Well… Um… Right… Sorry. No surprise, but we’re going silent this week.
Hang in there til next week, please. Please? Thank you.
Greasy comments idea for the Silent Unshow: Let’s all play. . . Go back and pick a few (at random or otherwise) from last week and cut-paste them in this week’s comments.
hmph *glares at
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:MasterChief:
I’m looking forward to the original game with a new lick of paint.
There’s even rumblings that the will be a short cut in the Library. :)
I have 5 links to share. I’ll spread em out.
#1 is about Netflix: http://consumerist.com/2011/07/netflix-is-sorry-that-youre-still-pissed-glad-that-you-dont-have-many-other-options.html
I was the one claiming that people shouldn’t be freaking out about the price increase at Netflix, but after doing some investigation, I found out that for the disc-in-the-mail option, Blockbuster is actually pretty competitive (assuming you have a physical Blockbuster store in your area). For $2 more a month ($9.99 instead of $7.99) I still get one disc at a time, but I can bring an unlimited number of discs in to the store for an immediate exchange (rather than waiting 3-4 days for the disc to get back to the shipping center and back to my house through snail mail). Combine this with the option to get games as well as movies and I actually win out pretty well by switching over. I think Netflix is still pretty pleased with themselves because September 1st hasn’t rolled around yet. Once people actually have to pay the two separate bills and their free trial runs out at Blockbuster, I think rats will be fleeing the sinking ship in quite a hurry. Fortunately for Netflix, I don’t think they will mind. They are intentionally putting most of their eggs in the streaming basket because they know that’s where their true dominance of the market is. I think we will soon start to see a bimodal distribution of customers, with Netflix dominating streaming and Blockbuster and Redbox dominating disc rentals.
Well, the guest sheets have been cleaned and the bed has been made up. The guest bathroom is all clean and sparkly. I’m ready for our guests
I’m tempted:
http://www.ultrachip.co.uk/
I don’t know if I could handle live chipmunk music
Grrrrrrrr!
Will there at least be fried fish?
Link #2 is a bit about my youth:
http://home.comcast.net/~photonlasertag/history.html
Yep.
http://x.co/YTd0
or Nope. I don’t know. I’m not committing to anything here. Just saying that this was fun to read and nod at.
#3 Politics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling/242484/
Wow.
Just fuck’n “Wow”.
When you can see graphically that All of Obama’s policy changes combined don’t even equate to what the Bush tax cuts added to the deficit … just, wow.
It’s all just so much kabuki theatre.
Oh America is blind to the facts, btw.
I am reminded of the dogs from “Up” who are distracted from flying their fighter plans by the mere mention of the word “Squirrel!”
Music and recording (this is a big deal to me):
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-loudness-wars-is-musics-noisy-arms-race-over/242293/
Sleigh Bells could have done REALLY well to have gotten shit out of the red on Treats. As much as I love the songs, the album is a goddamn disaster to listen to. The ‘loudness’ combined with Übertreble really take a lot of the enjoyment out of it, which is sad. Compositionally(new word) theres a lot to love on there.
Surprisingly good: new planet beer
WHO THE HELL IS THIS????
tweet
When I chew gum throughout the day it makes my jaw hurt whenever I start a new piece.
/tweet
Final link of the day:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/07/26/137180610/astrovertisements?sc=fb&cc=fp
Image #3 makes me fret for our species.
Ugh!
Fairly certain you can see Denver’s new Ikea store from anywhere in the known universe.
Ugh2
Ikea!
A friend of Darcy and mine works in visual merchandising and was just out in Denver for a week helping get that Ikea started.
OK.
I find this survey interesting and while there are certain questions where I’m in the majority, I’m finding that I’m in the minority more often than not. Interesting.
http://x.co/YTkQ
I’m Abby Normal
I think I failed that survey
I think I…um….didnt
LostRalph is currently not lost in Albuquerque, NM – 7 or so hours from his final destination.
ZOMG! I just realized something!!!
The inventor of the site http://getglue.com must have been a Deadpan lurker!!
Check this out! How long have you guys/we been posting:
CL: Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts
CE: Yoplait Black Forest Cake Light Fat Free Yogurt
CR: 98 Things a Woman Should Do in Her Lifetime by Rebeckah Shardy
CD: Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper
Etc… you get the idea!! Damn those GetGlue people for their Deadpan thievery!
CL: Pale Horizon: The Action Design
and loving every second
Tip of the day: Everything is better with some Mozzarella.
Use this information wisely.
Not *everything* ;)
it burns! BURNSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
I found some fromunda cheese once.
Try the fermata cheese … just don’t let it age too long.
I wanna go to http://www.meltingpot.com … anyone have a couple hundies laying around they wanna donate to my cheese fondue cause?
I have a couple undies. Cause its fromunda cheese n all
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… Fondue
and there’s a Melting Pot in Orlando! Now I need a benefactor to support my cheese fondue cause too.
Wait a minute…
doesn’t like phrases between greater than and less than signs? Or did I unintentionally write some html fun that got swallowed up in formatting?
take this one out too)
Original message contained “” (watch
DAMN YOU
!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!
“less than sign” drools “greater than sign”
my message WILL be read
. I will not be controlled!
My 80′s child inside finds itself strangely attracted to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Altec-Lansing-iMT810-Digital-Boombox/dp/B004TS2AO8/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
Yes, it does even run on D cell batteries.
Hundies? I have a Hyundai.
BTW, most GetGlue users will eventually move on to the SniffGlue site.
LostRalph is not lost in Arizona.
He’s approaching Heber/Overgaard where I actually have a family cabin.
Go Dog, Go!
Goodnight :Ralph:
(and safe travels!)
he’s arrived safely.
good night
Hurrah for safe arrivals. Everyone should have them.
Warehouse 13 is beginning to piss me off, the woman involved in the discovery of the shape of DNA was using X-ray diffraction and not a gene sequencer.
…and the inconsistency with the bronzing process (the new guy didn’t remember anything but it’s been mentioned that people are still aware when bronzed).
Rant over, you can go back to the scheduled tumbleweed gymnastics.
mmm, gymnastics
Tumbleweed gymnastics? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? :smirk:
Your health questionnaire for the day:
http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/28/299569_0.jpg
Ewwwww
um. “How much do they weigh?” I’m not grabbing one to put on a scale. That’s just yuck.
Good morning, DP!
Yous!
Morning Pan
My morning have been full of song stuck in head. Through a long, convoluted process, my bath sponge is green and has a frog’s head in it. Now, every morning, I see it and get that stupid Froggie Went A ‘Corting song stuck in my head.
I wonder if it’ll rain again today. I’m torn. I want good weather for when the in-laws come today but I also want rain for my new sod.
I was waiting at the bus stop earlier, and there was a swarm of ants on the pavement..haven’t seen that before (locally I mean).
I kept very quiet so the new insect overlords didn’t notice me..
As I read that first bit I thought you were writing a new Bruce Springsteen song.
Is it really Wednesday?
That’s what they call this?
Yeh. They used to call it “Hump day” but now they’ve managed to even take the fun out of that!
Of all things they could have taken the fun out of. bastards!
Good morning Deadpan, looks like a lovely morning here in Phoenix.
Ahhh. A Phoenix rising!
Is that what they call it now? ;)
In similar news, I just ripped the crotch on my pants
Yikes!
Just don’t rip your crotch WITH your pants.
Are you playing with tear-away pants again? Remember what happened last time!
Cough
Turn your head when you do that
[George Carlin] Why do they call Wednesday “hump day” when most people get laid on the weekend?[/George Carlin]
And why do you drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?
Because it’s easier to hit pedestrians if they think they are in a park.
100 points!
Hit enough of them and get a free ball.
CP: Hot For Teacher — Van Halen
Who’s thirsty?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/black-hole-holds-universes-biggest-water-supply/
Holy Jesus. Sometimes I’m pretty sure the Universe isnt real.
Speaking of LostRalph, I think I need a Ralph Kramden scheme.
Who are you sending to the moon.
Not NASA astronauts.
Too soon?
ZP looks at the rerelease of Ocarina of Time on the 3DS…it doesn’t end well:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3780-The-Legend-of-Zelda-Ocarina-of-Time-3D
Bang, zoom!
- – - Did once date a girl named Alice.
You’ve lost me on that one.
Who cock was so long he could…
Wait, wrong limerick.
Can you get anything you want at her restaurant though?
Can you tie her up and make her play great grunge metal?
Would make a change from Hallelujah!
Can you clone her and have her declare war on Umbrella Corp?
Resident Evil really needs an Alone in the Dark crossover.
Where Carnby can go round the mansion with a terminal case of Deja Vu.
I would explode from geek goodness.
I once knew a girl who dated a girl named Alice who was a freak. The good kind.
Yeah!!!!! Oh yeah!!!!
* breathes heavily into phone
Zoom! Zip!
2am here and all is well.
I had better head horizontal, later Pan.
Make sure you make her breakfast in the morn.
I’m never that well.
But you could be.
I really enjoy Elysian’s Loser Pale Ale. Not only an homage to a great record label, but a really easy beer to like.
In other beer news, there are *5* new craft breweries opening in Denver this summer, one is a 3 minute walk from my house. I… I live in a world of craft beer wonder…
Who said this is the land of Coors? Cause it taint.
LR, be sure to find Firestone’s “Velvet Elvis” while youre in AZ. Well worth it.
Scratch that… its Velvet MERLIN.
Velvet Elvis is Oskar’s, yo!
And its goddamn delish.
Will do Lo, I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for beers I can’t get in Oklahoma.
CW: heavy rain
Me too! Also its goddamn muggy.
CW: Monday night’s Daily Show – funny gay marriage segment
Beer?
Damn, I’ve been giving LostRalph vodka.
*maniacal giggles*
And tequila! I’m beginning to think you have ulterior motives for getting me drunk.
Because I need to get you drunk?
Hmm, I think I’m already drunk on your beauty.
Um. heehee
I love this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQEK_eMHmA
CW: Falling Skies – a few episodes behind. Anyone else still watching?