Saturday Jam: Eric Clapton and Joe Bonamassa: Further on Up the Road
Live at Royal Albert Hall in 2009, almost too much blues to handle.
Live at Royal Albert Hall in 2009, almost too much blues to handle.
1 | Blue Point Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:33:13pm |
Joe Bonamassa still hasn’t gotten the respect and coverage that he deserves. That is because he plays for the love of the music not the money. Eric is a legend and Joe will one day be recognized for who he is. He can rip your head off before you even know it’s gone. One day.
2 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:41:06pm |
Looks like the new uniform for blues guitarists is a black blazer and a white dress shirt with no tie.
3 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:47:26pm |
re: #1 Blue Point
Joe Bonamassa still hasn’t gotten the respect and coverage that he deserves. That is because he plays for the love of the music not the money. Eric is a legend and Joe will one day be recognized for who he is. He can rip your head off before you even know it’s gone. One day.
He can sing too!
4 | Iwouldprefernotto Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:47:59pm |
Just because we are on a new thread doesn’t mean the funny pictures have to stop. Life goes on.
5 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:48:33pm |
re: #4 Iwouldprefernotto
Just because we are on a new thread doesn’t mean the funny pictures have to stop.
You have a funny picture monkey on your back.
6 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:50:38pm |
By the way, the LGF Playlist page makes for a pretty awesome slideshow. Album covers are a goldmine of art and graphic design.
7 | Blue Point Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:53:07pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Looks like the new uniform for blues guitarists is a black blazer and a white dress shirt with no tie.
With no chapeau! Joe had a Mentor. Danny Gatton.
8 | bratwurst Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:54:07pm |
re: #6 Charles Johnson
By the way, the LGF Playlist page makes for a pretty awesome slideshow. Album covers are a goldmine of art and graphic design.
Hey Charles, here is a sneak preview of the new Todd Rundgren album to be released on April 9. Based on what I have heard (about half of it), this is easily his best work since Liars in 2004, and more than a bit related to Healing:
9 | Blue Point Sat, Mar 30, 2013 5:55:35pm |
re: #3 wrenchwench
He kicks ass. If you can check his early stuff he was a juke box. Play anything better than the original. He’s also not a train wreak and just might get better. Think about that!
10 | lawhawk Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:00:36pm |
You can never have too much blues. But I’m no fan of the new blues uniform. No bowties. Bowties would be cool. /
12 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:11:41pm |
Now taking donations to send the staff of Reason a copy of Bioshock Infinite. #LibertarianUtopia— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 31, 2013
@green_footballs charles, happy to help with a couple of copies -ken levine, creative director, Irrational Games— Ken Levine (@IGLevine) March 31, 2013
14 | Political Atheist Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:14:24pm |
Joe hooks up with such great talent. Can’t get much better than the above. Listening to another collaboration he did make me a fan of Beth Hart.
15 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:16:08pm |
Later, lizards.
16 | Vicious Babushka Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:16:51pm |
DERP
Because paying employees as little as you can get away with, guarantees they will not be able to afford to buy whatever stuff you’re selling. WHAT A GREAT BUSINESS MODEL…for FAILURE
Who thinks that raising the #minimumwage is a good idea? Every last person who failed Economics 101. #tcot #TGDN— Stephen England (@stephenmengland) March 31, 2013
17 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:17:22pm |
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Freaking awesome.
18 | Interesting Times Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:19:37pm |
re: #17 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
A hatchling left something for you on an old page. You may have already seen the work he’s referring to, though.
19 | PhillyPretzel Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:21:41pm |
I usually enjoy The Ten Commandments but these #%&*% commercials are really getting on my nerves. I have been spoiled by PBS. Hmm. Maybe I should give some more money to PBS.
20 | Political Atheist Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:29:43pm |
If you guys would enjoy some blues from a real deal street busker I know I’d post a couple with soundcloud. A troubled soul with a fine heart and songs he writes from as real a place as it gets. His name is Patrick Polk, I have put up his stuff before.
21 | stabby Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:31:10pm |
I was reading a wingnut comment complaining that it’s wrong that women have the right to choose to have an abortion or not, but father’s don’t… Also complaining that a woman can choose to keep a child and thus sue a father for child support..
With the exception of rape, sex is between a woman and her government…
22 | Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:45:58pm |
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Most awesome anti-OWS post contest! Least likely to appear favorably in a Michael Moore video? Fewest hours spent watching MSNBC? The possibilities are endless!
23 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:50:03pm |
re: #22 Killgore Trout
Most awesome anti-OWS post contest! Least likely to appear favorably in a Michael Moore video? Fewest hours spent watching MSNBC? The possibilities are endless!
What the heck?
24 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:50:15pm |
re: #22 Killgore Trout
Que?
25 | 122 Year Old Obama Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:50:40pm |
re: #22 Killgore Trout
What is this I don’t even
26 | ProBosniaLiberal Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:51:11pm |
The newest episode of Doctor Who was fun.
hehehehe, snogbox
27 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:51:41pm |
re: #22 Killgore Trout
Most awesome anti-OWS post contest! Least likely to appear favorably in a Michael Moore video? Fewest hours spent watching MSNBC? The possibilities are endless!
I hope it was a nice quality whiskey that brought that out.
28 | Vicious Babushka Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:52:15pm |
WTF is wrong with these assholes? Why do they hate poor people so much? That is not very Jesusy.
Public Service for Small Businesses: Free Obamacare Pink Slip Notice j.mp/XjPZzk #tcot #tgdn twitter.com/raywatts/statu…— Zhivago of Tookland (@raywatts) March 31, 2013
29 | 122 Year Old Obama Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:52:52pm |
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
Five words: Fuck you, I’ve got mine.
30 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:55:30pm |
re: #27 William Barnett-Lewis
I hope it was a nice quality whiskey that brought that out.
I think he kissed a hallucinogen-secreting toad, thinking it was one of his frogs.
31 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 6:58:48pm |
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
WTF is wrong with these assholes? Why do they hate poor people so much? That is not very Jesusy.
Their hate of Obama overwhelms their sense of good taste.
32 | Political Atheist Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:02:14pm |
re: #24 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Sent ya something email.
33 | AlexRogan Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:03:04pm |
re: #27 William Barnett-Lewis
I hope it was a nice quality whiskey that brought that out.
People just need to ignore KT whenever he gets like this, because all he’s doing is acting like an attention whore.
34 | AlexRogan Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:13:23pm |
35 | Political Atheist Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:14:57pm |
I got them shadow people comin’ after me…
36 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:15:46pm |
re: #32 Political Atheist
Really nice. Very learned.
37 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:15:46pm |
re: #24 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Que?
I’ll take “The most incoherent comment on LGF today” for $500 Alex.
40 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:22:16pm |
41 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:22:45pm |
Kim Jong Un in the desert. twitter.com/Gus_802/status…— Gus (@Gus_802) March 31, 2013
42 | Targetpractice Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:23:10pm |
So Charles, how’s Bioshock Infinite going?
43 | Political Atheist Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:23:33pm |
re: #36 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
BTW he has Tourett syndrome. Not real obvious ordinarily and when he sings or writes it kinda goes away. If I could keep up with his chaotic style I’d make a better video with him.
44 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:24:40pm |
In the Most Perfect Movie category
I watched Sounder on TCM the other night for the umpteenth time. I cannot pass that movie on the dial.
What’s your perfect movie?
45 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:25:51pm |
re: #42 Targetpractice
So Charles, how’s Bioshock Infinite going?
I had to stop for the day, or the day would have been over. Amazing game.
46 | Targetpractice Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:27:21pm |
re: #45 Charles Johnson
I had to stop for the day, or the day would have been over. Amazing game.
So, heads or tails?
47 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:30:43pm |
re: #42 Targetpractice
So Charles, how’s Bioshock Infinite going?
Coming up next week: Glenn Beck uses the games setting year of 1912 to launch ranting attacks on Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson . Several of his followers on Twitter adopt the anti-anyone-not-white images from the game as Twitter avatars without any hint of irony.
/The first I expect to happen. I don’t expect that second thing to happen, but if it does I won’t be surprised.
49 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:35:48pm |
re: #44 blueraven
In the Most Perfect Movie category
I watched Sounder on TCM the other night for the umpteenth time. I cannot pass that movie on the dial.
What’s your perfect movie?
I love The Graduate. I took a film class in college, where my extremely eccentric prof made us analyze that film second by second. Result? It’s one of the finest.
50 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:35:59pm |
re: #45 Charles Johnson
I had to stop for the day, or the day would have been over. Amazing game.
Got too much on my plate to get to it right now.
51 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:36:55pm |
re: #48 Targetpractice
I was just getting to that point when I stopped today.
52 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:37:14pm |
53 | Charles Johnson Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:41:52pm |
I keep stopping to explore all the corners and open stores, etc. When I get all the way through, I may restart and play for speed. Part of the fun is figuring out what’s important to the overall game.
54 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:42:10pm |
re: #52 Stanley Sea
How’d the painting go?
Postponed for now. Had to do some other stuff during the day, working on some mods tonight.
55 | Targetpractice Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:43:27pm |
re: #53 Charles Johnson
I keep stopping to explore all the corners and open stores, etc. When I get all the way through, I may restart and play for speed. Part of the fun is figuring out what’s important to the overall game.
Yeah, it’s just amazing how much detail they put into everything.
56 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:48:32pm |
re: #49 Stanley Sea
I love The Graduate. I took a film class in college, where my extremely eccentric prof made us analyze that film second by second. Result? It’s one of the finest.
Agree! Just watched that again recently too.
57 | PhillyPretzel Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:49:59pm |
The great Exodus scene. I can just hear Cecil B DeMille’s phone call to Central Casting. “I am filming a very large scene and I need a lot of people…”
60 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:52:25pm |
re: #56 blueraven
Agree! Just watched that again recently too.
Memories about that class. The crazy prof was arrested for taking a baseball bat to a parking cops car after his car got the boot put on.
61 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:53:00pm |
re: #58 Dancing along the light of day
Out of Africa!
Love it!
To Kill a Mockingbird has to be one of my all time favorites
62 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:54:48pm |
re: #57 PhillyPretzel
The great Exodus scene. I can just hear Cecil B DeMille’s phone call to Central Casting. “I am filming a very large scene and I need a lot of people…”
“I must have killed more people than Cecil B. DeMille”
-The Waco Kid
63 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:55:18pm |
re: #61 blueraven
Love it!
To Kill a Mockingbird has to be one of my all time favorites
Oh yeah. Atticus Finch. The best man ever.
64 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:57:48pm |
Gregory Peck was awesome. Moby Dick is really good too, and I especially like Richard Basehart’s role as Ishmael.
65 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:58:27pm |
re: #44 blueraven
Bullet,
Cool Hand Luke (Do you know why he was in jail?)
And Deborah Kerr ‘60’s zombie movie!
Metropolis
I could just go on & on!
66 | PhillyPretzel Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:58:34pm |
re: #64 dragonath
And do not forget Horatio Hornblower.
67 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 7:59:35pm |
re: #65 Dancing along the light of day
Bullet,
Cool Hand Luke (Do you know why he was in jail?)
And Deborah Kerr ‘60’s zombie movie!
Metropolis
I could just go on & on!
chopping the heads off parking meters!
great movie!
69 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:01:05pm |
re: #44 blueraven
In the Most Perfect Movie category
I watched Sounder on TCM the other night for the umpteenth time. I cannot pass that movie on the dial.
What’s your perfect movie?
LA Confidential
70 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:01:52pm |
71 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:04:18pm |
re: #69 Dark_Falcon
LA Confidential
For some reason I missed that movie when it came out and just caught it recently for the first time on Netflix.
Love it, and what an ending!
72 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:07:44pm |
re: #70 dragonath
So this is an actual poster
That is so amazing for the time. I love the history of the lost film and how it all came back together, finally. Thanks goodness for all those film buffs and magical editors and technical people.
73 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:11:45pm |
re: #71 blueraven
For some reason I missed that movie when it came out and just caught it recently for the first time on Netflix.
Love it, and what an ending!
I saw it three times in the theater when it first came out, two that fall and once again after it was nominated for Best Picture. An incredible film with a top-notch cast.
74 | Lidane Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:13:10pm |
76 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:16:24pm |
Emigres from Russia and Germany really did amazing things for Hollywood. It came together pretty nicely for America. Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Marlene Dietrich, Peter Lorre, and even guys like Yul Brynner.
Admit it, even if you hate Ayn Rand, at least we got the cheesefest that is The Fountainhead.
80 | Vicious Babushka Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:18:26pm |
re: #44 blueraven
In the Most Perfect Movie category
I watched Sounder on TCM the other night for the umpteenth time. I cannot pass that movie on the dial.
What’s your perfect movie?
I just watched The Big Lebowski.
81 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:18:33pm |
re: #44 blueraven
In the Most Perfect Movie category
I watched Sounder on TCM the other night for the umpteenth time. I cannot pass that movie on the dial.
What’s your perfect movie?
Citizen X. Donald Sutherland, Stephen Rea, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
83 | blueraven Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:24:43pm |
re: #81 Kragar
Citizen X. Donald Sutherland, Stephen Rea, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Oh thanks, one I haven’t seen yet. Will check around for it.
I was thinking American History X which was a brilliant but brutal film.
84 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:24:48pm |
Here’s another German guy who got around, Karl Freund. He goes all the way from German Expressionism to I Love Lucy.
He was one of the cinematographers for Metropolis.
85 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:28:48pm |
re: #81 Kragar
Citizen X. Donald Sutherland, Stephen Rea, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Is Jeffrey DeMunn the guy who’s been in every Stephen King TV movie plus walking dead???
87 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:33:00pm |
re: #85 Stanley Sea
Is Jeffrey DeMunn the guy who’s been in every Stephen King TV movie plus walking dead???
Yup, played the serial killer in Citizen X.
Just found the whole thing on Youtube.
The trailer is here:
88 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:33:36pm |
He is known as a favorite of director Frank Darabont, who has cast him in all four of his films: “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994), “The Green Mile” (1999), “The Majestic” (2001) and “The Mist” (2007).
And…the walking dead
89 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:34:52pm |
Wow. This is beautiful.
Legendary Group C Cars Spa Classic great Sounds Porsche 956 Sauber C11 Lanci…
90 | Iwouldprefernotto Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:35:08pm |
Speaking of movies…Just watched Looper with my 16 year old son. He loved it and my head is still exploding, but any movie that we can watch together is just awesome. Those of you with teenagers will understand.
(A pic of Kim-Jong-Un gettting the Looper treatment would be nice. I’m not willing to wait more than 30 years).
94 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:40:45pm |
My favorite King TV movie where DeMunn was again prominent was “The Storm of the Century”
Anyone remember? Pippa!!
95 | Stanley Sea Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:43:08pm |
96 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:43:12pm |
2012 Group C Paul Ricard Porsche 962C
OMG. Listen to that engine. Sounds beautiful. Sharp. Crisp.
98 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:45:06pm |
re: #82 stabby
The only anime movie I really ever liked was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Mononoke and Spirited Away are good too.
99 | Amory Blaine Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:51:24pm |
Can’t talk. Ultra nationalists. Elizabeth. Duke…..Dimwit….
100 | Targetpractice Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:52:25pm |
101 | freetoken Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:57:54pm |
re: #99 Amory Blaine
Can’t talk. Ultra nationalists. Elizabeth. Duke…..Dimwit….
The II’nd? The Duke of Edinburgh? Someone complaining about German and Greek pretenders to the throne?
102 | NJDhockeyfan Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:58:18pm |
re: #75 Gus
Damn Gus, you’ve done just about everything to Lil Kim except turning him into a unicorn. Bravo!
103 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 8:58:33pm |
104 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:02:44pm |
Someone is doing some weird stuff, with lasers, I think, on the fog. Looks like video I have seen of the Northern Lights.
105 | freetoken Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:04:00pm |
re: #103 dragonath
MUSLIMS!!
Of course, these type of things happen in Thailand too…
BUDDHISTS!!
And Putin has been rounding up civil rights advocates…
RUSSIANSCOMMUNISTS!!
And the Chinese do too…
RED COMMUNISTS!!
And in America school boards investigate teachers for saying “vagina” …
106 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:11:32pm |
re: #44 blueraven
In the Most Perfect Movie category
I watched Sounder on TCM the other night for the umpteenth time. I cannot pass that movie on the dial.
What’s your perfect movie?
Either High Noon or Shane.
107 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:11:57pm |
re: #102 NJDhockeyfan
Damn Gus, you’ve done just about everything to Lil Kim except turning him into a unicorn. Bravo!
Thanks. The man, boy, is a fool. Declaring a “state of war” when in fact it’s been a state of war for 60 years now. They’ve had it in their power to make thing better for themselves but instead choose to continue their cult leadership and threaten not only other nation’s lives, but their own. I needed to find some humor in the absurdity.
109 | freetoken Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:14:57pm |
This is America, 2013:
Revised age of the universe doesn’t jibe
“Scientists rethink universe” (Associated Press, March 24) stated that scientists now calculate the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years. The “big bang” is listed as a figurative 0-60 mph in thousandths of a second, bringing the universe from nothing to that of what we see in today’s world. Many bright individuals are involved — astronomers, planetary physicists, etc. — but another group not mentioned is very much a part of the debate. What about the anthropologists who give no credit to creationism but relate everything to the process of “evolution”?
It’s been said and “proven” (how, I don’t know) that it would take 26.2 billion years for humans as we know them today to evolve into their current forms. So, the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years and the evolution of humans took 26.2 billion years. My math teachers taught me that 13.8 billion minus 26.2 billion results in a negative number. Something doesn’t add up! Would the planetary astronomers pick up the telephone and talk to the anthropologists to resolve a conflict that my third-grade math teacher said wasn’t possible?
James Claflin, Edmond
Yup, something most certainly “doesn’t add up”.
110 | NJDhockeyfan Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:17:40pm |
re: #107 Gus
Thanks. The man, boy, is a fool. Declaring a “state of war” when in fact it’s been a state of war for 60 years now. They’ve had it in their power to make thing better for themselves but instead choose to continue their cult leadership and threaten not only other nation’s lives, but their own. I needed to find some humor in the absurdity.
We should continue to laugh at this idiot. He deserves every minute of it.
BTW I showed my 10 year old daughter your artwork. She was laughing her ass off!
111 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:19:22pm |
I feel a rant coming on.
112 | dragonath Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:19:31pm |
re: #105 freetoken
I’m watching his show on Youtube- he’s like a John Stewart who has a real threat of censorship and imprisonment hanging over his head. This is a small segment from his side.
The fight the whole world over is against small minded people who spread mistrust and ignorance.
113 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:19:32pm |
re: #110 NJDhockeyfan
We should continue to laugh at this idiot. He deserves every minute of it.
BTW I showed my 10 year old daughter your artwork. She was laughing her ass off!
:D I still take him seriously.
114 | jaunte Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:20:46pm |
Wonkette on the latest Piers Morgan gun control group debate:
Dana Loesch Speaks, Remarkably Does Not Shatter All Glass In Thousand-Mile Radius
“Sometime back in the early 1990s, CNN left its standards at one of Ted Turner’s sheep ranches and has never bothered to so much as send out a couple of interns to bring them back.”
“…Loesch is so unlikable that even the tragic orphans at Dead Breitbart’s Embalming Fluid Emporium fell out with her, and those dipshits love anyone to the right of your average banana republic commandante.”
115 | freetoken Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:21:51pm |
re: #112 dragonath
People in power never like to be the target of criticism. Only in a few of the most democratic of nations is it really tolerated.
116 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:22:01pm |
The night before Easter and the Brown family gathers for dinner at the old Governor’s mansion. twitter.com/annebgust/stat…— annebgust (@annebgust) March 31, 2013
118 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:23:19pm |
re: #116 Gus
Jerry doesn’t look so good.
119 | Targetpractice Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:23:21pm |
re: #109 freetoken
This is America, 2013:
Revised age of the universe doesn’t jibe
Yup, something most certainly “doesn’t add up”.
Once again proving that a person can be book-smart and yet utterly stupid.
122 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:24:07pm |
re: #118 Dancing along the light of day
Jerry doesn’t look so good.
Looks OK to me. He’s 74. Lying back and having fun.
126 | NJDhockeyfan Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:28:42pm |
re: #113 Gus
:D I still take him seriously.
My daughter didn’t get the one with him in clown face and holding a lollipop. She said he should be dressed like a little girl.
Lol
127 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:28:58pm |
Jerry and Chris at the White House. Not doing push ups. twitter.com/annebgust/stat…— annebgust (@annebgust) February 25, 2013
128 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:29:59pm |
On my way home tonight I passed some very fragrant flowering trees that were full of hummingbird moths. I’ve only seen them individually before, usually enjoying a thistle.
Tonight I saw more than 50 of them in three trees, and more scattered down the block.
130 | freetoken Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:31:23pm |
I see that National Geographic TV, a venture in part of the Murdoch Empire, has realized that the path to $ucce$$ in America is to $ell more Je$u$:
channel.nationalgeographic.com
channel.nationalgeographic.com
channel.nationalgeographic.com
channel.nationalgeographic.com
And so forth.
America just can’t get enough of Je$u$.
131 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:32:17pm |
re: #130 freetoken
I see that National Geographic TV, a venture in part of the Murdoch Empire, has realized that the path to $ucce$$ in America is to $ell more Je$u$:
channel.nationalgeographic.com
channel.nationalgeographic.com
channel.nationalgeographic.com
channel.nationalgeographic.com
And so forth.
America just can’t get enough of Je$u$.
Except if he wants a green card.
133 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:32:50pm |
re: #128 wrenchwench
On my way home tonight I passed some very fragrant flowering trees that were full of hummingbird moths. I’ve only seen them individually before, usually enjoying a thistle.
Tonight I saw more than 50 of them in three trees, and more scattered down the block.
We came home from walking downtown for dinner last night to find a huge moth (2”+) on the screen door that looked kind of like those do. First time I’ve ever seen anything like it.
My husband called it a moth-god. We shut the door to keep the cats from climbing up the screen to try and catch it.
134 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:36:15pm |
re: #128 wrenchwench
This is the color we have of them here!
Meh! Google linky is too long.
135 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:36:46pm |
re: #128 wrenchwench
On my way home tonight I passed some very fragrant flowering trees that were full of hummingbird moths. I’ve only seen them individually before, usually enjoying a thistle.
Tonight I saw more than 50 of them in three trees, and more scattered down the block.
Used to see a lot of those in Santa Clara Valley.
138 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:37:35pm |
re: #135 Gus
Used to see a lot of those in Santa Clara Valley.
Which means I shouldn’t be surprised, but I’ve been living here 6 years (since I moved out for grad school) and it was my first one.
139 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:37:38pm |
Wait? Is that a bug? Is that a bird? What? It’s a bird? Bzzzzz. One dived bombed me while walking a trail in Colorado. BZZZZWHAM!
140 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:39:08pm |
re: #138 klys
I miss fireflies. But not mosquitoes. Although the Sierras have mosquitoes. Unfortunately.
141 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:40:08pm |
re: #140 klys
I miss fireflies. But not mosquitoes. Although the Sierras have mosquitoes. Unfortunately.
Most fireflies I ever saw was in Ohio.
142 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:42:10pm |
re: #141 Gus
Most fireflies I ever saw was in Ohio.
A field through the trees in PA. Tall grass, with what seemed like 5-10 fireflies on each blade, just sparkling in the twilight. Had to have been thousands, if not tens of thousands of fireflies. One of the most beautiful things I ever saw.
143 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:43:33pm |
re: #142 klys
A field through the trees in PA. Tall grass, with what seemed like 5-10 fireflies on each blade, just sparkling in the twilight. Had to have been thousands, if not tens of thousands of fireflies. One of the most beautiful things I ever saw.
And then they ate you.
The end.
/
144 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:43:51pm |
re: #142 klys
A field through the trees in PA. Tall grass, with what seemed like 5-10 fireflies on each blade, just sparkling in the twilight. Had to have been thousands, if not tens of thousands of fireflies. One of the most beautiful things I ever saw.
We were on a road trip from NJ to Wyoming. Suddenly there they were. Thousands of them lighting up the night flying across the fields.
145 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:43:58pm |
re: #143 Varek Raith
And then they ate you.
The end.
/
It would have been less painful than going to grad school.
Sadly no /
146 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:46:32pm |
re: #139 Gus
Wait? Is that a bug? Is that a bird? What? It’s a bird? Bzzzzz. One dived bombed me while walking a trail in Colorado. BZZZZWHAM!
The way they were moving they looked a bit like bats, but too small. The bats will be here when it gets a little warmer.
148 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:47:29pm |
re: #146 wrenchwench
The way they were moving they looked a bit like bats, but too small. The bats will be here when it gets a little warmer.
I saw tiny flashlights. :D
149 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:48:56pm |
Roku gives me Mythbusters. Mythbusters gives me physics experiments. And I can stitch. And enjoy a gin and tonic.
I like Saturday nights.
150 | Targetpractice Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:49:33pm |
Been watching an online stream of a guy play MGS4 all afternoon and I now understand what people say when they talk about it being a movie masquerading as a game.
151 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:50:08pm |
I am gonna rant & rave. Just maybe not here.
152 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:50:23pm |
re: #150 Targetpractice
Been watching an online stream of a guy play MGS4 all afternoon and I now understand what people say when they talk about it being a movie masquerading as a game.
The first 20 hours of FFXIII say hello.
153 | HoosierHoops Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:51:52pm |
I guess we have passed an age.. The day of nick names. Everybody in sports had a nick..Sad to see it pass.. Mean Joe Green, Golden Boy, Slinging Sammy,.Prime-Time, Hacksaw, Too Tall, the juice, Crazy legs, The freak, the Manster, Night train Lane… team names like the Steel Curtain, Orange crush, Monsters of the Midway.The Dooms day defense! There were thousands of great nicks in Sports.. I miss the lost art of Nicks in sports
Now you are lucky to get an LT or LB but usually just the last name, The Branding .. Gone are the days of the Kansas Comet coming to town..
Now it’s Brady vs. Manning. Ravens vs. Broncos..
Yes it is Sat. Night and Staying home and talking about great nick names.
I had a nick and my close friends always call me by that nick when we were young and somewhat krazy..
154 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:52:04pm |
155 | NJDhockeyfan Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:54:05pm |
re: #153 HoosierHoops
I guess we have passed an age.. The day of nick names. Everybody in sports had a nick..Sad to see it pass.. Mean Joe Green, Golden Boy, Slinging Sammy,.Prime-Time, Hacksaw, Too Tall, the juice, Crazy legs, The freak, the Manster, Night train Lane… team names like the Steel Curtain, Orange crush, Monsters of the Midway.The Dooms day defense! There were thousands of great nicks in Sports.. I miss the lost art of Nicks in sports
Now you are lucky to get an LT or LB but usually just the last name, The Branding .. Gone are the days of the Kansas Comet coming to town..
Now it’s Brady vs. Manning. Ravens vs. Broncos..
Yes it is Sat. Night and Staying home and talking about great nick names.
I had a nick and my close friends always call me by that nick when we were young and somewhat krazy..
Coming soon to the NFL…Johnny Football.
157 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:57:41pm |
re: #156 Gus
I was all like “Oh, man, my husband will love this site” and he’s like “what, you hadn’t heard of it?”
158 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:58:19pm |
re: #157 klys
I was all like “Oh, man, my husband will love this site” and he’s like “what, you hadn’t heard of it?”
Been a while since I listened to this stuff. :D
159 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:58:22pm |
Texas district attorney and wife found slain
A North Texas district attorney was found slain with his wife this weekend, months after an assistant district attorney who worked for him was killed outside the local courthouse.
Kaufman County Dist. Atty. Mike McLelland, 63, and his wife, Cynthia, 65, were found dead Saturday in Forney, about 25 miles east of Dallas, Kaufman County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Justin Lewis told the Los Angeles Times.
“We’re in the preliminary stages of the investigation,” Lewis said.
He could not say how the two were killed, where they were found or whether investigators had linked their deaths to the Jan. 31 killing of Kaufman County Assistant Dist. Atty. Mark Hasse, 57. The couple lived in Forney.
160 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:59:27pm |
161 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:59:34pm |
re: #156 Gus
Oh no you don’t. You are not going to get me lost to the world for weeks at a time that easily. I may have to shoot my computer now damn it…
162 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 30, 2013 9:59:35pm |
NK called us a ‘boiled pumpkin’!
I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not…
XD
163 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:00:13pm |
re: #162 Varek Raith
NK called us a ‘boiled pumpkin’!
I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not…
XD
Do you like pumpkins?
164 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:00:56pm |
165 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:01:30pm |
re: #163 klys
Do you like pumpkins?
Pumpkins are gooood, especially boiled, then mashed, then made into pie!
166 | HoosierHoops Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:01:58pm |
re: #151 Dancing along the light of day
I am gonna rant & rave. Just maybe not here.
Hi you! Sorry it was so late Thursday..Hanging at home relaxing.. Let’s chat this weekend. :)
I wish you a very happy Easter weekend! I’m shopping at Sooner Mall Easter and buying all new clothes..I’m sick of them and going to give my clothes to Goodwill.. It’s Springtime
Out with the old and In to whatever great deals I can find.
;0
167 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:02:16pm |
re: #165 wrenchwench
Pumpkins are gooood, especially boiled, then mashed, then made into pie!
I’ve never made the pie totally from scratch. Maybe this year. :D Now that November won’t be a hell of OH GOD THE CONFERENCE MUST WRITE POSTER.
168 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:02:18pm |
re: #161 William Barnett-Lewis
Oh no you don’t. You are not going to get me lost to the world for weeks at a time that easily. I may have to shoot my computer now damn it…
Had an urge. I loved listening to this chatter. Got three channels open now. What a hoot. Lots of Delta aircraft aloft.
169 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:02:45pm |
re: #162 Varek Raith
NK called us a ‘boiled pumpkin’!
I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not…
XD
Better than a bowled pumpkin!
170 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:02:51pm |
re: #168 Gus
Had an urge. I loved listening to this chatter. Got three channels open now. What a hoot. Lots of Delta aircraft aloft.
Damn, my UFO is in the shop this week….
172 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:05:16pm |
173 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:07:27pm |
re: #168 Gus
Had an urge. I loved listening to this chatter. Got three channels open now. What a hoot. Lots of Delta aircraft aloft.
Always wished someone would do a web cam on the end of the main runway at someplace really busy. That would be fun too.
174 | HoosierHoops Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:08:29pm |
175 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:08:54pm |
re: #173 William Barnett-Lewis
Always wished someone would do a web cam on the end of the main runway at someplace really busy. That would be fun too.
Not air traffic, but there is an awesome webcam on the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone. Primarily Old Faithful, but it moves around and you can see a good 20+ geysers there. Runs all year.
Yellowstone may be my favorite place on Earth.
176 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:09:28pm |
re: #173 William Barnett-Lewis
Always wished someone would do a web cam on the end of the main runway at someplace really busy. That would be fun too.
Düsseldorf
177 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:12:28pm |
re: #173 William Barnett-Lewis
I went on a special trip, that included the Island of Saba, known for the worlds shortest commercial runway.
178 | prairiefire Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:13:23pm |
re: #175 klys
Not air traffic, but there is an awesome webcam on the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone. Primarily Old Faithful, but it moves around and you can see a good 20+ geysers there. Runs all year.
Yellowstone may be my favorite place on Earth.
Do you take your bear spray?
179 | HoosierHoops Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:14:46pm |
re: #175 klys
Not air traffic, but there is an awesome webcam on the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone. Primarily Old Faithful, but it moves around and you can see a good 20+ geysers there. Runs all year.
Yellowstone may be my favorite place on Earth.
If you are sick in bed with a summer cold..I would search and find the beach cams in Hawaii. Great background to sleep and recover from.
Beach Cams.. The secret to health. :)
180 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:14:49pm |
re: #178 prairiefire
Do you take your bear spray?
All hikes that we’ve done thus far have been in large groups, so we’ve settled for not. If it’s ever just the two of us hiking, we will.
181 | prairiefire Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:16:40pm |
re: #176 Gus
Awesome landing. It lands like a helicopter without the technical ability. When we fly as a family, we always rate the landings.
182 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:17:55pm |
re: #177 Dancing along the light of day
I went on a special trip, that included the Island of Saba, known for the worlds shortest commercial runway.
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We flew through Hong Kong on our second trip to Saigon for the adoption. I was probably the only person on the aircraft that was disappointed to be flying into the new airport. I’d always read about the hard turn on final coming in and the seat backs had video screens hooked into a cam on the nose wheel. Gah that would have been epic to watch.
Certainly better than the Air Egypt crew that almost dropped a 757 I was in in to Tokyo bay. They almost touched down a click short… It’s not good to know what some sounds mean at times like that. Thankfully they caught themselves just barely in time.
183 | prairiefire Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:18:38pm |
re: #180 klys
All hikes that we’ve done thus far have been in large groups, so we’ve settled for not. If it’s ever just the two of us hiking, we will.
I do not know what is in those spray cans, but apparently it is the difference between life and death. Phernomes/ hormones?
184 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:19:14pm |
186 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:22:14pm |
re: #183 prairiefire
I do not know what is in those spray cans, but apparently it is the difference between life and death. Phernomes/ hormones?
Actually just pepper spray. Heavily concentrated.
It can be the difference between life and death in certain circumstances, but you need to avoid spraying too soon (because you need it to actually hit the bear).
Better is to make sure you’re making a fair amount of noise on the trial so the bear has plenty of warning - they don’t want conflict anymore than you do, generally. Last trip, we hiked out to Lone Star Geyser with friends and their 3 month old daughter. Forget the bear, *I* wanted to run away.
187 | Gus Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:22:23pm |
re: #181 prairiefire
Awesome landing. It lands like a helicopter without the technical ability. When we fly as a family, we always rate the landings.
Don’t adjust rudder until touchdown.
188 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:25:27pm |
re: #166 HoosierHoops
Hi you! Sorry it was so late Thursday..Hanging at home relaxing.. Let’s chat this weekend. :)
I wish you a very happy Easter weekend! I’m shopping at Sooner Mall Easter and buying all new clothes..I’m sick of them and going to give my clothes to Goodwill.. It’s Springtime
Out with the old and In to whatever great deals I can find.
;0
Wait to shop until Monday, it’ll all get marked down!
189 | HoosierHoops Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:32:40pm |
re: #188 Dancing along the light of day
Wait to shop until Monday, it’ll all get marked down!
I wish..Next week is maxed out..I think the Mall will be pretty quiet Easter. Everybody will be at church with their families then BBQ’s and such all day.
I hope…:)
190 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:41:21pm |
re: #167 klys
I’ve never made the pie totally from scratch. Maybe this year. :D Now that November won’t be a hell of OH GOD THE CONFERENCE MUST WRITE POSTER.
It’s actually better made with butternut squash instead of pumpkin. And our neighbor gave us a sweet potato pie to die for.
191 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:42:01pm |
re: #190 wrenchwench
It’s actually better made with butternut squash instead of pumpkin. And our neighbor gave us a sweet potato pie to die for.
Favorited to remember to try in November. :D
192 | Single-handed sailor Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:48:32pm |
re: #175 klys
Not air traffic, but there is an awesome webcam on the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone. Primarily Old Faithful, but it moves around and you can see a good 20+ geysers there. Runs all year.
Yellowstone may be my favorite place on Earth.
There’s a campground, gotta look it up on Google Earth, Madison Campground. It’s where the road from West Yellowstone Montana meets the main north south road. If you walk down to the river, at the edge there are areas with walls of piled rock that make natural hot baths. you can sit on the bubbling gravel, on the edge of the river and watch the sun set on the mountains.
193 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:52:29pm |
re: #192 Single-handed sailor
There’s a campground, gotta look it up on Google Earth, Madison Campground. It’s where the road from West Yellowstone Montana meets the main north south road. If you walk down to the river, at the edge there are areas with walls of piled rock that make natural hot baths. you can sit on the bubbling gravel, on the edge of the river and watch the sun set on the mountains.
Haven’t gotten to stay at Madison Campground yet, but I think they just changed it to allow reservations and it’s high on my list. We have a teardrop travel trailer and I could happily live at Yellowstone all summer every summer.
Unfortunately, my husband enjoys more varied vacation destinations and since we went this past summer, I probably need to wait another year before we can go back. :(
194 | freetoken Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:59:02pm |
Denmark - is it rationalist heaven?
195 | Single-handed sailor Sat, Mar 30, 2013 10:59:11pm |
re: #193 klys
Haven’t gotten to stay at Madison Campground yet, but I think they just changed it to allow reservations and it’s high on my list. We have a teardrop travel trailer and I could happily live at Yellowstone all summer every summer.
Unfortunately, my husband enjoys more varied vacation destinations and since we went this past summer, I probably need to wait another year before we can go back. :(
The trick, we found serendipitously, was to be there by 10 AM and when they turned over for the day, you’re in line to get a space. We camped just north of Jackson Hole the night before.
196 | Single-handed sailor Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:09:29pm |
re: #193 klys
That bums, me out. I used to camp in Yosemite from Christmas to New Year. You could drive in and pay $3 and find an empty campsite. You could camp for free, and if the gates weren’t manned you didn’t even have to pay the $3 a day fee for the days you were in the park. That was back in the 80s. Then winter camping got popular, so I moved to back country ski-packing.
197 | Kragar Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:11:52pm |
Did North Korea Photoshop its military might?
Oh, North Korea. Did you do a little digital magic?
Lots of people, starting with the staff of The Atlantic, and now Gizmodo and The Guardian, think so.
Eagle eyes studying up on the rogue nation’s ongoing threat to blow everything up did a double take with this photo, released this week by the Korean Central News Agency.
198 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:12:03pm |
re: #196 Single-handed sailor
That bums, me out. I used to camp in Yosemite from Christmas to New Year. You could drive in and pay $3 and find an empty campsite. You could camp for free, and if the gates weren’t manned you didn’t even have to pay the $3 a day fee for the days you were in the park. That was back in the 80s. Then winter camping got popular, so I moved to back country ski-packing.
Yosemite is still FAR better in winter than in summer. We’ll probably go by and see it in the winter this year. I won’t go near that place in the summer.
My first trip, there was snow on the valley floor and we saw a coyote and a bobcat while walking to the base of Yosemite Falls. I hate heights so I’ll never see the top. I did promise my husband I’d hike with him up to the base of Half Dome but I refuse to go up the cables.
200 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:18:34pm |
re: #198 klys
I will edit this to add that if I could catch the frazil ice at Yosemite I would go see that. But I probably won’t try to get there for that this year.
201 | William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:19:26pm |
re: #198 klys
Yosemite is still FAR better in winter than in summer. We’ll probably go by and see it in the winter this year. I won’t go near that place in the summer.
My first trip, there was snow on the valley floor and we saw a coyote and a bobcat while walking to the base of Yosemite Falls. I hate heights so I’ll never see the top. I did promise my husband I’d hike with him up to the base of Half Dome but I refuse to go up the cables.
“Half Dome is meant to be photographed, not climbed.”
- St. Ansel of Adams.
202 | Dancing along the light of day Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:19:56pm |
We used to stay in some cabins on the river, I’m trying to google it.
Hard to sleep at night, with the roaring of the river!
203 | klys Sat, Mar 30, 2013 11:20:07pm |
re: #201 William Barnett-Lewis
“Half Dome is meant to be photographed, not climbed.”
- St. Ansel of Adams.
If he does climb it I am going to be gnawing on my fingers until he is back down beside me again.
204 | prairiefire Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:04:01am |
re: #202 Dancing along the light of day
We used to stay in some cabins on the river, I’m trying to google it.
Hard to sleep at night, with the roaring of the river!
You used to fall asleep all dressed up, listening to Peggy Lee!
206 | Shiplord Kirel Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:06:33am |
re: #159 Kragar
This is from March 22:
FBI checks link between Texas, Colorado slayings
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether the killing of a Texas county prosecutor earlier this year is linked to the slaying of Colorado’s prison director.
Kaufman police chief Chris Aulbaugh said Friday the FBI is checking to see if the January shooting death of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse is connected to Tuesday’s killing of prison chief Tom Clements.
Hasse was killed about 100 miles away from where former Colorado inmate and white supremacist Evan Spencer Ebel died Thursday after a shootout with deputies. Investigators are trying to determine if Ebel is linked to Clements’ death.
Aulbaugh calls the investigation routine for attacks that appear similar. Both targeted law enforcement officials. Authorities have investigated whether Hasse’s death could be linked to a white supremacist gang.
207 | klys Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:08:49am |
re: #205 prairiefire
A 3 month old, oy.
I was reaffirmed in my opinion that I absolutely don’t want children ever. I know there a huge blessing for many many people and I’m glad others want to procreate, but I am not one of them.
208 | Kragar Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:09:28am |
re: #206 Shiplord Kirel
This is from March 22:
FBI checks link between Texas, Colorado slayings
Man, if only we had some sort of report which could have warned law enforcement about white supremacist/right wing terror organizations.
209 | William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:14:00am |
re: #207 klys
I was reaffirmed in my opinion that I absolutely don’t want children ever. I know there a huge blessing for many many people and I’m glad others want to procreate, but I am not one of them.
When I was much younger, my then girlfriend (who, I will add, is still a very good friend to this day) used to say, regularly, that other people’s children were the world’s best contraceptives…
That said, I was so much older then (I’m younger than that now ;) and my 11 year old adopted son is why…
Ah, thank you all.
Good Night!
210 | Kragar Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:22:52am |
At long last, they’re making Mechanicus forces…
211 | freetoken Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:28:46am |
As some may know, I’ve been working away on genealogy and recently been tackling “genetic genealogy”.
After some digging and various attempts, I’m coming to the conclusion that many of the companies involved in this, even the better ones, even though they have some powerful software they also have a really, really poor “user experience” with their software. Poorly explained functionality, overly wrought CSS3 and HTML5, and the like.
On top of all of this, the consuming public of genetic testing seem rather confused. Dazed even. It’s very difficult stuff, even compared to, say, making a soufflé.
The medical use of this genetic information is even more a confusing mess, I gather from reading various forums on the topic. (And the fixation on racial differences and intelligence is rather telling of the state of our society.)
Math is not only hard, but probability is often counter-intuitive.
Genetic testing may indeed prove to be too esoteric to really be a consumer product.
214 | EdDantes Sun, Mar 31, 2013 1:22:26am |
I’ve seen Clapton twice in concert. The first time in August 1975 and the second time in July 1992. I wish I had seen him with Cream.
215 | EdDantes Sun, Mar 31, 2013 1:44:13am |
I saw this guy in May 1974 at Stanford. Damn! he was good.
219 | wheat-dogghazi Sun, Mar 31, 2013 5:42:09am |
re: #211 freetoken
Same here. Even with a science background, I’m lost. It’s developing science, so the terms for genotypes and markers are changing quickly, and I don’t have time to sit down and really study what’s going on. I’ve got the key information I wanted, my paternal line’s likely origins in Devon, England, but the deeper origin information I’m not so keen on yet.
Some consumers, though, seem to anguish over whether they’re from England, Ireland, Scotlands or Wales, have Viking or Italian roots, are French or German, and so on. Doubtless, some nationalistic fervor there.
The Yahoo group I joined offers no great assistance, as it’s a mailing list with tons of consumers trying to get answers from overworked moderators. My question, which I haven’t pursued since, has gotten lost in the information overload.
220 | William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:28:09am |
Good morning all & a marvellous Easter to all.
Here’s my musical contribution:
Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 (1888),
221 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:29:51am |
re: #220 William Barnett-Lewis
Good morning all & a marvellous Easter to all.
Here’s my musical contribution:
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Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 (1888),
Good morning. How are you doing?
222 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:45:07am |
Easter DERP
HAPPY EASTER & don’t forget to throw a few ROTTEN eggs at the closest LIBERAL you can find! #RedNationRising #TeaParty #TGDN #tcot #Easter— Jim Chookagian (@nf3l) March 31, 2013
That’s just so Jesusy of you, Jim!
MOAR DERP: Because Jesus was all like Eww you Poors, go pull yourself up by ur own bootstraps! Don’t have bootstraps? Sux 2 b u!
Do you want to do something good in Jesus Christ’s name today? Teach self reliance! #TCOT #TGDN #Resist44— LiberateTheUSA (@LiberateTheUSA) March 31, 2013
223 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:45:46am |
IF ONLY JESUS HAD AN AR-15!
I was hoping that the EASTER BUNNY would fill my EASTER BASKET with some AMMUNITION!!#JustSaying #RedNationRising #TeaParty #TGDN #ammo— Jim Chookagian (@nf3l) March 31, 2013
224 | wheat-dogghazi Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:46:17am |
re: #222 Vicious Babushka
These people have no ability at self-reflection. Lousy Christians.
225 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:49:17am |
Last night we watched “The Big Lebowski” the way some other families watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” or whatever their favorite holiday movie.
We “discussed” (i.e. yelled & screamed at each other) over whether TBL deserves to be “The Greatest Comedy of All Time” or should that honor go to “Blazing Saddles.” We all agreed that “Life of Brian” is #3.
In the end, Zedushka & our oldest son voted for TBL.
226 | wheat-dogghazi Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:49:40am |
Gus, your image of Kim with the nuclear balloon has now entered the Chinese information stream, courtesy of yours truly.
227 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:49:53am |
“Life of Brian” is a great Easter movie for the whole family. Well, for my whole family. :)
228 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:51:16am |
So this is what this so-called “Christian” thinks of JESUS. STAY CLASSY.
HOW LIBERALS WERE CREATED!! “@conservcitygirl: Thank You #God!!!!#humor #RedNationRising #TeaParty #TGDN #tcot twitter.com/ConservCityGir…”— Jim Chookagian (@nf3l) March 31, 2013
229 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:56:01am |
re: #222 Vicious Babushka
What’s wrong with the head of someone like that? He can’t even have one day off from the hate.
230 | compound_Idaho Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:57:59am |
re: #227 Vicious Babushka
“Life of Brian” is a great Easter movie for the whole family. Well, for my whole family. :)
My children first saw Life of Brian for movie night at the church with the high school youth group.
231 | efuseakay Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:10:07am |
re: #74 Lidane
Ugh. Bad news:
District attorney, wife found dead in Texas county where assistant DA was shot, police say
Gun laws in Texas are too strict!
/
Wonder if this is related to that white supremacist fool from last week.
232 | efuseakay Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:11:12am |
re: #227 Vicious Babushka
“Life of Brian” is a great Easter movie for the whole family. Well, for my whole family. :)
Thwoah heem to da floaur!!!
233 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:14:27am |
234 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:15:54am |
OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!11!!
@dwightrobertsjr: So Google.com honors Cesar Chavez today on Easter.#ridiculous #tcot #tgdn— LibertyCallsYouOut (@dwightrobertsjr) March 31, 2013
235 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:18:32am |
re: #234 Vicious Babushka
OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!11!!
Put a beard on that portrait of Chavez and you’d have a decent Christ portrait, and I’m sure that would REALLY blow that wingnut’s mind.
236 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:20:13am |
I don’t think this was a deliberate action on Google’s part. The date of Easter varies from year to year, Chavez birthday was probably in their slot for March 31.
237 | efuseakay Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:20:53am |
238 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:21:31am |
239 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:21:58am |
Google didn’t have the right doodle and now all the #FakeChristians are having a sad.#tcot #tgdn #fucktards #rubes #racists #p2— Cranston Snord (@BostonSnob) March 31, 2013
240 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:24:59am |
DERP
If G. Washington or T. Jefferson ran for president today they wouldn’t be elected.Sad but true.Due to uninformed voters.#tgdn #tcot— Jeep Dude (@JeepDude05) March 31, 2013
241 | William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:33:35am |
re: #221 Dark_Falcon
Good morning. How are you doing?
Doing well today, Sir. I hope you and yours are fine as well. I just posted a page on the Traditionalists having conniption fits over Francis. What did they expect from a Jesuit? LOL!
242 | Lidane Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:34:25am |
re: #236 Vicious Babushka
I don’t think this was a deliberate action on Google’s part. The date of Easter varies from year to year, Chavez birthday was probably in their slot for March 31.
There you go, bringing logic to the wingnut mind.
Doesn’t matter. It’s Easter, so of course Google hates Jesus because they didn’t have a doodle of him. Or something.
///
244 | Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:47:03am |
Gun control activist Mark Kelly says mental record access must be in background check law
I can’t disagree with him but that’s a big can of worms. Privacy, client-patient confidentiality, professional ethics, etc. I’m not sure if it can be done, I doubt there’s enough political support for it.
245 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:48:06am |
246 | Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:49:41am |
OMG! Droooones!
247 | NJDhockeyfan Sun, Mar 31, 2013 7:55:56am |
re: #245 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Happy Cesar Chavez Day.
I’ve already eaten 3 Reese’s Chavez peanut butter eggs.
248 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:01:41am |
STAY CLASSY WINGNUTS
#google can in the words of Eric Cartman “Suck my balls” Today is Easter, asswhipes! #tcot #tgdn #pjnet— Evilware (@Evilware) March 31, 2013
249 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:07:46am |
re: #247 NJDhockeyfan
I’ve already eaten 3 Reese’s Chavez peanut butter eggs.
Breakfast of champions.
250 | Political Atheist Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:18:13am |
251 | Kronocide Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:46:35am |
Not to take away from everybody’s Easter, but I have a sarcastic atheist joke coming. You’ve been warned.
252 | Kronocide Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:47:12am |
Which, correlates to the season finale of Walking Dead tonight… coincedence? Hm….
253 | Kronocide Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:48:18am |
Whraa ruh whraaaa ruuuh roooaaahr wrah ruuh roooh rhaaahhh
The Zombies Prayer
254 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:54:44am |
re: #245 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Happy Cesar Chavez Day.
Wingnut Easter outrage detected. Alert Twitchy Teams to DERPCON Level 5. Cesar Chavez is the Google Doodle! Sound the alarm bells!
255 | Mattand Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:55:36am |
re: #240 Vicious Babushka
DERP
@jeepdude05 Yeah, the informed voters would be totally cool with their pro-slavery positions. #tcot #tgdn— mattand (@mattand) March 31, 2013
256 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 8:56:35am |
FLASH NEWS REPORT: Google Doodle is of Cesar Chavez and not Easter. I repeat, Easter has been cancelled in favor of socialist farm workers. #WarOnEaster
258 | dragonath Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:02:35am |
What’s Google really supposed to put up there? If they were really traditional, they’d put up a box of nails.
259 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:06:50am |
re: #256 Gus
The thing is Chavez was a Catholic who involved his faith in his farm labor work a lot. So he’s actually a really appropriate guy to honor on Easter, too, except for those that think Catholics aren’t real Christians, of course.
260 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:10:05am |
re: #259 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
The thing is Chavez was a Catholic who involved his faith in his farm labor work a lot. So he’s actually a really appropriate guy to honor on Easter, too, except for those that think Catholics aren’t real Christians, of course.
BOYCOTT THOSE PAGAN SOCIALISTS GOOGLE NOW! #WAR #TCOT #TGDN #CCOT #UCOT #TWISTERS #PJMEDIA
262 | Eventual Carrion Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:15:59am |
263 | dragonath Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:17:20am |
WHERE ARE MY PAGAN TINGED EASTER BUNNIES. I ASKED FOR A FERTILITY FESTIVAL DAMMIT
264 | dragonath Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:22:25am |
Ah well. Google’s job isn’t to proselytize for religion. I hope the pope finds some new way to piss off the fundamentalists today.
265 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:23:37am |
LMFHO
Google can’t celebrate Easter but can celebrate a dictator’s birthday?! #political #agenda— jennifercuzzort (@jennifercuzzort) March 31, 2013
267 | Feline Fearless Leader Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:29:36am |
Good afternoon Lizards and a happy Easter/spring fertility festival of your choice.
Cooking lunch and then taking a walk out into the overcast. Been a slow and quiet weekend, so I feel the need to get out and wander around a bit.
268 | blueraven Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:30:09am |
269 | Iwouldprefernotto Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:32:57am |
No floppy, Spam, cheese or umbrella
270 | Walking Spanish Down the Hall Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:33:42am |
re: #256 Gus
FLASH NEWS REPORT: Google Doodle is of Cesar Chavez and not Easter. I repeat, Easter has been cancelled in favor of socialist farm workers. #WarOnEaster
Hey, the last name IS Chavez.
272 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:37:14am |
BREAKING: in an effort to get all of Google’s boycotters, BING and Yahoo went with this image: twitter.com/QuadCityPat/st…— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) March 31, 2013
273 | Feline Fearless Leader Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:38:18am |
re: #272 Gus
So, the real Sermon of the Mount sounded something like The Sniper’s Creed?
/
274 | Kronocide Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:45:59am |
Ceasar Chavez and Hugo Chavez must be related. Just like John Smith and Will Smith.
277 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:51:04am |
Conservatives freak out after Google honors Cesar Chavez on Easter ow.ly/jBGbZ— The Raw Story (@RawStory) March 31, 2013
278 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:56:11am |
I hate when I can’t read something and then realize it’s because I don’t have my reading glasses on.
Especially in the morning. It’s a Rude awakening.
279 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:56:47am |
re: #277 Gus
And dogpile has gone with the Easter Bunny costume on its dog mascot. dogpile.com
281 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 9:59:56am |
re: #278 FemNaziBitch
I hate when I can’t read something and then realize it’s because I don’t have my reading glasses on.
Especially in the morning. It’s a Rude awakening.
Always keep a dozen on you just in case you wind up like Henry Bemis in “Time Enough at Last.” //
283 | Charles Johnson Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:00:18am |
@iglevine Please don’t associate with Charles Johnson of LGF. He supports the kill list, drone warfare, & indefinite detention— GnipGnop8 (@GnipGnop8) March 31, 2013
This is the idiot “pharmmajor” who has tried to register dozens of sock puppets at LGF.
284 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:01:11am |
re: #283 Charles Johnson
This is the idiot “pharmmajor” who has tried to register dozens of sock puppets at LGF.
I’ve been wondering about this band I keep hearing about: Little Green Cars?
285 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:03:07am |
15 People Who Think Google Is Honoring Hugo Chávez buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/… via @buzzfeed #p2 #tlot #derp— Gus (@Gus_802) March 31, 2013
286 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:04:04am |
Twitchy link: While Google honors Cesar Chavez, Bing delivers Easter eggs
Notice the URL: while-google-honors-hugo-chavez-bing-delivers-easter-eggs
Derp.
288 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:05:16am |
re: #283 Charles Johnson
This is the idiot “pharmmajor” who has tried to register dozens of sock puppets at LGF.
And with that comment he has showed himself to be a barking moonbat on Twitter as well.
290 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:06:08am |
re: #283 Charles Johnson
@gnipgnop8 @iglevine Quoth the Moonbat: DERP!!
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) March 31, 2013
291 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:07:55am |
re: #287 FemNaziBitch
You must remember we are a Christian Nation.
292 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:09:41am |
@gnipgnop8 @green_footballs And you, sir, are a hateful lunatic.I pray that you will one one see the foolishness of your words.
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) March 31, 2013
293 | darthstar Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:10:29am |
Happy End of the Holidays, everyone.
295 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:12:45am |
297 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:13:41am |
re: #295 Dark_Falcon
Let us hope he is so pissed off he does not see it.
298 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:13:46am |
Anyone notice that Fox News is like a pr0n Movie. The ladies all look like Barbie Dolls and they guys all look like loser nerds.
299 | darthstar Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:14:18am |
300 | dragonath Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:15:22am |
Muddy Waters was born on Easter
Happy Muddy Waters Day
301 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:15:44am |
re: #294 PhillyPretzel
Now fixed in new tweet:
@gnipgnop8 @green_footballs And you, sir, are a hateful lunatic.I pray that you will one day see the foolishness of your words.
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) March 31, 2013
302 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:16:26am |
Right-wingers are boycotting Google, which is why they don’t know the difference between Cesar Chavez and Hugo Chavez.— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 31, 2013
I don’t know how I’m supposed to praise the resurrection of my savior if a website doesn’t alter a logo in his honor.— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 31, 2013
304 | darthstar Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:18:56am |
Some people are so lucky.
306 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:20:41am |
307 | bratwurst Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:22:32am |
Every Google Doodle uproar comes down to the same thing: by not reaffirming my beliefs, you’re attacking me.— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) March 31, 2013
308 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:23:06am |
re: #306 FemNaziBitch
When Garden State Park race track burnt down it took a while to go through the rubble. The horses were gone but the “barn cats” were still there serveral months later. And there cats at other race tracks.
309 | blueraven Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:23:35am |
re: #286 Gus
Twitchy link: While Google honors Cesar Chavez, Bing delivers Easter eggs
Notice the URL: while-google-honors-hugo-chavez-bing-delivers-easter-eggs
Derp.
A correction at the bottom of the article…LOL
Correction: Of course, it’s Cesar Chavez, not Hugo. Headline has been fixed!
310 | darthstar Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:24:27am |
re: #304 darthstar
Some people are so lucky.
It’s okay…it wasn’t in Canada after all…it was in Arkansas.
311 | Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:26:10am |
re: #306 FemNaziBitch
Only because the cat is much smaller. Put a miniature horse around a puma, even a relatively tame one, and the puma will attack the little horse. It’s true with any feline: They’ll attack and eat you if they’re big enough to do so.
312 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:26:37am |
re: #308 PhillyPretzel
When Garden State Park race track burnt down it took a while to go through the rubble. The horses were gone but the “barn cats” were still there serveral months later. And there cats at other race tracks.
There are always barn cats. I don’t understand. I figure the cats are needed to ensure order.
313 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:27:27am |
re: #311 Dark_Falcon
Only because the cat is much smaller. Put a miniature horse around a puma, even a relatively tame one, and the puma will attack the little horse. It’s true with any feline: They’ll attack and eat you if they’re big enough to do so.
If a cat decides you are to die. It’s size won’t matter.
314 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:27:52am |
re: #312 FemNaziBitch
Mice like to hide in hay. They frighten the horses. Cats kill the mice.
315 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:28:56am |
316 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:29:30am |
re: #313 FemNaziBitch
If a cat decides you are to die. It’s size won’t matter.
That’s funny. Yeah, they’ll place themselves right behind you while washing the dishes and then BOOM! You fall to your death and the cat then devours you for the next 90 days. //
317 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:30:14am |
re: #316 Gus
That’s funny. Yeah, they’ll place themselves right behind you while washing the dishes and then BOOM! You fall to your death and the cat then devours you for the next 90 days. //
Never underestimate the Feline Overlord.
320 | dragonath Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:37:26am |
Study shows Shakespeare as ruthless businessman
“Over a 15-year period he purchased and stored grain, malt and barley for resale at inflated prices to his neighbors and local tradesmen,” they wrote, adding that Shakespeare “pursued those who could not (or would not) pay him in full for these staples and used the profits to further his own money-lending activities.”
He was pursued by the authorities for tax evasion, and in 1598 was prosecuted for hoarding grain during a time of shortage.
…
She said the playwright’s funeral monument in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church reflected this. The original monument erected after his death in 1616 showed Shakespeare holding a sack of grain. In the 18th century, it was replaced with a more “writerly” memorial depicting Shakespeare with a tasseled cushion and a quill pen.
321 | Gus Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:39:12am |
@dcplod Come on people.. Jesus turned water into wine.. and Chavez picked grapes. #GoogleDoodle #SixDegreesOfChavez— Peter Kaufman (@inklake) March 31, 2013
322 | Mattand Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:45:24am |
re: #308 PhillyPretzel
When Garden State Park race track burnt down it took a while to go through the rubble. The horses were gone but the “barn cats” were still there serveral months later. And there cats at other race tracks.
I was a kid when that happened. I lived about 5 miles from the racetrack. I remember the smoke from the fire looking like Godzilla looming over the area.
323 | wrenchwench Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:47:23am |
In fairness, all those Cesars look the same to the Twitchy team.— Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop) March 31, 2013
324 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:53:44am |
re: #320 dragonath
This is pretty well-known. I’m not sure what the new furor is.
325 | dragonath Sun, Mar 31, 2013 10:57:08am |
re: #324 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
It was new to me, although admittedly, Shakespeare’s history isn’t something I know a whole lot about.
326 | Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:05:26am |
re: #325 dragonath
It was new to me, although admittedly, Shakespeare’s history isn’t something I know a whole lot about.
My mom does a lot of Shakespeare. As well as the grain and property dealings, just his play-writing, selling, etc. showed him as a very sharp-sided businessman.
You’d expect it from his plays, too, since lots of them are about really fucking smart people trying to get advantage over each other.