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Goodmorning Deadpan.
Dub. I am now able to connect to http://www.farpointrecap.com though I don’t see your new episode there . It is also still hasn’t shown up in my iTunes.
Morning SH !
Morning Pan!
Nice holiday. Although it was certainly a shock going from an average of 80 degrees to having to shovel the sidewalk on Sunday :)
I have to admit that I took juvenile glee in watching the footage of Dubya throwing out the first pitch to open Baseball season.
Apparently not even the Evil NeoCons can arrange to vette an entire baseball stadium!
The must have been piping in the Star Spangled Banner at a large volume through Dubyas ear piece in order to drown out THAT chorus of booing.
DO you suppose they will have to create a whole new branch of the Secret Service just to follow him around for the rest of his life and make sure he never reads a newspaper, sees a news program or finds out what Americans and the rest of the world really think of him?
TEB !!!!
I was just wondering last night how the trip went!!
Heard the episode yesterday. You can hwip my drawers any time, Jack.
Trip went good, J0e. Saw, the Star Trek Experience (of course), Elton John and Penn and Teller.
Hubby out of the shower. Now it’s my turn. Back in a bit.
hwwip it good
There, clean body. Now waiting for my hubby to leave before I stick some food down my gullet.
Here in Calgary, at a hockey game, some guy was beat up and sent to the hospital because he wore an Edmonton Oilers jersey to a Calgary vs Edmonton game.
How stupid is that?
April Fools letter of the day:
Dear Abby: To say I am upset is an understatement. My wife of 22 years, “Verna”, was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Verna always programmed our VCR and as a result, I have no idea how to record my favourite sporting events.
I begged my daughter to show me how to operate it, but she’s still mad at me because when sheasked me if her blaser made her look fat, I replied: “No, it’s those double cheeseburgers you’ve been scarfing down two at a time that make you look so fat.”
I’m thinking if I run a personal ad in the paper I could meet a nice lady and get my mind off all the sports I’m missing. Here’s how I plan to word it: “SWM seeking single female. Race, age adn looks unimportant. Please send picture of car.”
I know you get hundreds of letters every day with the same exact problems that I have, but please tell me what to do.
-Calgary Sun
If this is a real letter, I’m Mickey Mouse :)
today’s quize
without looking on the net … what is the video broadcasting standard for the following countries?
1) Burma
2) Austria
3) Morocco
Bonus round) Saudi Arabia
I’m don’t know the answer to any of those (although my guess is none). Tell me of knowledgeable one.
of = oh
Ok I’m at work and I still can’t get the site.
I was able to connect to the site once yesterday Joe, but I couldn’t log in to upload the show… I had to do it on the podango side. I haven’t been able to connect since.
beep BOOP!
We’re all happy to see the return of TEB!
TEB – I shall let the rest of the rable have a chance to guess. BTW: Where IS Jeremy?
Thanks, Rhettro
Sounds like your Vegas trip was a sucess.
It was.
Jack and I should have drove up for lunch. LOL
That would have been cool!
:)
Next time.
Sounds like a plan.
OK
Here is the answer to #1
1) Burma = NTSC
They have television outside the U.S.? Who knew?
:)
2)France – NSFW
I guess it really is April 1st isn’t it.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Well according to:
http://www.kropla.com/tv.htm
The TV standard for Saudi Arabia is:
SECAM B/G, PAL B
1) Burma = NTSC
2) Austria = PAL
3) Morocco = SECAM
Bonus round) Saudi Arabia
That’s why it was the bonus round question. Saudi Arabia has a “Dual” broadcast standard.
Of course being the “Dubya” variety of U.S. allies – neither of their 2 standards are NTSC.
BTW: No points for Van … “without looking on the net …” Although since he has completed his homework assignment already he is excused from after school detention.
Well the UK uses PAL, and used it way before Dubya.
Sure … but if you were going to pick a SECOND standard, I’d imagine it would make at least economic sense to pick the one used by the U.S.
Or China, LOL.
You were in murgatory again, Sarah from Charleston. But now your comments are flying free.
In Soviet Russia, state broadcasts you!
Yeah! Sarah’s here!
“if you saw a [flyer, banner, business card, picture, etc] for a website called
The Charleston Geek and Gamer
(uh, assuming you lived in or near Charleston)
would you be interested in visiting this website?”
I know I would, but I’m the quinesential geek. It’s the same reason I gavitate toword sites like ThinkGeek.
Stupid f*#king April 1st. . . .
Everyone should do that root beer float today, in honor of Joe Murphy, Our Missing Ninja.
You know I think I have some root beer and ice cream at home, I may just be able to pull it off. Joe, I’ll be drinking a cold one in your honor tonight, I’m sure you would think that was brilliant. :)
Hi Sarah -
The “Geek” title, while very descriptive – is also very limited.
Unless you are specifically targeting ONLY those who are part of the “”GEEK” joke I wouldn’t use the term.
I believe many members of the general public who are “outside” of the geekosphere would view it as a disparaging term and shy away from it.
In marketing you want the possibility of attracting as many different demographics as possible … or at least, “limiting” yourself as little as possible.
How about Guru?
Dub – chopping my way through my podjam and finally got to FPR:007.
Funny open!
Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t get it … but in my eyes, getting lampooned or skewerd on the FPR is the podcasting world’s equivent of having Weird Al Yankovic parody your song. The music Industry may decide who is this weeks “star” by as an artist you KNOW you have arrived when Weird Al spends his time and considerable talent on YOU!
:)
Hi Pan
The beautiful lull
the dangerous tug
we get to feel small
from high up above
and after a glimpse
over the top
the rest of the world
becomes a giftshop
The pendulum swings
for the horse like a man
out over the rim
is ice cream to him
the beautiful lull
the dangerous tug
we get to feel small
but not out of place at all
We’re forced to bed
but we’re free to dream
all us human extras
all us herded beings
and after a glimpse
over the top
the rest of the world
becomes a giftshop
I don’t know what to believe
sometimes I even forget
and if it’s a lie,
terrorists made me say it
the beautiful lull
the dangerous tug
we get to feel small
from high up above
from high up above
The Tragically Hip — Gift Shop
If you hate not having enough control over what scripts run when you visit a site, you should check out NoScript:
http://noscript.net/
hello EssBee
Hiya EssBee
I would totally check out the Charleston Geek and Gamer, and I live in Colorado!
Heh, BBC FT April 1st W
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds9K5cRHnLA
I was musing over on the forums that season 4 of BSG may be Moore’s allegory for the biblical Revelations. Am I off my rocker–more than usual, that is–or does that make sense?
I don’t think you’re off your rocker, ditto. I just finished a rewatch of Season 3, and what struck me is 1) Starbuck’s significance as some kind of messiah figure while Baltar and others think HE is the messiah, and 2) Roslin’s psychic/mental/drug-induced connection to the Cylons there at the end of S3. I don’t see a biblical Revelations connection there.
Since I’m fairly new here, I won’t geek all the way out. I could, though, if anyone wants to. I’m super excited about Season 4 premiering this Friday.
I’m super-excited about the new season too.
This only struck me today when I was reading a few things, so I haven’t fully explored the idea. I posted the parallels here:
http://www.farpointforums.com/showthread.php?tid=1888
Just downloaded episode 9 of S4 of Lost to find it’s fake and April 1st joke.
groan
That’s kinda funny, actually. Normally, I don’t like April Fool’s jokes.
Okay, that’s pretty awesome, ditto. Would you like it if S4 was RDM’s allegory for Revelations?
What would that mean (if anything) given the Mormon foundations of the series?
Man, I love that show.
Doesn’t matter to me as long as it stays good.
“Would you like it if S4 was RDM’s allegory for Revelations?”
I love how many layers there are in this show. And, if Moore uses this to add another I will be happy, so long as he keeps up the great storytelling.
“What would that mean (if anything) given the Mormon foundations of the series?”
Don’t know. I know only a little about Mormonism. I guess I need to pick the mind of one of my friends.
I agree with that 100%. It’s fun to think about!
I don’t know much about Mormonism either. I find the idea of basing something like this show on a codified mythos really fascinating.
National Geographic lampooned!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/Harvardlampoon-pictures/index.html
Whut dya think about Gmails back to the Future feature?
That was hilarious. When I first saw it, it didn’t click that it was a joke.
I was the same way.
What is up with the comments on Slice’s Contest Posts:
http://tinyurl.com/3ahe6d
I had to ad my own…
lmfao.
That was brilliant. :)
I also found LJ’s new member gag funny.
http://news.livejournal.com/107460.html
I’ve been Rickrolled!
*gag*
Spam bot maybe?
That’s hilarious, Jeremy.
Good contest! Sci-fi replica watches cheap online pharmacy Paris Hilton lesbians.
Jeremy,
That was just weird over on Slice. It sure looks like some kind of spam. But why?
Totally hilarious, Jeremy.
Yah, I had to play along too.
We’ll see if I clear moderation.
Just listened to this, albeit a little late, and all I can say is wow… Tell us how you really feel Jack. I had no idea there was a lot of tension in the podosphere. That’s a little disappointing to hear. Oh well.. Such is life I guess.
Thanks Joe, but don’t put me on that kind of pedastal… I’m just a guy who picks out random audio and makes silly stupid jokes about it.
And hey, the site and feed seem to be working now. Go Summer! Or other mysterious forces of the internet!
The pipes!
No strangling cats in a skirt please!
There is enough noise pollution as it is.
Fooking BST has screwed up estimation of the time difference.
Ever wake up when you have a sinus infection with just a huge chunk of shit getting coughed up… Everytime I go through this therapy that happens to my brain and I realize just how fucked up my life was and how fucked up I was to other people, and I end up feeling nothing but shame over things that happened when I was 13 years old… It’s pathetic…
The culture of therapy is yet to catch on here in the UK, at least among the working classes.
Back to the mono days of arcade machines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss0FEdCIJEM&feature=related
Ah, comments are still on this board. Silly me, I was commenting on the other one :)
Thought I was all alone in this world
Well, to repeat what I said on the “Joe” thread…
Ditto, when you come on to the boards, since I know you’re Canadian too, have you heard anything about the rumor we’re going to lose the $5 bill and have it replaced with a $3 coin?
We have the Loonie and Toonie, what would we call this one? The Threenie?
Wow, Van. I actually remember playing that game. I would have been about 10 then and thinking is was great fun :)
It’s not so bad TEB. In the UK there was a lot of fuss when the 1 pound note was replaced with the one pound coin (a 2 pound coin was added later), but you get used to it.
I’ve played it at the time and via MAME, but without the periscope it’s not as much fun.
I don’t mind the replacement of paper money with coins (we’ve done it with the $1 and $2) I just find it strange they’re not going to do a $5 coin but instead replace it with a $3 coin
Funny story about our $2 coin (the Toonie). Normally there is a picture of a polar bear on the coin, however we occasionally put out commemorative coins, including one with a pink cancer ribbon and one with a red poppy to remember our Vets. When the poppy one first came out, the US would not allow them to cross the border. The story was, they thought there was a micro-chip embedded in the poppy, used for spying on them.
Americans can be so silly :)
I don’t think it’s an issue now, but it was amusing to hear at the time.
TEB: I’m pretty sure that’s an April Fool’s joke.
Ditto commented on the other thread that the $3 coin might be an April Fool’s joke. At first my husband and I thought so at first as well, but we’re not so sure now.
I’ve found nothing in the business pages of The Globe & Mail and the CBC. I’ll keep looking, but until I find a business analysis of the situation, I will continue to believe this is just a joke.
As an April Fool’s day joke, the local brewery put a “sample” of it’s newest beer in the paper. The beer was called Hydrate. The idea was you cut out the sample from the newspaper and put it in a glass of water…
It was amazing the number of people who fell for it. Apparently the brewery got some complaints from people saying they didn’t like the new beer. (they did also get some calls from people playing along describing how wonderful the heady taste was)
It was actually a news story on the CBC radio we heard it. Last night about 6:30 (ish). That’s the only reason we sort of believe it. CBC news hour is not usually known for its sense of humour.
Besides, isn’t the rule, you’re not supposed to do April Fool’s joke after 12 noon?
The only think I can find is a special $3 gold collectors coin made by the mint in 2006:
http://tinyurl.com/2smlbb
Cool! I don’t even remember that.
Well I found this:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/169413
Don’t know if the the Toronto Star is the Canadian equivalent of The Guardian (serious news) or The Daily Sport (big boobs found on the moon).
Some programmers like to go hardcore:
http://www.qotile.net/xype/thrust.html
As a non programmer I can’t help but admire a guy who writes a game by entering all the program code in hexadecimal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skool_Daze
Van: That’s the $2 coin with the commemorative poppy that TEB was talking about.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/2004_Poppy_Quarter.jpg/100px-2004_Poppy_Quarter.jpg
There is no spy camera in that coin.
Maybe there’s no camera in YOUR coin Ditto…
I suppose it makes more sense if the coins were planted on people who work in the defense industry rather than a massive production run of bugged coins.
I could just see what people would here if they bugged my quarter…
“Dear, what do you want to do tonight”
“I don’t know, what do you want to do? is there anything on TV?”
“Nope.”
“So what do you want to do?”
“Anything you want..”
and so on and so forth. Very exciting.
Well if you both played RISK it would sound more exciting than it actually was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yf4A0dGyAE
Yes, we quite enjoyed Red Dwarf when it was on TV. We also have them on DVD. I liked the original cute brunette Kachanski (sp?) better than the newer blond one.
You may find the lead singer of Altered Images a wee bit familiar then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgqD826HGuI
WP needs a EDIT your own message option…grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40K2S0-5Xo0&feature=related
For a hint of the original video.
cool, Van. I sent the link to my husband.
Cool. Now off for lunch.
Ta!
KEWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RvB box set!!!!
http://www.roosterteethstore.com/dvdbox.html
I liked:
* Stops bullets 6x more effectively than a normal RvB DVD*
*actual ballistic tests inconclusive.
lol
Yes, but will it stop a plasma grenade?
“Is it a spider?”
Wow. Spiders & RvB drive everyone away.
This does not bode well
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080402/full/452513a.html
Ooooooh shiney:
http://tinyurl.com/2l868z
A vectrex emulator in Java, includes game roms (including several homebrew efforts like Thrust and Patriots) and overlay graphics, and runs on Windows, OSX and Linux.
Written by a french guy, which may offend those of a patriotic persuasion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTcO5XmJU0
Lykke Li “Little Bit”
Gotta love lyrics that say:
And for you I keep my legs apart
And forget about my tainted heart
And I will never ever be the first
To say it but still I get over
Heh. Tracked down the video for the song, eh? I’ll check it out. :)
ditto – can you give synopsis of RvB ? (I won’t even make you do it as a Haiku)
The Wiki article does a good job:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs_blue
You can watch all of season 1 here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5603805953315746797
It’s hard to give a synopsis since the show is so off the wall. It’s a funny, twisted look at “military” life, gaming, and the world in general.
I’ve known of RvB for sometime, I just haven’t seen a single episode. Maybe this weekend.
Maybe the best way to describe it is this: Imagine if Douglas Adams was a FPS fan and he created a show based on Halo. Of course, that’s probably way off base.
not to distract you from your assignment (have you had your ice cream soda yet?) but this looks intrigueing -
Clementine Martini recipe
2 oz Svedka® clementine vodka
1 oz Orange Curacao liqueur
1 oz triple sec
1 oz cranberry juice
1 oz Canada Dry® orange soda
1/2 oz ginger ale
Add the vodka, orange curacao and triple sec to a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a martini cocktail glass. Float the cranberry juice, then the soda water, the the ginger ale. Garnish with a clementine wedge (if available) or a lightly flamed orange peel twist, and serve.
^Sounds much better than the Chlamydia Martini, which has the same ingredients but requires one to drink it as a body shot of an infected hooker.
Oh Rhett. . . . .
Bonus points if you can combine Joe’s concoction with a tub of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
So that would be a Fabio Martini?
I don’t think I care much for the sound of that….
Evening, Pan.
What a shit day today at work. I’ll take one of those martinis. Hold the ICBINB, please.
“sorry EssBee” (steps behind bar)
“One ‘Day Eraser’ coming right up!”
Okay, that hits the spot! Thank you, sir! It goes well with my re-watch of BSG Razor. You are a prince.
… and a bargin at half the price!
I still haven’t seen Razor.
I did show “What the Frak is going on” to a non-BSG watcher tonight to see if it was really as good as I thought it was.
It was.
She did say that all of the names were right on the edge of being way to much way to fast but she “got” the story and seemed intrigued!
Well as a time check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak
Caveman with a yoyo.
Jack Mangan, I love your absolute sincerest honesty about the crap that goes on, because after all, people are people no matter where you go. Those who find themselves in your story ought to take note. I appreciate being brought back to focus and understanding of the potential for elitist thinking.
Like any medium of expression, whether print or sound or visual, there’s always the dichotomy between doing it “for the art” or doing it “for the money.” Nobody starts doing anything because they hate it, they do it becasue they love it. But if this “new media” is really going to be “new,” that relationship aspect must be maintained. That community aspect is what made it what it is/was. It’s what has made this deadpan community what it is. It’s what made “that Dragonpage thing” fun until FPM became the 30-ton gorilla that caused the great breakup.
I’ll be frank. I want to be a writer, and I want to get paid for it. I see podcasting as a vehicle for expression, as the radio show I always wanted when I was a kid. Do I think I’ll make money in podcasting? No, and I’m cool with that. Do I think it is a tool for promotion of a book? Yeah, I guess, not because it’s inherently effective, but because it’s fun! I enjoy getting other like-minded people together to supply voices and make something together. For me it’s all about mutual promotion. We all play promos from each other’s shows because we want to support each other and promote this medium.
But we are supposed to be the generation, the social segment, that rebels against those in authority, and yet some of us allow someone else to have a sort of authority over us in this medium. I am merely myself. I am Indiana Jim, take me or leave me, but don’t make me your leader, and don’t try to be mine. Either way, it’s about community and mutual support. We don’t need more network gatekeepers. Those are the people to whom we mail jars of peanuts.
Dubshack, you’ll always have a friend here, dude. I love the stuff you post, and I am right there with you in the episodes of shame and self-loathing. I do far too much of that, perhaps. Keep getting better.
Would you tell me if I betrayed you, Jack? I might not have, but tell me if I’m in the Taint, would ya?
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