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Iron… Maidens?
http://www.theironmaidens.com/demo/demo.html
I just don’t know what to make of that, Rhett
Yo…. Popping in – no time to get caught up (right now).
Unfortunately, the Iron Maidens are merely a Maiden cover band with a gimmick. The most impressive thing I’ve heard from them is a spot-on live version of 7th Son of a 7th Son.
I’m home from play group and we have successfully strewn LEGOS about the room in less than 2 minutes.
That is all.
The weekend may now commence.
Interesting bit with the “when in the future SciFi movies take place” post.
They forgot Dune, though :)
No they didn’t Ed. Dune is the last one.
Snuck out and got some spirits for tonight’s gaming. Now ready for the weekend.
Looks like we’re in for another afternoon storm.
Ghost for gaming night…
Where can I buy mine?
I shouldn’t be surprised but here, Wolf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockportmike/3280936759/
Some micro-brewer really REALLY needs to make a “Natural 20″ ale (or something similar). . . I know D&D nights are not as prevalent as they were in pre-internet days, but a quality beer specifically brewed for gaming night would still find a devoted consumer-base.
Just make sure it goes well with Cheetos.
Stop the insanity… Get New Job.
Wait, that’s my to do list…
Will have real comments soon.
…mmmMMMmmm… Beer
These are not the comments you are looking for.
I know ROFLWoW Podcast taste tested the new Horde flavored Mt. Dew last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-QQ5G-e3g
Does that come with extra trotters?
Hubby and I host table top gaming on Fridays (Arkham Horror, Munchkin, Catan, etc) and do D & D most Saturday nights.
D’oh! I expected it to be at the bottom of the list and apparently my eyes passed right over it.
I stand duly corrected.
Still no sign of deranged computers.
I wish I had a good D&D group around me that I was aware of. Meetup has one listed. Checking it out gave me the heeby-jeebies (sp?). I cringed in horror and closed the tab, never to return again.
WNDRWolf: Most excellent and congrats on the nominations!
This made me smile a bit. Seems Clinton is not immune to the unconstitutional NSA surveillance.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/pinwale
Still on the plus side you can play Tetris on facebook.
I miss D&D night :(
Any realistic chance we could get together and do this over skype somehow?
Would it just be to “meh” to try?
We may as well do it over Twitter with a bank of Commodore 64′s.
So am I the only one who thinks the ‘hero’ in Krod Mandoon sounds like Tee Morris?
Yeah I know he’s an English guying putting on an american accent.
J0e, if you’re asking me, most likely not. Nine time out of ten it turns put to be just hubby and I because lives got in the way. We’ve actually (almost) come to prefer it (although, if we had less busy friends in the area and could get together regularly we might change our mind).
We’re currently working our way through the new version 4
Van, I can play Tetris without Facebook, too. :)
H, doorbell ringing. Gotta go!
Ed: I lolz-ified at that one
So just me then.
;)
According to an article in Retro Gamer, this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_mini
Has one of the best versions of Tetris.
Congrats are in order to WNDRWolf for the award nominations!
Well deserved, Wolf! Congrats!
Wolf got nominated? Right on!
The last two weeks have been busy as hell for me. Sorry for the light participation from me. Jack, yes I got your voice mail and yes we need to plan something. Anyway, DnD was mentioned so I must comment! First off I agree that most of these advertised groups are scary. It’s always better to get a group of your friends together and play. To justaJOe’s point of playing over the internet, there is software specifically created to do just that. I haven’t ever tried it, but I’m guessing it wouldn’t be hard to accomplish. After listening to the podcast game with Wil Wheaton, PvP and Penny Arcade I’m itching to start playing again. Plus it would make for good podcasting fodder (and cannon fodder too!)
Vanamonde: Re: Krod. I have absolutely no idea what this is, so I cannot comment. :-)
Rhettro: Nice to see you back. We are on the hunt for friends, as pathetic as that may sound. Mayhap we’ll get lucky and they’ll want to play. Who knows.
Recently saw a photo of a woman in a two-piece bathing suit. Whomever did the touch-up was so drunk with Photoshop power, he airbrushed out her belly-button.
Just a quick hop in. Short gaming session.
When we were doing distance D&D we used Screen Monkey. It seemed to work pretty well. The biggest issue with distance gaming is time zones. One person’ s early is anothers late.
Now to rustle some food. Need to dilute some of this beer in my system
PS: I lost at gaming but hubby won so I guess it evened out
CD: Listening to hubby play Back In Black on the guitar
CLHP ( currently listening to hubby play): Sin City – AC/DC
CLHP: Long Live Rock and Roll – Rainbow
I’m here.
OK, I’m gone again. Have a great Friday, everyone.
http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/
Lesson learnt this morning:
Always double check you haven’t left yesterdays teabags in the teapot when making your morning cup of tea.
eeeww, Van. That’ll teach you
Cj, those were funny.
Morning Pan! It’s 7:30 AM and looking to be a glorious day!
I want to get up and get my wallet to make an Amazon purchase but the cat is curled up so cute in a sunbeam in my way. I guess Amazon will have to wait.
Now 8:30 AM, all you lazy bums should be wide awake by now! :)
I’m totally awake! I’m no bum.
I wouldn’t mine being a cute cat sleeping in a sunbeam though. Lucky cat.
Hah! It’s almost 4pm here.
“I just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in”
So, I tweeted this, but am going to share it here because it’s odd. I received a check in the mail from the Federal Trade Commission for $27.68.
It says that a credit card of mine was compromised in 1998. That’s an amazingly long time ago for me. I had a different name, lived elsewhere, wasn’t married etc… I’m sure I didn’t have any of the credit cards I currently have.
I’m having a hard time trusting that it’s real even though there is a complete and valid information on the FTC website http://ftc.gov/opa/2009/06/jkpublications.shtm saying it’s real. AND.. there are no weird markings on the check saying it isn’t real or anything. It’s just a standard issue check.
Like free money dropping from the skies. I’m totally cool with that.
It’s frolicing with the tumbleweeds.
4pm? Hurm . . . By my calculations, Vanamonde is either in Iraq or Australia.
# Van is in the UK.
Cj: If you’re absolutely sure it’s legit, take the money and run.
Speaking of running. Must do a few things then off to my normal Saturday morning kick butt session :)
There was a guy over here whose CC was compromised.
Unfortunately for him, child porn was bought using his CC details. The Police arrested him and he was charged as a paedophile.
Took him a long time to clear his name and in the process lost his job.
Cj: I hate to peddle Yahoo Answers as having anything other than total nonsense, but the only thing I found readily is:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090614130346AAJiBsa
The only input I have is that the ONLY thing the credit bureaus have correct are my past residences, even though I’ve tried to keep a low profile overall.
Also, I’ve seen a credit of something like $16 dollars come back to a business owner when a judge determined that Visa tried to railroad retailers’ customers into using charge instead of debt, or visa versa, nearly a decade later.
Vanamonde: Sadly all too common.
OoooohOOoooohing, the new slider control in 3.0 works so much better than the old one.
Listening to JC Hutchens debrief about Personal Effects Dark Art..a bit depressing.
I’m actually assuming it’s valid based on the fact that it’s on the FTC’s website and the fact that there are no unusual notations or small print type stuff on the check.
I would as well.
I’ve heard that Games of Chance podiobook-thing. I was very unimpressed. Especially at the end when he thanks all the people that helped him flesh out the book, like people at NASA. I can’t see one point in the story where there was a great little nugget of detail that made the story any more real.
It looks like I might be doing some live music at this year’s Podcamp AZ.
Well, Jack, that is something for us to all be excited about now! Woo hoo!
/happydance
I thought CJ’s websites was texAsfromlastnight. But that would be something totally different.
Getting ready to head to the pool with my son. He’s become fond of the canonball now that he can stand in the pool with his head above water.
Hey Deadpan!
Back from butt kicking workout. Had Subway for lunch. Now just killing the afternoon until we go out with the World Fantasy crowd for steak dinners.
Congragts, Jack!
*joins Cj in dancing*
Cool news Jack.
Looks like we’re going to get another afternoon rainstorm
Excellent, Jack!
World Fantasy crowd? Sounds neet. Kinda reminds me of an old Mad Magazine comic. Man’s reading Playboy. His wife complains, “Why do you read this trash?”. He replies, “I enjoy it. It makes me feel like the whole world is having an orgy.”. But then he concludes with a frown, “Except me.”.
I would join Cj and The Energizer Bunny in dancing, but I make Elaine from Seinfeld look graceful.
# World Fantasy is a yearly convention. We had the convention here in Calgary last year and I was on the committee. We were, and are, friends anyway so we decided to get the committee (and spouses) together and have dinner at one of our steak houses. We are expecting about 20 people at tonight’s dinner.
CD: waiting for the iPhone to erase all it’s date so I can do a restore in a possible futile attempt to sort out the increased battery consumption.
- date +data
CP: Streaming The Wishing Bridge album by Matt Mango from Spotify.
/slurp.
TEB: Sweet!
Oh and as I listened to Sofanauts, they mentioned a app for the iPhone/iPod Touch:
http://www.steampunktales.com/
The idea being that with 3.0, you will be able to buy future issues from within the emagazine.
Only had a quick flick through so can’t comment on the quality of the stories, but the presentation can get in the way (as mentioned by one of the Sofanauts guest).
Hopefully the big SCIFI mags will jump on this bandwagon..but I’m not holding my breath.
+s
Took the kids swimming for about 2 hours. I’m incapable of tanning – even though I’m an Arizona native – but I produce freckles at the speed of light while in the sun with or without my SPF 50.
I kinda wanna go into hiding right now.
Or I could do like Jan did on the Brady Bunch and try to rub them off with a lemon.
Of course if I had a lemon, I’d have to dredge it in sugar.
and if I have a lemon dredged in sugar, I’ll have to mix 1 part Vodka Citron and 1 part Frangelico in a shot glass to enjoy it with.
Wait… was I talking about again?
Bitter Sweet
The Brady Bunch passed me by, judging from that lemon-freckles tip that would appear to be a good thing.
Jack: Congratulations! Podcamp AZ is going to rock in more ways than one this year! :-)
CT: Opal Fruits..mmmmm!
Time drags by when you are waiting for iTunes to sync after a restore.
Indeed. Itunes seems to really not know how to use a USB port properly.
Congrats on the live gig news, Jack.
Thanks all. I actually posted that comment live from the PodCamp meeting.
It’s not a paying gig or anything – but, hopefully I’ll have gotten my act together sufficiently by then to make a live performance profitable in some way — other than getting me attention.
It turns out that I’m kinda now running the music panel. . . which is why I’m fairly sure I’ll get a slot for a musical performance.
I’m up way past my bedtime. I hope you are all having sweet dreams!
Happy Father’s Day, dads and kids everywhere.
I was introduced to chocolate cake shots last year. As I recall, it’s half Frangelico and half lemon vodka. Down it and then suck (or eat, in my case) on a sugar-dusted slice of lemon. That’s my one lemon-related booze deal.
Summer Solstice today, it’s down hill all the to winter.
+way
Vanamonde: Yep, I switched over to iced coffee officially today.
Morning Pan!
Happy Daddy’s Day to all the daddy’s (even if it’s just the daddy of your pet).
Under the heading, I really need to communicate with my friends more:
Had dinner with a bunch of friends last night.
1) the girl who was originally going to come to Arizona with me was there
2) one of the couples who regularly come to our Friday Gaming nights was there.
I was talking to girl 1 about some of the DP stuff that might be going on when couple 2 (who were sitting beside us) overheard and said “You’re going to the Terry Pratchett convention? Here we thought we were the only ones from Calgary who would be going!”
I see these people on a regular basis and neither one of us mentioned this before… like I said, communication.
They asked for a link to this site, they may (or may not) join in this craziness we call DeadPan.
For Daddy’s Day, our one daughter gave hubby a Deep Purple DVD. He was happy with his gift.
Congrats on the nomination, WW.
I got to sleep in for Father’s day after a late night of gaming. Soon, we’re heading for lunch (or, in my case, breakfast) to one of my favorite restaurants. Not a bad start to the day.
Hope all the sires out there are enjoying their day as well.
Have fun jammin at PodCamp, Jack!
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads.
You know, when you see this “I was talking to girl 1 about some of the DP stuff” sometimes your mind just goes in the wrong direction.
*cough*
Tsk, tsk, ditto
Well, I survived Relay. It went very well. Our team made our goal. Our Relay didn’t but we did better than last year. I was busy all night so I never got tired, but at the same time, I only got to walk around the track once. When I checked my pedometer, I found out I walked 16 miles! No wonder I’m still tired and sore.
So, my reward is to go see “Up”.
Later!
I’m just sayin’! ;)
Have fun at the movie, ditto. A well deserved break!
Ah, ditto. Thanks for reassuring me that I wasn’t the only one. ;-)
We are taking the kids to see “Up” today as well, but first….
I’m makin’ hubby’s favorite breakfast – WAFFLES.
We already lavished him with gifts of a new desk chair and Wrath of the Lich King.
mmmm, waffles.
Mmmms waffles
Just add maple syrup and vanilla ice cream.
Is that my waist expanding?
I prefer my waffles with berries and whip cream…
We have strawberries and cherries here.
I know someone who prefers their man that way.
drum roll
So according to this weeks Times supplement a shave from one of these:
http://www.carterandbond.com/detail.phtml?pID=PK1090&filter=Shaving:Razors,+Safety
is the equivalent of listening to vinyl instead of MP3s.
Hmmmmm!
Happy Father’s Day to all those fathers out there. My family got me a nice box of See’s Candy. Yum. I plan on calling my dad this afternoon. :)
“Up” was fabulous.
Van, so those razors make crackly noises if dust gets on them?
ditto — kudos on your relay. I feel like I didn’t do enough to support your cause this year.
No problems, Jack. It’s not like I gave you any notice, and you certainly have enough on your mind.
Up doesn’t get released till October in the UK.
Taking the urine for fook’s sake.
“Yea” for up! I want to see.
Re: waffles
Can I just say Kewwl whhip!
… and finally – that mower that I struggled with to get started last week (valve timing, battery shorted out, then “snapped a blade deck belt”) … drum roll please …
It just broke a push rod. (“engine done broke big time” for you non-motor heads).
I’d rather suffer a withering blintzkrieg attack from the Luftwaffle.
Isn’t it.
I have to give a thumbs-up for my electric mower.
My wife just pointed out the most awesome shirt. On the back, it reads:
“I handle wild animals for a living. If I am running: Keep Up!”
lol
Suxors on the mower mayhem, jj.
A wee bit over the top:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/19/filesharing-single-mother
So’s this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/21/kingsnorth-protester-arrests-video-complaint
If you own both a PS3 and a 360 a good site for comparison of games released on both formats:
http://www.eurogamer.net/archive.php?platform=digitalfoundry&type=face-off
Home from “Up” – holy crap. That movie is going to keep Kleenex in business.
I hate to tweet, but I currently have a frying pan full of salsify (SAL sih fee) from a can. I’ve added pepper and a few drops of olive oil.
Anyone else ever cooked this stuff? Any other suggestions while it’s on the stovetop?
Pretty damn tasty so far, btw.
/tweet
What is it Jack?
Happy father’s day, boys!
Sounds interesting, Jack. I’ve never heard of it before, but now I’d like to try it!
http://www.essortment.com/all/whatissalsify_rgps.htm
Ryah: W00t! Potential new Deadpanites are always good news! :-)
ditto: Yay! I’m glad you had a good Relay.
Night, Pan!
I’d never heard of salsify. hmmm
Also, just finished recording LLAP #118. The title of which will most likely be “Saucer Shaped Sections” if I remember.
I’m really over-tired and don’t know why. I should not be.
They lost me at ‘tastes like oysters’.
Morning Pan, the next two shifts are going to be a pain.
I just dumped the little stalks out of the can into a frying pan. I think they were actually a little tastier before cooking, but were still kind of good. I get the oyster part. . . they do have kind of a seafoody consistency.
OK, that’s not selling these things very well, but I’d certainly try them again.
Sounds…um, well not so good actually. But, that’s OK. It’s Monday now. Too early on Monday for coherence.
Morning Pan!
Was downtown already and back again. Decided I don’t like the new downtown office. They like to have the air conditioner cranked right up, so I spent most of the morning freezing.
Well, as fun as this is, I’m off in my never ending quest for the perfect pair of jeans. A girlfriend of mine, I think the only one I know who is actually shorter than I am, recommended a place I’m going to look at.
Later!
Good morning!
I’m mopping floors today and doing laundry and of course, Monday is 3 extra kids day and spreadsheet due day. It’s amazing I get anything done on Mondays, but really, I think I do more than any other day of the week.
This week I need to get my car smogged and buy a new pair of sneakers. I have set amazing goals for myself as you can see!
Ooh and I almost forgot. I totally need to wax my eyebrows. I bet you are all so glad I shared that information with you!
I must confess, the notion of waxing eyebrows has never remotely occurred to me. Be sure to get us some before and after pictures :)
I wax them every couple weeks. I doubt you’d notice any difference. It’s all about those extraneous little strands of hair that nobody sees, but me and my beautician. I see three little hairs and think “I’m a hairy beast” when really.. I’m not very hairy at all.
I’m totally having a TMI moment. Sorry.
Even though it’s only 11:00 I could really, really, REALLY, use something to drink right now.
I, don’t wax anything. I’m not that much of a masochist :)
A waxed bunny. . . . chew on that mental image for awhile.
Hairless Bunny…
Cuter than a Hairless Chihuahua?
This is hilarious for so many reasons right now.
God, I need a drink.
CW: True Blood S2E2
Oh and I have a terrible confession.
My eyebrows tend towards the bushy, so every few months I shave a bit higher than usual.
Or lower if I’m shaving my head.
Cough
You shave lower than your eyebrows, Van? How low?
There, managed to convince a friend to come over (the female half of the couple going to Arizona too). We won’t be drinking alcohol, but still… A break is a break.
She’s going to help me make a case for justifiable homicide. Just in case I need it/