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Lunchtime doubly so?
This sounds intriguing, but I have doubts it would fly…
http://is.gd/1fkj0
Hi. I wanted to leave some panties of my own here even though I’m on vacation.
Wheee! I’m in Camarillo, CA right now in Hotel. Probably won’t be checking in much this weekend – just at bedtime. Had to bring my laptop because of work stuff that just can’t wait til Tuesday.
I’ve been driving since 11am on and off visiting people on the way in different towns… letting my hubby sleep while I drove.
I’m exhausted. So… gonna go read and get some sleep myself.
Hope you are all enjoying your weekends!
Morning Pan, the pilot of Virtuality (pilot for a possible new series) is on the internet:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2718753
There was some redundancy in that last statement.
Hurm . . . Audacity is being a bit crashy.
Good morning, DP.
Cj – enjoy your vacation. I hope you’re getting to relax some.
I miss you guys. I hope everyone is healthy and has something pleasurable planned for the day.
My parents are on the way for a visit. We bought my mom crab legs for her 60th, and they’re in the freezer waiting to be eaten. “Get in my belly” is what we’ll be saying tonight.
*hugs* all of y’all.
-of
cough
Welcome to DP recording italic i.
It is indeed crashy.
i
hahahahahahahahahaha!
i
Now if I can just remember the italic tag the next time I want to shorten i name.
+ ‘s
Oh and before forget, Happy Birthday Essbee tomorrow.
I needed the grammar nazi for that last message.
+I
Oh and I need to ask, are these actually crab legs or the vert smelly, contain almost no crab, crab legs that we get in the UK?
-t +y
Thanks, Van.
They are actual Alaskan king crab legs!
Don’t look if you have good taste in food:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_stick
The old ways may still be the best.
The old ways may still be the best:
http://www.slate.com/id/2221397
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_12523427
Maybe ditto and TEB could comment.
http://re.zoink.it/4a45b54b
for a working Virtuality torrent download.
Just a quick hop in.
Van,
My first thought was the person how wrote that article said he lived in the states for 17 years. That means not living in Canada – therefore does not necessarily have a clear picture of what present conditions are like.
Yes, basic doctor’s/hospital visits are covered but anything else is covered on a province by province basis.
While there is national spending on healthcare, there is also an amount spent by an allocated by the provinces. “free” healthcare is a bit of a misnomer as provinces can opt to charge. Hear in Alberta, up until last year, we were charged $88 a month per family for health care.
Also, what is covered changes from province to province. Again, here in Alberta, ambulance charges are not covered. If you call an ambulance, you will then get a bill in the mail for $400. Prescriptions, dental, optical and even many needed treatments are not covered by our healthcare system. Most Albertans (and presumably most Canadians) actually have outside healthcare plans either provided by their workplace or individually (i.e. purchase of Blue Cross themselves).
Approximately 1/3 of our provincial budget is spent on healthcare, which is a large chunk of change. Also, Alberta spends more per capita on healthcare than any other province but is notorious for having the longest wait times and, generally, some of the poorest healthcare coverage in the country. Take from that what you will.
All that taken in account, however, there are still plenty of advantages to the Canadian system. As I said, basic costs are covered so, if you break your leg, you can be assured you will (eventually) get it looked at and fixed at no cost (except the cost of the pain medication). My daughter goes to the psychiatrist once a month, and she is covered by our federal/provincial system (this is usually a case by case basis for her particular problem). you have a baby… no charges.
You have to weigh the pros and cons, I guess. Long wait times and not everything covered (despite the myth that it is), vs. paying of all you costs. Although, I have a feeling a lot of our issues are bureaucratic more than anything (see cost per capita above)
I’ve also never been turned down my our outside healthcare provider for anything. Take that as you will, too.
Ok, done my rant.
Gotta go again.
I’ve heard some horror stories of Canadian Healthcare, but – - – even for the Toronto guy who waited a full year to get his cracked skull mended – - – the system still cannot possibly be worse than it is here in the U.S.
That said, I have my doubts about Obama’s ability to fix it. Too many powerful opponents who are making too much money off of the current mess.
Cough:
http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie?skyline=true&s=i
“the movie’s pure celebration of the primal urge, and unfiltered living, will make you rejoice in your adult diapers.”
That’s hilarious, Van.
http://riotclitshave.com/2009.06/2110331495_3da5d191e0_o.jpg
Cj: Are you in the Hampton Inn? If so, you’re in the very same hotel where my family and I stayed on the weekend of my graduation from college.
Amy, nope. Right now I’m at a friend’s house, but we are staying at a Days Inn. Pretty exciting actually. One of our beds is kinda like a slide – unfortunately, my son slid out of it in the middle of the night. We are making some adjustments tonight.
Killing Michael Bay:
http://www.spike.com/video/killing-michael-bay/2472952
Oh and Cj, looks like you were making Mommy Kitten blush in that latest FB photo you posted.
Well, I do love Mommy Kitten.
She will be posting a similar picture of her kissing me. I’m sure I returned the blush.
I should go to sleep now.
As much as I love hotels, I miss my bed a little right now.
Goodnight, Pan.
Okay. I’ve signed up with twitter and started following Jack.
I’ve used a fake name, so Jack do you see Vanamonde_Dpan or the fake name?
I’m following you now, too, Van. :-)
I’m taking Vanamonde’s lead and wishing EssBee a happy birthday!
It does seem as though one needs to be more stubborn than Audacity, then eventually it’ll work.
I have the same pseudonym on Twitter and identi.ca, so now I’m following yous three.
Wait, Cj is The Mighty Mommy? I’ve been listening to you for months and I did not catch on.
Jack, did you get my submissions? I have a few more to send, but I’d like to make sure you got the first ones first. Firstly.
I’m such a slacker.
So Amy, do you see the fake name on Twitter?
I see Vanamonde_Dpan/Your first name, last name
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to answer for Amy Bowen.
Bugger, fake name stays then.
Happy Birthday EssBee!!!!
We’ve got the Chicago pride parade today. Very very excited about it. All of Hugh’s brothers and Sisters and nieces and nephews are over and we making it a family event.. I just hope we can shield all the kids from the overly naughty bits in time :)
Have a super duper birthday EssBee!
EssBee- I hope you are proud.. I mentioned you and naughty bits in the same post. Score for Essbee. :)
I can’t believe how many times a day I hear about twittering.. Call me old fashioned or maybe just dumb but I don’t get it. No offense to anyone, I think you should do what you like, but for me personally I still just don’t get it.
I’ve even noticed when Hugh is watching ESPN they will comment several times a day about what some big sports person twittered about on whatever sports happening of the day.
Then on Pitchfork media they are always making note of crazy rock stars odd tweets.. and I do find those comical sometimes, like the trent reznor ones.. but still as much as I love Trent.. I don’t know… as I said, I am probably just too old or too uncool :)
enough twitter musings.. time to feed the masses and prepare for pride festivities
I hope all you panites everywhere have/had a great Sunday
I can say that overall I find Twitter mostly useless. However, I do get some great info from identi.ca. They’re essentially the same, but identi.ca has more tech geeks on it, so for me there’s a lot higher signal-to-noise ratio. But I don’t do any of this stuff mobile. I don’t think that it’s healthy to never be untethered from the webbernets.
As for Trent Reznor, he was at one point the only reason I kept my Twitter account. But he only posts things from his site now, no real personal posts, and never reads what people write to him. He was getting slammed by trolls and he got fed up with it all. The few spoil it for the many.
But I too get annoyed when I hear Twitter and Facebook every five minutes. Reason #1,354 I don’t watch T.V..
Good morning..
Happy Birthday beautiful EssBee!!!
i1: Here on the Deadpan, I’m just Cj or Twinklergirl. (Mighty Mommy probably would be on better behavior.)
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to spill the beans. Just wanted to let you know I listen.
I think most people here know :) I don’t think you gave anything away and thank you 42000000 times over for listening. I’m very happy to hear that!
Thanks, everyone!
Today is so very queer. 1) Gay Pride Parades everywhere (go on, TSH!), 2) 40th anniversary of Stonewall, 3) 38th anniversary of me.
We’re off to add to the queerness of it all — have a good one, panties.
Jack: Never mind, I’m sending it anyhow.
Happy birthday EssBee!
Happy Birthday, EssBee! Do some good queerness!
Sorry for the slow response, imag1narynumber. Yes! I only just saw the emails now. Thanks so much for all of the content.
I am now following imag1narynumber and Vanamonde on Twitter! I’m honored to see “Dpan” as part of your name, Van. I don’t twot often, although, I might start using blip a bit more frequently, which *I think* also shows up on Twitter.
/engage sheepish mode
Vanamonde was already taken so I added Dpan to get an unique name (and to make it recognizable for everybody on here)
/disengage sheepish mode
Jack: No problem and you’re welcome. I plan on getting one more out later today. Don’t expect much more from me for a while after this. :-)
Van: Yes, I do see the fake name on Twitter. On your lists of followers and the people you’re following, people’s names show up exactly the way imag1narynumber described them.
EssBee: Happy birthday!
That’s a shame about showing the name.
I suspect I’ll end up just posting Flight Control scores (everybody go zzzzzzzzzz).
I’ve heard more wild praise for Flight Control than I’ve heard for a game since Puzzle Quest or Guitar Hero.
Crop circles can be useful..who would have thunk it:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/28/crop-circles-reveal.html
Oh, good, Sunday isn’t over.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ESSBEE!!
I saw that on my Facebook notices back on Monday and would not have forgiven myself had I let the day pass without wishing you well today. I hope you enjoyed it to the fullest.
It would appear that facebook is actually useful for something :)
Thanks, Ed! How are you surviving the heat?
We’re about to W: True Blood and about to E: birthday cake.
CW: Howl’s Moving Castle
uhm. Probably should not have come in the middle. It’s wHeird.
Now following Van as well…
Never saw Howl’s, only ever saw Spirited Away, I imagine if I walked in on the middle of Spirited Away I would think that too…
The simple truth is that Houston would not exist if air conditioning had never been invented.
Cj, JB: No, walking in on the middle of either of those two movies could potentially be very confusing.
Good night, mush.
your welcome Essbee, hope you queered up the day good! I had my own queer fun, lamenting the fact that every man there would rather of had Hugh than me. So sad.
and yeah.. I talk about twitter.. I just lost the last half hour of my life taking stupid quiz’s on Facebook.. what the hell?? How did I get so sucked in??
Ed- I feel your pain my friend… the air conditioning has been working on OT here in muggy Chicago.
ok. I want to know what internet sites suck your time away the most. and no you can’t include Deadpan. Deadpan enhances your life, not take away from it. ;)
My list:
ABTA and ACS
Facebook
Pitchfork Media
Huffington Post
iTunes store
emusic
Side-line news
BBC news
flickr (although not as much as before)
a rotating mix of a few photography sites
Hugh isn’t here but his list would be something like:
ABTA and ACS
Pitchfork Media
Huffington Post
iTunes store
emusic
BBC news
CME Group
ESPN
and those other financial websites he is on all the time for work
ok. I want to know what internet sites suck your time away the most. and no you can’t include Deadpan. Deadpan enhances your life, not take away from it. ;)
oops :)
Hugh just passed by and he told me I forgot to put Rubberdoll
LOL.. I was trying to be nice and not include any porn on his list. :)
So yes anywho.. going to bed now methinks. Please list your favorite time-suck intronets sites when you have time tomorrow kids.
night pan
night mush
Morning Pan, heatwave predicted, but still cloudy at the moment (yah!).
Timesink websites (other than the Deadpan):
BBC News and iPlayer
WorldofSpectrum
Engadget
Starshipsofa
Facebook
The Register
EZTV
Retro Remakes
Fictionwise
YoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutube
YoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutube
YoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutube
YoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutubeYoutube
and porn.
Sometimes I take the self-deprecating jokes a bit too far.
Foodmight, lush.
Oh, dear.
In no particular order…
Facebook
Tripadvisor (mostly the Las Vegas forum)
Amazon
Newegg
Woot
Yugster
Slickdeals
…honestly, I mostly window shop, but I do like my gadgets.
Precentral
Cadillacowners
Flickr
Autospies
Autoblog
Chron.com
SliceofScifi
dpreview
IMDB
Leftlane
FAIL BLog
Fark
Photoshopdisasters
Blu-ray
DBSTalk
AVS
Wikipedia
Drudge
Foxnews
Catholic.com
JimmyAkin.org
GM Inside News
Wall Street Journal
National Review
New Republic
ENG-TIPS
Coade user forums
…and delicious to keep it all organized. Yes, I do surf a fair bit.
PSA: a dispute over change at the McDonalds drive through is not a 911 situation.
Also, if you swear at the 911 dispatcher for not sending the police out, then they will send the police out…..and haul your happy ass to jail.
The more you know….
Mine are:
Facebook
Huffington Post
Wil Wheaton’s blog
The Angry Black Woman
Hulu
Boing Boing
Feministe
Alas, A Blog
oh, and porn
Morning Pan!
6:20 am here. Nearing month end so spending the morning downtown.
My internet time suckers are:
Face Book
Amazon
You Tube (subscribe to the best of youtube on i-tumes that’s a time waster)
and This one
Good morning, Pan!
I have a rotating collection of timesink sites. I’ll spend a lot of time at one for a while, then switch to another. In the past, they have included:
Various discussion forums, including the ones at TheForce.net and TrekBBS.com
Fanfiction.net
YouTube (for the anime episodes)
LiveJournal, particularly the journals ‘pottersues’ and ‘limyaael’ and the communities ‘fanficrants’ and ‘watchdom’
The ones I waste the most time at right now are:
Facebook (occasionally)
TVTropes.org
People are actually starting to trickle into the office now. I actually prefer it when I’m alone. I get more done.
I can also listen to my i-pod when I’m alone. It’s harder to listen to podcasts when people keep popping their heads in to talk.
Well it makes a nice change:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/29/13-year-old-trades-ipod-for-walkman-reports-on-mysterious-ancie/
LOL
Ed wins! :)
I actually forgot about Amazon. I find it easier to look for books to read at Amazon, then i log into my account at the Chicago Public Library and see if the books are at my local branch or if they need to be shipped to my local library. So every couple weeks or so I will spend some quality time on Amazon looking up books.
Bunny- I find it easier to work alone too. Hope people don’t bother you too much today.
Hugh works in so much noise at the board of trade with people screaming around him all the time.. I have no idea how he does it.
as for me I am off for the day
have a good day pan
Van, I’ll have to look at that link when I get home. So much is not allowed on the internet here.
TSH: They just moved me into this office recently. For the most part it’s not too bad, except for the fact I want to throttle the secretary I inherited. One day, if you either catch me on Skype, or in person (Arizona in Sept – Woot!), I’ll rant. I have trouble believing anybody can be so…
It’s a good thing I only actually in the office once a week or so.
Facebook
Twitter
Woot
Amazon
CakeWrecks
YouTube
I’m totally not much of a websurfer.
Allakhazam
Thanks to Jack I spend a considerable about of time on Blip.
The Grocery Game
WowArmory
StarTrek.com
Flickr
Gotta wake up the troops, load up the car, and start driving home now.
done here! Heading home.
I enjoyed Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle very much.
I don’t have many major time-suckers online. I’ve got many tabs open at once, trying to read about many different topics. So my biggest overall is just Google Reader. It aggregates my hundreds of RSS feeds, including my podcasts.
Oh, and I enjoy StumbleUpon, but I do that less now than in the beginning.
I watched Princess Mononoke a couple times. I think I’d be equally confused no matter where I started watching that movie.
Since posting earlier, I realized my list was actually incomplete. But, I think I’ve exposed my web junkie self enough :)
I saw Howl and Spirited Away with subtitles .. Glad I did.
I salute the Deadpan website’s ability to still crash the Safari browser on the 3.0 iPhone firmware.
Home again, home again, jiggity jog.
Heads and tails, heads and tails, heads and tails.
Heads and tails, heads and tails, heads and tails.
Heads and tails and whiskers on the nose.
Heads and tails here we go.
Flippin’ a coin because…?
…Browse By…
Tails…
Ok for the Sookie Stackhouse fans out there.
Is there a minotaur in the books?
I’ve only just started book one yesterday, but so far… no. :)
Lunch Time!
Oh, and in regards to LJ’s browse by, I personally prefer… :oops:
Wow, I’m not sure how much to read into TEB’s blush.
I’ll pass the interrogator eye onto Essbee who has read more of the SS books.
Not familiar with Sookie Stackhouse, I’m afraid.
While I thought Howl was pretty good, I think Spirited Away is one of the best animated films ever made. It’s just a beautiful piece of work. Definitely Palooza-worthy.
The making of Pitfall:
http://tinyurl.com/lo4k4d
4k sniff
…sneak by…
Busy busy – back hurts – Hope everyone’s weekend was good –
Time syncs…. Tardis.com
-.com +.org
I agree overall re: Howl/Spirited, Jack.
Recent experiments show Louie Armstrong is excellent Summer-driving-with-the-windows-down music.
Ya know, I always assumed my brain would get me into a decent job regardless of my lack of a college degree. I took on the Indiana Jones method of making things up as I went along early in my life. I felt it served me pretty well up until recently. Granted, it’s about the worst time to look for a new gig. But I think I’ve painted myself into a corner without funds to buy my way out (And I’m not going into debt to do it, either.). I just applied for a job, any job, at a local (large) company. Kids (read.: people younger than I) were walking in and out, holding jobs I was there to attempt to land, jobs I’d be better at.
My tags, like the previous one that was tagged “dump”, WordPress isn’t fond of them. Eats ‘em.
Burp!
tasty?
Hmmmm!:
http://www.conceptualfiction.com/index.html
Van, no minotaur in the SS books, though the scene w/ Sookie being attacked after a spat in the car w/ Bill and the Dr. does happen in the books. The Dr. actually licks her wounds in the books . . . I LOVED the Dr.’s “fuck you!” response to Erik. I laughed out loud.
Today was pretty shitty. I’m home and ready for some garden therapy.
Darn, minotaur would have been cool.
Without a minotaur you have nothing,
Minotaur is the least you can have. Think of the Maxotaur. Well, they can’t all be good. You have to expect that some of the time.
I thought Maxotaur was a pretty decent shot. It’s not like you settled for a Medianotaur :)
I missed EssBee’s birthday. Dang! Happy belated, EssBee. I hope you had a great one.
Biggest time-sink websites?
Deadpan. :)
Facebook
Farpoint Forums
iTunes
Kotaku
Hulu
Crunchyroll
imag1narynumber: My test email doesn’t seem to have gotten through. Was I supposed to use imag1narynumber at the last part you told me?
I returned home about 4 hours ago, but have been in bed completely incapacitated since. I feel for my hubby who had to feed and bathe the kids as well as bring me ice packs and pain killers.
I’ll be seeing a doctor tomorrow because nothing is working and I’m in migraine hell right now. I came online to get my daily work done, but it’s so not going to happen.
Going back to bed.
CW: “To Market, To Market to Buy a Fat Pig”
Finally getting to listen to the episode and… oh my. =D
I was trying to figure out why Jack Jaffee would want 7 audience members to be pleased by the troupe’s performance before I “remembered” that I was listening to “Trucker Overdrive” by the Ambassor and not to the actual Jaffee.
But I’m still curious why 7. Amy?
Spirited Away was a beautiful and moving movie, both times I’ve seen it.
Deadpan is the mmmuphh way?
Online time wasters besides the Pan:
Twitter
Hulu
(the giant pile of podcasts)
Twitter
…
I spend a few minutes checking some womics (webcomics) every few days.
Other than that, I will bull into an experience hard for a while and then ignore it afterwards. For instance, Tor.com is hosting a WoT commentary by (I think) Leigh Butler and I’ve spent days reading it (and I’m only up to book 4 of… 11?) Beyond that, I’ve not been back to Tor.com
Speaking of which, they have a link on the front page now that says Hulu is coming to Britian with the following link:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article6584420.ece
Good news for Vanamonde?
Will depend on what US shows are allowed to be streamed to the UK. I would suspect Sky might be miffed,
Now… if I could that BBC iPlayer doo-hickey to come out with a US version, now that would be cool.
I’m not familiar with Sky.
Look up!
Yeah, that was cheap and low brow, but it’s the best I can manage this early in the morning.
Hope you’re doing better, CJ.
Part of the Murdoch empire, the main satellite TV company in the UK.
There is get_iplayer NS:
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
but you are going to have to mess around with proxy servers.
I had a great birthday, ditto, thanks!
I’m headed in . . . cover me.
Have a great one, pan!
Morning Pan!
With hubby home, I get to sleep in an extra hour every day :)
Giving my PC a complete once over so panning on the work computer. That means no linking for me :(
Tomorrow is a holiday here in Canadaland. A friend of mine went to Cuba a few weeks ago so is throwing a rum tasting/BBQ tomorrow. Can’t wait. :)
Mr TEB must really tire you out TEB.
cough
;) Van!