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Firsties?
http://www.wimp.com/bushfails/
Thirdies, morning Pan, off to work I go.
So I have no idea who Dane Cook is..need to look on YouTube later.
Pass the 5th of Rye!
Morning Pan!
All I can say about the video is: A bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush.
Bully for the other countries?
9 – I’ve seen that clip. Doesn’t mater how you explain it (They refusing to acknowledge him or Bush refusing to shake their hands) … it is just uncomfortably sad.
John Stewart summed it up as “There you see THE most unpopular kid in school.”
Another chapter of the Bush “Legacy”.
Good morning, Pan.
Yesterday was my first 10,000-word day ever! I didn’t know I could pull one of those off, until I did. Current total: 35,346 words. Thinking of going for another 10K today (or as close as I can get), and the remaining 5K tomorrow afternoon. This is simultaneously a heck of a lot of fun, and something I hope I never have to do again.
Things I want to write after I finish my 50,000 words:
- Full-length blog post about the experience
- Weekly update email for family and friends
- Deadpan segments: Earbuds and my annual NaNo excerpt
According to my spam mail, I can get prescription drugs from Canada. Go figure.
Well it should be a short walk.
A slice of the 80′s:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2h16m8X1Y
And even if you’re not much for \m/, Gary Numan re-recorded that one extremely faithfully with Fear Factory.
Saw this guy again at a folk club:
http://www.martinsimpson.com/
A pleasure to listen to him play live.
Okay from the New Scientist, see how you score on the sociosexual orientation test:
With how many different partners have you had sex (sexual intercourse) in the past year?
How many different partners do you foresee yourself having sex with in the next 5 years? (please give a specific and realistic estimate, up to a maximum of 30)
With how many partners have you had sex on one and only once occasion?
How often do you fantasise about having sex with someone other than your current dating partner? (rating scale from 1(never) to 8 (at least once a day)
Sex without love is ok? (rating scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 9 (strongly agree))
I can imagine myself being comfortable and enjoying “casual” sex with different partners. (same scale as previous question)
I would have to be closely attached to someone (both emotionally and psychologically) before I could fee comfortable about having sex with him or her. (rating scale from 1(I strongly agree) to 9 (I strongly disagree))
Score will range from 4 to 65+, high scorers have an unrestricted outlook and tend to be more promiscuous than low scorers.
I score low.
cough.
Ten for me
So you a yellow belt now TEB?
Or have I just jinxed you.
I had my test. Yes I passed but I don’t actually get my belt unto next week. There will be a cerimony and everything
Congratulations TEB.
I’ll refrain from swooning..wouldn’t want you to get the wrong idea.
I did mess up one defense and do need to work on one of my kicks, but still did well enough to get my belt.
Well almost 1.30 am here, and I’m working Sunday, so night TEB, night pan.
Night, Van
38.
Congrats on the belt, Bunny!
Morning Pan, a review of Ocarina:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBS8eZPWOQ
Worth getting if you have a iPhone (not sure if the latest iTouch ipods have mics).
Now I just have to find some time to practice…
-i
Nice interview with Richard K Morgan (of Altered Carbon fame) at Starshipsofa:
http://www.starshipsofa.com/
Morning, Deadpan!
Back home, and finally can get to the episodes! They’re downloading now.
Snow is on the ground here. Looks like it’ll turn out to be a good day to stay home.
Van: I liked Altered Carbon. I’ll have to check out that interview.
EssBee: Snow here too.
Morning, pan!
We went to our annual Christmas concert last night: Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Hard rock + Christmas & Classical music = totally awesome. I’m sure some people here would enjoy them.
Morning Pan. The touch doesn’t have a mic so cant’ play the ocarina.
Now to do some work, then off to see the latest Bond movie.
My daughter is a huge fan of the TSO, ditto. My husband also has one or two of their CDs.
I’ve read all of Richard Morgan’s stuff and enjoyed them all (to varying degrees)
CP: Chillcast Chillout Lounge 2 hour set
CP: This Week in Science podcast
So does a “chillcast chillout” help with the freezing, Van?
Well my shivers are in time with the beat.
cool! ;)
Peta takes on the game Cooking Mama
http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp
So I’m watching the latest Heroes.. And can’t help thinking that the writers need to read a beginners Astronomy book.
No, really? As in, you can’t see an eclipse across the globe at the same time?
Well, off to see Bond
…James Bond.
Re: Hero’s
By the end of last season Hero’s had become very “tepid” for me.
So much so, that I have all of this season’s episodes on my TiVo still unwatched (tangent – upgraded my TiVo to the biggest hard drive I could get in it was one of the best decisions EVEH) .
I am now thinking about deleting them all as I haven’t really seen any comments about this season that would compel me not to.
I’d say don’t waste your time or TiVo space, JOe. Just watched the latest episode and it stank. I keep watching for Elle, but she can’t carry ALL those characters.
Yes the eclipse was particular irksome.
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be heroes, just for one day
CP: The Roadhouse #198
It seems Jack was prophetic in his verdict of Heroes as a meh. ;)
My computer refuses to turn on. Reading comments on my iTouch. Buying new laptop tomorrow.
Listened to 112 with Danthol (hubby) on the trip home.
Spatula City
Thx ditto. heh. I can brag “I disliked Heroes before anyone else did!”
That’s awful, Cj. Hopefully you can get a crazy holiday deal on a new laptop.
Back in AZ. wOOt! There was a blizzard in Denver during our connecting flight. Had to get the plane de-iced. Happy to be back in jean shorts. :)
30 days.
Approximately 40 hours of writing. (Maybe more, I didn’t do a very good job of keeping track.)
Approximately 23 of those hours in the last four days,
50,053 total words! I’ve done it again!
Now to take a long dinner and socialization break.
Amy: Congrats!
Rhettro: Welcome back!
Cj: Suxors
Jack: yw
CE: chocolate covered raisins
hands are warm at last
Congratulations Amy
CW: The Ipcress File on BBC1
This was a fun bit of spam in the comments filter:
Hi. I repeatedly be familiar with this forum. This is the oldest together undisputed to ask a ridiculous.
How multitudinous in this forum are references Nautical port behind, disingenuous users?
Can I depute all the communication that there is?
On the train platform, there is this nobbly strip of antislip material. When it’s frosty, it makes loud crunching noises when walked on. Almost as good as popping bubblewrap.
Jack: Clearly he’s deranged. How can anyone depute Deadpan? ;)
ditto, Van: Thank you!
Congrats on the 50K, Amy!
Jack would have to pick the week I’m disconnected from podcasts to release a double shot :)
Are we being deputized? Is there some kind of pun rustler on the loose that we need to hunt down?
Now I know DIGG has sunk to a new low – two of the stories on the homepage are about football games. Now, I enjoy a good game as much as the next guy, but is it really DIGG material? I do sometimes wonder why I bother to check it anymore.
Amy – I am at a loss for words! Obviously though, YOU are not. :)
Great job with the Nano Nano.
Amy – Congrats, good job, way to go!
I have to write one parenting article a week and I’m not a writer. Writing is my least favorite part of my job. I’m more of a reader and much more of a talker. So, you have my utmost respect!
On another note – I don’t think I can bring myself to buy a new laptop as much as I need one. Sending mine in for repair again and hoping for the best.
I may change my mind in an hour or so.
Congrats are definitely in order for you, Amy. That is an accomplishment. Feel free to share, if you feel so inclined – like you did in the past.
Cj, where does your parenting article appear?
J0e, NanuWriMo is different – that’s where you have to write 50K words sitting on your head.
Jack – all the kids are just scratching their collective heads.
Better include a link – http://tinyurl.com/5akgum
Joe, did you catch the Mork and Mindy Marathon on Sci-Fi this weekend?
Jack, http://mightymommy.quickanddirtytips.com
Never could get into Mork and Mindy.
Morning Pan, sub zero temperatures and it’s been snowing.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Congrats to Amy for winning NaNoWriMo. It hadn’t occurred to me to time myself. I guess I’ll want to try that next time.
metro.co.uk/robocop
Robocop on a Unicorn
Morning Pan.
Nice right now, but expecting rain turning into 2 – 4 cm. of snow by tonight. roads tomorrow should be fun.
Snow? I think I’ve seen that in pictures or in the movies.
I actually have an acquaintance living in the southern regions of the planet who hasn’t seen snow. His idea of snow are the romantic Currier and Ives type pictures. I keep telling him to come up in the winter, he’ll change his ideas very quickly.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Snow and cold are four letter words not to be said in polite company.
So what did you think of QOS TEB?
Thank you, everybody! Don’t worry, I will be sharing an excerpt from my novel, like I always do – I just haven’t decided which scene I want to share yet.
Nomad Scry: I timed myself because it’s one of the things you can keep track of using the NaNo Report Card, which someone starts a thread for on the NaNo forums every year.
QOS was a good Daniel Craig Bond movie. However, I’m not a big fan of the new style of camera work that is so frenetic.
I tend to think of the new Bond movies as different from the earlier ones. While the DC Casino Royale was closer to the book, there were too many inconsistencies from the movies before it. In the original Casino Royale movie, there was a description that works well for me if I apply it to the new movies. It was stated that the name James Bond is a moniker, or pseudonym passed down from agent to agent, much like the 007 status. That way many different people can be James Bond. If you look at it that way, the new James Bond movies are quite good.
I think I’m away from the norm in that, while I don’t deny Daniel Craig is good looking, I don’t find him James Bond good looking. DC is more rugged, whereas JB is more suave, like Sean Connery.
I Thought the villain was far too weak in QOS.
I have to agree, Van. I’ve actually found this the case in the last few movies. While they are greasy, they are not “evil”. I guess I still want the more comic book type of villain with the white Persian, underground lair and all.
It’s funny, but I kind of prefer the campy Roger Moore 007 flicks. I did like Casino Royale, butI miss the Lotus Espirit submarines.
Donald Pleasance/Charles Gray will be rolling their graves.
Insert stroking pussy gag here —->
Possible Spoiler:
And what kind of idiot builds a long rectangular building with explosive power generation running under the entire thing? Couldn’t they just have the power generators on one end?
Morning Pan,
Well a 4-day weekend was not enough to cure us of the neverending series of colds we’ve been getting in the household. I think I’m getting better, but it always comes around to the end of the day and there I am, coughing and wondering why it isn’t better yet…
Age?
Cough
Van, you should really do something about that cough. You don’t want to catch whatever JB has. ;)
Word on the street is that one of the cold strains making the rounds hangs on for a very long time…
*Weighing in James Bond*
I want to see the new one though I have yet to do so.
I will say that I don’t like the direction they have taken with the last Bond film.
Bond films are their own genre.
They aren’t meant to be deep, intricate and brooding. If you want that in your action film you go to see a something from the “Bourne Identity” franchise.
You go to Bond films to see a mindless action flick that has dangerously hot babes, gadgets and lots of things blowing up.
Don’t get me wrong I like the “Bourne” films a lot. It’s just not what a Bond film should be.
Analogy alert/
I LOVE the great taste of steak … just not in my cotton candy!
/Analogy alert
IMHO – if you are going to slap the “James Bond” lable on a movie then it ought to stay true to the genre.
I agree, J0e. As I said, you have to take the newer movies apart from the previous ones. As a different series.
I miss Q (no matter who was playing him)
While I certainly enjoyed the older Bond films, I think the formula (and let’s face it, it was the exact same formula from film to film) had run its course. The later films had become self parodies.
I really like the way the franchise has largely been rebooted with Daniel Craig as Bond. While I’ve never read the books, I understand that Craig’s potrayal of Bond is more in line with the characterization in the novels.
I read Casino Royale, but not the others. The DC version was closer to the book than the Peter Sellers version (obviously). And it’s true Bond was always considered man’s man. I understand, in the books Pussy Galore (from Gold Finger) was originally a lesbian that was “converted” by Bond’s manliness. Which is not as well portrayed in the movies.
Don’t misunderstand me. I do like the newer Bond movies. And, no question, Danial Craig is easy on the eyes. It’s just different.
From Russia With Love was more like the new films than the usual bond formula.
I have yet to see QoS, but I’d consider it. On Netflix, if not in the theater. If this was another Pierce Brosnan Austin-Powers-esque film, I wouldn’t even consider it.
I think all of the Bonds have been kind of pretty, even the young Sean Connery. TEB may swoon over Craig as a good-looking guy, but he’s definitely not pretty.
None of the James Bond men have ever done it for me. I find them all quite mediocre.
You know watching The Ipcress File reminded me of the Matt Helm series of movies (the bad guy in the Ipcress file also appears in one of the MH films), a US piss take of James Bond.
I remember really enjoying them as a kid..probably unwatchable now.
The films that is, the book were much more serious.
Back from lunch.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen the Ipcress File, I don’t really remember any of it.
‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ipcress_File_(film)‘
CP: East of the Sun (West of the Moon) – Diana Krall
decided not to go for a walk, Van?
just got back, my phone’s screen is foggy.
:D
CP: One – Metallica
My recent playlist is an exercise in musical diversity:
Sleepless Nights - Elvis Costello
Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
Don’t Sweat the Technique - Eric B & Rakim
Happy Alone - earlimart
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Paganini – Caprice 24 - John Williams
New Game (credit to Gwen Gades of Dragonmoon Press)
Rules:
*Grab the book or mag closest to you. Now.
*Go to page 56.
*Find the 5th sentence.
*Write that sentence as your status.
*Copy these instructions as a comment to your status.
*Don’t go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have — just grab the closest one.
Mine was: ” We would immediately have a problem.”
Ignore the “Copy these instructions…” part. I obviously copied the rules and didn’t edit them :)
Boy, I really need to get some reading material here in the duplication room…
That doesn’t represent the meme, it represents that nothing over 30 pages or so is near.
*Insert Headsmack Here*
“Large indistinct blotchy blue shapes towered over him.”
That would be page 56, line 5 of “Really Big Things,” by some guy named Maki.
Silly JB :)
“The illustration program had hundreds of inputs, ranging from age, sex, and hazardous avocations (including sky-diving) to the timing of loans that an insured intended on taking for expected events (e.g., college tuition).”
Exciting work book!
I think JB specifically violated the “Don’t go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have — just grab the closest one.” clause. ;)
“Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to quantum theory.”
-5th sentence on p56 of ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Stephen W Hawking
Why that book is in the computer room is a mystery lost in the mists of time!
I did read it ALL the way through though.
cough
Still haven’t done anything about that cough yet huh, Van?
“Kodak Zi6 pocket video camera: Take HD videos on the go ($179.95, Kodak.com).”
The Advocate – Issue 1021 December 2006
So out with it TEB, what book or mag was your quote from?
While I gave the quote, I didn’t say what mine was from – Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.
Interesting work stuff.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
sniff
I totally agree, Van :)
Now at home:
“Then keep your fancies to yourself, that kind of talk is dangerous.”
From “Orcs” by Stan Nicholls.
“I tried to squeeze it, but the bleeding would not stop.” – Al Franken’s “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.”
“Cyber Monday” is passing me by without my making a purchase.
The interpipes will shun me.
But “Goodnight Moon” doesn’t have 56 pages….
“Data presented is a simplification.”
Do any of you know if it’s possible to select which audiobooks in my iTunes library synch on a certain iPod? I have tons of books in my library, and the illegal mother-in-law has a nano and wants a few of the books. Can I put them on there for her without deleting the ones she doesn’t want from my library before synching?
EssBee, Can you just make a playlist of the books you want to sync onto her Nano and then only sync the playlist? iTunes should ask you if you want to remove items from your library before it removes them, but it should not do it without your instruction and consent.
TEB – And my book meme would be –
“The logic behind the nineteenth-century rule about not splitting infinitives rests on comparing English to Latin because in Latin there are no two-word infinitives.”
It’s no wonder my brain always hurts.
Swiper, no swiping.
CJ, m’dear, you are a genius.
CW: last night’s Dexter.
“And we spent so long arguing that we couldn’t sit down for our pizza, so we ended up getting a takeaway and eating it out of the box on the way to the cinema.”
That’s from “Slam”, by Nick Hornby, which actually was the closest available book.
Cj beat me to the punch. I use that same technique for my multiple iPods.
I wonder if these books/magazines closest to us say a lot about us. I had a toss-up between a few different things when I posted the above quote:
I had The Advocate, TV Guide, the AA Big Book, and the Cornell West Reader. Yep, that’s a pretty good summary.
The book closest to me is the same one stated earlier as I’m working late. I loves month end.
Poor, Bunny!
I have to do accruals tomorrow – end of month yuck.
Month end accruals done. Now to roll over into December.
Since I work for Grammar Girl, it’s only be logical that the book closest to me whenever I’m at my computer is “Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.” I know there is a Family Fun magazine around here somewhere, but there will be no fun had here today until all of my spreadsheets are full of statistics. NO FUN I SAY! (Let’s pretend that I’m capable of not having fun) … ;-)
Nothing says fun like a spreadsheet full of numbers.
That’s what I’m doing too, Cj. Filling spreadsheets full of numbers.
CP: Rocket Man – Elton John
Ok, I don’t feel as bad. I just sent in a report to my boss in Ontario, and she was actually in to say thanks. It’s 7:30 here, but 9:30 there, so she’s working even later than me (at the moment).
“Sez the Ty-D-Bol is irritating his buttocks”
Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County 1986-1989
Should be required reading in school.
Well, they seemed to have shut me out of the system for some sort of update – timing is impeccable (who updates a system during month end anyways?). So I’m calling it a night.
Until tomorrow, Pan
I’m still plugging away. My MIL says my eyes are puffy.
I actually think spreadsheets are fun. It’s a sickness, but as I alluded to earlier. I pretty much have fun no matter what I’m doing. I live in a happy little bubble.
Either that or the little numbers are making me delirious.
Cj: That’s cool. I’ve been listening to Grammar Girl pretty much since she started.
I have three spreadsheets that I’ve been filling full of numbers lately. One for words written during NaNoWriMo, one for AmeriCorps service hours, and one to keep track of all the money I have (and don’t have). I think spreadsheets can be fun, too.
I’ll do the book meme when I’m not up way too late. Night, Pan.
Morning Pan, another thin layer of snow and freezing temperatures.
99% of the books I own are not in the same room as the computer I use.
A remake of Gauntlet:
http://tinyurl.com/5ajl79
You can play it in your browser if you install the plugin.
Try not to shoot the food.
Morning Pan;
Cold here, but managed to avoid the snow.