bought a bicycle, something I'd been considering lately anyway. But neither had them ready to ride.
Damn near killed myself. In my anger I'd chosen not to take my blood pressure meds the night before because I've gotten so fed up with being half-asleep all day. So I was really tempting fate but it probably helped a bit too with the endurance. By the time I got home I could barely move and had a huge blister on the ball of each foot. I could barely move Sunday morning. When I paid the ransom on Monday morning they must have thought I had some crippling disease like ALS or something.
I was never in good shape but youth sure did have its advantages. There was a time when I'd only have needed a few hours to recover from such a journey.
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