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Jack Mangan’s Deadpan #214: Palooza at the End of the Universe
Vanamonde & Jack talk Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy
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Big bad trucker
Good thing he can drive that
Countdown
Boom!
It’s a flying truck!
Good thing they survived
What about the nuclear fallout?
Movie’s over. I can’t believe I watched the whole thing
I’ve heard nothing positive about that one, Bunny. You’re only adding to the chorus of boos.
^ Not to be confused with the chorus of booze.
mmmm booze. Now to get off the antibiotics
chorus of booze? where do I go to join that?
So a question for the other Doctor Who fans out there. What would be the best episode on Netflix to introduce Cj to the series. Right now I’m thinking of the first episode from 2005, or to go along with the Hitchhiker’s theme The Pirate Planet episode.
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Doctor_Who_The_Pirate_Planet/60023389?trkid=1491722
Any thought or recommendations. Remember any recommended episodes have to be on Netflix streaming.
Do they have The Pyramids of Mars on there? one of the better Tom Baker stories.
Sticking to Adams, he also wrote The City of Death, much better than Pirate Planet in my view.
You do realise Cj has a terrible aversion to English dental work?
I have a friend who started his girlfriend at the beginning (with Christopher Eccleston) and went from there. She enjoyed it from the start. The Weeping Angels was always my favourite but, knowing Cj, might be too creepy for a first episode. The Girl in the Fireplace is also a good one.
I can’t see what Netflix has as Canada doesn’t have all the shows the US has.
I’m not the guy to ask, but I’ll chime in anyway. I’d go with Waters of Mars, if it’s available. I haven’t seen all that much of the contemporary Who, but I found the first few Eccleston episodes to be pretty awful.
pfffft! I liked the Eccleston episodes.
One of my fav lines is hen Captain Jack calls him a Uboat Commander…
+w
I liked Eccleston as the Doctor, and definitely liked Rose – - but the episodes struck me as silly. Sorry :P.
Joe Murphy insisted that the season 1 got better after the first few clunkers, but for me, the show was already sunk.
Back during those first episodes of the Eccleston era, I called into the Slice VM to trash the show. I remember making a comment about The Doctor fighting Pizza the Hut in one of those early shows.
By the end of the first season, I had come around and the show had greatly improved. Been along for the wild ride ever since.
I kinda like the silly moments. IMO it goes along with the whole Doctor Who campyness.
Is someone talking about me?
What am I doing tonight? huh?
So I’m doing some kind of driving thingie on Wednesday morning with my team. Team-building FTW? I just don’t know. I’m hesitant..
http://www.bondurant.com/group_events/half_day.php
I don’t know EXACTLY which one we’re doing. My understanding is that it’s the Corvettes…
Strange, the new episode hasn’t shown up in iTunes.
Perhaps it got held up in customs. Showed up as usual in my Itunes this morning.
Not even showing up when I do a search on the iTunes store on my phone.
Suppose I shouldnt comment then on how, IMO, had Eccleston stayed on as the Doctor for a few seasons he would have surpassed Tennant as best Doctor evar.
Also, fucking hurricane.
While I like Tennant, I would also liked to have seen a year or two more from Eccleston.
no.
mannequins bad.
:frown:
do.not.want
sorry
You’ll make it up to me
[star wars rant]
Ok so Hugh emailed this to me:
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/star-wars-gets-tweaks-blu-ray-release-232658967.html
As an artist who works in a digital media, I know I can tweak and edit my photos a thousand times over. But just cuz I can does it mean I should?
I take a photo, I go through a round of post-production and then at that point… well it is done. Sometimes i consider alternate versions, or I am unsure and show my photos to people whom opinions i trust before calling it officially done. But then it should be done.
So although George is allowed artistic freedom with his own movies, why keep tweaking it? Especially the stupid changes he made when the special edition came out. The only change I can understand is the one they mention in this article where he extends the end of the prop. There were certain technology limitations when the movies came out that are available now and I can understand him wanting to use those. But ok do 1 round of edits and then let it go. The Greedo shooting first was a huge offense to the bad ass-ness of Han Solo and was a grave grave error on George’s part.
That being said, the movie is his, so it is his choice to do what he wants with his creation. But as I said in the beginning, just cuz you cand edit and tweak, does it always mean you should?
[/arty star wars rant]
What if Lucas was a musician and Star Wars was a song? We definitely have thousands of other artists doing covers, but would you expect him to perform it exactly the same way in concert every single time, or would you be OK with him improvising a new guitar or drum solo here and there? Why are movies as an art form treated as canon while music is free to be farted around with?
Of course, I hate remakes in music as much as I do in movies/TV, and I tend not to like any versions of songs except the first version I hear. I’m simply playing devil’s advocate here. Myself excluded, people (in general) tend to be OK with alternate versions of songs, but not movies.
I think George keeps messing with it because George is not an artist … he is a technician. After the first 2 (maybe 3) Star War films, he really didn’t have anything else to say.
Even with those films, his focus was more on developing and showcasing the special effects rather then developing really good stories with character depth.
His films are just pieces of “hardware” that he likes to experiment with.
From my perspective, none of his changes have ever been something that made the films “a better movie”. The changes seem pointless and extravagant. To spend his time and effort (and money) to make changes that do nothing toward making the film better … what’s the point?
I think if he was really a film maker he would spend that time, money and technology and a NEW film.
I ceased to care about Star Wars a long time ago (..and NOT in a galaxy far far away).
Don’t own any of movies on VHS, DVD, although I did see the special editions and the newer films at the cinema.
Oh your one of THOSE!
*grabs trusty blaster*
+ GODDAMN ‘E’!!!!!!!!
*sigh*
Goodnight :binks:
Morning Pan!
It’s 6AM. Why aren’t we all awake!
/looks at watch
Good luck with that.
Of all people, you should be awake, Van
I need a new watch. Somewhere over space and time I lost mine. It was a really good one and I liked it a lot.
*sigh* Do you think lost watches are frolicking in a field somewhere with lost socks?
I don’t know if you are into Chunky ( Watches I mean WATCHES!) TEB, but I like the Casio G-Shock range, in particular the ones that keep themselves synced with an atomic clock and have a rechargeable battery and a solar cell.
Because I lose them so easily, I try not to get expensive watches, Van. I’ve never had to replace a battery in a watch because they never last that long. The last watch I had was a birthday gift last year. I was actually worried about it because it was a fairly expensive watch (around $100) and I knew I’d lose it. It lasted a year but it still went missing.
Obviously a Bermuda triangle thing going on around your place TEB.
Bejewelled+Blitz has went free for a short time:
http://toucharcade.com/2011/08/26/freebie-alert-bejeweled-2-blitz-now-free-for-some-reason/
I dislike match 3 games, but a lot of people do like them.
Good morning, yos. Several comments all in one:
1) Van & Jack = swoon! Great discussion – loved it. While I didn’t do my assignment and read/watch HGTG, your discussion brought it all back for me.
2) Hurricane – Jesus!
3) Eccleston – we loved him lots. He said recently in an interview that he left because the show runners were dicks.
4) I posted a link to Sly B’s dragon at the bottom of the last show like a dork yesterday morning.
Mwah all!
..and your thoughts on a certain Danish detective?
Van, I haven’t watched yet. My current challenge is finding a video converter. I just downloaded one and am letting it work – we’ll see if it does!
Umm, you should just be able to copy the files on a memory card and play them on your PS3, heck if you have an external HD you can bung them on there and plug it into your PS3.
You just need to select the memory card under the video tab and hit ( the triangle button I think) and select Display All, you should then be able to open and watch the files.
That’s the expanded files, the Ps3 won’t open RAR files.
Wow! I’ll try that. But I also succeeded in converting the files for iPod this a.m. so can watch through the TV tonight!
:)
I replied there, equally as dorky, but it is a great Dragon!
Thanks!
Good morning deadpan, and I hope everyone on the east coast is safe from the hurricane.
My little sister flies to NYC today to start college, I’m also hoping this won’t FUBAR that trip.
Hurricane – like we (U.S.) really need this?
Former head of NOAA said this is one of his top 3 “Worse Case”, storm scenarios. The economic impact could well be devastating long after the storm has passed.
Our economy just can’t get a break. Every time it starts to show some traction we have some disaster that stops it again (although some of those disasters have been caused by congress!).
Here’s hoping the storm will lose intensity and drift out to sea.
Please Irene, leave the East Coast unscathed. We might be willing to part with congress though.
What if we offer Irene a good ‘ol Fashioned sacrifice, like say … CONGRESS!
BTW – as of this morning, Ocean City Maryland was estimating local businesses were already loosing 60 to 100 million dollars due to cancellations. This being the last big vacation weekend of the summer. Of course then, the city also looses the tax revenue on all that.
All this before any physical damage has cost anything.
Multiply that times EVERY coastal town between N.C. and Main and young got yourself one more big economic relapse.
Well, the Giants and Jets are still scheduled to play, so the storm can’t be all that serious.
http://mapofmetal.com/#/home
Can “Map of Metal” be our band’s power ballad?
Damn, that’s a lot O’ metal. \M/
It’s a pretty damn cool interactive map, even if
isn’t your thing.
Indeed.
That was cool. Sent it to hubby, I know he’ll like it too.
+1
Runch!
I 2nd that emotion.
Rhett, we oughtta do lunch one of these days.
We definately oughtta. :)
We oughtta do it Old School!
I have no idea what that would be but that ALWAYS makes it better.
As long as it doesn’t involve a naked Will Ferrell.
*entering “LUNCH LOST” mode*
CP: Took The Trash Out And Never Came Back — Mojo Nixon
Glad this week is nearly over.
You know in the UK we moan A LOT about the weather, even though it tends towards the obnoxious than the actual deadly.
You know, with as much work as some of these photoshoppers do to turn photos of people into cartoons that barely resemble a real person anymore, I wonder why they don’t just start with a cartoon from scratch.
http://www.digitalphotoshopretouching.com/retouching-gallery/natalia-taffarel-retouching-gallery
Because that would take a creative imagination?
They clearly have a market. See any women’s magazine or Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition.
Ed, are you thinking of going all “Glamour Shots” with one of your pictures?
Tangled threads:
A friend on facebook quoted ‘Sea Fever’ by John Masefield.
I remembered that I first encountered the poem in a Hulk comic.
A quick google and someone had blogged about the issue in question:
http://herbtrimpeshulk.blogspot.com/2010/09/incredible-hulk-164-captain-omen.html
Although I’m sure I must have read a rerelease, as no way was I reading a scifi comic in 1973.
Reminds of how I discovered “Rhime of the Ancient Mariner”. Through the Iron Maiden song, of course!
ditto…
Forgot to mention that I really enjoyed this week’s Deadpan. I only got about a fifth of the way through the first book and then went straight for the radio shows. I was scratching my head about why everyone thought that book five ended in such a depressing way, now because of the podcast I know the radio play had a happier ending. LOL For supper tonight, I may have a sandwich maded from perfectly normal beast.
Rhett, they have to be made by The Sandwich Maker.
Aight, I’m off – - the plan is to hang out with the Beer Guy. ttyl.
Doood, you should have come to EVFN a very good time was had.
ZP goes nuclear as he reviews Red Faction Armageddon:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3942-Red-Faction-Armageddon
When did I miss that Slice is no longer calling itself a podcast???
“Slice of Sci Fi: Sirius/XM Radio Show, Online Edition”
It’s also now BOTH a floor wax AND a desert topping!
If there is a waxy build up of any kind I’m coming back for a refund.
Oh good lord… I missed that too.
Pretentious, table for 1?
Hugh and I are hanging around here in the middle of the night talking and i brought up that Star Wars rant I posted yesterday
Hugh sex: don’t forget to tell them we are naked
*rolls yes* yes Hugh, yes. We are commenting naked, doesn’t everyone comment on Deadpan whilist naked? Wasn’t that a rule Jack set up early on? You are only allowed to post if you are naked? Or wait… that doesn’t make sense, because people are at work all day…. I’ve been taking my clothes off everytime I post, no matter where I am…did he just tell ME to do that? Damm you Jack!
Ha! I typed Hugh sex!
Hugh sez: no one is fooled by you!
the x is next to the z, its an honest mistake. Its typo tlak.
So anyway, we saw everyones comments and wanted to add to the conversation even though that was hours ago
Re: Used Hair’s comment about why is it ok for musicians to mess with songs but Georgie can’t mess with his Star Wars movies
Hugh sez: You can’t compare live music to this. Different animal. Live music, live anything, is just not controllable. A human cannot replicate that well. If an artist were to live paint a painting at each gallery it would be different each time. If you went everyday at 2pm to the same place everyday and took a photo of exactly the same thing it would be different every time. If George is remaking the movie for a live audience, then it would make sense it would be different.
People remaking songs is equivalent to remaking movies.. it is that individual persons interpretation of the original. BUT musicians who put out updated versions of their songs? That shit usually sucks. It never really adds anything to the songs.
Dre sez: for instance we never bought Trent Reznor’s “Remastered Pretty Hate Machine” why would I want that? Pretty Hate Machine is genius, its perfection. I miss listening to it on vinyl actually. I don’t want a perfect remastered CD updated version of it.
Although I do agree that musicians are probably given a lot more leeway to change things than any other art form, its comparing apples to oranges. I for actually do agree that the bands original studio output is the true verson of a song. I have never liked buying remix versions of songs for that reason. I will usually always listen to the original album not the remastered, remixed, redone versions. I don’t collect live recordings of bands I love.
Also, the whole live painting thing- remember whats his name did that… Monet! Monet did that. Went to the same exact spot everyday and kept repainting the same thing. He has like 30 versions of some of his paintings. It’s like, dude what the fuck? move on! Although some people DO think those paintings are genius and love to look at the same haystack painting reinterpreted 30 times. It’s kinda silly. Its an interesting experiment, how the light changes every hour everyday, it is interesting to the artistic eye but that doesn’t mean you should constantly repaint everything.
Re: Hugh sez, vs Hugh sex
The c is also next to the x, and I many times on our internal work chat typed ‘hold on a sex’ instead of ‘hold on a sec’ to my co-workers.
oh the laughs we have about that
Re Justa J0e’s comment on Georgie being a technician not being an artist
Good point sir, good point
An artist versus a technician would have different ideals. But also, I think every artist is every media does look or listen to their art years later and cringes at all the things they can change. I look at old photos and am horrified sometimes at my color correcting or cropping or whatever. Doesn’t mean I go and change it. BUT to your point he isn’t holding the original as this sacred artsy thing as I do my photos
Hugh seZ: You are such an art snob
oh, OH, look whose talking Mr arty farsty pants!
g’nite pan
we must go frolic and run naked off into the night
Naked TSH sighting!
One lesson that the internet has taught me – If ever I decide to get a tattoo with words, make sure the tattoo artist knows how to spell.
Yo!
I didn’t even have to use my AK.
I hear you can see Russia from there.
Moscow?
CW: Dr WHo – Lets Kill Hitler
Why?????? Why Van? Why would you put yourself thru more of that after last season???
I find it to be enjoyable fluff.
Although if the rumours are true about Amy, Dr Who has become the dirty old man of scifi, ditching assistants at the hint of grey hair..
+first
I’d swim in her pond.
That’s about as surprising as the Pope being catholic.
Oh I highly doubt the Pope’s been Catholic for quite some time
Earthquakes and hurricanes and economy fucked…. oh my!
Thanks god! Appreciate it!
Oh dear … my neighbor has just tapped one of our kegs of home brewed UberHeffe.
This
can’t
end
well.
LostRalph had never heard of “planking”
I just always called it naptime.
target has been neutralized
egahds … it’s me that has been nuetralized!
Target has been neutralized? I guess there’ll still be Walmart.
Also, woohoo! Naked TSH’s! No naked for me to day, but I did share a beer with a bikini clad woman, sitting on my lap. This counts as a good day.
Also, woohoo! Naked TSH’s! No naked for me to day, but I did share a beer with a bikini clad woman, sitting on my lap. This counts as a good day.
Apparently WordPress thought that last comment was worth posting twice.
It wasn’t just WordPress..
word.
I’ve heard about the bird.
CD: Stone Chocolate Cherry Stout
tasty, although I’m getting more roast and hops. With the fruit more in the nose. The taste is kinda like dark chocolate now that I think about it.
Hope everyone is ok on the East coast.
Heard from my brother in NJ. Seems that fallen trees and flooding seem to be the worst he got in his area. He still has his power. He can’t drive home because the whole street is flooded. I am not sure exactly where in NJ he was, but he said he went like an hour inland. He said it’s possible his apt may have flooded and windows blew in back home. Won’t know til he goes there.
and we haven’t been able to get in touch with Hughs sis in NY yet but they are still in it right now I think but its only at 65mph right now. So just a bad storm.
fingers crossed hugh-n-dre, this was the weekend my sister starts college at Columbia, so both her and my dad are in NYC at the moment.
In other news.. it seems my industrial music loves are all coming out of the woodwork. In my RSS feed this morning were 2 stories:
Ministry reunion album and tour next year
Skinny Puppy new album out Oct 25
timely
http://survivingtheworld.net/GuestLecture18.htmlv
Holy carp JR can sing man…. *swoon*
ummm move along nothing to see here.
WNDR, are you referencing his hockey anthems in the recent Deadpan? Or something else? The boy has definitely shown that he can sing.
I guess I am listening to an old deadpan…the one with Amy singing… I am stealing that track…
I’m not one to complain about the Phoenix heat, but I’ve spent the weekend in good company in the gorgeous Prescott, AZ mountains. I’m not in a hurry to head back to the broiler.
LostRalph is on his way home. I may or may not be quiet for a while as I’m busy sulking about.
LostRalph will be missed. I am sorry I didn’t get to see you off this weekend, brother – - and I’m sorry I didn’t see more of you while you were here.
Let me rephrase that.
I’m sorry I didn’t see you more often while you were here.
Good luck with the job search LR.
105°F and very dry in Houston – which one of you bastards emailed me Phoenix, AZ? 95°F and 120% humidity I can deal with.
Blowy.
Hey Pan
Just came back from seeing the new Planet of the Apes movie. It was quite an enjoyable movie
Oh ? …. Did the monkey around with the story line?
I may need to see a doctor after the groan that just caused me.
While there, we saw a preview for a new movie called In Time.. It looks like it could be good
Now this bunny’s grumpy. Went to start a new book, the Kobo books app updated yesterday and seems to have lost my last six purchases. They show up in my purchase history, I just can’t access them to read. I sent them an e-mail telling them what I thought of their last update.
Guess I’ll have to read something else. *grumble, grumble*
So I guess, instead of All Clear, by Connie Willis, I’m going to read Zendgi by Greg Egan through iBooks instead.
*grumble, grumble*
Just spent most of the day cutting the grass, trimming, and pulling weeds.
I’m exhausted.
CD: 1554 :)
Awww, poor ditto. *rubs dtiio’s feet*
Ah. That’s better. Thank you so much! :)
Room. Get one. Both o’ you.
*snicker*
Here. I made a batch of brownies with those funny little weeds ditto pulled.
It tastes like sparkles!
Did not see rise of the planet of the apes of the people of the children of the corn – but probably should have.
Wow, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is a stinker.
An IOS game jumps to PC and Mac and goes free:
http://toucharcade.com/2011/08/28/nyarlu-updates-forget-me-not-releases-as-free-mac-pc-download-bringing-icade-support-for-ios/
In Oklahoma now. As for Arizona, in the
words of the govenator “I’ll be back”
As will I, someday.
Me three.
Can listen to some Wild Flag here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/28/139917271/first-listen-wild-flag-wild-flag?sc=fb&cc=fmp
Why yes! Thank you please!
Hey Deadpan.
It’s morning.
So, I bought my 92 year old grandma a kindle so she could read given her failing eyesight. She loves her Kindle. To her it’s the best thing in the world. The only issue I have is when something goes wrong, I have to trouble shoot. Like now. I have to figure out why the damn thing won’t start then try to talk get her to do stuff from over the phone.
*sigh* I just might have to bite the bullet and drive across town to look at it myself.
It’s why I don’t buy relatives tech presents.
Tech support is no fun at all.
I wonder if Van will approve of this Blade Runner version. ;)
http://blastr.com/2011/08/waityou-mean-theres-even.php
cough
Sorry, could you repeat that?
Perhaps he should bend over first.
-r
CP: Fake It — Tracy Bonham
Damnit Steve!
http://xkcd.com/944/
Morning pan…. Good news, the antibiotics are working. I can eat semi-solid foods with half of my mouth… Mixed news, it’s the last week at this job. Trying to figure out the next step.
this is a pretty cool photogallery.
http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/page/2
Your 92-year-old grandmother is probably more tech savvy than some of the engineers who used to call me for tech support.
Hey! I said I was sorry! ;)
Sir, you do not need to turn off your monitor when I ask you to reboot the machine.
But… but… I don’t want to kick my computer!
I know a lot of these places. Surreal:
http://cranford.patch.com/articles/update-1125-am-streets-submerged-trees-down-possible-evacuation-of-cpd#photo-7539465
And……………….. we’re………….. back………………………
……………………….
…..
I was going to ask who turned off the lights and was there a makeout session.
My lips were unmolested.
That leaves a lot of… territory uncovered.
Van, that wasn’t you?
I’d molest.you Van but there’s on ocean in my way
CW: turbulent Skies. This is really a terrible movie
You haven’t seen the new Conan yet..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1518861/
do not recommend to anyone.
No wonder. It has Casper Van Dien in it. Even he makes fun of the movies he acts in.
CP: The Bombs In My Pants! — The Evaporators
Just so you know, “hold” is a four letter word that should not be said in polite company
Apparently I’m an important caller and they will be with me in a moment.
Their idea of a moment and mine are obviously different
You will all be happy to know I finally got off hold and was able to conduct my business. Life is good now
But the on-hold music still lingers in your head.
Evil Jack is evil
Yeah, but we live him anyway :evil:
Stupid WordPress
Actually, there was no music, it was all self advertisement.
Were they bragging about how good there customer service is?
Naw, just how great their product was. Since it was my insuance company I found this rather confusing
DJB/TEB/Ryah, we should start talking the MMMeetup, shouldn’t we?
Yup! I’ve already told hubby to expect it.
Scry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarf
Ume was on KDHX:
http://kdhx.org/music/live-performances/ume-8/29/11
I guess the new album comes out tomorrow.
WWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!!!?
New album?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! oh my sugartits this is out of nowhere fantastic
Stream it here!!!! Oh…. oh goddamn its good already…
http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/20
Morning Pan, Autumn is in the air, woolly hat and thick coat needed, yah!
Apparently my zip code didn’t get the memo.
Mine did. We’re suppose to get rain and only a high of 12C today (54F). A far cry from the 30C (86F) we had yesterday.
Hey Pan! Are we ready for a Tuesday morning?
B + oo
E+ek
(this is a f+un game
)
W+oot
I’m h+aving a f+riend over. W=e’re going to c+hat and then go for l+unch. A g+ood time is e+xpected t+oday
B+leh. My s+tupid work computer is acting up a+gain. *g+rumble, g+rumble*
Any one here know how to stop skype from automatically signing on when you start up the application?
A quick bit of messing around and it seems to be based on your status when you close skype. So if you sign out first when you start it next time it should be in offline mode still.
Thanks!
You can also select to be invisible, and it will remember the setting whenyou bootup.
I’m off Pan. Probably won’t hear from me for the rest of the day.
Later Panites
z+zzz
Wake up Jack!
So… I got all excited because someone wanted to have an “interview” tomorrow. Then I looked up the company and found out it is a semi-scam operation. Good thing I do my research.
That sucks :-(
Good eye then, Cynful. Are they trying to take advantage of job-seekers? Or recruit you to be one of their agents of evil?
I think the former. I’d rather be a Evil Agent for Deadpan. :)
One of the great mysteries of the world is why people like Peggle.
Just watched Death Valley, it was painfully unfunny.
I haven’t had much faith in any new MTV show since Remote Control.
Or maybe the “Eat It” video.
“Sabotage”?
My + head = asploded
Speaking of Sabotage, that was a long outage.
Saw Cowboys & Aliens yesterday. I don’t think it changed my outlook on life, inspired me to try anything new or caused me to rethink my purpose, but it was an entertaining two hours of light fun.
was
hit by the hurricane?
Sorry, folks. That’s three major outages in less than a week. I’m a little bit disgruntled. More :FTZilla: than :FTB:
or
No problem Jack
fucktard zilla summons a mental image of a green lizard with his tongue hanging out and limp spikes.
Saw. Rango last night. I really enjoyed it. There were tons of homages to old films, especially spaghetti westerns.
The project from hell I’ve been trying to avoid has decided to ignore my wishes
Sounds ominous, ditto.
Yeah. I was avoiding it for very good reasons. :(
So this article appears to be making quite the geek outrage uproar.
http://gizmodo.com/5833787/my-brief-okcupid-affair-with-a-world-champion-magic-the-gathering-player
I used to roll in the same circles as this guy (long before he got his own Magic card). I was never friends with him; he was *way* too socially retarded and just generally not likable. Still – - the article comes across as nothing but a mean and unwarranted attack on him for being a gaming nerd.
I read the article. I’ve also read his twitter and reddit responses. He’s handled it very well. I honestly don’t think she meant to come across as mean as she did, but yeah… she portrayed herself very poorly in the article.
Well it’s always nice to see evidence that (despite all the protests to the contrary) women can be just as shallow as men when it comes to dating.
I’m on the side that thinks she was just trolling for website traffic. Nothing swells the masses like fanboy ire.
Power restored?
Alright, I flubbed that last line. So, to make up for it, a thread of Wil Wheaton awesomeness.
http://www.fark.com/comments/6509057/Photoshop-Challenge-Insert-Wil-Wheaton-into-a-movie-that-would-have-been-better-for-his-having-been-cast?cpp=1
In regards to Will Wheaton, I’m on the ST:TNG actually got better when WW left.
+side of the fence.
Objectively: that was not really Will Wheaton’s fault – - no more than Jar Jar Binks could be blamed entirely on Ahmed Best.
Its true.
/poignant and thoughtful statement
I remember when I first started watching TNG and I cringed at the idea that they had to add an adolescent foil for Peckard. But as the seasons progressed I felt Wil Wheaton brought a lot of emotional depth to Wesley, even though the writters failed him and his character. I really like him as Aeofel at the moment.
I had an awesome hockey conversation with a new person at my bar tonight. I don’t get to talk to true hockey fans very often, and I’m horrible with names, so this left me in a great mood tonight. :)
Is that the game where you roll the little ball into the net?
No, your thinking of Cricket.
Hockey’s the thing where they ring a bell and the guys come into a rink with the ropes around it and try to beat the crap out of one another.
This weeks episode still hasn’t shown up in iTunes on this side of the pond.
Even when I do a search on the phone, it reveals the latest episode as the 12 August one.
I’m off to look for black cats crossing my path and count magpies…
Not sure what the issue is Van. The episode came fine over ITunes last Thursday like normal for me. Did you try downloading it directly from the site?
Count Magpies? That what the kids are calling it these days?
I too am having difficulty (US). It won’t even show in the Itunes store directory for me.
Yah! misery like company
I’ll get my coat
Yay! I get a Vanamonde.
Hey Pan
I can tell summer is over when I get up before the sun.
This was brought to my attention for you writers on the Pan board
http://themuseonlinewritersconference.com/joom/
Some people have too much talent and time
http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2011/8/28/sunday-sweets-ode-to-dragoncon.html
Here’s a cool time lapse video of the water slowly rising during Irene
http://blip.tv/episode/5503980
This is just cool
http://vimeo.com/8322356
This is just to make you smile, although some images many be NSF
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jynid/is_there_one_image_that_makes_you_laugh_every/
Holy multiple links, Batman! Er…Bunny!
Oh. Its gonna be like that, is it?
Like what. What did I miss?
It’s wet outside. I don’t think I’ll be going for a walk today.
I’m supposed to drive a racecar today and we have a heat warning. Coincidence?
I wish I could drive a race car. That would be cool.
Pictures?
It occurs to me, if Jack’s talking mmmmmeetup, I’ll be seeing my Goddess sometime after the new year.
As an update, my book app still hasn’t been fixed so I still can’t read the books I have purchased. Nor have they bothered to reply to my email of last Sunday. I am not a happy bunny
This is pretty damn funny. The Foo Fighters have made a fake gay porn video to promote their new tour. lol
http://www.avclub.com/articles/foo-fighters-made-a-fake-gay-porn-video-to-promote,61083/
And I’m pretty sure
will block this post.
Wow. I’m surprised.
Um
I suggest you listen to the words from the country song playing in the background at the beginning of the video.
lmao. I missed that bit.
Now, the grocery store calls
CP: A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall — Bob Dylan
May have linked to this before, but a cool site for those of us who grew up in the 70 and 80′s:
http://www.pica-pic.com/#
Oh and don’t be fooled by the title, the games are playable.
Look I’m the biggest Lucas apologist out there…. but I’m fucking done
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/08/confirmed_george_lucas_ed_with_the_original_trilog.php
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/08/all_the_star_wars_blu-ray_changes_for_your_viewing.php
Now back to watching fake gay pron….
I know. I’m tired of giving him money. I’m also uninterested in the new “The Old Republic” being developed by Bioware.
Still, this may be the very last Star Wars product I purchase, when it is finally in stock, of course.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/e845/
Its sad because Ive been completely impressed and enthralled with the Star Wars: Legacy series from Dark Horse. Its fucking phenomenal. Also, Lucas has nothing to do with it.
I haven’t read that.
I’m not really interesting in getting the original trilogy in Blu-Ray. BR is nice, but the upconversion of DVDs is pretty nice nowadays. I think the only Star Wars expanded universe stories I’ve connected with are the Dark Forces games. There were some interesting ideas in there that would have translated well to film. Lucas should move on and give Star Wars to a new producer.
Just ordered Volume 1 from Amazon.
You go boy!
Don’t mess wit breast feeding moms:
http://io9.com/5835975/nursing-moms-more-aggressive-than-formula+feeders
I think Reddit – more than Facebook or Walmart – will lead to the end of productivity and civilization as we know it.
Sorry about the iTunes problems for some, btw. The wheels are coming off, I tell ya…
… stay on target …
I haven’t watched the video, but I can’t not post this Bladerunner link here:
http://blastr.com/2011/08/watch-deliciously-cheesy.php
OMFG – - I covet about 10 of these:
http://monstersofgrok.com/
Van Allen!!
Holy grok n roll….
http://tinyurl.com/3npt4p6
I was bored a while back and decided to figure out how many Jupiters you could fit between the Earth and the Moon. So I drew a scaled CAD drawing. You can almost fit 3 Jupiters. :)
The image below is a recent shot of the Earth and Moon from the Juno spacecraft bound for Jupiter. Looks like I got the scale right.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/583510main_juno20110830-full.jpg
I, for one, welcome our new Rhettro overlord.
Highbrow: By Jove, you’ve made something incredible!
Lowbrow: Looks like an image of my ideal woman.
I’ll take Lowbrow for $800, Alex.
The question was, what other heavenly body has a great red spot?
Depends on the month I would assume…
klaatu barada metal
A boy could do a shit ton of barhopping in this city if a boy so desired…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnd queue desire.
*gratuitously inevitable link (sfw)*
http://tinyurl.com/3coo5hu
http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2011/08/31/demotivational-posters-still-20/
Considering where he is – - would this make Lo Pan the Angel of Harlem?
*Jack makes it to the internets final round*
I’m one to proffer an “I’m sorry” so I found this funny
http://xkcd.com/945/
CP: The Guess Who – “No Sugar”
“Hasn’t got the brains or the guts to leave her and they’re standing in each other’s way.”