Comments on: Jack Mangan’s Deadpan 94: Ctrl-F4

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:24:53 +0000

Firsties

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:26:50 +0000

Insert witty comment here —->

By: JohnBoze

JohnBoze — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:06:22 +0000

Wow, checked my iTunes first thing and no Deadpan, but I find this page and check iTunes again and it is dl’ing…

By: JohnBoze

JohnBoze — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:09:47 +0000

I’ll wait to hear about episode title before trying to work it out…

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:32:30 +0000

Oooh, a fifth of Deadpan comments.

And, my Ipod is ready to carry my out my Deadpan needs through the morning commute.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:35:08 +0000

… and again I am to sixy for this post.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:58:54 +0000

I’m out magazine hunting (they can be really sneaky). Won’t be able to listen to the latest DP till I get home.

By: psionandy

psionandy — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:30:10 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever been this high in the list of comment before,,

Magazine? is that like one of those blog site things that come in pre-printed format?

By: EssBee

EssBee — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Perfect 10, yo!

Morning, Pan.

By: EssBee

EssBee — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:42:32 +0000

Or, maybe I can’t count . . .

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:04:32 +0000

Alas no magazines, I really should purchase the ebook versions but I like having the physical version too much.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:03 +0000

andy - the list can do that to you.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:34 +0000

meh - podthroat

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:06:35 +0000

I didn’t get up early enough to download the Pan for my commute. I’ll try to stealthily secure a copy on my work comp.

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:14:09 +0000

Anyone catch that piece of crap “Children of the Grave” last night? It was like Ghost Hunters, but really lame. With tons of visual effects and stuff. Not good for a “documentary” on ghost hunting.

Uhg.

I’ma gonna listen to Deadpan at werk too.

By: EssBee

EssBee — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:04:16 +0000

Jeremy - I watched 2 minutes of “Children of the Grave” and couldn’t stand it! Did you really watch the whole thing? My girl is a big “Most Haunted” fan, and I don’t really even care for that, so it was a bad bet for me from the get-go.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:15:27 +0000

k, Deadpan downloaded and digested, no pepto needed. Cheers to disgruntled scientist, Amy and Jack Jaffe for their contributions. Oh and Jack was funny too.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:18:31 +0000

Ouch!

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:18:33 +0000

I do enjoy “Ghost Hunters” but all the others I could do without. I did like the GH spoof on Supernatural. “Ghost Facers!” LOL

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:20:09 +0000

Damn! And Vanamonde! Crap, the A.D.D. must be kicking in pretty bad this mornng.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:20:51 +0000

lol

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:22:21 +0000

Actually I have a good recent Dumb Ass Memory about having a friend purchase concert tickets and my A.D.D.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:22:47 +0000

I prefer my ghosts to be fictional.

I’ve never seen a ghost.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:28:45 +0000

So my horoscope for the day starts off:

“The nutty behavior that’s been happening in your social circle might be driving you nuts, but it doesn’t directly involve you — so don’t insert yourself into the drama today.”

Well that’s a relief. LOL

I also think “insert yourself into the drama” could be a new euphemism for something.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:30:02 +0000

It’s times like this that I’m glad I don’t watch much television.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:31:40 +0000

Yeah, me neither or heard one even. I have had some things happen that would fit into what I would call the paranormal though.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:39:20 +0000

I’ve had dreams that have come true, but the events were so trivial (plots in TV shows for goodness sake) that I suspect it says more about rehashing of plots than anything paranormal.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:41:35 +0000

My paranormal stuff is tame though, but the stories from my mother’s side of the family is straight out of the X-Files. The people telling the stories are all sincere, but not having first hand experience I can’t say what they thought happened actually happened. Strange tales to be sure though.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:45:52 +0000

I am currently proving that I cannot listen to the Deadpan AND edit audio at the same time.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:48:44 +0000

Everyone is familiar with the “stream of concious.” That is to say you have thoughts through out the day that lead you to different thoughts, but they are all connected. Well, when I was a teenager, I use to get these thoughts that were disconnected, like memories of events that hadn’t happened and they would be occompanied with the oddest emotion, like I wasn’t supposed to have them. But they always came true. I don’t know if my subconcious mind was just extra perceptive or what. In any event, I can’t explain it.

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:03:06 +0000

I did not watch the whole thing. I couldn’t. The guys were such tools too. Ech.

Speaking of Ech…WTF is up with Amy Winhouse??

*anti-swoon*

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_02/winehouseWENN_468×351.jpg

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:04:36 +0000

huh, weird…try this page:

http://www.twelvestone.com/forum_thread/view/37115?offset=1000

5 posts down.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:10:43 +0000

“We’re all stars now, in the Dope Show.”

By: Jack Mangan

Jack Mangan — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:18 +0000

Interesting that we have Children of the Grave and Iron Man movies right now. Is War Pigs next?

I saw that CotG was on, but watched a bit of the David Gilmour concert before I did the Pan. His new stuff sounds more like Pink Floyd than the last few Pink Floyd albums.

Morning mehsh.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:27:37 +0000

For whatever reason when I hear the name David Gilmour, I think of Paul Gilbert. Paul Gilbert had a concert on TV?!!! LOL

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:44:27 +0000

Gilbert and Sullivan

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:09:53 +0000

Ed Sullivan

By: EssBee

EssBee — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:14:07 +0000

Ed from Texas

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:30:48 +0000

Debbie does Dallas.

or er

Texas Longhorns

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:35:52 +0000

Longhorn Steakhouse

By: disgruntled scientist

disgruntled scientist — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:45:53 +0000

Foghorn Leghorn

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:59:13 +0000

Shoehorned Continuation:

Colonel Sanders.

By: EssBee

EssBee — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:10:14 +0000

Colonel Tigh

By: Jack Mangan

Jack Mangan — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:14:43 +0000

Ty Cobb

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:16:50 +0000

I don’t think I understand the rules.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:23:13 +0000

Talking of Tetris, if you computer or phone can handle mid files, download some Gameboy tunes from:

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gameboy/index-sz.html

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:26:21 +0000

That Music A is catchy.

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:58:10 +0000

I don’t know how I feel about this:

http://manbabies.com/

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:58:23 +0000

Cobb salad

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:01:16 +0000

Okay, in another shameless attempt to boost nipples, computers I have owned, in chronological order:

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Bought it in 1983 with a student grant. Was an issue 2 model that was prone to overheating. Finally failed and WH Smiths (who sold computers in those days) replaced it with a brand new issue 3 model.

Still have that one in it’s original box.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:03:10 +0000

Okay, in another shameless attempt to boost nipples, computers I have owned, in chronological order:

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Bought it in 1983 with a student grant. Was an issue 2 model that was prone to overheating. Finally failed and WH Smiths (who sold computers in those days) replaced it with a brand new issue 3 model.

Although I bought a lot of games I only added one bit of hardware. A box that provided a joystick port and the ability to hit a button and save memory contents to tape.

Still have that one in it’s original box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:03:46 +0000

Okay, in another shameless attempt to boost nipples, computers I have owned, in chronological order:

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Bought it in 1983 with a student grant. Was an issue 2 model that was prone to overheating. Finally failed and WH Smiths (who sold computers in those days) replaced it with a brand new issue 3 model.

Although I bought a lot of games I only added one bit of hardware. A box that provided a joystick port and the ability to hit a button and save memory contents to tape.

Still have that one in it’s original box.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:04:11 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:05:19 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/3pcbwl

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:12:50 +0000

Next one was an Atari ST, the STFM model with a single side 3.5 inch floppy. Later upgrade the ram to one meg and the internal floppy to dual sided. Also added an external floppy drive. Bought it in 1987, first computer I bought with my second job.

Sold it to so I could afford to buy a Supra modem, imported from the USA (v32bis…oooh the speed).

http://tinyurl.com/qquwx

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:22:46 +0000

Next one was a PC, a IBM compatible with a 386DX (33Mhz) processor from a now defunct company called Micorsurgeons. No sound card, 2 megs of ram and a 20mb hard drive. Later added a soundcard.

Had an intermittent fault which would make it reset for no apparent reason. Eventually give it away to my brother-in-law.

http://tinyurl.com/yu9r8j

By: Jack Mangan

Jack Mangan — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:23:25 +0000

I had an Atari ST emulator on my last PC. Some great games on that machine.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:32:09 +0000

Next one was another IBM compatible, a 486DX (33Mhz). Improved the playing of Doom no end. Later stuck a DX2 upgrade chip in.

http://tinyurl.com/h3fog

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:34:03 +0000

Here is a list of all the computers I’ve owned.

1985 Atari 800XL
1987 Atari 130XE
1989 Amiga 500
1991 IBM 486-33
1994 IBM 486-100
1996 P1-200MMX
1998 Celeron 333
2000 P3 750
2003 P4 2.8Ghz
2008 AMD X2 4000

Starting with the 486-100 forward were computers I assembled myself.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:37:59 +0000

Next one was a Pentium 133Mhz IBM compatible. I added a voodoo 1 card to that which had a pass through cable for the old videocard as it didn’t support 2D graphic operations.

GL Quake looked sweet.

http://tinyurl.com/f87vp

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:40:29 +0000

The next one was a 450Mhz Pentium 2, top of the range for 2 months, then Intel released the Pentium 3.

First PC for me with an Nvidia card (a TNT).

http://tinyurl.com/365sz6

Give both Pentium machines to a friend as I upgraded.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:48:08 +0000

The next machine was my first to use and AMD CPU, 2700XP. Came with an ATI card with the 9700 chipset.

Broke down last year and I had to get a new PSU. Still got the computer, but use it rarely now.

http://tinyurl.com/2k6xrh

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:51:14 +0000

Latest one is a dual core PC from Dell….zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

http://tinyurl.com/yumd5u

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:54:34 +0000

The zzzzzzzzzzz was for Vista.

I’m now officially over getting high spec PCs, been using the Eee PC for a few months now, very low spec, but does almost everything I need a computer for now these days.

New games I leave to consoles, although the PC is still great for playing old games via emulation.

http://tinyurl.com/ypry8s

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:57:35 +0000

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png

WIN!

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:57:54 +0000

Oh and great games for the Atari ST (in my view):

Dungeon Master
Oids
Carrier Command
Damocles
International Karate +
Nebulus
Rainbow Islands
Xenon

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:01:20 +0000

I’ve never used an abacus…the shame.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:03:12 +0000

Although there is an emulator:

http://jpswycaffer.com/downloads.html

Just a pity the games are crap…

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:05:46 +0000

poDANGo is being a bitch at the moment.

By: Jack Jaffee

Jack Jaffee — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:31:51 +0000

any news on Dub? I wanted to know how his Sister was?

By: Jack Jaffee

Jack Jaffee — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:32:52 +0000

That was funny but boy I sound crazy…

By: jackmangan

jackmangan — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:35:44 +0000

Oh crap - OK, time’s up - NHL Conference Finals predicitons:

Flyers over Penguins in 7. (But go Penguins)
Red Wings over Stars in 6. (But go Stars)

No idea - these are 2 tough series.

OK, mullet wig off. Back to other Deadpan topics

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:39:53 +0000

Well if the Red Wings get beat, I guess it would be okay if it was by the Stars. I lived in Dallas for almost a year once.

By: jackmangan

jackmangan — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:54:19 +0000

I dunno…… the Penguins are so damn good, I probably should pick them. I just think that they’re young enough to get flustered and frustrated by Biron.

OK, switching my pick. Pens in 7.

Oops - sorry, putting the mullet away.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:45:14 +0000

Alright guys (and gals) fess up!
What are you doing for mother’s day?

By: Dubshack

Dubshack — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:55:12 +0000

having an affair

By: EssBee

EssBee — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:27:06 +0000

Going to see my mom and sanding/painting her patio chairs. JOe?

By: Amy Bowen

Amy Bowen — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:42:06 +0000

Sending an e-card from Neopets, probably. And making a good, long phone call, because typing the e-card idea made me realize just how lame it sounds.

By: Dubshack

Dubshack — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:42:42 +0000

Oh, hi Jack. I should email you. Are you on the road?

Sister is doing ok I guess. They took the catheter out so she’s peeing on her own. They never did tape her ribs, or do surgery on the lacerations. Never got a definite diagnosis on the shoulder, she still can’t feel her arm. But she pretty much still looks like a smurf, and I guess it might be a month or more before they release her from the hospital.

By: Dubshack

Dubshack — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02:56 +0000

Just finished recording raw audio on FPR 9. Man if I had any less energy it would be a huge Steven Wright joke.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:33:26 +0000

Alright, did anyone else read that Van had the STFM model of an Atari ST and try to figure out what the M stood for after “Shut The Fuck….”

Or am I just weird?

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:35:32 +0000

As for Mother’s Day, my parents are coming in to visit and my mom gets to see her grand daughter’s karate tournament.

Still my favorite picture of all time:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultimate_ed/1812508388/

By: The Smarty Hotties®

The Smarty Hotties® — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:09:39 +0000

sports- meh! Between hockey and basketball I tell you… Although I was watching LeBron today *swoooooon* he is purtey.. he strong like bull.. even though he was playing sub par. Hugh isn’t here to make any predictions. I will leave that to him

Mothers Day- Saturday we are taking my mom to dinner then over to my brothers house to be with her grandson, Sunday we are driving his mom out to the burbs and meeting up with the other siblings and her grandkids.

anyhoo. I didn’t come here to talk sports or mothers day…

By: The Smarty Hotties®

The Smarty Hotties® — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:14:39 +0000

I am giving you a ear bud via comments.. yeah yeah I know I should call it in.. Jack read this for me if you want

Our current music obsessions

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts and The Slip
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Estelle- shine
Portishead- Third
Madonna - Hard Candy
The Presets - Apocalypso
Ladytron - Velocifero

goodnight pan

By: The Smarty Hotties®

The Smarty Hotties® — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:15:15 +0000

oh wait, a final thought…

By: The Smarty Hotties®

The Smarty Hotties® — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:15:36 +0000

My sugar is raw, sticky and sweet.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:31 +0000

Think I will need a cold shower after that comment.

As for Mother’s day, it’s been and gone in the UK.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:27:51 +0000

Best wishes for your sister Dub.

RE - Mothersday. I get a little more time. Mom is going with Dad to see his mother for mothersday. Sometime next week I’ll probably take her to lunch and then help my sisters plant some flowers or something at her house.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:28:37 +0000

oh … and a “meh” for today and the rageing sinus infection I have seemed to have woken up with.

By: EssBee

EssBee — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:47:14 +0000

Oh no, JOe! Take care of that.

Happy Friday, Pan. I don’t know about y’all, but I sure as shit am happy I don’t have to come to work tomorrow.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:08:00 +0000

I wish you sister a speedy recovery, Dub.

Ed, that’s awesome your daughter is doing well in karate.

I sure don’t want to come to work tomorrow, but I don’t think there is anyway to avoid it. Too many things stacked up around me. =P June should shape up to be a lot less taxing on me.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:10:36 +0000

Seems as though I bruised my left index finger. I think that’s God’s way of punishing me for practicing black metal. LOL

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:27:27 +0000

okay … I went back to bed after that last post and now I feel much better. Good enough to at least make some coffee.
Now, to deal with the fact that I am hours behind for the day.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:37:34 +0000

I need a shower and a shave but I don’t really have time.

I’m either going to have to get a waterproof lap top or an assistant.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:47:15 +0000

http://www.electricmotorsport.com/store/ems_electric_motorcycle_gpr-s.php

An interesting commute option for those of us in warmer climates.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:00 +0000

The red version looks cool.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:02:32 +0000

But the price is a bit step.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:03:33 +0000

Steep even.

To many drivers who don’t look for motorcyles on the roads these days.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:16:58 +0000

That’s a sweet looking bike.
A quick glance at the site didn’t reveal a 0-60mph time. I wonder about that and how far it can go on a charge.

Say, maybe one of you bored, World Wide Internet surfers can find some plans for turning my Honda CB200 into an electric vehicle.

Back to work for me.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:33:25 +0000

It says 35/60 miles range for power/economy settings on the website.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:39:52 +0000

It’d be better if it had twice the range and half the cost. I’m hoping future releases will provide that, but who knows?

By: Jack Mangan

Jack Mangan — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:48:04 +0000

Here’s what you’re looking for, Rhett:

http://www.gsmotorworks.com/

I think it even comes standard with a Devo hat.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:51:45 +0000

Not so cool, unless you have mod tendencies.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:03:33 +0000

“Whip it good!”

Back in the late 80’s I bought a 50cc Honda scooter, because all the cars in the same price range had reliability issues. LOL It’s tank held less than a gallon of gas and I would fill it up for 50 cents every 9 days or so. The gas station attendant used to joke with me about why I even bothered coming in to pay. But it got me thinking if gas prices really do go up to $15 a gallon, what recourse does the average American have to save money on his/her commute. Right now, I don’t think the economy of scale would save you money with the electric motorcycle, but an 80cc scooter could pay for itself in two years at current gas prices. Just doing a bit of brain storming.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:07:13 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia

Scooters and more scooters..

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:08:26 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia

Scooters, scooters everywhere.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:10:15 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/h5t2t

Scooters, scooters, everywhere.

By: Jack Mangan

Jack Mangan — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:18:37 +0000

Dammit Van, you killed the page with Quadrophenia!

(kidding, of course)

Here’s Jaromir Jagr in drag:

http://japersrink.blogspot.com/2008/02/its-funny-because-its-true.html

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:19:32 +0000

I have “mod” tendencies.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:22:05 +0000

I think I have just about hit nirvana. A few months ago I purchases a book as audio CD’s with the plan to import then and listen to them via my Ipod. I started off with the dumbass approach and just imported each CD as a set of tracks, which proved annoying.

I later learned about joining all the tracks on a CD into one file for importing. Definitely a big step up.

Today, I’ve learned that, with a bit of file manipulation, I can actually get my Auidobook CDs to show up in the audiobook section of Itunes/Ipod instead of mixed in with all my music. This is a pretty good link (though, I skipped a bunch of the steps as I thought they were overkill) to get you through it.

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunsabk.htm

I’m definitely going to have to see what my library has now for audiobook CD’s available.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:23:12 +0000

Today’s mildly related, NASCAR trivia bit.

The amount of fuel the NASCAR Cup series uses in a year at races and test sessions.
175,000 gallons.

for perspective … that is about how much fuel the rest of America uses … every 4 hours.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:25:06 +0000

And now, to make your brain hurt:

http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/8787/colortest.swf

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:36:05 +0000

I don’t get a consistent score..lol

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:37:09 +0000

Went through a number of time till I got it 100%.

There is a similar test in Brain Games on the NDS.

By: Dickey

Dickey — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:39:07 +0000

Never commented on this cast before. I like this cast. A whole helluva lot.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:42:56 +0000

I have too much time on my hands. Putting SP3 into google, brings up the following map reference:

http://tinyurl.com/6o79h9

Coooeeeeeeeeee!

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:12:18 +0000

Breaking scary news:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFlSjtUIBDMVj9iFqsaSYEypMdpAD90I9BJO0

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:13:55 +0000

got 75% first time…lets take it again!

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:14:50 +0000

I am the MASTER!!

By: EssBee

EssBee — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:21:30 +0000

Ed! This is a virtual KISS for you. I am so happy to have that link re: audiobooks.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:30:44 +0000

*justaJ0e dashes into the bar and steps between EssBee and Ed *

WOOHOOOO!!!!

*then he dashes off down the hall of doors*

By: Jeremy from Seattle

Jeremy from Seattle — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:34:15 +0000

In what way is an “Audiobook” file different from a reg. file. That seems like a whole lotta trouble to make a sound file.

By: jackmangan

jackmangan — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:12:46 +0000

Thanks, Dickey! Welcome to Deadpanland.

Did I just see Justa J0e run through here?

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:07:41 +0000

*jaj emerges from the trap door behind the bar.*

Hi Dickey!
Welcome to the party.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:26:21 +0000

Hi Dickey, welcome to the insanity. Uh-oh, my masters are looking my way. Got to put the chains back on. *whip crack*

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:30:45 +0000

So the Avengers is playing on the TV and Emma Peel is looking as delightful as ever.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:31:52 +0000

It was a real downer that day I found out most of her fight scenes were done by a man in a wig.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:37:41 +0000

Oh and a young John Wood (Falken from War Games) is playing an obsessive keeper of birds.

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:39:14 +0000

I find Emma very aPeeling.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:48:48 +0000

Ah Emma is wearing her jumpsuit, a fight scene will be happening soon.

By: JohnBoze

JohnBoze — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:55:48 +0000

Mmmmm, jumpsuit…

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:57:29 +0000

You see some famous actors in the Avengers, Ron Moody (Fagan in the Oliver musical) is on screen now playing an eccentric prof.

By: JohnBoze

JohnBoze — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:35 +0000

Not sure what I’m gonna do with my night. Fox has a bit of a cold again, so Darcy went to the premiere of her play alone. She’s going out with some friends and staying in Little Canada overnight, so the men run the house tonight.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:01:20 +0000

Ah Emma has just karate kicked one of the bad guys into a pool.

By: Trucker Overdrive

Trucker Overdrive — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:02:56 +0000

that right I am “TO” on this site. not Jack Jaffee.

There can be only one Jack…

Hey Dub… I having Sam do a reading of Bob. I haven’t heard from you so. I did want to hit you up for a reading with you sister in the still bad off. I glad to hear she is slightly better.

Are you happy the the clockwork ornge bit? I don’t think I got the lines just right?

Yes, I am on the road until Balticon… It is a full 4 weeks out. I start to o loopy after two weeks. I start making weird calls to Slice and Winging it… Going to try not doing that this time.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:07:14 +0000

Another short fight sequence and the bad guys are defeated…wahoo!

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:11:01 +0000

Dimmu Borgir is hard on the index finger.

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:48:28 +0000

… and the tongue!

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:45:59 +0000

That last post was meant to be “tongue in cheek”

By: Dubshack

Dubshack — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:31:30 +0000

FPR 9 is now online. Given my new setup I basically decided to wing it. Hence the name of the show…

I dunno what to say about it, you guys are gonna have to tell me. *lol*

By: JohnBoze

JohnBoze — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:44:11 +0000

Tell you what to say about it?

By: JohnBoze

JohnBoze — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:47:23 +0000

There, I have completed my ADFD segment for Rachel Ruzzo, one of my Ten Things I do Without Pay over at my LJ, which is johnboze DOT livejournal DOT com

‘toopid WP LJ hater…

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:31:22 +0000

Not for the faint of heart:

http://gizmodo.com/389198/pleo-gets-thrashed-at-the-hands-of-a-battlebot

By: Rhettro

Rhettro — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:57:25 +0000

Ah, hardscape plans, only 30 more minutes of work then I’m outta here.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:47 +0000

So something weird happened today:

I realised that my right hand has visibly aged more than my left hand.

Bloody UV.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:10:44 +0000

Sigh:

http://tinyurl.com/42v4he

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:27:19 +0000

I missed the oppotunity to link the aged hand to a Sinbad movie and Doctor Who….

By: Kirk Warrington

Kirk Warrington — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:02:37 +0000

Are we going to hit 500 comments on this?

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:13:21 +0000

Well you never know.

It was Tom Baker.

By: Trucker Overdrive

Trucker Overdrive — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:50:27 +0000

It’s Kurt from dark age. I’m really enjoying that podcast. I don’t know what it is. But I’m hooked. I think it’s just the fact that there is utterly no pretension. It’s just a simple, fun popcorn novel. Congrats!

I’m really getting caught up in the characters.

By: Trucker Overdrive

Trucker Overdrive — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:52:21 +0000

Anybody got a link to where I could download Southland tales?

By: Trucker Overdrive

Trucker Overdrive — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:59:37 +0000

After today’s live wingin it taping I needed a place that was free of drama. I need a place for free expression of intelligent ideas came forth an abundance. A place resplendent in diverse thinking. I couldn’t find it so I’m posting on the deadpan.

I like boobs

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:31:53 +0000

Well, one nugget of wisdom that Wingin It (or at least Mennenga) has been right about - everything’s better with boobs.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:34:51 +0000

So, my parents are in town for the weekend, which means free baby sitting for the wife and I. So naturally we went out on a date for Mother’s Day.

After dinner, we decided to check out the new Iron Man. I have essentially zero knowledge of the comics, so came in with only the trailers and various positive recommendations from pod and email land.

The wife and I had a blast with it and we had a crowd that was cheering and laughing out loud through the film - it was quite festive.

And, thank’s to FPR #9, I knew to stay to the end of the credits. Most excellent.

By: Dubshack

Dubshack — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:20:42 +0000

Like Jack says, everything is better with Sam Jackson.

As today’s WI… It appears the situation isn’t good. Supposedly there will be an announcement soon.

All I can say is, thank god for Jack Mangan.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:18:36 +0000

Missed the live feed due to work.

Care to give details about what is wrong?

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:28:43 +0000

If you have a bittorrent client, then you can take your pick at:

http://tinyurl.com/3h2kp5

you can even watch it in German.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:29:26 +0000

Southland Tales that is.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:34:52 +0000

Nice interview with Ted Chiang at Starshipsofa:

http://www.starshipsofa.com/

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:50:04 +0000

An articles by Richard K Morgan about infighting in the scifi genre:

http://www.richardkmorgan.com/article_soundfury.htm

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:50:21 +0000

-s

By: The Smarty Hotties®

The Smarty Hotties® — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:51:21 +0000

Happy Mothers Day to all the Deadpan moms, and all wives/mothers of Deadpanites

and the dads who have to be moms sometimes,

and the people who step in as moms sometimes

and the people who mommy us constantly out of love

Hugh sez: and the wife who knows when I need her to mommy me even when I don’t

and the husband who can defuse the situation and make mothers day with my mom so pleasant

and the mother-in-law who loves me like her own

un beso grande
*mwa*

Feliz día de madre panitos de muerte

By: justa J0e

justa J0e — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:01:37 +0000

Yeh …what she said, I second that!

Especially that last part about “Felix with the mad pants”. I don’t know what it was but it had a nice ring to it.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:41:35 +0000

Google translates TSH’s last line as:

Happy mother’s day of death panitos

Which sounds rather ominous.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:17:10 +0000

Well, Vanamonde, that was definitely an interesting read from Mr. Morgan (who I admit I’ve never heard of). I am thankfully that I’m not plugged in enough to such things to even know that there’s so much bickering among Sci-Fi/Fantasy writers.

I don’t read nearly as much as I used to and it seems most of what I do read these days tends to be continuations of works from authors that I started with years and years ago. I tend to rely on friends who are more plugged in to show me something new. I find, probably as a matter of coincidence as much as anything, that I tend more toward fantasy, though I’ve read plenty of Trek and Star Wars novels as well as “hard”(er) scifi. At the end of the day, it has to come down to the story and the characters, though. If those are missing, then I don’t care if you have “fantasy” FTL drives, or superconducting magnet driven rail guns.

By: Ed from Texas

Ed from Texas — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:17:44 +0000

And, Happy Mother’s Day!

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:49:12 +0000

Morning Deadpan!

The sun is shining brightly.

We’ll be seeing Iron Man later today.

Don’t forget to call your mummies and apologize for being the brats I know we all were when a kid

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:49:31 +0000

Now to catch up on the comments.

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:54:48 +0000

OH, and a big thank you to Jack. (He knows why.) The gesture was appreciated even if it didn’t seem like it at the time.

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:56:04 +0000

Going waaaay back in the comments. My first computer was a Radio Shack Colour Computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Computer

I had a lot of fun with that thing.

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:59:28 +0000

Jack, why for did WP eat my comment on my first computer?

Does it not like what I had?

Here is the wikipedia link (again). But I spaced it out so maybe it will keep it (which means you’ll have to put it into your browser instead of linking )

http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Color_Computer

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:01:13 +0000

Followed by the Tandy 1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000

By: The Energizer Bunny

The Energizer Bunny — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:02:01 +0000

Still eating my comments with links (boooooooo). I think I’ll try it again.

Followed by the Tandy 1000

http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tandy_1000