Logical Show Notes.
(disclaimer1: I actually really enjoy genuine Bluegrass music)
(disclaimer2: Any perceived meanness in this episode is unintentional)
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Bunny, we’re not seeing the movie this weekend either.
I’ll toss the new Trek and Wolvie on Netflix later on. Trek may be fine, but I doubt it has Scotty speak into a mouse to get the expect voice recognition software to kick in. That’s about my pinnacle.
On a totally unrelated note, how is it you folk sound so good on-pod? Jack, you’ve got experience on a mic I take it.
Me no get to see Trek either :(
My biggest complaint about Trek is they used a ridiculously horrible plot device for a key point in the movie. And I’m not talking about time travel. What they did really bugs me especially since they could have come up with something better to achieve the same effect.
I also agree with Ed, that I wasn’t a big fan of the score, though I loved the tribute at the end.
OMG, Dollhouse is effing great.
Nighty night, Deapdan!
2912 tracks left . . .
Was it person X finding person Y on a bloody planet in less than 10 minutes without the aid of GPS, ditto?
Morning Pan, check out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iri5/sets/72157611954107572/
darned impressive.
Good morning, Deadpan!
Happy Mother’s Day Cj, TEB, and any other DP mothers out there.
I’m off to visit my mom for the weekend. I hope you all have a great one!
We had Mother’s day a few months back on this side of the pond.
Van: nope, that wasn’t it.
imag1: I sound good on-pod because I’ve had a lot of practice.
A bit more of a clue ditto?
Clue… it’s blobby.
Though, it doesn’t bug my wife.
Finally succumbed to FB.
There is a bunch of crap on my driveway and strangers are giving me money to take it away.
Win.
Ah yes, I wondered why Y didn’t just destroy it to stop Z from using it.
I too have finally fallen prey to the FB. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Welcome to FB ditto and IN, just remember to learn the secret handshake.
I agree with EssBee (we’re on a roll :) ) Dollhouse effing rocks!
That was a solid ending to a season. Some things get wrapped up, changes are set up for next year, revelations are made. I want more!
Vanamonde: Is that an SSL joke?
RE: Trek – probably the hardest thing for me to swallow was the ending. Not the climax part, but after that. I can see that it was necessary in order for future movies of this new series to come along, but it still didn’t make a lot of sense.
Listening to Indiana Jim’s spoiler review. I think I’ll follow his suggestion to discuss it in all it’s spoilery goodness over at the FPM forum.
A SliceofScifi voicemail show without the commentary from the regulars is not a fun show.
oR – i CAN MAKE A SPOILER-FRIENDLY PAGE HERE for Star Trek discussion. All in favor say Aye.
I can also type without noticing that I have CAPS LOCK set.
That would be a good idea Jack.
Although it’s certainly not a ‘deep’ movie by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh and NO to the SSL joke.
CW: Dollhouse Finale
Van – agreed on the VM show. I gave up about a third of the way through.
CP: Al Capone – The Untouchables
CP: Soul Bossa Nova – Austin Powers: IMON
So just finished watching the Dollhouse finale..and you can add me to the Wow chain.
CP: James Bond Theme – Voight Kampff
What an excellent name for a band!
Now this is interesting:
WASHINGTON—Having both bride and groom escorted down the aisle by their parents expresses equality of the man and woman. That’s also the suggestion of the Catholic Rite of Marriage, said Father Rick Hilgartner, associate director of the U.S. Bishop’ Secretariat for Divine Worship.
“The bride and the groom enter freely and equally into marriage, and the entrance procession should reflect that,†he said.
Father Hilgartner also recommended that the couple memorize their marriage vows rather than repeat them after the priest for a more meaningful and memorable occasion.
Bye bye 3D Realms:
http://www.3drealms.com/news/2009/05/goodbye.html
Duke Nukem Forever will remain vaporware..
CP: Main Title Theme – Superman
I added you on Facebook, ditto.
And here’s something fuzzy to share with your mom tomorrow.
http://vertical-world.blogspot.com/2009/05/10-cutest-cat-moments.html
Pretty cute, Jack. :)
I have to admit that I have given into peer pressure and joined facebook as well. You’ll be able to find me in the deadpan group.
There’s a Deadpan Facebook group? I was unaware that there even ARE groups on Facebook. I’m such a n00b!
And I agree 100% w/Vanamonde re: SoSF Voicemail show.
Morning Pan!
We are going to try to sneak out to the movies today. We’ll see how it goes.
I need to check the DP board more often, I have strange people trying to be my friend on FaceBook and I couldn’t figure out why :)
Why, thank you TEB! ;)
Meanwhile… I have tombs to consecrate :)
Good Morning, Pan!
Happy Mother’s Day to the moms out there.
I had the most amazingly relaxing night hanging out with my girlfriends, hot tubbin’, drinking yummy martinis and eating junk food.
Then I got to sleep in a bed all by myself and I slept in.
It was incredibly awesome.
Happy Mothers Day to good moms everywhere, especially all of the Deadpan moms. :)
CP: Little Acorns — The White Stripes
Saw Star Trek.
I have two comments (no spoilers I promise)
1) What kind of idiot brings a baby to a movie!!! I couldn’t believe it when I heard the kid crying.
2) Poor George :(
There, left my actual thoughts of the new Star Trek on the other JM comments page. As well as a link to WTF moments for Star Trek..
OK, more tombs to consecrate.
Happy Mother’s Day indeed. We had my wife’s side of the family so the menfolk (well, me actually) could cook while the women lounged about and the children played in the yard.
And, I have also ventured even deeper into the darkside – I’ve setup a partition with the Windows 7 Release Candidate. I’m downloaded the official Nvidia driver now. Which is good as Win7 has proven a bit unstable with the Vista driver. Looks pretty sharp, though.
So I’ve dug out the old laptop to do a bit audio recording as the webcam has a better mic.
Why do people want large screen laptops there are so bloody clunky?
So stucking installing a load of updates as I haven’t used the laptop in over a year.
I’m tempted to put Windows 7 RC1 on my old desktop.
Apparently Nvidia and Windows 7 don’t seem to play nicely together. Even running the latest certified drivers (185.85), I’m getting a flash to a black screen followed by a return to the desktop with a bubble message saying that the Nvidia kernel driver successfully recovered from a crash. It’s happening about every five minutes.
I’ve switched back to my Vista partition. So far, I’m not seeing much help for this problem, but I’m definitely not alone, judging from a number of google hits on various forums.
CW: last night’s Saturday Night Live. Laughing. Hard.
Well, there were several promising trailers attached to Star Trek. Found a site to help plan for the wave of Summer blockbusters:
http://www.film-releases.com/
Mark those calendars…
Cj: Your Oreo Loaded Cupcakes went over very well at tonight’s Cake-Off. They didn’t win (my friend Lauren won with her excellent lemon cake), but they did receive compliments. Thanks again for telling me how to make them. :-)
Night, Pan.
Weekend fail. Overtime work was painfully physical. No Wolvie or Trek. And after having a better day and a half, boy is ill again (still?)
I am currently looking for the do-over switch on the back. I have a straightened paper clip in hand.
I actually saw some of these comments at Dan and Cj’s house, before recording their special episode of LLAP.
That sounds interesting. Like a journey through multiple dimensions, watching comments through a window on the universe.
Did somebody order a Monday? If so, please pick it up and take it away as soon as possible. kthxbai.
Me, I’m pretty sure I ordered a straight block of Saturdays. Must be trouble at the mill…..
I like Friday nights. I’ll take dibs on them if no one else minds.
Morning, Deadpan!
This weekend went by too fast. Back to Evil, Inc. for me.
1280 tracks left . . .
Well I’m having a lazy last day of holidays, back to the grind tomorrow.
Been a hell of a week lately. Actually out of a key supply this morning so I’m down to coasting a bit. Trying to brainstorm content for the Pan, and help Jack with his dearth.
Morning Pan!
Was at the office this morning. Home now.
Boo is taking me for Mother’s Day lunch today as it is the first day we are both free. East Indian Buffet = yum
Van, I have a 17″ monitor on my laptop. Huge, yes. But it’s also my gaming computer so I like it.
What? How did Jack get into my house? I really need to find a better security system.
I can’t have hot guys just wandering about reading comments. My husband might start to wonder…
I’m going to look at two private home facilities today in the hopes of finding my Gram a new place to live. Should be an interesting project. Better go wash the children.
Time to drink from the fire hose!
Just don’t do what they did for my grandfather, CJ. One of his sons took him to a care facility to look around. They said, “How do you like it.” He said, “ok, I guess.”
they said, “ok, goodbye” and left him there. No choice. He was not a happy camper. On the otherside of it though, he had Alzheimer and couldn’t look after himself but refused to move out of his apartment. It was probably the only way to get him at a facility to get the help he needed. It was still pretty sneaky and underhanded, though.
WW: UHF reference For.The.Win!
TEB, my Gram would come unglued. She’s pretty sharp for 93. And she may be blind and mostly deaf, but she never forgets anything and she seems to always know what is going on.
Well… this is interesting. I just watched the Dollhouse finale and while it was good, it was also confused. And yet the final 20 seconds made me gasp and tear up just a bit. I certainly didn’t expect this.
3 Weeks before the invasion of Phoenix by Wander Radio… (Insert dramatic music here)
So I got a couple of quotes to replace the back and front doors to our house. I’m not sure what the difference is, but one place is going to charge almost half of what the other place would.
I got both names off the Better Business Bureau website so you’d think there wouldn’t be such a price difference.
Obviously we’re going with the lesser cost.
Giant crappile of work to do. But still waiting on that key supply. Last word was the vendor thought they had some warehoused locally.
But if we have to wait on the 2-day shipment things are gonna be dead. And then very, very hectic.
I don’t know how bad or good the care system is in the USA. But if you must put an elderly relative in a care home:
Visit them regularly and at different times, don’t have a set pattern. This is the best way of discovering how well someone is getting looked after.
Don’t assume they are getting fed properly (vitally important if they can’t feed themselves), stay during meal times if you can and see how well the staff are doing the job.
If you think your relative is ill, don’t be fobbed off by the nursing staff, insist on a visit by a Doctor, or threaten to call the ambulance yourself.
Oh and I know a few care staff in the UK, and they all make the same comment. Elderly people with no visitors get neglected, because they have noone to fight for them.
Does one Wolf an invasion make?
Van you’re not helping me build suspense here…
“The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.”
-Hector Berlioz
“Music is like girlfriends to me; I’m continually astonished by the choices other people make.”
-David Lee Roth
”
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
-Charles Babbage
There are a few more quotes for your door, Bunny. I hope it helps.
CD:Trying to install Windows RC1 on old desktop.
It appears to be stuck in a loop.
Ooooh pretty!
;)
Now to the DP women, would you buy a dell if it was called della and came in pink:
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/05/aint-i-a-woman-della-markets-inspirons-to-women.html
Ok I’m impressed, and it’s been a LONG time since MS impressed me.
The old desktop is from 2002, all the hardware detected after some updates were downloaded. Even detected both soundcards in the system.
Got an old 6600GT nvidia card, and I’m not getting the kernel recovery problem every 5 minutes.
Back from a nice long lunch with my Boo.
Van, I would not buy a computer based on colour on name. In fact, I feel I’m being patronized and would probably go out of my way to avoid such a product.
Now to find out who murdered my best friend (Drakensang – same game with the crypts, just a different story line :) )
CW: Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Watching while I work thanks to Netflix live streaming. I’ve always been a huge fan of Dead Like Me.
My laptop is cute and green which was just a bonus. I didn’t actually buy it based on those reasons.
If the computer were thee right price at the right time, I’d buy it, but those factors would not make the final difference unless that was the ONLY difference.
I’d always choose green over pink even though I’m most definitely one of the most girliest of girls and being treated like a girl doesn’t bother me at all.
don’t get me wrong, CJ. I don’t mind being treated like a girl. Hold my door open; give me flowers, dress me up in nice clothes, etc. I like that. Just don’t patronize me and assume, because it’s got a cutesie name and colour I will accept it over something that might suit me better.
I guess it’s a bit of a fine line that is different for everybody
I agree, TEB, don’t expect it. I guess I appreciate that it’s an option since we all like different things. It’s when it’s offered as “the one for you” when something else is OBVIOUSLY a better item that’s when it’s BS. Cute cannot makeup for something being a POS.
Ah yes, let me show my appreciation by giving you a dying plant.
Van :razz:
I like flowers. I buy them every other week for my dining room table.
I would love to receive flowers. I don’t care of they are going to die on my table in my vase. I’d just really like to have some.
Yes it’s one of the great mysteries of the female psych.
It’s not entirely a mystery. Flowers are pretty, they enhance their surroundings, and they smell good. Kinda like the girls who might want them! :P
CP: Great Day – Jody Gnant
Netflix tells me “S. Darko” will arrive in the mail tomorrow.
Mildly frightened at the prospect…
Buffy Between the Lines Season 2 Ep. 11 went live this weekend. Didn’t work out in all the ways I wanted, but it’s pretty good, as I wrote it…
Evening, Pan.
JB, I forgot to tell you I saw S. Darko in the Best Buy ad yesterday.
We just spent a good hour and a half doing some serious yardwork. Things are looking up out there – wish you could all come by for a bbq — I smoke some mean ribs.
Sly B ran across this while doing some work research:
http://www.noisebuffet.com/
Pretty cool, Ess and Sly Bees.
Deadpanites, I’m not meaning to be all self-serving, but please check out the BBtL episode, I think you’ll find some fun in it…
I’ll have to check my iTunes feed JB, since the new episode hasn’t shown up in iTunes for me.
Morning Pan, back to work today, ugh.
Dpwnloaded, JB.
The kiddo is finally doing okay. Which means that the loverly lady is ill.
And I sneezed jello, red jello, through my nose. So … I’m next.
JB – I’ve only seen a few episodes of Buffy. I listened to BBTL s1ep1 – s1ep3 and while they were good, there was too much background that I just didn’t understand.
Would BBTL s2ep11 be accessible to a newb like me or should I hold off until I have actually seen the applicable Buffy season?
I think it would be fairly accessible. The setup is that this is set between seasons 2 & 3 of the tv series, when Buffy ran away to LA after sending Angel to a hell dimension. She is wanted for murder of the slayer Kendra, She had a fight with her mother before running away.
Otherwise, the main plot of this ep is self-contained for the most part.
Good morning, DP!
JB, I’ll check it out tonight when my iTunes recovery is FINALLY finished. 530 tracks left . . . w00t! That will make this process 7 days exactly. Sheesh.
I’m off to the ATM and LOWES early this morning, then on to Evil, Inc. Have a great day, y’all.
Morning Pan
Rain today, followed by snow tonight when it cools off. Blech.
(I am in shock)
Someone actually wants to interview me.
(I am still in shock)
Congrats, Wolf!
Cool news Wolf.
Cool Wolf. Who, What, When and Where?
CP: “My Old Flame” – Spike Jones and his City Slickers
Good morning, Pan.
I went to bed crazy early (for me) last night and of course now I’m up and online before anyone else in my house is even awake.
To enjoy a cup of coffee alone is one of life’s little pleasures. I’m going to enjoy it!
Off to do that and d/l BBtL
Blog Talk Radio.
http://www.rhondacarpenter.com/openbook/?p=403
You can find out more there.
Rhonda Carpenter from Podioracket has a podiobook show on Blog Talk Radio. I will be on Thursday afternoon. I believe it will be available for download afterwards…
When I am away from work I’ll find better links.
Van: Um… I already have a Dell Inspiron. It is silver, which I think is a pretty color, and it works great. I am entirely indifferent to a pink netbook named Della. Even if I did have to replace this laptop, I wouldn’t get a pink one.
WNDRWolf: Congratulations! :-)
I’m going to post a link in my next comment. It may or may not get moderated.
imag1: Here’s a link to the Deadpan group on Facebook, in case you hadn’t found it yet.
Not much actually goes on on the Deadpan Facebook group. I’m open to suggestions on what to add for content (or if someone wants to be moderator)
Yay, link didn’t get moderated.
I think the Deadpan FB group is handy to have as a roster of everyone who wants to identify themselves as a listener.
TEB: I know what we could do for content on the Facebook group: Pictures of the items featured in our show contributions! The books and albums we steal paragraphs and lyrics from, the things whose contents we list, and so on.
Ok, I’ll see what I can do for the next cast. I suppose these can also be a type of show notes with links to things mentioned in the cast.
I’ll do what I can on Thursday.
Cool. :-)
Okay, I’m off to school.
Currently in my spam folder: “Make Her an Animal inn Bed”.
What’s an Animal Inn Bed look like? Isn’t that just a pet bed? Why would I make her that? ;)
What kind of beds to they have at animal inns? And do you really want to have one?
CP: Superman’s Dead – Our Lady Peace
CP: Major Tom – Peter Schilling (German version)
Ok, those on FB, I going to make some changes to the Fans of DP site sometime today (still working so may be later in the day). For those on this page, is it ok that I put your AKA Deadpan name with your name so we can identify eachother?
I think I know most everybody’s real name but I’ll have people double check once I’ve done it.
TEB – Feel free. I will join it once I get home.
I have so many other names other places. Paul Maki is 100% fine, it is how I prefer to be identified on anything I create, thus alleviating the need to explain the aliases to anyone I’m pointing toward my craft…
I’m happy to be labeled.
Can you put an RSS feed to all of the shows on the Facebook page as well?
Wolf, you’re already a member
JB. You are “Paul Maki”. I was thinking of seeing if I can add something like “AKA JohnBoze” simply so those on this board will recognize us if they are also on FB
Ok, to get your AKA name, you have to become an “officer” You have no power, just a title.
CJ, I’ll see about adding the RSS. I’m not sure about that though.
Also, does anybody want to be an Admin. This give you the chance to do the type of changes I’m doing (everybody can upload links, pictures, and movies though).
I’ve started adding “officers” with AKA names. INumber, I don’t actually know your real name. If you are on this, and want your AKA name on the FB page, send me a note (ryahatnucleusdotcom).
Anybody else, if you’re not sure if I know your real name and want to be an “officer” with your aka name (or if you don’t have a DP aka name but want something put up anyway), also send me a note. Everybody can be an “officer” as far as I’m concerned.
CJ, not sure how to put up the RSS feed. Have added the last cast is up to “recent news”. Will have to play with it to see how I can incorporate the other suggestions (anybody with better FB skills than me is welcome with “how to” suggestions.
TEB: proceed. ;)
Well, enough of this for now.
Off to Futureshop.
Ditto, you don’t seem to be a “fan of DP” on facebook. You’ll have to join before I can give you a name :)
CP: The Bitter End — Placebo
I sent you a personal invite, ditto.
TEB: done.
Ok, really am off to Future Shop now ;)
Currently in spam folder: love potion!
Sounds great, so long as it isn’t #9. That’s more trouble than it’s worth.
A Mr Mangan and Greasy spoon appeared in t5hat BBTL episode..LOL JB.
Annoyingly, I can absolutely put a very cool feed reading tool in my Facebook page, but I don’t know much about group pages and it seems they are very limited in functionality.
If you want to make me an admin, I’ll tool around with it, but information I’m finding in my research basically says it’s not possible. *grumble*