featuring The Energizer Bunny!
Jack Mangans Deadpan #153: Very Deadpanish
The real Jack Mangan stands up
Jack and special guest,The Energizer Bunny, talk up the Deadpanmmmmmm meetup
rapping with … Lo Pan
Contact Jack if you need help arranging crash space
What bunny will be attending?
Cj gives us some of her bad poetry (http://www.lovelongandprosper.com/podcast/)
Have you booked your trip to Arizona yet?
Lejon with a lyrics mashup
Greasy Nipples
Justa J0e
reaper
Vanamonde
DJ Bunny (first comment of test unshow II)
Cj (First comment of the week)
The Energizer Bunny
Broken Lyrics Challange with Paul Maki
Congratulation to reaper… he is the way
Send in content: 206-350-Tomi (8664) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
March 13th is the Deadpanmmmm meetup.
Closing music
MANY!
I’m not so sure you want me to go toward “finger humor”. Tis a rich well to pull from and not for the faint of heart.
*puts on beer cup hat*
Van wins on account of hims thinking outside the box.
Yah Van! *jumps up and down, clapping*
What good is a beer hat without any beer to put in it? *removes all the beer*
I really am feeling quite mean today
If I have to spend today in spreadsheet hell, others are going to be put through a different type of hell, just because.
Lo Pan is never without multiple beer backup. EVAR.
“If I have to spend today in spreadsheet hell, others are going to be put through a different type of hell, just because.” Um, you know who youre talking to, right? Hells are my speciality….
Hence, my seeming to pick on you more than others today.
But… to make up for it, I’ll buy you a beer in Arizona in March.
Whats in AZ in March? *runs*
Funny how the teabaggers also had no objections to that ridiculously expensive, strategically/ethically backward war.
I’m going to follow this up with something less cranky.
Way to be a Debbie Downer, Jack.
*goes to Huffington Post for quick pick me up*
Oh that didnt work….
How about an interactive map of the characters’ previous connections on Lost?
http://www.scordit.com/blog/lost-the-complete-chart-of-characters-past-connections/
CD: Dragula – Rob Zombie
That chart means nothing to me. However, I hovered over Jacob and he had a connection to Locke, but when you hover over Locke there is no connection to Jacob. How can you have one without the other?
CP: Out of the Ashes – Symphony X
DAMMIT YES!!! Thats what Im talkin bout, Jack. Tomorrow be the day!!!! So psyched.
Why cant we all get along?
Would that be oh so wrong?
Why cant we all love each other?
Monkey and a robot brother.
CP: The Winner Takes it All – ABBA
I’m actually not sure when I’ll see the premiere episode – possibly Wednesday after work/before Deadpan.
This is funny, although I don’t know if JohnBoze will agree:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/science_channel_refuses_to_dumb
“We already have a show called Really Big Things, which is just ridiculous if you think about it”
CP: Mommy & Daddy – the Monkees
CP: Take me Home – Phil Collins
CP: Messages – Velvet Revolver
Thats
My next 10 i-Tunes DJ songs:
voodoonight – Boney M
Puer natus est nobis, introit in mode 7 – Gregorian Chant
Begin The Beguine – Michael Nesmith
Midnight Train – The Monkees
(What Am I Doin’) Hangin’ Round – The Monkees
For Whom The Bells Tolls – Metallica
Veni creator spiritus, hymn in mode 8 – Gregorian Chant
No Interest In Dominic Greene – Quantum of Solace (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Inside Man – Quantum of Solace (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
No whiplash there.
Whoops! Can’t count
# 10 – The Escape (Alternate Cue) – Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Not that I dont enjoy posting all day on the Deadpan…. but I really wish my system was up and running. Work day is sloooooooooooowwwwwwww without.
Monkeys VERSES ROOOOOBOTS
Must get kitty litter changed and garbage gathered. Garbage day tomorrow. Then to think about lunch. Then back to spreadsheets.
My life is so exciting
CP: You and Voodoo – Thee Missouri
Into Winner Anakin’s Lullaby
Just wanted to add -
Farscape is Brilliant!
B5 was most excellent in it’s day … but I haven’t seen it since it originally aired and don’t know if it stands the test of time.
Speaking of brilliant: http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/rnr/1574293261.html
Justa J0e will especially appreciate that, I think.
(Sorry, I went back to the political 8-ball again).
Oh blocked…. dammit.
Interesting:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/01/logitech-app-turns-your-iphone-into-wireless-trackpad-or-keyboar/
Back to spreading the sheets.
Ugh:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/01/weed-growing-inside.html
Gross.
*ermph*
Real science in a Doctor Who story..why I never:
http://www.rigel.org.uk/blog/000279.shtml
Lo Pan, you may appreciate this from the latest Ansible:
I haven’t seen Avatar and probably won’t, at least not in a cinema, but here’s a capsule appreciation from our guest reviewer Peter O’Toole: ‘It’s full of blue-arsed Barbie dolls trying to catch rubber turkeys. It was the most gorgeous pile of nonsense I have ever seen.’ (‘Pandora’ diary, Independent, 27 January)
*snicker*
The man’s eloquent. “Gorgeous pile of nonsense” sums it up beautifully.
Why the hell did they release Mystic River on Blu-Ray? Was that necessary?
The Star Trek episode ‘Assignment Earth’ is playing on the TV…cool episode.
I may just lust after the young version of Terri Garr.
Wilder: What knockers!
Garr: Oh sank you, doctor.
Well played, Jackenstien……
Those cleaned up episodes of TOS look mighty pretty.
Jack – the craig’s list item was wonderfully succinct.
Shame about that last paragraph though. Oh, I don’t disagree with it but right up until then he might have actually gotten a Tea Bagger to think about the situation.
Still, the rest has been copied/paste/e-mailed!
Is TEB the “Spreadsheet Whisperer” ?
No, TEB is the spreadsheet – bang your head against the computerer
Caught three errors my boss missed. Once again, she loves me.
I may even be done by supper. Impossible.
The amount of with holding was changed not the amount of taxes you will own in the end. I used to get huge refunds (9k+) because of school and other things that end up getting back but must pay for upfront. this year because of the with holding change (NOT a tax cut) I will have to pay a small amount. this post is just a lie. and anyone who is not reading the memo about a benefit price change and blames businesses greed on they suddenly notice should start paying attention to the world around them. also who is the “Greedy business”? do you have a 401k? if so you are the greedy business
do I have a 401K? I always wanted to know, what is a 402k in Canadian terms?
JØ: RE: Babylon 5 Pilot: Yeah, JMS figured out that that little gravity thing was a bit beyond the scope of Minbar’s science. You never see them using anything like that again throughout the series.
TEB: FarScape is definitely worth a once or twice through. You do have to slog through the first 6 eps (wildly inconsistent), but they get solid, and the show will have you weaping over muppets… of course, by that point, you’ll think they’re people…
VAN: Yep. That just about sums up Avatar all right. Still had me almost weaping at spots, but yeah, Very pretty, not much story.
TEB: 401K happens to be the US tax code for retirement accounts. There’s a similar code for people who actually work for a branch of the government. I don’t know what the Canadian equivalent is… eh.
Just looked up 401k. What do you know, I do have the CDN equivalent.
We just call ours RRSPs (Registered Retirement Savings Plans)
wow. I think I’m done for the day. Am going downtown tomorrow morning so don’t know if I’ll be on the boards.
Later Panites!
the important part of what you get with a 401k is you put your money into different places that normally means you own stock so you own those greedy businesses
The Cake is a lie.
Went back and looked for the “blame it on greedy business” bit in Jack’s link (THAT sounds like a sausage doesn’t it) and couldn’t find it. In fact what I read said that employers were having to pay more for our health coverage every year. Sounds to me more like it was on the side of business not against it.
If your employer has to pay less to cover your insurance … then they have more to pay directly to you.
That’s an idea I can support.
Something, Something, Something Dark Side
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda the Bisque.
Bork! Bork! Bork!
The down side of the 401k … is that it is usually at the mercy of Wall Street (unless you have your money invested in “foreign water rights” or something).
The financial leaders of which, have just given us a demonstration of how little long term vision they actually have.
(Full Disclosure – I have a 401k)
I certainly agree that it’s a bit of an oversimplification to say that rising healthcare costs are the only factor preventing employers from giving their employees’ new raises, but I still agree with the main point; I do think much of the teabaggers’ discontent is artificially fueled by opportunist media clowns with a bunch of inciteful (not insightful) misinformation.
Where were the protests when the previous administration set deficit and spending records and expanded government and wiretapped and told us to just trust them with the authority to unilaterally violate citizens’ rights?
One item in the teabag rhetoric rings very true: our current government has failed us. Neither side works for the citizens, and both are so riddled with corruption and self-interest that the lobbyist have taken control. THAT’s where greed becomes dangerous – - when profit-focused lobbyists have more influence on govt. than avg. taxpayers.
I did neglect to mention that in the end, Cthulhu will still devour them all.
Last week every Republican Senator voted against continuing the “Pay as you go” rule which is a rule that says “If you want to start a new project, you also have to state how you are going to come up with the increased revenue to funs it.
Where were the Tea Bagger demonstrations against that bit of “in your face” to fiscal responsibility. They didn’t even send out a condemning press release.
Last week, the 7 Republicans who cosponsored a bill to create a Congressional Fiscal Oversight committee … voted against the creation of that committee when it came up for a full vote of the Senate.
Why did the Tea Baggers not decry that?
Seems awfully disingenuous.
Damn.
I need a link to cute kittens STAT!
How about vampires? (I still need to watch this with sound)
http://techland.com/2010/02/01/gone-with-the-wind-with-vampires/
BTW reaper, your dissenting opinion is intelligent and welcomed and appreciated and respected. And
.
And, you are not alone, reaper
Which are always welcome
Yeah, I appreciate having more intelligent conservatives around to keep us liberals from driving our patchouli-stinking VW bus off of the road.
Wow, the weeds are tumbling today. I feel like I’m stalking my own site.
The Razzies announced:
http://www.buzzsugar.com/7244930
Well the torrential rain has arrived and removed most of the snow.
Morning Pan, off to get soaked.
Star Trek – Assignment Earth
We did that… http://www.lovelongandprosper.com/podcast/?p=92
Why am I starving when I get home from work?
It’s crazy weird.
You’re probably craving
Ooooh an episode of LLAP I may actually listen too.
I’ll get my coat.
I agree with penultimate comment on Cj’s link.
I’m still in the middle of my Earth Assignment. The mothership seems to be overdue for some reason. They probably made a wrong turn at Uranus.
I don’t think there should be government over site (for the most part) in what businesses do. The things that should be don’t work right now. Businesses should be forced to have open books in every way if they are selling stock and should be force aloud very few “industry secrets”. how ever I also think they shouldn’t be given tax payer money (for the most part). exceptions would be government research and in this case every thing must be disclosed before, during, and after the project. and when they are making something IE roads, buildings. so if a conservative votes agents putting controls on businesses I don’t mind. Those things should come from the board and share holders.
I like a good debate. I just wish more people where more informed. one example is the USA version of universal healthcare is forcing everyone to buy insurance (in other words making people make a good choice) and giving them a fine if they don’t. but most people thing it means free healthcare. that is a huge difference.
I realize when I said was and over-simplification but if I wrote everything I wanted it would take me at least 30 minutes just to fix all my spelling errors
anyone else watch worst cooks in america on the food network?
It was a Sunday night show but it finished up last night. Seeing they way these people where able to change there cooking in a 10 day “boot camp” kind of thing gives me hope. I like cooking but I’m not very good.
ZOOOOOOM
beep boop beep
/driveby
B5: Watched the first season for the first time last year and thought it was quite good, though the shifts between pilot & s1 and again between s1 & s2 are a bit jarring.
Good morning.
I heard b5 was good. there where a number of good SF shows that came out in a time where I (by choice) didn’t even own a tv so I missed out on some great show. My personal fav from that time is Stargate at least the start of it.
CD: Boston Tea Company: Original green tea
Hello bitches.
CP: Pony the Penis – James Kolchalka
OMFG lemme rant for a minute. The mere fact that the Academy has nominated 10… TEN… films for best picture this year just confirms how terribly watered down American Cinema has become. And no, Im not gonna bitch about how Avatar has been nominated for best film, but I will bitch about how Avatar AND District 9 AND Up in the Air AND Up are ALL nominated. I loved District 9 and Up but in other years these films wouldnt get a sniff of a best picture nomination. Look at Wall E last year. A much better film that Up (IMO) and it was relegated to being nominated for “Best Animated” film. What credibility the Academy ever had has been shot to shit. TEN films? Blow me.
ECHO! *echo…echo…echo…echo….echo…*
AMEN Lo Pan. I quite listening and watching award shows a long time ago and I’m more and more glad about that choice every year
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/cd81/?cpg=wnrdf
made of win!
Those ARE made of win!!!!!!!! I saw similar pint glasses in a local record shop. SOFA KING COOL!!!!
Theyre a waste of time reaper, those shows. More and more every year Hollywood is dying and thy knows it.
My wife and daughter watch them but the 3 hour show takes them about 30 minutes to watch after the skip all the crap.
cold beer activated pints would kick major ass.
Well thats the way to do it. After the Grammy debacle a few days ago I’ve given up on mainstream awards shows. But I think so say we most on that.
Shot glasses too. A variable cornucopia of Atari drinkin goodness.
LOL @ Bunny confusing WordPress with her spelling :-)
Reaper’s math:
Atari + drinking always = goodness or happiness
Atari can be replaced with a number of other things
way easy to get when you are leaving your current job:
http://www.modernnerd.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/inbox-zero-nerd-merit-badge.png
reaper youre a math genius. Genius I say!!!!!!!
Merit badge = booyah.
Is Inbox Zero like Patient Zero?
Saved by, saved by Z, saved by…. Zero.
Jack,
I would love for inbox 0 to be contagious!
CW: The Office: S6E9
Oh Rhett……
CSiH (Currently tuck in Head): Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling
tuck = Stuck
CW: The Office: S6E10
Guess I need to watch this too:
http://io9.com/5462024/ads-zombie-world-is-pick+your+undead+jaw+off+the+floor-gorgeous
Jack: Im there. Looks wonderful.
reaper: Office Season 10 simply angers me. Theyve come so close to jumping the shark multiple times only to, thankfully, step back and refrain. Also, there was a month and a half between episodes 12 and 13… quite a wait.. and they reward our wait with the garbage that was ep 13. You see if you agree.
Ok so Slice of Sci-Fi just pronounced Joe Quesada’s last name as “Quesadilla”. Please tell me this is some kind of in-joke I’m missing.
Cause if not, thats pretty fucked up.
I don’t know, but I’ll give the Slice crew credit enough to assume that was a joke.
Aside – I just wanted to say thanks Stevie Wonder, just in case he reads these boards. Two of his songs came up in rotation, providing a drastic reduction in my blood pressure. Much-needed after a 45-minute dead-end conversation with county bureaucrats.
hehehehehehe
G’night!
Fair enough.
Thanks Stevie!!! Sorry Jack. Kick them where it smells funny.
Stupid county bureaucrats. I want to go kick their stupid asses.
Lo Pan, I hope I will get those 3 finished tonight. So far I have been pretty happy with this season but I also restarted the series in December so no waiting time. The show is getting close to its I think. Next is Parks and Rec!
bureaucrats are worse then
most have a rules are rules mind set as though the rule is more important than the service they should be providing or just doing the right thing.
Understood reaper. I just hate alot of the places they almost went.
I DO enjoy Parks and Rec, but for my money Community is the funniest show on TV at the moment.
watching the office rapid fire i think helped me like it because I got to see where they where going and didn’t have time to brood over it but if I did have time it would have bothered me a lot more. it was a train that could have easily been run off the tracks
I love community, the middle, and Modern Family for the new one. Modern Family has to be my fav but all 3 are must see IMHO
choo slappin choo
the middle? have not heard of
I think the Slice slip is on purpose. I still say “Canadia”.
Lady J likes The Office. I watched the first disc with her. It’s got its moments.
As an aside, I don’t recall getting the notice that “disk” was now “disc”.
Oh you didnt get the memo? Yeaaaaahhhhhhh gonna need you to come in on Sunday also.
I think someone will need to have a meeting with the Bob’s
Oh, well, Office Space is well-neigh infinitely superior to The Office.
This is agreed! Plus the ratio of people to cake is too big.
“Damn it feels good to be a gangsta”
Back up in yo’ ass with the resurrection!!!
reaper:
1st off, I can’t believe I’m letting myself get involved in another god-damned political discussion.
2nd, Government oversight is essential in making sure that the average citizen is protected from the abuses of the Corporatacracy. Unfortunately, the Corporatacracy has cash and the Government doesn’t.
3rd, Open book policy is a great idea. Now, what do you mean by that? If a company cannot be allowed to have an advantage in their product line, because every other company will know what they’re making AND HOW they’re making it, how can they make a profit? Setting the playing field so level that the only conceivable way of making any money is by dropping your prices so low you put the other guy out of business, and likely yourself at the same time. I think an open book policy is great when it comes to reporting a companies entire asset list, but I think the whole point behind having proprietary corporate secrets is specifically because it helps inspire healthy competition. It also inspires corporate espionage, but hey, you can’t win ‘em all.
4th, Tax incentives… are a touchy area. Tax incentives are available to stir up business and help get businesses going, and I feel if you’re a business, the incentive is available, and your business qualifies; you take the incentive. HOWEVER, I’d like to see a lot fewer incentives for multi-billion dollar corporations, and a lot more for Mom & Pop America
5th (and last, thank god), I’ll try and phrase this in a way that isn’t inflamatory (and fail) — Ask yourself this: (premise: You own a car in a state that requires vehicle insurance. You MUST buy insurance if you wish to drive your car, or you are fined a considerable sum. Your options are: pay for insurance and drive, don’t pay for insurance and drive – hoping not to be caught, or don’t drive and don’t pay for insurance [ie. taking the bus].)
THE QUESTION: How can you avoid the government imposed expense of insurance?
{Please note: the equivalent options in nationalized Health Care are: pay for health insurance and live in the U.S., don’t pay for health insurance and live in the U.S. – hoping not to be caught, or Don’t Live… in the U.S. and don’t pay for health insurance.}
**Yes, I know it was a simplification**
*erp*
Why you gotta be thoughtful, Lejon? It much easier being a simple drone…
*makes bumblebee noise*
Lo Pan:
Yep. Movies have become so mediocre that they need to make it more difficult to choose the best of the worst… er… best…
ALSO, Yes, the Quesadilla thing was a joke. You asked…
Lo Pan:
Honestly, I try to be a real dick whenever possible. This thoughtful thing is really giving me a rash.
Its funny how you used “dick” and “rash” in the same thought… thats well played.
I did ask. I should stop asking and just start assuming. Nyaaaha!!!!! I assume youre eating a sandwhich! Yay this is better!
Lo Pan:
It’s a very tasty sandwich. How did you know?
Lejon,
I’m afraid trying to compare a state imposed mandate of carrying liability insurance to operate a vehicle which, 1. is an optional act, 2. requires special training to do, and 3. can kill/maim other people if you act irresponsibly to a state mandate that you carry health insurance in order to simply be allowed to breath as a citizen of the nation is not the best way to make a case here.
Pac-Boy and Space Intruders….somehow, that takes a bit of the fun out of it.
Ed:
Just to get deeper into the muck: 1. my point is that it is optional – you would have the choice with your auto insurance. a nationalized health care plan (as far as I’ve seen) is only a choice in that you either get health care from the government, or you get health care somewhere else. The choice to take your health into your own hands is not an option.
2. Taking your health into your own hands would also require special training – to diagnose, prescribe, repair, etc. (granted, you’d need to have some sort of medical training, at least as far as being a paramedic)
3. I, as a citizen could indeed kill/maim other people, which certainly is irresponsible, but rather than having my license taken away and health insurance revoked, I’d likely get thrown in prison where all my health care needs would be handled for me and I wouldn’t pay a dime for it.
Sorry… what was the point of all this?
Guys and Gals –
Since I have the chance here to discuss this with people whom I consider to be reasonable and free thinking ( I couldn’t quit think of a term that means … not one of the herd), I want to see if I can’t understand your opposition to what is for me personally, some key reasons we need healthcare reform. I don’t need to agree but I would like to understand.
So I’m going to take one item at a time.
My first issue is, I am paying way to much for basic heathcare every year.
A big driver for those cost is the fact that I am paying for the 10′s of millions of Americans who don’t have insurance. When they go to the hospital (which they do for even normal illnesses) they cannot be refused. So their bill gets passed along to the rest of us in the form of higher medical costs, higher insurance premiums and taxes to refill what they use out of Medicare.
In my view If I am going to have to pay for these people anyway … why not do it in as inexpensive a way as possible?
As I see it, having a basic insurance plan that is available to all of these American is the cheapest way to do that. You’d be buying medical services for (depending on whose numbers you use) 30 to 50 million people at a pop. Now THAT’S buying power! It’s the same basic economics that make WalMart work. Volume, volume volume.
So there you have it. That’s the first place I am coming from. Those of us with insurance are already paying for those who don’t have it and I want to lower that cost. I’m hoping you can see why I’m having trouble understanding why anyone would fight against lowering this cost.
BTW- Currently, a Nationally available health care plan like this has been “pulled off the table” so this solution is now only hypothetical.
I’m trying to stay focused on my main point … but I have to say that Lejon is correct in the the precedent for the Government requiring the individual to carry insurance has already been well established … what type of insurance that is would be irrelevant to a discussion on whether the government could mandate this sort of fiscal responsibility. We allowed them to have that power decades ago.
J0e has crystalized my thoughts eloquently.
I will toss out possibly the most-flawed oversimplification of all: As a direct cause of the current healthcare-for-profit system, people are dying and suffering on a scale directly correlative to their ability/inability to pay for healthcare. How long has Magic Johnson survived and thrived with HIV? Michael J. Fox with his Parkinson’s? (not to downplay what those 2 guys go through every day – I just use them as wealthy, famous examples). How well would they be coping on our salaries? On McD’s manager salaries?
Although I think Ed and Lejon were suggesting that we drive our insured vehicles over the uninsured citizens?
Is there Cthulhu Insurance?
(not that it would do any good….)
And I’m off.
when it comes to health care reform I think the best thing would be to give people a tax break so they can choose there own level of coverage and still be strongly encouraged to do so but it will still give them the option. this still isn’t perfect but of all the best of them that I have seen.
Lo Pan, Just finished up the office I still liked it but if I would have been annoyed to have waited so long between ep 12 & 13 to just get a clip show. I think they where about 2 minutes away from jumping the shark with Dwight in the stair well. glad they pulled back
reaper – the flaw in that plan is it works on a “We’ll give you money back after you have spent it” system. If you don’t make enough to afford even the most basic commercial policy … then you are shut out of insurance and that gets us right back to where we are now.
BTW: I appreciate the opportunity to try and understand what “the other guy” is thinking. While there are clearly some douchebags out there with malevolent and/or empire building intent … none of them are “us”.
Few people seem interested in trying to understand each other, most just want to be the loudest.
Morning. Doing the list.
Dammit this thread breaks my brain as I really want to join in but Im afraid Id simple look retarded amongst you all.
What? Whats that Mr. Emanuel? Oh…snap….
Justa J0e, yah that has always been the problem with that plan. you would have to start out with some kind voucher system for the first year and the just mucks up the whole thing to. there really isn’t a perfect answer I just prefer to empower the people because I have faith in individuals much more than large groups with a leader trying to make everyone happy.
I also agree about the doushebag thing.
booo the only hockey on is the wild @ stars.
well at least it is hockey
/tweet
List is done. Hour to start time.
/tweet
http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html
Imagine all the stuff that wont end up in a land fill with a coating of this. At my current job at would be 10 key boards and 15 mice per year at least if it is in fact flexible enough.
Spray on glass makes me head hurt. How can it be breathable AND so slick that germs slide right off of it?
If we aren’t boycotting Amazon, they have “Doctor Who: The Complete Specials” for $36.99 – just released and shiny.