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I find snow a bit overrated, actually….
So – I just introduced Vernon Reid to the genius of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, via Twitter. How cool is that?
A more mean spirited take on the 25 meme from a writers point of view:
http://tinyurl.com/dnf6zp
So I enjoyed Benjamin Button. It appealed to my sentimental streak, a streak I keep hidden, deep, deep, down inside when I’m watching the latest Hollywood action movie…
CP: “Wake me up before you go go” – WHAM
(now that’s gonna get stuck in my CPIMM)
I’ve forgotten what CPIMM means.
CPIMM = Currently Playing In My Mind
You can usually only fix this by erasing your CPIMM (sing the song for someone else and it seems to just leave you and get stuck in their head) or flashing it (expose it to something more catchy/insipid).
Van, that is SO mean!
CPIMM: Wake me up before you go-go
Damn you, JOe!
Thanks JJ
I did warn you Essbee.
You did, it’s true.
I just don’t get why a writer would 1) invite fans to “friend” him, and then 2) write a rant like that. Pretty mean!
Here’s something completely different: Do you guys and girls have nicknames that don’t really fit you? For example, I have an uncle who calls me “Suzie.” My name is Kris, and I most certainly do not look like a Suzie — but maybe did at age 6. I get “Sue”, “Suzie”, and “Suzie Q” from the men in my family, which I think is just kinda weird.
The latest Podcastle episode is a Ted Chiang story:
http://tinyurl.com/ccsrjz
TC stories are always checking out.
EssBee,
I don’t have a nickname that doesn’t fit, but there are definitely names that I detest being called.
I absolutely hate being called “Babe” – my husband does this.. “Thanks, Babe.” “Can you come here, Babe?”
UGH! I’m not a babe, nor am I the reincarnation of my dead dog whose name was Babe, nor am I a pig from some children’s movie that I’ve never seen.
I also hate being called “Cheryl” – the name is Cherylyn. It’s one little syllable… “yn” it’s not like it takes that much time to say “yn” after “Cheryl”
I don’t mind being called “Cj” at all… it’s a nickname I was given with love. Although I have been referred to as “Ceej” at times – that doesn’t seem to bother me either.
What did bother me was when a friend of mine thought it would funny to suggest a porn movie about my life called…. “Under Ceej”
/enoughtalkingaboutmyselfwhilestressed
EssBee: Yep, I have. I had an unkle call me Kennedy. I’m really not sure why. There have been others, but that one sticks out.
CP: Black Cat — Ladytron
Sorry, Cj, but “Under Ceej” is kinda funny.
I like my surname to be spelt properly…people tend to miss out a popular letter.
My Watchmen novel arrived today.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/3258404805_c03805a7c4_o.jpg
Oh, my surname is a disaster.
Even funnier if imagined with Steven Seagal.
Don’t think he’s fit enough for a porn movie these days.
Rhettro: What’s funnier? Cj’s movie?
Ba dum dum.
Yeah, Under Ceej. LOL
Here’s an etiquette question for those of you who have better manners than I do.
There’s a fairly big name educator/author in my field of work who I’m very close with. Her daughter is kind of a fahreak and kind of has the hots for me. Said daughter just sent me a friend request on Facebook. Do I 1) ignore and pretend that I’m a techtard when I see her next if she brings it up?, 2) accept?, or 3) something else?
You could always accept, and if she starts getting weird remove her as a friend.
I like “pretend to be a techtard.” ;)
Or just say that it makes you unconfortable having the child of a peer linked to you.
Yes, but then that invites the stalking by said girl wanting to know why she was dropped.
I’d go with option 1 for now.
Am I supposed to know who this Tod Goldberg is?
Ed, I don’t know him either. Maybe we should friend him on Facebook. (I found that essay/bitchfest pretty hilarious, actually)
EssBee, plz don’t hate me if you follow this advice and it backfires, but I’d probably just let her friend you, then ignore all FB activity from her. Does FB work that way?
EssBee – how old is this person. That would be important factor.
BTW – if you ever get one of those annoying stalker types, I know this person you can send them to … tell them to use the password “Hi Babe”. They’ll cease to be a problem. ;)
Please don’t hate Jack if he’s beautiful.
Jack: Yes, you can just ignore all FB contact from them. Chat’s the hardest to ignore, but it can be done if you’re diligent.
I got my Watchmen novel from the local B&N last Friday. I’ve only had time to read the first few pages, though. I’ll try to read more tonight and/or tomorrow.
Good advice, y’all!
She’s not a child, she’s near my age – creeping up on 40. I think I’ll take Jack/Van’s advice and just ignore her. I hate to be rude.
Rude people suck.
My technologies are being a douche tonight.
They are being rude.
Regarding tonight’s BSG – Holy FRAK!
Man, that was some seriously good television.
http://www.trendir.com/house-design/micro-compact-home-from-japan-futuristic-paco-house.html
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers, and business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
Little Boxes
by Malvina Reynolds
The new BSG is dribbling down my pipe as I type.
Morning Pan, work on a Saturday..meh, the big freeze continues.
Mmmmm. BSG. Tasty.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend. We are headed to Southern CO to visit my better half’s mom and grandma. That = excellent food and being fawned over. I’m into it.
Sounds like Malvina has some issues.
Then again, so does the person who came up with that box “house” concept.
I believe Malvina wrote that in the 1960s … for cultural reference and context, please see “Mad Men”.
Yea for the fawning over!
Yea for the BSG.
CP: “Minute Samba” from “Dance Party – an hour of modern dance tempo” ©1958
… oh, and it’s an LP !
33 and a third baby ! ‘cuase that’s how I roll.
I can’t decided if the detritus of my life is smothering me or crushing me.
You can’t win against kipple.
http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/2198/82-year-old-metalhead
LOL
YOU … GO … OWEN !!!!!!
What this? A new Farpoint Recap in my feed?
Owen is clearly Hell Bent for Leather.
I’d say Owen is pretty Bad Ass.
So it’s official, I’m a masochist.
I keep watching Eleventh Hour in the hope it will improve and it NEVER does.
Can you give us a”ZP” type review of the show and submit it to Jack?
Err No.
I’m not worthy and all that jazz.
Today’s Clone Wars gobbledygook:
Truth Enlightens the mind, but won’t always bring happiness to your heart.
Hey Van, third shift is the same as graveyard. I work from 11pm EST (I think it is -5GMT) to 7am the next morning.
Sorry for the delay.
Truth, often closely aligned with the crap lies you don’t want to hear.
*paints a tumbleweed purple*
Did I just see a purple tumbleweed roll by??
Give me time, and the deadpan can have more color than wonka’s factory.
Please, no yellow. Hurts the eyes.
And please don’t turn anyone into a giant blueberry.
I’m not sure I can create under such stifling conditions….;P
OK, well you kids look after keep the tumbleweeds out of the chocolate river. It’s late. I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, bowl full of mush.
I bet there’s a market for chocolate dipped tumbleweeds….
With silver dragees?
Mmmmmm chocolate dipped tumbleweeds..the candy with the crunchy centre.
Van, have you tried out the CrunchBang Linux version for the eeepc? Cruncheee. (heh.) Very very light weight. Not quite as friendly as eeebunto.
Yup NS, I’m giving the my 701 to my sister and I’m not sure she will like Cruncheee (although I did) because it’s not as friendly as Eeebuntu.
But if you want to have some more space left on your SSD, Cruncheee is the way to go.
Oh and another ‘lite’ custom distro for the Eee is fluxfluxeee:
http://fluxflux.net/fluxflux-eee/index-en.html
Today’s retro game, Tetris on the Gameboy (via the Lameboy emulator for the NDS):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(Game_Boy)
I took the plunge and installed Cruncheee. (crosses fingers) I don’t know enough to fix anything if I mess it up, so… eeek.
Fluxfluxeee has a nice looking set of icons, but I’m even less familiar with PCLinuxOS than I am with Ubuntu (which I consistently misspell as Ubunto.)
Morning Deadpan!
It’s 9:30 on Sunday Morning. I have my mouse in one hand and my i-pod in the other. And I’m not afraid to use either one :)
Last week it was bacon cookies, now it’s bacon cake. There’s just something wrong with the world
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Bacon-Breakfast-Cake/Detail.aspx?ARBMID=1869&ARFMTID=1
This pen would definitely be mightier than the sword
http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/acme-releasing-the-most-gorgeous-ray-gun-pen-known-to-man.php
Holy Crap! This girl has amazing finger speed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alxBofd_eQ
Wow, so many links to check when I get home! Off to make my hair more sassy.
And for those that recall me saying I wasn’t going to get to wear my winter coat. Oh yes. I’m wearing it today. It may not be that cold – but it really is THAT wet out there.
And thundery… my house windows sound like they are about to come out of the frames!
That girl is like a machine!
It would seem possible to make a sensible, non-deadly bacon cake.
I hope the sassing was fun today, Cj.
Maybe use them bacon flavoured corn bits in the cake.
My wife and son are tying up our two internet ready computers. So I have to resort to the pocket PC. =p
Welcome Rhettro to the ‘wonderful’ world of mobile browsers.
There’s a good Gameboy emulator for PPCs.
Cough
I’m just gonna say it …
I don’t care HOW many exclamation points you put in your advert – three, 12 packs of soda for $12 is just simply NOT a deal. 4 for $11 just barely makes it either.
that is all.
I’m not a huge fan of bacon nor do I like cake. Bacon Cake would fall into the two wrongs just make it more wrong category for me.
So, that Yuja Wang – wow.. playing any instrument has always seemed so difficult to me… I can, however, play a mean computer keyboard at a whopping 92 wpm… on a good day. ;)
Oooh and yes, I have been sassified…Red is the new Cj.
http://twitpic.com/1e9ok
Go Go Red!
Another variation on the 25 meme:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=401633472
CJ is well red.
When CJ said “sassified” am I the only one who thought of Clarence Carter?
Sassafras
Mutley?
Thufferin’ Thuckatash?
CP: Marianas Trench – Cross My Heart
I think I am old inside. I watch Yuja Wang and the first thing that crosses my mind is how much my wrists hurt. Then I wonder how long before her imminent carpal tunnel incapacitates her.
Still, pretty amazing.
I like this one alot:
http://shirt.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=7274
Alot or a lot?
A grammar nerd will tell you: there’s no such word as ‘alot’. (Yes, it’s two words.)
Calling Dick Tracy:
http://tinyurl.com/ag4l4t
meh
there is weather … and I am feeling under it.
So according to writers of the Mentalist..Messy women make the best lovers.
You can call me a skeptic.
We interrupt this program for a special bulliten…
WHOEVER GAVE ME A HEAD COLD CAN TAKE IT BACK RIGHT F’n NOW!!!
…thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Panning.
Morning Pan
Sunny and warm here for a change
Probably a consequence of regular exercise TEB, all the fitness fanatics I know get a lot of colds and throat infections.
But personal experience can be misleading so the above maybe a load of old tosh.
Actually, it’s a combination of many things. This has been a bad winter all round for people getting sick, here in Calgary. Also, since my husband is a teacher, he is constantly bringing home something from the kids at school. Lastly, have the MA class on Saturday’s testing seemed to be ill, as well, so I also could have got something then.
Oh well, will skip classes tonight and stay home with a hot cup of Neo Citron.
have = half
TEB – I 2nd your motion to have the cold giver take it back. *sniffle*
JOe and Bunny – get well soon!
Nomad and Van – what language is it you two were speaking above?
marlo – I dig yellow.
Cj – cute!
Is it Monday already? Really?
[drive by]
Hey pan!!
Just wanted to say hey :)
I hope we can get a Deadpan fix soon. We sure could use the laughs
[/drive by]
[drive by2]
and I used to love the book Johnathan Livingston Seagull. It was my favorite book when I was little and my stupid oldest her went and drew on all the pictures of the birds to make them airplanes dropping bombs. I was so pissed I cried.
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woah..
her = brother
LOL
stupid brothers
… wait, that’d be me!
^Didn’t sound like the kind of thing a sister would do. Hope you can drop by for some laughs soon.
So yeah, those of you that liked the Farpoint Recap, what can I say, sorry, thats never coming back.
Those of you who liked the Wingin’ it Recap and enjoy Stephen Colbert’s mocking of Bill O’Reilly and want a shorter, more concentrated podcast that actually reaches more of Farpoint Media… Well then maybe you’ll want to resubscribe because, while I’m not saying we’re back till I’ve done it consistently for a month, you can expect me to try and put up the new Farpoint Recap 2.0 every Friday or Saturday as I cover the weeks events in the land of Farpoint Media basically the same way I did when I recapped Wingin’ It 3d.
So there, I’m admitting it… I’m podcasting again. Nothing like a recession/depression to make you want to throw up your hands and say “shit, I may as well be podcasting again.”
So true, Dub. So true.
TEB: Yeah, Yuja Wang looks amazing. It’s the first time I’ve heard of her, but I’ll definitely look up more. I’ve never seen this piece played on piano. It is even more difficult than I imagined. Wow.
Wow. Robert Plant looks very different from now!
http://www.spin.com/articles/grammys-results-coldplay-radiohead-robert-plant-and-alison-krauss-win-big
MCR playing Sex Pistols playing Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row”.
http://www.spin.com/articles/my-chemical-romance-cover-bob-dylan-watchmen
It’s a good cover, imo.
Anyone else think that they might be Pale Horse in the movie?
A Sex Pistols-style cover of Desolation Row? This I have to hear.
Yeah, this just reminds me that I really need to get some sort of Dylan box set.
Yes, it is officially Monday.
Someone should let the Hotties know that these Ipod thingies work in all kinds of good places and that they don’t need to be sitting in front of a computer where they can type commentary in order to listen and enjoy.
Whew!
But… but… but… then we’d miss the play-by-play!!!
ditto – the Biograph 3-disc set is a great Dylan set.
EssBee: Thanks. I’ve also been looking at the Greatest Hits: Vol 1-3 on iTunes which looks like it is actually 4 CDs. I haven’t decided yet.
xkcd is brilliant today
http://xkcd.com/541/
Yes another Monday. Ironically, I’m super busy this week at work, but only because of a scheduling snafu. Instead of having a nice moderate amount of work for three weeks, it’s going to be super busy for a week and a half, then I’ll have to worry if there is enough work to keep me employed. On the plus side, the Misses and I did a budget review this weekend, and even if I get laid off, we should only need to make minor budget cut backs to stay out of the red. So I feel better about that.
Glad to hear you are dabbling back in podcasting Dub. But I’m also sorry to hear that the recession is the impetus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_(crater)
I was outside last night grilling some hot dogs and noticed the lovely full moon. I went inside and grabbed my binoculars and saw the moon in stunning detail. I noticed a bright spot on the dark lava basin, so I figured I would look it up on the internet. Turns out it was the crator Aristarchus. I was hoping it was the silver skin of a flying saucer.
Horrifying images of the fires in Australia.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html
My downstairs neighbor, is playing something so loud that my feet are being vibrated in my shoes.
Lots of woe and bad news all around. . . surely it’s going to start raining frogs soon.
Re: Yuja Wang
I find myself wondering if that video had been slightly sped up. Even if, there is quite some skill there!
Do you suppose her knuckles heat up from the internal friction?
Can we at least skip the boils…those are just nasty.
CP: Machine Gun — Portishead
Oh shit I’m a Portishead.
You can never have too many spatulas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbCWmY0eqY
Confucious say:
Don’t go to a Mongolian Restauraunt if you are a picky eater.
Would a Mongolian Food addict need to go through a 12 steppe program?
I’m being drooled on by tiny little person whose vocabulary mostly consists of the word “vroom”.
So before the humiliation of the Mongolian restaurant, I saw Bolt in 3D.
They use polarisers in the glasses so none of that red/green crap, and ok most of the time it just looks like Viewmaster slides, but certain scenes really seemed to jump out at you.
Not as good as Toy Story 2, but a fun film (especially if you can see it at a cinema that supports 3D) for big kids of all ages.
I saw Bolt in non-3d. It was cute.
Toy Story 2 is definitely one of my favorites.
What’s the deal with Coraline?
This blasphemy might get a bunch of rocks thrown at me, but I didn’t think Stardust was very good at all. . . . which makes me extremely leery of Mirrormask. And even, to some degree, Coraline.
*tosses rock at Jack*
I preferred the ending of the book of Stardust to the movie, but still enjoyed the movie.
The trailer for Coraline looked interesting though.
Oh the 3D specs don’t work on the latest Chuck, which isn’t surprising after reading the Wiki page on the technology used for the 3D version of Bolt.
Coraline does not interest me. It looks scary. I’ve never seen Nightmare Before Christmas either and probably never will. It has the word “Nightmare” right in the title. Nobody can make me. No scary. No thank you. No.
BOO!!!!
sorry CJ, I couldn’t resist trying to make you jump. :/
J0e, why do men always want to see me jump?
*tilting head to side like Irish Setter with blank look on face*
I don’t get it…
Am I the only one here that just doesn’t care about movies in 3D ?
In fact, I prefer my movies NOT be in 3D. It exists solely for the cheep “pop out at you gag” and how many times have you left a truly great film thinking, “If only there would have been something in that film that made me want to duck, it would have been worthy of an Academy Award.”
Nope. I would rather the effort and dollars be put into the script and acting talent thank you.
No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle!
J0e, IMAX 3D movies are pretty cool. I really enjoyed the Into the Deep one actually. That’s a different type of movie experience though, but pretty amazing to feel like you are in there swimming with the fishes.
I saw Aliens of the Deep in IMAX 3D with my son, back in . . . 05. It was pretty spectacular. But that backs up Cj’s statement. This was a documentary, not a gripping story with actors and plot twists.