Original title intended to be “Except I’m Not”, but then I recalled the apostrophe strangeness in the episode names, and went with “Relax” instead.
Fascinating Show Notes.
Jack Mangans Deadpan #169: Relax
Is Jack Mangan really a muppet?
Maybe Jack is the lost beatle?
Maybe he’s a muppet beetle? That likes madlibs?
promo – The Weird Show (http://www.theweirdshow.com/)
Questors of Effpiem – recorded live at the Deadpan mmmmmeetup
Justa J0e with the contents of his Memorial Day Golf Post Beach
Cj Reviews Sex and the City 2
Justa J0e with thoughts from the beach
Cj with a dumbass memory
Jack – Destroyer of hard drives.
Jack thanks the Deadpan for being a friend
Greasy Comments
Vanamonde (first of the week)
Cj
Lejon
Vanamonde
Johnny Null
ditto
The Energizer Bunny
Nomad Scry
LoPan
Justa J0e with the last thoughts from the beach
Payment still due on Hockey Playoffs. Wait a minute… Wonder Wolf still owes from the Olympics. All yous louses, pay up!
Good Luck Jack!
60 Lines part two and three coming up.
Send in content: 206-350-Tomi (8664) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
Closing music … “Exeunt”
Monday. First Monday after school let out. I hope the boy doesn’t eat me alive today.
I hope I don’t wimp out and just have him play PS3 all day.
I almost forgot. I’m in the Flattr beta. I apparently have invites I can give out, so if anyone is interested in playing around with it, let me know. I don’t know how many I have, so this could be a FCFS deal.
My impression so far is that it feels foreign. And I mean both strange and that I can’t read most of the thingies.
Remember a PS3 is for a decade and not just school holidays
Morning Pan
Quarter after 7 and I’ve already been downtown and back. Can I go to sleep now?
Dear Cj at Work “Mostly I’ve been reading” What have you been reading?
Actually, Dear Deadpan, what’s been in your hands, as far as reading material lately?
I just finished Flood by Stephen Baxter and started Boneshaker by Cherie Priest yesterday.
As I’m sure you’ve all figured out, I pretty much devour books.
A day late, but what are you going to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Dt9q8bkqg
The few minutes that I have for reading I have been re-reading “The Foundation Series”
I’m still finishing up “Snow Crash” along with various periodicals.
At the very minimum hubby and I try to go to bed early enough we have an hour to read each night (which usually means by 8:00 pm). Then I try to read as much as I can beyond that.
Before Flood I went back in time read the first two of the Riverworld books (To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat)
Bunny, I’m reading:
- Tank Girl comics (just got the full 4 episode run of Skid Marks)
- Duma Key — Stephen King
- Swan Peak — James Lee Burke (via audiobook – I love this series, though not genre)
I also just made the mistake of reading some of the comments under the local news’ report about Denver Pride yesterday. Man, people can be awful.
Hubby’s currently reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Both the book he’s reading and Boneshaker are Hugo nominees. We’ll probably move on to another nominee each once we are done our respective books.
Oh yeah, I think Calgary’s pride parade is next week. My daughter usually tries to go every year.
Nope, spoke to my Boo. It’s been changed to September. I wonder why…?
Pride is in September? That is odd.
It use to be in June, EssBee but I guess it’s been moved. My Boo didn’t know why, but says it’s better for her schedule then anyway (she works most weekends in spring and summer)
I once blundered into San Francisco’s Pride parade completely by accident. I was in town on business and had the morning off so I was wandering around downtown.
I came across some police barricades and a block or two away I could see large crowds of people. Being the young scofflaw that I was, I skirted around the barricade and made my way over to the crowd.
LOL – Now THAT was a real WTF moment!
Ended up having a good (or maybe “surreal” would be more appropriate) time. Lot’s of laughs and a really happy crowd. Not at all family friendly … but then again, not everything in life should be.
Most Pridefests are pretty PG-rated (unless you are of the opinion that someone under the age of 17 shouldn’t gaze upon a gay person), but San Francisco’s isn’t!
Calgary’s is pretty tame. I think it pretty much has to be because Alberta is a very redneck province. My Boo however has been going since she was about 15.
TEB: Maybe they moved it so there wouldn’t be logistical problems with Stampede?
Hope everyone had a good weekend.
Currently reading about 6 books, including Zinn’s “A People’s History of The United States”.
That’s a good one, ditto.
Stampede isn’t until second weekend of July. Don’t get me started on that event of idiocy *I will not rant, I will not rant, I will not rant…*
Now… time to change kitty litter and take out the garbage.
Later!
I still laugh when I think about it.
It was most very much UNtamed.
All in good fun though and it was funny because when I figured out what was going on, I suddenly had this fear that I was going to be “found out” as the guy who didn’t belong there. (reverse fear of being outed?)
Didn’t take too long though before I realized that “everyone belongs” is what they were about.
Well, that and leather.
and comically large strap-ons.
and costumes … oooooh the costumes.
Over all though, it was a very friendly, happy, party atmosphere.
Lots of leather.
My job is really bumming my ass out.
I’m currently reading two books, both of which I’m enjoying:
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (via audiobook, in the car)
The post office has “no new up date for my parcel and will let me know the results within ten business days”.
I have a feeling I’m never going to see my package or get my money back. Blech.
Killer Bunny and the Quest for the Magic Package.
Noooooooo!
Definitely not Lo Pan approved
http://scifiwire.com/2010/06/hustler-spending-record-a.php
Work needs to be done today. durn it.
Great! bundt cakes now blue and 3D…..awesome…
I posted 2 things last night with my iPod touch but I don’t think they went through. Something went wrong somewhere.
Anyhoo.. I’m not reading anything very literary – I’m mostly reading for casual entertainment and to help me relax so I can sleep at night. Right now I’m reading COMPLETE fluff in “the guy not taken” by Jennifer Weiner.
I am currently reading the prequel for the Wheel of Time & The Gathering Storm, as well as a collection of Sherlock Holmes, Bitter Seeds, The Graveyard Book, the Annotated Elminster, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.
After that, I have to read Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality and something else that I can’t recall off hand (aka The Pile.)
… I suppose I shouldn’t say “reading” as it implies a higher level of activity than I am currently engaging in. I’m reading a few pages here and there in the active pile, though most of it in either the Holmes or Bitter Seeds. I’ve been “reading” The Gathering Storm since just after it came out and I’ve been “reading” the Annotated Elminster for a few years now.
Still trying to get through my backlog of scifi magazines, you think having them on the phone would make it easier…
Bit Pilot has gone free for the day:
http://toucharcade.com/2010/06/21/grab-bit-pilot-for-free-today/
Off too see a free gig.
Nomad, I’ve never heard of flattr, you handsome devil, you.
And oh, just finished Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep”, on now to Bernard Cornwell’s “The Last Kingdom”.
79 degrees in my office at 11:50 a.m. I am hungry, cranky, and hot.
Most recent completed book: Bloodsucking Fiends – Christopher Moore
Currently Reading: The Rookie – Scott Sigler
ON DECK: Physics of the Impossible – Dr. Michio Kaku
Next in queue: Changes – Jim Butcher (position pending book loan from a friend)
Oh, and Congratulations again, Jack.
I was ALMOST present for the proposal… If only I hadn’t ducked inside to get the best Bread Pudding I’ve ever had, I would have caught more than Oden’s reaction…
CP: Pendulum — Ume
Bought a new wall clock for the office. Even with a stool, I still can’t reach where it goes. Must wait for hubby to get home.
Why am I so short?
TEB is short on time.
Good time for a “COME ON!”
Ask the Gnu.
Don’t need to, they want everything to be free. ;)
CP: Sweet Dreams — Eurythmics
CP: Diablo II door wave – my phone
500
So Caesar gave us a calendar, a hairstyle, a salad, a method of birth. . .
. . . and D&D?
Check out the ancient d20:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/what-version-of/
You forgot the salad.
“Render under to Ceaser that which has croûtons and a bit of shredded cheese.”
no wait
you got the salad
I’m afraid my attention span was only roman through your post.
505
COME. ON.
Yoda: On, come.
ditto: re: Gnu/Free: That’s what I hurd!
On you must come, justa JOe.
Jack: Cool link!
I can’t RELAX, Frankly.
RELAX, just do it.
So – - I forgot to mention it onpod this week – - JRMurdock and I recorded a Floydapalooza discussion of Pink Floyd The Wall. It was a pretty good conversation, but I don’t want it to be exclusive. While I’m thinking mini-palooza for this one, I’ll still welcome voicemails, mp3s, general thoughts on Pink Floyd The Wall, for when the actual episode releases (date TBA).
And on that topic, we might should maybe possibly start talking movies for our next Full-on Palooza. . . ?
Well, during the party, Where the Boys Aren’t was brought up. While that movie does need a deep fleshing out, I doubt it’s appropriate for a *palooza.
Greetings, Pan.
Currently reading (via Audible) – Faith of the Fallen (Book 6 of the Sword of Truth). Apparently it is Terry Goodkind’s version of “Atlas Shrugged”…and it shows.
Before that, I listened to “Nutureshock”. It was a most interesting and though provoking book. I recommend anyone raising or teaching kids check this one out.
Ed, would you recommend Sword of Truth to a girl like me?
Wow. just, wow.
?
I just thought that was some pretty intense double-entendre.
I was thinking of posting something, though. So I guess I will.
It appears that an uncle of mine is dying. Doctors are giving him about three months. I think we all know how much weight that carries with me, but he has been ill for quite awhile now, so it may actually be accurate.
So my folks are going to visit he and his wife in Vermont.
Now, my family has been very white-bread, very standoffish, and very cold (Perhaps partially why I’m such the social powerhouse that I am today.). Add to this the fact that my mother and her two siblings have not really talked to each other much. One I believe she’s cut all ties with.
Add to THAT the fact that this uncle is a dick. No one in the family likes him. He treats people like shit, and then tries to buy back their friendship/allegiance. I’m pretty sure his son doesn’t talk to them anymore.
Finally, I don’t think I’ve seen him since I graduated High School.
When he dies, I don’t think anyone will care. My mother may be sad for a little while, but I don’t think it will really touch her. His wife, my aunt, will probably be better off. Actually, she’s never been the picture of health, and she may wind up a victim of the six-month-spouse-death thing.
I’m lucky that I’ve had to deal with very few deaths so far. But the ones that I have dealt with were legitimate losses. They were good, loving people, and really helped and inspired those around them. I wept. But this one, who knows? It’s curious to see what will transpire. An outsider may think I should be sad, but my life and emotions will not change one iota. My mother may grieve, but who knows? It’s odd.
Sorry I tend to be heavy. Shall we move to boobies?
Null, I think serious illness and tragedy are always a shame, unless they afflict truly evil Hitler-types, but they don’t excuse a lifetime of shitty behavior. I think it’s possible to be respectful of a person’s life and death, even if their character doesn’t deserve much respect.
I just hope that he and those who were closer to his circle are able to come to terms with his offenses and his bad nature before he goes.
Jack: Well said.
Death does tend to make peoples’ hearts softer.
Currently reading: Achilles’ Choice by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes at home, Key Out of Time by Andre Norton when out and about on the iPhone.
I’m nearing the end of Murder at Avedon Hill via podiobooks.
Oh, and we just watched “The Kite Runner”. I liked it more than I thought I would.
JN: I totally understand the uncle issue. You have my sympathies.
And boobies make everyone happy.
EssBee dearest,
I would call Goodkind’s work a cross between Robert Jordan and Stephen King….though Goodkind is far more twisted than King. It is an interesting world with compelling characters. His characters do like to talk, though. There is lots of exposition as characters debate and discuss various courses of action, theories of magic, causes of trouble, etc. I have read some complaints that Goodkind ripped off much of Jordan’s work in his stories. There are some superficial similarities in many elements, I can see, but I think Goodkind tells a very different story.
The one thing I will caution – Terry Goodkind’s writing borders on misogynism. While male characters certainly take some good beatings through the story, the violence that male characters inflict on female characters tends towards extreme cruelty. The Comedian’s treatment of women in The Watchmen comes to mind. It’s not something I’d have my wife read because I know that, regardless of literary merit, she is sensitive to depictions of violence against women and children.
Now, there are certainly strong and well written female characters, including Kahlan, the main female protaganist. But many of the women who are “evil” in this world are so to a great deal because of the treatment they have received and the twisting that it has done to them.
So, as I would rate Acacia as a darker, more serious world that Jordan’s Wheel of Time, so the world of The Sword of Truth is far darker and more serious still.
As for non-fiction reading, this guy is usually a bit too alarmist and fatalistic for me. I think he nails it this time though:
http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2010/06/and-thats-the-way-it-is.html
So the upgrade to IO4 went smoothly, other than the submit button vanishing from time to time on the DP website.
Apple is out to get Deadpan. . . .
So it turns out the switch from B&W to color happens at about 19:28 into the Wizard of Oz.
Goodnight
kins.
Jack – I’ll take any flattr-y I can get. =)
I don’t know if Flattr will stay the way it is now or if this is actually a real beta. Either way, the idea is that I pick a dollar amount that I can afford to spend supporting my favorite (INSERT THINGS) each month. Then I go around willy-nilly clicking on the flattr button every time I see something that I want to financially support. At the end of the month, my money will be automatically divvied out to the people I chose according to how often I flattr’ed them.
For instance, if I put in $5 and then I only click your flattr button and on JRMurdock’s, then at the end of the month, you’ll get 2.50 and JR will get 2.50. If I go apeshit and start clicking flattr’s all over the place, you may end up only get 0.02 at the end of the month, but I’m still only out the $5 I knew I could afford in the first place.
Now that all sounds nifty-keen to me.
But the problem is, in my opinion, there is a pretty hefty barrier to entry. The artists and the users both have to be members of flattr. Part of the sign up process is setting up how much your recurring investment will be. And the system is currently setup to use Euros, not Dollars. Which is vastly American of me, but… still.
I’d love to see this or something like it adopted by the Balticon/Farpoint Media podcasting community. I’m just not convinced, yet, that this is the right solution and trying to push out the wrong solution might damn the whole idea.
EssBee – I really enjoyed the first Sword of Truth when I read it as a teen. I thought the series rapidly went down hill from there, to the point where I’d recommend leaving it all along after the first book.
That said, I’m waiting to find used copies of two of the middle books before re-starting the whole sheboingo. I have some demented theory that the ending could make up for the middle.
Are you too stupid to know you’re too stupid? This is fascinating stuff:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?hp
Don’t if anybody else posted this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM&feature=youtube_gdata
+know
re: “Flattr”
Has the “pyramid scheme” come to the world wide social media 2.0 ?
World cup Soccer currently has two matches of interest going on right now.
Mexico v. Uruguay (best play)
South Africa v. France (best drama)
enjoy
Thanks, Ed. I may check it out. I’ve just caught up with my beloved Dave Robicheaux (non-genre) novels, so need something new. How is the reader on the audiobooks? I’ve picked up the Goodkind novels in the bookstore a few times, but they are so . . . large that I just put them down again.
ditto: Thanks.
Vanamonde: A question was raised on a recent episode of SGU: Is a “flat” just an apartment, or can it be someone’s house as well?
Jack: re: the link: I totally agree. We, as a species, let alone a country, have willingly dunked our heads into the sand. We then have crossed our fingers, hoping the Government will lead us into the Promised Land. Of course, the sand is toxic, the Government is just a business, comprised of people no smarter than the general populace, everyone has their own Promised Land, though none actually exist, and we can’t be lead.
Thus ends these rampant run-on sentences.
Nomad Scry: re: the link: The lemon-juice story is simply a case of a dumbass going off of a very bizarre bit of confirmation-bias. Religions and New Agers have made a fortune off of it.
The rest is pretty interesting, and it showcases very well the fact that you can’t trust your brain. Its job is to make up stories to fit your perceived reality.
And let’s remember:
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. “
My eyeballs are not working so I can catch up. Good morning. Gonna inhale my coffee, take a shower, and scuttle the kids off to swim lessons.
good morning
I think I said that already but can’t see through the murky eyeballs yet!
Another cool thing for Android fans:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/android-asteroids-multiplayer-androideroids-video/
My eyeballs are Dagobah-murky.
Also for Android fans:
http://tinyurl.com/yaz45o2
Of “Flat”
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fla1.htm
in CCH :(
The kids have swum.
My eyes are relieved of murky-ness, however I’m having a crisis of extreme proportion right now.
See – I had a party yesterday and I served coffee…
I’m out of the creamer I like.
No seriously.
I used half and half.
in my coffee.
Falling. Apart. Need. Good. Creamer. Stat.
Sometimes the little things are SOOOO important!
What is CCH, ditto?
Crazy Cootie Hotel?
Carbon Copy Hell?
I’ve been told this is cool, but I can’t look from work…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7804552/The-Lego-and-felt-tip-pen-printer-that-actually-works.html
Cj: is there some sort of magic creamer that makes coffee taste better than half-and-half alone?
Credit Card Hysteria
Chilled Crystal Hypothermia
Ack!
Coffee Creamer Hardship
Why yes.. yes there is:
http://tinyurl.com/cjscoffeecreamer
Kicked in the balls by today’s budget.
EA are having a big sale on the app store:
http://toucharcade.com/2010/06/22/ea-holding-massive-0-99-sale-for-48-hours/
Crazy Chick Hysteria?
Charlie Chaplin’s Hat?
Commandingly Cute Hiney
Cleverly Concealed Hindenburg
I really enjoyed the “being too stupid to know you’re stupid” article. I think there is an interesting corollary. I’ve had many employers that fall in this category. That is to say that they were ignorant of their own incompetence. However, being ignorant, they had no reason not to strike out on their own and start their business. And being ignorance of their limitations gave them a solid sense of confidence. And quite unfortunately, we tend to judge how competent someone is by how confident they seem. In essence we promote the ignorant.
Rhettro: Well said. Those without a clue are the most sure of their answers, and speak with the most authority.
I don’t know what you are talking about!
Come on!
I’m totally lost…
Complete Conundrum Here
CCH POUNDER!!
Cj, what is good coffee creamer? I am a big half & half fan, but for gut-related reasons, have recently switched to Mocha Mix.
CP: Saved By The Dawn — Tom Cochrane
EssBee: That’s a gut wrenching story. ;)
Wakka.
I feel like a traitor using the Mocha Mix. I grew up on a dairy and my dad was SUPER anti-non dairy products.
Finished rewatching “Last Exile” last night. It’s a beautifully animated, almost steam-punk story that revolves around two close childhood friends caught in a dangerous war.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2294
I really like the show, but the end still leaves me a little puzzled and unsatisfied. I was really hoping it would make more sense on a second viewing, but I guess not.
The guts of my creamer consists of Coffee Mate and a dab of real dairy cream.
Clamato Chugger’s Hiccups?
Chupacabra’s Climactic Hope
Crypt Cooling Hydration
Crotchety Curmudgeon Hates
Clamato is disgusting!
I like chocolate creamer.
If I’m being honest… I just really like chocolate.
At work – tonight’s desk snack of choice: edamame
Should be called Eda-yummy!
Mighty edamame.
That article was a most interesting read. One fascinating aspect that the article didn’t mention (yet, I’ll eagerly await the remaining parts), is that we are often keenly aware of these mental blind spots in people we are close two, but of course can’t see them in ourselves.
RE: Audio versions of Sword of Truth
I read the first book before I got into Audible, so I can’t comment on that one. The second one has terrible reviews on Audible specifically for the narrator, so I read that one in dead tree format as well. The first one I listened to was book three and that went pretty well.
Book Four was well read, except the narrator mispronounced one of the major character names through the whole book. It was frustrating.
Book Five brought back the narrator from Book Three and that went well. Book Six is being done by another narrator and it sounds pretty good so far.
ditto: I felt the same way about “Princess Mononoke”.
I have learned today that everything from Starbucks tastes better with “an extra shot”
:joyoushappycaffeinatedsmiley:
Just from Starbucks, Cj?
:wickedwinkyallknowinggrin: @EssBee
I’m totally not joking when I say that I’ve pulled a muscle in my face.
Someone here at the office said, “It’s because you smile too much.”
Seriously.. am I that bad?
Ahem…Ummm Hi everyone =)
Thought I’d shift from my usual lurkage and post what may possibly be the most awesome thing I’ve seen in weeks.
http://io9.com/5569875/set-your-phasers-on-tik-tok
Enjoy!
Hi there, Coathalia! :-)
Just finished both of the recordings I owed the Deadpan.
Hiya Coathalia !
Crap, I still gotta do that. I hate when I get some great idea and then… you know… no time to make it happen.
Morning Pan, a major attack of apathy this morning, at least it’s relatively cool this morning.
Far too many m words in tgat lost post, I need to go on lexticonical diet.
Goodnzzzzzzzzzzz
Twitter on a ZX Spectrum..RESPECT!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/vintage_computer_fair/
Oh good……Oh simply wonderful. You know anything Kesha related gets my blood pumping to my groinal area. And mixed with Star Trek! Boy forget Viagra!!!!
*passes out*
Oooooh woah oh oh
MEDIC!
Sigh. Now Depeche Mode is getting into the whole “we need to have a musical” nonsense.
Wow. And here I was concerned that Pixar might flub Toy Story 3:
“It’s a shockingly grim sequence, but this is what Pixar films do best: find a place of deep emotion and explore it without blunting it, overexplaining it, or passing it off with a laugh. Toy Story 3 never gets darker than this moment, but time and again, it similarly finds real, resonant emotion in the antics of a bunch of children’s toys having adventures when nobody’s looking.”
http://www.avclub.com/articles/toy-story-3,42237/
I haven’t seen it yet, but this makes me want to see it more.
Wow. No one is here today.