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Re: which Jack.
Hmmmm, I could be a trade of all Jacks!
Sort of a like Clint Eastwood in “High Plains Drifter” … only without the poncho … or horse … and not as much killing, unless I could find a way to make it funny.
“High Pod Drifter”
Ah, so, Ditto will blend. That’s so…..er, interesting….
The 1st gen iPhone didn’t impress me. Looks like they may have gotten if figured out this second time around. I may be trading from the Verizon evil empire to the AT&T evil empire next year when my contract is up.
I’d like a venti caramel ditto frappaccino with soy double whip justa j0e and cinnamon and a biscotti, please.
Rhettro blend! One of the many new gourmet flavors coming to your local McDonalds. *Whrrrrrrrrrl Crunch!*
http://tinyurl.com/4lxw6l
Wow! Work has been almost as much fun as slamming my hand in a car door! Repeatedly!!! I just can’t get enough!
*Whrrrrrrrrrl Crunch! Grind!*
Cool Whip!
So does the coffee twirl clockwise or anticlockwise in northern hemisphere?
The things I forget, that one is a myth.
Hello Myth! Ith thith theat taken?
“No, go ahead and sit by Adam & Jaimey.”
Lonely
What is, “Iiiiiiii’m so sad and. . . ?”, Alex.
BOOZE!
Yes, please!
Cool Whip
Booze!
Cool Whip
Booze!
Picked up my copy of 4th ed D&D Players Manual. Looks pretty interesting. I might have to give it a whirl.
Is there some way we can get up a game of D&D here in the Deadpan?
… just not tonight.
Good Night, You Princes Of Inane — You Kings Of New Deadpan
We need a good name for a sequal to the work day sucking as bad as Lake Placid II.
Quack, quack, waddle, waddle, Pan!
Duck Season!
I was just thinking my day yesterday was a lot like Lifeforce, except without all the nudity.
Today promises to be more interesting. Me and the new Survey Department heads get to look at why one of the teams did a beautiful job on a project for two days, an not only surveyed a whole 100 acre stretch of road twice on a third or some day in between, but somehow managed to miss their benchmark by about six and a half feet.
And one of these survey managers, he has that look you know. That look like all he has to do is stare at you long enough before you burst into flames. And I don’t mean little homosexuals either, I’m talkin’ all out fire here.
Damn paperboy threw my paper on the step – in the pouring rain! I’m not sure how much I can salvage.
Ditto, we picked up the 4th edition set (players handbook, dungeonmaster guide and monster manual. We started playing the introductory adventure on Saturday. I like the colour coding of the spells etc. It’s much easier to figure out what you can do, when.
My husband has completely read through the player’s handbook, and he seemed happy with some of the changes.
Morning WNDR, Dub :)
now it’s time for breakkie and to see how much reading I can get from my wet paper.
Morning, Pan.
TEB, our paper delivery person loves to throw ours under the car. It’s like a game. Do you ever think of canceling service?
Morning EssBee. We used to get two papers. One daily and then the Globe and Mail on Saturdays (my husband liked to read the chess column). I cancelled the weekend paper because finding our paper was always an adventure and I felt I shouldn’t have to put on shoes and a jacket to look for my paper.
Our daily paper delivery person used to be pretty good. The paper was always in the mailbox. I’m assuming he (or she) is on holidays this week as delivery yesterday and today has not been so hot. However, I’m also the type to call in and complain if I find the paper unreadable. I figure I pay for it, I should be able to read it.
I totally agree, TEB. As a matter of fact, I think I’ll call them now!
Our local paper is pretty silly, as it turns out, but I still like to know what’s happening in town.
Well, the newspaper people phoned me back and apologized profusely. They’re sending me a new paper for today.
TEB – You will be recieiving today’s newspaper tomorrow.
Oooooo…the old Incredible Hulk show is on SciFi…I can’t believe how cheesy it is. Of course, it was never cheesy when I used to watch it way back when.
Hehehehehehehehehehee…
The only thing I can remember about the old Hulk tv series was the sad piano music at the end. Did they ever play that at the end of a Family Guy episode? Khewl hWhip.
Yah, that’s the cool part, the theme song. Looks like an Incredible Hulk marathon.
Definately a lot less “Hulk Smash!” in that old 70′s series. Plenty of Hallmark moments though. LOL
TEB: Yeah, I’ll have to pick up the other manuals to relearn how to play. It’s been a long time. Now I just have to get a group together.
Ditto, while it’s usually just my husband and I playing, we use Screen Monkey (http://tinyurl.com/29jsuf) when we play. It’s easier than constantly setting up and changing maps. Also we can see each other’s rolls and message each other snarky comments. Which is fun to do, even though we are in the same room :)
Screen Monkey is also good if you’re playing a group “long distance”
I think if you combine Screen Monkey with something like Skype, you could, potentially have players across the globe.
Hey Gil! Screen Monkey!!!
Sounds cool, TEB. I wasn’t sure if just my wife and I could play on our own. Sounds like it. Thanks!
Currently playing: Gift Shop — Tragically Hip
“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 thing is that role playing takes a heap of time. When Teresa and I used to go to Big D’s (Derek not Diablo) house to game we had a blast. But ultimately the time commitment was to large. However, I think we could be persuaded to play a two hour scenario online. Hmmm… Okay work beckons.
The only thing with playing just two people, Ditto is you either have to adjust the characters’ levels so only one or two can do the job, or the player has to multi-play several characters. (there have been times when I’ve handled up to 5 characters)
RANDOM:
I am really enjoying the new Call of Duty 4 maps….especially since us PC users didn’t have to pay extra for them. Definitely add a lot more of a 3D element to the game.
I would love to play! I have been looking for a group around here that would be patient with a beginner. One of these days . . .
Well, I’m off into the wet.
Later
There is nothing sadder than playing the first Computer Battleship by MB solo.
Although often as dumb as dishwater, AI opponents in the 80′s computer games were great for solo play.
You sank my PT Boat.
I had the original Battleship boardgame from the 50s or 60s. The cover art was of the Dad and son playing at the table, with a clear view of the mom and daughter doing dishes at the kitchen sink.
And w00t to Matthew Wayne Selznick for the boingboing mention:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/10/brave-men-run-matthe.html
http://www.freeonlinebattleship.com/
Go on, you know it makes sense.
Van, I just got destroyed by the game.
Jack, we had that game at home too. It always pissed me off.
I just caught up on Freak Angels over lunch. Wow, that is awesome.
I need to get caught up on that too.
Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some who say I’ve lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find
You were always so far away
I know that pain so don’t you run away
Like you used to do
Roses in a vase of white
Bloodied by the thorns beside the leaves
That fall because my hand is
Pulling them hard as I can
You were always so far away
I know that pain and I won’t run away
Like I used to do
Pictures in a box at home
Yellowing and green with mold
So I can barely see your face
Wonder how that color taste
You were always so far away
I know the way so don’t you run away
Like you used to do
Like you used to do
-cool semi-obscure Alice in Chains lyrics.
Well, I heard the crowd singin’ out of tune
As they sat and sang Auld Lang Syne
By the light of the moon
I heard the preachers bangin’ on the drums
And I heard the police playin’ with their guns
But I never heard nothin’ like you
RE: Work
*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk* *splurt*
I know, Rhettro!
Rhettro: I always knew you were a headbanger. ;)
*boobkeyboard*
Okay, EssBee got my attention. :)
Today’s been the bad kind of headbanging. I’ve got a deadline on Friday I can totally meet, but tomorrow I have a series of meetings to attend about getting the deadline done, that may make me miss the deadline. =P
EssBee as hot as that is. I’d never know how to respond to a joke once a woman throws their breasts into it. Case in point I was making a joke about being able a see boobs any time I want by like taking my shirt off. To which tall grrl in the same chat room said she could do the same. At which point there was nowhere else for me to take the comedy. It seems that breasts bring the conversation to a halt. Even just in chat.
For example I was talking to Nathan Lowell. In the middle the conversation he looked at me funny and then stopped talking altogether. Apparently in a room of the third-floor a couple were changing the costumes at Balticon. Where Nathan was he had a perfect view.
I guess my question is where’d you take a conversation after breasts have been involved? That is if you want to continue the conversation?
I wonder what EssBee typed with the *boobkeyboard*
Tweet: Said “boob” in front of a bunch of boys.
TO: It depends on whose boobs we’re talking about!
Now how am I supposed to top boobs?
Ed, *you* can’t top boobs. ;)
Ed and ditto: Define “top.”
Rhettro: I am having the exact same week. Why do these dickheads think that meetings help?
I was sure someone would come up with honey or even kewl hwip.
That movie just sounds awful. I’m actually pretty happy that I haven’t seen it.
There’s always chocolate :)
Wow, looks like I wasn’t kept abreast of a few things.
There is an old graffiti line:
Any woman who thinks the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach is aiming too high.
That’s not literally of course (in case you remember the adverts for the first Half Life game).
“Variable Speed Reversible Hammer Drill”
Does anyone else think there are just TOO many descriptors in that name?
Should we add a few of our own?
Oh … and a “good morning” to you all.
Ok… Perhaps this morning was a bad choice for releasing a voicemail show on Podango…
Morning, Deadpan.
My favorite part, JOe, is “Variable Speed”
*headlaptop*
http://tiny.cc/7ETyw
No, JOe, I think that’s a great description!
It’s Hammer time! ;)
*terminatorindustrialpress*
Sorry about the identical work week Essbee. The good news is the week will come to an end. :)
Today is the last Wednesday of the week.
Becoming a bionic woman one operation at a time:
http://tinyurl.com/4luq3w
Currently playing: Fully Alive — Flyleaf
No new ZP this week, the slacker is off to an award show.
cough
You should send him that as an email. I’m sure he’d get a kick out of it. ;)
Shuffling:
I Just Don’t Know – MC5
Waiting Around To Die – The Be Good Tanyas
Temporary Remedy – Ben Harper
An iPod shouldn’t make a ticking noise.
click
click
bang!
Is that Russian iPod Shuffle?
Mine ticks when my shuffle mixes an Ani DiFranco with a, say, Harry Connick Jr. Or is that my brain?
That’s cuz you can’t mix Buffalo with New Orleans. ;)
I’ve seen the Be Good Tanyas in concert. The last time they all looked liked they were stoned.
Off to see Mongol at the flicks, about the early life of Gengis Khan:
http://tinyurl.com/3qcg5m
I would argue from experience that anything goes with New Orleans — or is that *in* New Orleans. Darn memory!
lol
Currently playing: Summon The Worms — Brian Tyler (Children of Dune Soundtrack)
So … (dot dot dot)
I spend a fair amount of time poking at the stock market with a sharp stick in a futile attempt to annoy it.
I know that most people don’t want to know about such things but I was just sent an e-mail that so nicely summarized one of the current financial scenarios, I just had to share.
(You may want to clear a crash landing area on your for your head BEFORE reading)
++++++++++++++
1.Government announces the issuance of stimulus checks.
2.Fed opens the discount window to Wall Street investment
bankers, giving them CASH in exchange for the illiquid, dead money, subprime mortgages they wrote.
3. Wall Street Investment banks put the fresh cash to good use,
buying $100+ futures contracts for oil and issuing $200 price targets for oil.
4. America receives stimulus checks via the mailbox.
5. America deposits stimulus checks via the gas pump.
6. Wall Street receives stimulus checks via the “oil futures” contracts.
Pretty neat trick huh.
A transfer of wealth by any other name…
is still a transfer of wealth.
Alan Greenspan said it best, way back in 1966:
“In the absence of a gold standard, there is no way
to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.”
– Alan Greenspan 1966
OK
Back to our regularly scheduled Deadpan.
JOe, now I’m pissed off.
Consume more.
Consume more, now.
double plus consume
EssBee – if it makes you feel any better, there is a good chance that “Washington” doesn’t realize their part in this ongoing financial fiasco.
All of the “financial legislation” and “financial packages” that are voted on and approved in Washington are actually written by “advisors” from the financial industry. These things are written to be far to convoluted and obtuse for the politicians to understand.
So it’s probably not “conspiracy”, just ineptitude and a willingness to hand the keys of the Hen House over to the smiling fox who is holding a bag of cash and saying “trust me”.
I don’t know how that would make one feel better but maybe it’s something.
JOe – I think it actually is a conspiracy. Those bastards!
EssBee – I was just contacted by Homeland Security® and the “Highly recommended” that I have you look at this video of dancing kittens to make you forget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0MSuyaKMk
I would like to just take this moment to thank George W. Bush for the stimulus check that I’m sure I’ll get eventually.
Is it ironic that your thanks are 404? ;)
*decompress* Well the cheese grater to head pressure has eased a bit. Meeting with developer and owner went good. Still hella busy, but that was a huge burden lifted from my shoulders. Okay back to work. LOL
huge burden lifted from my shoulders
huge bourbon lifted to lips
*wakes from dream*
Huh … wha … Oh. Reality.
*nippledesk*
*nippledesk* is WAY worse than *boobkeyboard*!
Well Mongol had very pretty landscapes, heck even the spurts of blood were artistic.
Gawd I felt tired tonight, even holding a magazine I was reading was an effort. Early weeks are killing me.
It’s all gone rather quiet in deadpanland.
The tumbleweeds are back, rolling, rolling, rolling……….
Mongol looks intriguing. I’ll probably have to wait for Netflix.
Yes, we’re in a bit of a lull this week.
Apparently my nipples on the desk didn’t attract as much attention as I’d hoped.
Hello, Deadpan! I just posted a new blog post about writing to my WordPress blog, to which my name is now a link. (Which, of course, means that this comment will get stuck in murgatory.)
Huh. No murgatory. Cool.
On shuffle:
Come On — Headstones
Ocean Blues (Emotion Blue) — Tom Cochrane
Dream Away — The Northern Pikes
Anarchist reactionary running dog revisionist
Hindu muslim catholic creation / evolutionist
Rational romantic mystic cynical idealist
Minimal expressionist post-modern neo-symbolist
Arm chair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist
Deconstruction primitive performance photo realist
Be-bop or a one drop or a hip hop lite pop metallist
Gold adult contemporary urban country capitalist
I’m in a groove now
Or is it a rut?
I need some feedback
But all the lines are cut
I get so angry, but I
keep my mouth shut
And turn it up
we’ve got mars on the horizon
says the national midnight star (it’s true)
what you believe is what you are
I dunno about everyone else, but there’s just something very alarming about the surprisingly sudden insertion of something into your anus.
Colonoscopies are never fun.
Morning Pan, another day, another bowl of serial.
Err that was meant to be cereal.
Munching on a bowl of flash gordons is never a good idea.
Bits of Ming get stuck in yout teeth.
Your rather than yout, darn virtual keyboard.
The dangers of camera phones:
http://tinyurl.com/5lgxbv
Well the users of camera phones.
425 – thus I declareth the Greasy Jelly Beaneth Official Tally. Eth.
That phone link is pretty damn funny, Vanamonde.
The person behind a popular youtube video:
http://tinyurl.com/6h9o3p
Shes pissed at her boyfriend for showing the world her cavorting in front of a Wii.