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oh for an anti acid
Morning Pan, the Sun is shining, and it appears that Dubai is not the place to get frisky in public:
http://tinyurl.com/44luwq
Yikes.
Hey Van, I thought of you when I spotted this link on Rudy Rucker’s site:
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/#Softwaredownloads
I’ll checkout the asteroids clone later Jack…no java on the phone.
Hang on…
FILE > SAVE AS > JackMangan23
I had to go save Jack. He was stuck in an infinite loop on the last comment page.
Good thinking Ed.
I need to check my own code for a “do loop” as I seem to be going nowhere fast.
Oh, and might I add -
Six is natural
Six is fun
Six is best when it’s one on one … plus 4
Morning Deadpan!
I’ve been without internet for several days now, I’m going into withdrawal.
my story: They are doing construction in the lane behind my house. The stupid construction people cut my internet line. Now nobody wants to take responsibility for fixing it. so all I’ve been getting is, “it’ll be fixed tomorrow” for the last few days.
I tried taking my laptop to a friends house and hooking into his wifi, but it turns out, he didn’ set up his connection and didn’t even know you needed a password, let alone what it was (at least it was a secure network :) )
right now, I’m at my downtown office. I’ve overridden the security proticols on the internet so I can get some WF and personal work done, but will have to put them back on and get off the line soon to do real work as, without internet, I’ve been unable to connect to the office and get anything done from home.
It’s quite the sob story.
I’ll just play the violin for you TEB.
If I don’t get it up by lunch time today, I think I’ll hit the mall with my laptop. They’re supposed to have open WiFi
So now I know I know the name of the waitress at the coffee shop I offended saying she didn’t need an iPod. But only cos a pensioner asked her directly and I overheard.
Am I a man or a mouse?
Squeak!
I don’t know Van. Is she cute? I suppose you can use it as an in as getting to know her ;) Maybe you can make up for offending her.
Just got a call from my hubby. It seems the hot water tap in the bathroom doesn’t want to shut off. I guess I’m going to my local Revy from here to get a new set of taps.
oh joy.
My current Gutenberg project, James De Mille – The Dodge Club, is really
fighting me on the html version.
Normally, I wouldn’t bother, but this book has 92 beautiful illustrations that deserve to be preserved, and html is the only way Gutenberg lets you do that.
Yes she is cute TEB, but I’m not. A much more fundemental problem
… LOL
Well Pan. It’s been a slice. I’m not sure when I’ll have internet again, so maybe you’ll hear from me in the near future, and maybe you won’t.
Ta
Quick note:
that doesn’t always matter, Van
TEB – you might check that faucet. Given the construction foul-ups, perhaps that is actually raw Interweb that is pouring out of that pipe!
BTM – any chick that can over-ride security proticols is aces with me! :)
Van – why am I reminded of Sting’s “7 Days”
19thies!
Twenty! Super busy today at work for a change.
Sad to say jj that sting reference passed over my head.
Joe, I’m afraid that one also bounced off my shoulder and kept going. I just can’t quite catch it either.
from “Ten Summoner’s Tales”
“Seven Days” – http://tinyurl.com/4gcrqx
complete with the lyrics
“Ask if I am mouse or man
The mirror squeaked, away I ran ”
good song really. If you like clever lyric and melodic music.
It went over my head as well, but perhaps by viewing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RbOFm8W5Wk
it will become clear.
I swooon for singer/song writers.
If they ever want ME to watch “American Idol” they’ll have to make the contestants perform at least 1 ORIGINAL song.
This is a quote from Sting about “7 Days”
“On ‘Seven Days’, we wanted to do something in 5/4 time with a kind of reggae beat and chords that come out of a Broadway show. It was a hybrid and the fun was in trying to make sense of this three-legged animal with two heads. I’m working with musicians I have to keep challenging and make demands on them by asking them to do things that aren’t natural.”
5/4 time! Take that you damn pop idol wanna be’s.
I recall the lyric, now that you quote it. J0e. But I couldn’t remember the song without Rhett’s link.
Decent album. “Shape of My Heart” just might be the absolute best of Sting’s ouvre.
I think “Sensual World” speaks highly of Kate Bush’s uvula.
So after listening to DP 108, I suspect Essbee is covering up that she really worked for Mossad…
Rhettro – really? Somehow I can’t picture her in a Swedish made car.
Oh I can JOe, I can.
CP: You’re Pitiful — Weird Al
Wow. $69 a barrel oil. Whodathukit?
Deadpan, I bring dire warnings!!
Watch out for Space People!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKGgo5JMRo
Snap to that dude!
He obviously has waaay too much time and his hands … and some talent.
http://tinyurl.com/3nlb4n
Not sure if Rhettro has posted this link before, but if you have the PC version of portal check out:
http://tinyurl.com/4g5yvo
for some nifty extra levels.
That asteroids clone was a bit weird, the rocks running away from the spaceship’s missiles was a bit surreal.
far too much use of bit in that previous post
Well fuck.
“Your music was great, but we’re really cutting costs, so we’re not going to be paying for any more live music at this time.” WTF — I was guaranteed every weekend in October, otherwise, I wouldn’t have promoted it so heavily. Oh well. Apologies if you’d been making plans to go.
I would so be there if I was even within an hours drive!!!!
There is no getting around the dissapointment here. If you want to try and put a shine on it though … maybe you can invite your pals to come and hang with you for the next two Fridays … but instead of meeting at your place you just move it to the pizza place. Visit with your buds, drink a beer and play when you feel like it. What … are they going to fire you?
I’m just saying.
Dissapointing to be sure but you’re Jack Mangon … I know you’ll make the best of it. :)
… wait, am I confused ???
Are you confused? Thanks for the words of encouragement, J0e. There will be other gigs.
Morning Pan, sorry to hear about the gig cancellations Jack, bloody chilly this morning.
Listening to an old Coverville with a cover partly performed by Nina of 99 red balloons fame. She has a voice with the power to move….
Jack, you know if you keep teasing the deadpanites who can’t get to you, we’re all going to rise up and demand a virtual concert. Just sayin’.
Sorry about the gig death. *hug*
I found out last week I missed Trevor Boris. He was twenty minutes away from me, and the tickets were $6. Six bucks!! Megaouchies.
I need more shows for the bed-ridden. Of course, it’d be uber creepy to have a bunch of strangers in my room, watching me ill…
Okay, I need more streaming content.
CP: David Bowie – Seven
CP: David Bowie – Survive
CP: David Bowie – Slow Burn
Jack: Sorry to hear that. That totally bites.
Gutenberg project, James De Mille – The Dodge Club, uploading now. 100 hrs of volunteering well spent? Or horribly wasted? You can decide when it goes live :)
It usually takes a couple of days.
CP: David Bowie – A Better Future
My Grandmother died last night.
She was 95 and has been telling me for at least 2 years now that she was ready to go. Not whining but just very mater of fact. She couldn’t quite get around as well as she used to and really, she thought she had pretty much done all she wanted to do.
I drove to see her this summer (she lived a good 13hrs drive from me) and we had a good visit. She was clear and alert and could still get around under her own power. We went out to lunch and to a park.
The last 5 or so years I had really connected to her. I made a point of calling her regularly and found that I could talk to her about my own father as a youth or even about current events. She had a pretty good sense of humor too and while other folks might “dance around” normally sensitive topics with her, I could joke with her about that stuff and she would just laugh.
Given her age, she had a pretty interesting prospective on life. War, political scandals, natural disasters, pre-occupation with celebrities … she had seen it all at least once (if not twice) before . She also let her age give her permission to say what was on her mind. She didn’t offer her opinion un-solicited but if you ask her she would tell you, direct and to the point.
I’m not sad for her but certainly for my Dad and for myself.
Okay, I didn’t mean to bring the room down with this but I needed to talk with someone about her.
Thanks Deadpan.
Please resume all irregularly unscheduled activities.
Joe…*hug*
When you lose someone who you could reasonably say had a good run, it still sucks. It sucks harder. The longer someone awesome is in our lives, the more it only seems fair that they should be there forever.
The greatest gift we give each other is time.
Joe: sorry to hear that. It sounds like she lead a good life.
CP: Have You Ever — Incubus
Thanks marlodianne.
J0e: *hug* I’m sorry to hear that.
Jack: That’s too bad, too. I agree with you and J0e, though: There will be other gigs.
Condolences on your loss jj.
My condolences too JOe. It’s never a good time when your grandparents pass away. She sounds like a remarkable lady.
Jack, sorry about getting cut on your gigs, but as you say there are other gigs out there. I look forward to you performing at one soon.
I greatly appreciate the kind words from everyone about my gigs. But yeah, that’s trivial, compared to what J0e is feeling.
Sorry for your loss, J0e. There are a lot of positives there about her life, but that still doesn’t lessen the grief and pain. I’m here for you as a sounding board, amigo, as is the Deadpan.
Thanks everyone.
Holy crap, we are quiet lately.
I think I brought the room down.
QUICK! Someone give us a link to some silly kittens!!!!
Morning Pan, todays not so inexplicable event:
three pints of milk put in the fridge door, all in a row, the middle one had a large chunk of ice at the top (enough to push the top off) the other two were still totally liquid.
Off to work, but just for jj:
http://blogs.westword.com/demver/kitten.JPG
Oh silly rather than cute…doh!
Sounds like fridge contents that need to be called in, Van.
Yes, I’m up at 3:46am. Goodnight Goon
Holy cow, I’ve been living in this apartment for over a month and a half, and it hadn’t even occurred to me to call in the contents of my fridge until you mentioned it just now! I’d been so focused on Questors and on real life that I’d totally forgotten about that. I’ll have to record what’s in my fridge soon.
By the way, Eastern time (which I’m on) is 4 hours ahead of Deadpan Time.
Hi Deadpan! Long time, no nipple.
JOe – I’m sorry for your sadness, brother.
Jack – I want to open a bar so you can play in it.
Van – I could obviously tell you about the Mossad, but then I’d have to kill you. I think I’ll keep that one to myself . . .
I’m in and out this morning. I was missing you all and just had to say hi. Life is kicking my ass at the moment, but I think I’m winning.
(cheerleader mode)
Go EssBee Go!
Go EssBee Go!
Go EssBee Go!
Gooooooooo EssBee !!!!
(/cheerleader mode)
btw: haven’t had my coffee yet and so I didn’t feel qualified to make the appropriate, inappropriate comment about “I’m in and out this morning.” …
… so, I will just have to trust each of you to silently make your own comments at home.
If you are feeling starved of conversation:
http://www.elbot.com/
Just ignore the advice about not pressing the red button.
Well I didn’t want to bring up the Hokey Cokey again jj.
JaJ, condolences, buddy.
It’s been the week of chaos around us this week. Darcy’s show went into the first couple days of Tech, so work on finishing that has been rough, especially the day her serger broke down. At least this was a good excuse to buy a $150 used one along with getting the other one fixed (not that we could really afford either, but she gets paid for using them so…)
They bumped our work move from 45-60 days to thiscoming Monday, but then the sales/CS folks never built in a “Moving Day” into the sched, so it has been chaos at work all week. Just have to remind myself that the 42 miles daily reduction on my commute will be oh so nice…
And coming into Friday, Fox and Darcy picked up the latest cold making the rounds too.
Morning Deadpan!
Guess what! I have internet again. Woo Hoo!
Just read the comments. Hugs to Joe and Jack.
I thought this weeks Podcastle story was rather fun:
http://tinyurl.com/5npydz
I am waaaay behind in my podcasts (no internet, unable to download :( )
Well Pan, I’m off to kick some butt. Talk to you later!
Ah the Amazon bunny has left the stage..
Did someone request silly kittens?
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/07/19/funny-pictures-couch-must-die/
I have lolcats and loldogs on my rss feeds. I need them.
They’re as essential to my continuing existence as the Daily Show streaming and Video On Trial on youtube…
*crawls out of the way of lurching tumbleweed*
That’s it. I am not trying any more random podcasts. Why was I so stupid as to try. Grrrrrr….
*whaps another tumbleweed, goes back to scanning*
Yeah – as with any media – random sampling will generally turn up crap.
I hear that Wander Radio is a good one. You can probably get lots of good recommendations from the guys around here, actually.
Just back from seeing this guy:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkBbSnwigY
Hopefully the tumbleweeds will enjoy it…
Warnings are almost as good as recommendations MD, what horrror of podcasting did you discover?
Maybe it was Wander Radio that she is talking about…oh my nerves…
;)
Late greetings all. I’ve been somewhat out of pocket working on something I’ll share tomorrow.
Joe – condolences on your grandmother. Sounds like she was a special one.
Jack – definitely unfortunate about the gig cancellation.
I know almost nothing about what’s been going on in the world since Thursday. Have I missed much?
Most of the world has gone dark.
Europe, Asia, the middle east, Africa.
Reports are sketchy.
Satalite communication went first. Then land lines.
Our government is working on some sort of emergency package that involves giving Haliburton executives our space shuttle fleet and the remaining inventory of Fort Knox.
… they’ve also inexplicably started issuing life jackets.
I’ll type more as it bec
US Life on Mars..Harvey Keitel..WTF!
Today’s moral, watch screeners with caution.
Morning Pan!
plus two right now, making it a beautiful autumn day.
Am being bad. Have decided to ditch a WF meeting today so we can go see Max Paine this afternoon :evil:
My, how things have changed…
“We cannot continue along the same lines because the same problems will trigger the same disasters.”
some people have way too much talent
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/10/exclusive-peek-at-wooden-wall-e-by.html
Have you seen the trailer for the movie Push? It looks a little bit like Heroes
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/push/
Ahh, the Ed Wood of our Time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Tunnel_Rats
Jack, why does WP hate me today?
Twice now, it’s sent stuff to moderation hell.
Well, I’ll show you.
I repeat: The Ed Wood of our time
http://tinyurl.com/3gx7rw
Just in case you need help formulating that master plan:
http://www.darksites.com/evilplan.php
finally, for those into D&D. you just can’t beat FFN
http://tinyurl.com/2l9497
100ties!!
skimming over the comments:
j0e- I am so sorry for your loss
I hope everyone is good.
Bunny is your internet back yet?
Ed- whats this bif project?
Jack- sorry about the cancellations.. Glad I saw this before I asked you how your shows were this weekend :)
jB- hope things get less hectic
as for us.. this is my only stop by and we will continue to be MIA for the next couple weeks.
Going to Houston next week where maybe we will get a chance to hang with Ed *swooooooon* :)
So how was the movie TEB? MP has been slagged off by the reviews I’ve seen.
At last I can share what I’ve been up to the last few days. Even though the 401k has taken a big hit this year, my job looks solid, even with the unfortunate likelihood of an Obama presidency. For 12 years, my 1996 Accord has been a workhorse and was the first new car that my wife and I purchased when we graduated from college. A few weeks back, it crossed 200,000 miles.
But, especially over this last year, it’s been having little failures along they way that have been putting it in the shop more often. The most recent forced some appointments to be canceled while we juggled getting the kids to school and me to work. We were going to hold off and replace the car next year. But, the weak auto market lead us to see if we could get a good deal now.
And get a good deal we did. I hate buying cars and dealing with the “stealerships”, which is one reason I make my vehicles last as long as I do. This time proved a pleasant exception. For the first time, I walked out knowing that I got a really really good deal on my purchase.
Some of you probably won’t be surprised at my choice. The wife and I tested out several cars, and while there were some serious contenders, we ultimately both agreed that we had found our car:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultimate_ed/2957054372/
This thing is amazing inside and out. I had done a lot of research and thought I knew a lot about this car. Even I was surprised at the amount of thought, detail, and creative gadgetry that have gone into this car.
The whole experience with this particular dealer was actually pleasant. I’m actually looking forward to the next time I’ll be in the market for a purchase.
I could have bought a Benz, BMW, or Lexus. But, I would have been buying something to impress other people. I don’t really like any of those cars, for a variety of reasons. This car is a reward for me and I’m now looking forward to the work commute each day.
You know, one thing that has always bugged me about Gmail is the inability to put pictures in the message and have them display directly. Well, looks like there’s a way around it, using Google Docs to compose the message.
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Composing-Messages-en/browse_thread/thread/24217ecbb63ee5ae?pli=1
In case the video isn’t clear, you basically build your message as a Google Doc, then click SHARE and Email as attachment. You’ll get a mail dialog to put in recipients and title. Choose the “Paste the document itself into the email message” option and your recipients will get the message with the inline pictures.
Enjoy!
Wow Ed! That’s like the Cadillac of family vehicles! Congrats on the sweet new ride.
And with all the extra money you have during an Obama presidency, plus the lower gas prices we’ll have, you’ll be able to drive it a lot more often! ;)
I kid, Ed. I still don’t fully believe that anything is settled.
I hope you get to take the Smarty Hotties for a ride in that thing.
THAT is a pretty sweet looking ride Ed. I’m under the impression that it has a few horses under the hood to!
zoom zoom ! :)
Morning Pan, nice looking car Ed, rain again here, but at least no soggy feet.
I need to get out more. Watching the latest Family Guy, looking at the Me109Gs and Lancaster bombers depicted in the episode, and thinking “Hang on, those weren’t around in 1939..”
cough
CP: A-Ha – Take On Me
Morning Pan!
In answer to your earlier question, Van. I enjoyed Max Payne. You have to go in with no expectations. I never played the games, though my husband has. The trailers are a little deceiving, so you have to also ignore those. It’s a pretty good cop type movie following the formula of: “Cop loses wife in horrible crime. Spends the last three years as desk cop, but searches for wife’s killer during off hours.” (that’s all I’m going to say or I’ll start to get into spoiler territory). If you like those kinds of movies, it wasn’t too bad.
The problem I’m having with podcasts is they all think they’re being cute by overlaying music with dialogue. I don’t care what dick tells you that is ‘professional’; it’s not. What it *is* is creating a a situation where all I hear is painful noise.
So, content totally aside, since I can’t get enough to rate that fairly, the problem I have is the same one that smacks me down in every aspect of the universe in general: it’s not disabled accessible, and it’s proud of it.
Bunny, the Max Payne games have some of the best story writing anywhere, in any medium. So I so not touching that movie, because it’s doomed to suck. They blow ‘game movies’ anyway, but this one will be more embarrassing because of how far they will make it fall.
That’s probably where I was at an advantage, MD. Not having played the games myself, I took the movie for what it was. My husband, who played the first game, and maybe the second (I can’t remember on that one) said the movie was “ok” but wouldn’t comment to more than that.
I loved the games so much, I played them multiple times. While I’ve played other good games, I usually don’t give in to the urge to replay them. But Sam Lake wrote such good stuff, I had to.
I knew the movie was a write-off when there was winged angel / demons in the first trailer.
And wow, you think fonts are ridiculously tiny now? The new De Mille project I’m working on, it looks like 4pt, tops. Insane.
Thank all I can work from the scans, or I’d have to bail.
As I said, MD. Ignore the trailer. I don’t want to give too many spoilers, but suffice it to say, the winged creatures are not as they are portrayed…. If you don’t mind spoilers you can e-mail me ryahatnucleusdotcom, and I’ll tell you the meaning behind the angel/demons
Well, the sun is just starting to add a little pink to the horizon. I don’t think I like this getting up before the sun business.
So can anyone tell me (not really, I’m not totally serious) why is it, the US economy is dying, yet it’s our dollar that’s dropping. Shouldn’t it be the opposite since our economy is holding fairly steady?
You have a ways to go before you hit Germany post-war levels and have to take a wheelbarrel of cash to buy a loaf of bread.
Yes, that was literal.
And another thing… (it’s rant time, obviously), if I live in gas-rich Alberta, why is my at pump price higher than Ontario’s?
Because we’re all Ontario’s bitch.
Except when we’re Quebec’s bitch, which is worse, because they whine about it.
TEB: The dollar’s falling because of falling commodity prices, especially oil.
CP: I Flow — Hearts of Palm
(via IndieFeed)
CP: The Hot Spot Podcast
Doesn’t currency fall for the same reason the stocks do? Twits are panicking.
They bail like lemmings, and things go bad, so they panic more. It’s vicious cycle 101.
Maybe we should just be hosing lithium down their throats…
MD: Not quite. Someone that understands economics better than I should probably answer this, but as I understand it, the valuation of a country’s monetary unit has a lot to do with government policies, and the country’s economy as a whole, not it’s stock market.
Here is a video from an old Dream Cast game. If I were a game advertiser, I’d hang my head in shame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga62uiXbEjI
If that’s the case, ditto, as I said, we should be doing better than the US. There’s obviously more to it than that.
I thought it has to do with investor’s confidence in the currency. People want the dollars they think have value. Although your dollar also goes up and down based on the currency it’s compared with, so it’s not just what they think of you directly…
It’s all pretend anyway. It’s like someone claiming they know the mechanism of a chemical reaction.
MD: Very true.
As of this minute our dollar is worth 0.8371 on the US. I hope it goes up again within the next month as we are planning to book a spring trip in November.
Looks like a busy weekend for everyone. Good to see most of the regulars back. :)
Morning, Deadpan.
morning Rhettro, EssBee
‘ morning EssBee! :)
Morning EssBee.
Morning TEB.
Morning Marlo.
Morning John Boy… er.
Oh, nice Caddie Ed. I bet she drives like a dream.
TEB is going to do another rant. I live in Alberta. Cattle and truck country. So why is it, everybody I know, owns small vehicles.
I rant because I’m leaving in about half an hour to move a bunch of WF08 books from our mailing address to our storage locker. I’m always the one asked to help move, because I have the biggest vehicle of the group. And I just have a Toyota (what is the) Matrix. Tomorrow, I get to pick up the souvenir books. I need to get to know more “Alberta Rednecks”.
The car almost reads my mind. I just hope it doesn’t turn into Christine on me when we do eventually part ways.
CP: See The Light — The Jeff Healey Band
I’m off to load books. Fun, fun fun.
talk to you all, later!
CP: Just Came Back — Colin James
I expect most probably caught the reference, but just in case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine
Now who remembers Killdozer?
As long as it doesn’t start playing Enya Ed, you should be okay. ;)
Killdozer, must update Netflix que.
me
never crawl inside a galvanized pipe to get away from a killdozer.
stupid.
“Killdozer” and “Killer Klowns” would probably make a good double feature.
Holy crapmuffins!!! I just got a phone call from the hospital, offering to move my surgery up.
You probably all heard me yell: “Yes!”
Of course, now I’m shaking in terror, but reminding myself that this is good thing. An excellent thing. A total awesome.
Awesome Marlo! My hope is that you won’t be in continuing pain much longer. :)
Thanks Rhettro :)
I keep flipping from scared to excited to just plain stunned.
Congrats, MD!!!!
Most murders in horror movies are dumb.
Congratulations on the medical news MD.