1 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:33:48pm

Bicycle? Is this another French joke about prisoners?

2 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:34:36pm

Bicycle Thread!

Like Old Times!

3 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:34:40pm

Was this taken with an iPhone?

4 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:34:46pm

re: #1 Nevergiveup

Bicycle? Is this another French joke about prisoners?

Some cycle forward, some cycle backward, some don't ask, and some don't tell.

5 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:34:52pm

re: #1 Nevergiveup

Bicycle on a pathway with an interesting pattern forward.

6 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:35:16pm

Now what is that supposed to be?

7 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:35:43pm

Forward...

Into the past

8 Charles Johnson  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:36:36pm

re: #3 Sharmuta

Was this taken with an iPhone?

Indeed it was.

9 American Sabra  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:37:16pm

Bicycle!

10 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:37:17pm

re: #8 Charles

Jarvis inspired you, I take it? It's a cool picture, I like it.

11 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:38:08pm

re: #8 Charles

Indeed it was.

Hum Iphone, bicycle, prisoners?

Rosebud!

12 Killgore Trout  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:38:53pm

re: #5 reine.de.tout

Much thanks for you suggestion on my gardening article. I'll clarify. I'm also open to other suggestions if you have them.

13 FurryOldGuyJeans  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:38:58pm

I'm getting dizzy just looking down in that picture.

14 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:39:25pm

re: #11 Nevergiveup

Hum Iphone, bicycle, prisoners?

Rosebud!

Okay, I freely admit to being a Trekkie, but I absolutely loved it when William Shatner did his death scenes in "Over the Hedge." Hysterical.

15 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:39:40pm

Message to the Lakers: Forward!

16 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:40:05pm

Did anyone see Star Trek or Terminator: Salvation? I heard they both blow.

17 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:40:25pm

re: #12 Killgore Trout

Much thanks for you suggestion on my gardening article. I'll clarify. I'm also open to other suggestions if you have them.

That was the only thing I saw that popped out to me as confusing. Some other folks will look at it later.

Great article, btw!

18 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:40:26pm

Two year old just escaped from bathtime, comes running into nekkid into the kitchen wanting to eat dinner. Not in your birthday suit sez I. So she breaks into a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday, dancing around.....

19 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:40:55pm

re: #16 ArrowSmith

Star Trek was great, no idea on the Terminator.

20 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:40:57pm

re: #18 jcm

Two year old just escaped from bathtime, comes running into nekkid into the kitchen wanting to eat dinner. Not in your birthday suit sez I. So she breaks into a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday, dancing around.....

I love two-year-olds.

21 _RememberTonyC  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:41:57pm

re: #15 itellu3times

Message to the Lakers: Forward!

do or die for Denver tonight ... Carmelo Anthony has missed his first 8 shots ... not good for the Nuggets

22 FurryOldGuyJeans  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:42:02pm

re: #20 reine.de.tout

I love two-year-olds.

You can have mine if I ever have any, ok? ;)

23 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:42:07pm

Nice, Charles.

Speaking of iPhones and art - from the earlier thread (I posted it way late):

re: #72 Cato the Elder

The cover art for this week's New Yorker was done on an iPhone by Jorge Colombo using the "Brushes" app.

24 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:42:36pm

re: #12 Killgore Trout

Were my edits okay? There was nothing major, just a couple words here and there I changed for better clarity.

25 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:42:45pm

re: #21 _RememberTonyC

do or die for Denver tonight ... Carmelo Anthony has missed his first 8 shots ... not good for the Nuggets

Lakers gasping from the altitude in the first six minutes ... nerves.

Altitude and nerves.

26 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:42:49pm

re: #16 ArrowSmith

Did anyone see Star Trek or Terminator: Salvation? I heard they both blow.

I saw Star Trek. I thought it was great. My sister, the TOS purist, thought it was okay but couldn't get over Zachary Quinto playing Spock. In her mind, there can only be Leonard Nimoy.

27 jorline  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:42:58pm

re: #18 jcm

Two year old just escaped from bathtime, comes running into nekkid into the kitchen wanting to eat dinner. Not in your birthday suit sez I. So she breaks into a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday, dancing around.....

Too funny.

28 capitalist piglet  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:43:19pm

Where's buzz? Don't we have some holiday weekend puns to ketchup on?

(Or did you guys do this already? I haven't been reading.)

29 Ojoe  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:43:33pm

A fat tire all boggy with excess rotational inertia and elastomerically enhanced rolling resistance.

(I like road bikes & I used to have one with sew ups, even.)

30 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:43:35pm

re: #26 vxbush

I saw Star Trek. I thought it was great. My sister, the TOS purist, thought it was okay but couldn't get over Zachary Quinto playing Spock. In her mind, there can only be Leonard Nimoy.

Yeah I can't get over that either. I'm a TOS purist myself.

31 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:43:37pm

re: #20 reine.de.tout

I love two-year-olds.

They are wonderful. We ate dinner out tonight and there were little ones at several tables around us. Wonderful entertainment!

32 _RememberTonyC  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:43:52pm

re: #25 itellu3times

Lakers gasping from the altitude in the first six minutes ... nerves.

Altitude and nerves.


NBA Playoffs have been great ...

33 Irish Rose  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:44:43pm

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike....
I wnat to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like....

/beauties on wheels

34 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:44:50pm

Anybody watching the Lakers-Nuggets. Are the tattoos on Anderson real?

35 capitalist piglet  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:44:55pm

re: #26 vxbush

I saw Star Trek. I thought it was great. My sister, the TOS purist, thought it was okay but couldn't get over Zachary Quinto playing Spock. In her mind, there can only be Leonard Nimoy.

I loved it, too. I thought the casting was brilliant...though the Spock character looked just like Mike Stern to me, so I half expected him to pick up a guitar and start playing some cool, angular riffs.

36 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:45:12pm

re: #30 ArrowSmith

Yeah I can't get over that either. I'm a TOS purist myself.

I suppose I can understand the issue people have with him, but I thought he did a fine job, considering. And he really did look the part; the side-by-side photos are really pretty amazing.

37 Killgore Trout  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:45:24pm

re: #17 reine.de.tout

Thanks, I'm already planing ahead for another article on simple, cheap and possibly very productive year round indoor gardening. I'm still trying to figure it out but I hope there will be another Christmas edition of the LGF cook book.

That reminds the that I was going to write up my Happy Lucky All Week Pork Chop Udon Noodle Party recipe today. Maybe later this week.

38 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:45:29pm

BlackBerry did not work from the Indy500 yesterday..
Charles..There was a problem with the code..Or me...I can't get past the left side of the page with the Blacberry...

39 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:46:41pm

re: #23 Cato the Elder

Parrot fever "pandemic" 1930

... interesting!

40 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:46:43pm

re: #38 HoosierHoops

BlackBerry did not work from the Indy500 yesterday..
Charles..There was a problem with the code..Or me...I can't get past the left side of the page with the Blacberry...

Okay, time for a confession: I grew up in Indiana and I have never been to the Indy 500 or any of the time trials.

41 Killgore Trout  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:47:07pm

re: #24 Sharmuta

Yes, It seems pretty good. I have to go through and double check all the plant names to make sure they're correct. Thank you very much for proof reading for me.

42 Bloodnok  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:47:17pm

G'night gnus.

43 _RememberTonyC  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:47:47pm

re: #34 Nevergiveup

Anybody watching the Lakers-Nuggets. Are the tattoos on Anderson real?


yep ... keep watching ... at halftime ESPN will have a feature on Birdman

44 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:48:10pm

re: #41 Killgore Trout

Yes, It seems pretty good. I have to go through and double check all the plant names to make sure they're correct. Thank you very much for proof reading for me.

It was my pleasure, Hon.

45 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:48:17pm

re: #36 vxbush

I suppose I can understand the issue people have with him, but I thought he did a fine job, considering. And he really did look the part; the side-by-side photos are really pretty amazing.

The problem is that I thought they were going to make a serious sci-fi Star Trek again like "The Motion Picture", but then it turned out to be just another action flick.

46 snowcrash  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:48:42pm

Just back from checking out the iPhone cases at the ad site on the right. Who new you could get a "hello kitty" swarovski crystal iphone case! Love it, $352 is a little pricey but I do have the big 20 year anniversary coming up soon. This is a much better ad than the Muslim dating service. lol

47 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:48:48pm

re: #23 Cato the Elder

Nice, Charles.

Speaking of iPhones and art - from the earlier thread (I posted it way late):

WAAAY COOOL!

Apple Rocks!

buy Apple, help me keep my job

48 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:50:14pm

re: #45 ArrowSmith

The problem is that I thought they were going to make a serious sci-fi Star Trek again like "The Motion Picture", but then it turned out to be just another action flick.

Another issue raised repeatedly. The problem is, while you can do a ponderous TV show to save money and consider the deep ideas and issues of the day, the movie public today is far too used to Indiana Jones, James Bond, and a host of other action flicks. In the end, you have to create a sale-able product. You have to turn a profit.

I didn't mind that a bit.

49 Henchman Ghazi-808  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:50:18pm

Bicycling while taking photographs. What could possibly go wrong?
WATCHOUT!

50 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:50:50pm

re: #43 _RememberTonyC

yep ... keep watching ... at halftime ESPN will have a feature on Birdman

I saw kids in the stands trying to look like him?

51 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:51:36pm

re: #47 jcm

WAAAY COOOL!

Apple Rocks!

buy Apple, help me keep my job

Buy a Palm Pre in June, help me keep my job!

52 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:51:50pm

re: #48 vxbush

Another issue raised repeatedly. The problem is, while you can do a ponderous TV show to save money and consider the deep ideas and issues of the day, the movie public today is far too used to Indiana Jones, James Bond, and a host of other action flicks. In the end, you have to create a sale-able product. You have to turn a profit.

I didn't mind that a bit.

I guess I'm so spoiled by how fantastic BSG has been. That's the new bar.

53 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:52:39pm

re: #51 Dark_Falcon

Buy a Palm Pre in June, help me keep my job!

Uh oh. Dueling lizard technologies. Tough call, but gotta go with the iPhone. No harm, no foul, DF?

/not that I have any money to spend anyway...no iPhone in my future

54 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:52:41pm

Shot taken at a wheelchair ramp crosswalk to street?

55 _RememberTonyC  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:52:47pm

re: #50 Nevergiveup

I saw kids in the stands trying to look like him?

he is a cult figure in the NBA. banned for 2 yrs for drug use, but a really nice kid. very rough upbringing

56 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:54:18pm

re: #52 ArrowSmith

I guess I'm so spoiled by how fantastic BSG has been. That's the new bar.

See, I haven't gotten into BSG, although my husband watched it online. I can't help but think back to BSG in the 70's and the hokiness level gets to me.

But note: it's a TV show. You've got just a one-hour format (actually more like 44 minutes) where the producers don't mind if you save money so they can spend it on a bigger season ender. With movies, you don't have as many options.

57 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:54:46pm

re: #54 unrealizedviewpoint

Shot taken at a wheelchair ramp crosswalk to street?

Oh! Could be! Not a bad guess, if it turns out to be right.

58 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:54:52pm

re: #51 Dark_Falcon

Buy a Palm Pre in June, help me keep my job!

Palm works too, got chips in lots of things. Our big new market is controlling touch screens on phones.

59 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:55:17pm

re: #39 itellu3times

Parrot fever "pandemic" 1930

... interesting!

Indeed.

For the sake of Armstrong’s research, the bigger the outbreak the better. What was needed was parrot-fever panic. A team of public-health officials set about tracking down purchasers of recently imported parrots. Apparent cases of psittacosis cropped up in Providence, Chicago, New Haven, and Los Angeles. The nationwide sweep soon supplied Armstrong with enough samples to begin his work, which was conducted in two basement rooms of the Hygienic Laboratory with his technician, Henry (Shorty) Anderson. Writer notes that the disease had been already been identified in the nineteenth century. Describes how, two weeks after the story broke, it became a national joke. A pro-parrot lobby was formed [...]

But the pigs in Egypt are all dead now, and the Christians whose livelihood they were are up the creek...

Pig slaughter in Egypt.

Warning to animal lovers: graphic details.

60 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:55:49pm

re: #56 vxbush

Oh you should watch the new BSG. They do retain a few character names, but otherwise it's the most kick ass drama you'll ever see. Deals in "important issues".

61 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:56:01pm

re: #55 _RememberTonyC

he is a cult figure in the NBA. banned for 2 yrs for drug use, but a really nice kid. very rough upbringing

OK just read up on him alittle. Interesting story.

62 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:56:21pm

re: #47 jcm

WAAAY COOOL!

Apple Rocks!

buy Apple, help me keep my job

I already own an iMac, iBook, iPod Classic, and iPhone! For God's sake, man, what more can I do?

63 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:57:06pm

Are Jon and Kate gonna' divorce?! Split custody would be a freakin' nightmare.

64 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:57:22pm

re: #60 ArrowSmith

Oh you should watch the new BSG. They do retain a few character names, but otherwise it's the most kick ass drama you'll ever see. Deals in "important issues".

If I get seriously bored this summer, I may do that. I'm hoping I'll get a used Sony Reader from a relative and I'll have a chance to play with that and do some geeky stuff. And read, of course.

65 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:57:35pm

re: #62 Cato the Elder

I already own an iMac, iBook, iPod Classic, and iPhone! For God's sake, man, what more can I do?

LOL!

iPod in each color, Apple TV, new MacBook.

;-P

66 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:57:44pm

re: #55 _RememberTonyC

he is a cult figure in the NBA. banned for 2 yrs for drug use, but a really nice kid. very rough upbringing

Hey bro..Hope today finds you well..
Can you believe Denver is just kicking the holy crap out of LA? I mean seriously kicking butt? Whoops...Melo twists his ankle...stand by

67 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:58:00pm

re: #65 jcm

LOL!

iPod in each color, Apple TV, new MacBook.

;-P

You have to be realistic! You know, let him have a year to recoup.

68 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:58:15pm

re: #65 jcm

LOL!

iPod in each color, Apple TV, new MacBook.

;-P

Maybe you want me to return my new Kindle and wait for the Apple version, too? Hmm?

69 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:58:16pm

re: #53 vxbush

Uh oh. Dueling lizard technologies. Tough call, but gotta go with the iPhone. No harm, no foul, DF?

/not that I have any money to spend anyway...no iPhone in my future

No harm, to each their own. I'm not going to hype the Pre much, due to work rules. But once it comes out, I will post a my review of it in a spinoff link. And I won't be a troll either: When Charles posts iPhone threads I'll continue to stay off of them. I'll fight my corner with class and honor.

70 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:58:47pm

re: #58 jcm

Palm works too, got chips in lots of things. Our big new market is controlling touch screens on phones.

Excellent! I'll do my best to keep you in business.

71 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:58:49pm

re: #63 MandyManners

Are Jon and Kate gonna' divorce?! Split custody would be a freakin' nightmare.

Well enough kids to go around and they do have 2 dogs don't they?
/

72 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:59:06pm

re: #63 MandyManners

Are Jon and Kate gonna' divorce?! Split custody would be a freakin' nightmare.

Who are they?

And why is there an apostrophe after "gonna"?

73 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:59:14pm

The biggest downside to the Palm Pre is lack of onscreen keyboard. It's simply not the same type of device as the iPhone.

74 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:59:20pm

re: #26 vxbush

thought it was okay but couldn't get over Zachary Quinto playing Spock. In her mind, there can only be Leonard Nimoy.

but.....but......Nimoy was Spock.......while Zach played....oh never mind.

I don't want to be a spoiler, so I'll just say this; the storyline completely changes all future episodes/movies and makes them incorrect.
Yeah, that makes no sense.
We'll discuss in a year........

75 Spare O'Lake  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:59:21pm

re: #62 Cato the Elder

I already own an iMac, iBook, iPod Classic, and iPhone! For God's sake, man, what more can I do?

How about an iStimulus?

76 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:59:40pm

re: #71 Nevergiveup

Well enough kids to go around and they do have 2 dogs don't they?
/

Okay, I'm lost.....

77 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 6:59:44pm

re: #75 Spare O'Lake

How about an iStimulus?

Is that like an iBrator?

78 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:00:09pm

re: #73 ArrowSmith

The biggest downside to the Palm Pre is lack of onscreen keyboard. It's simply not the same type of device as the iPhone.

Actually, some reviewers prefer it because of this. Not saying I agree with that, just sharing...

79 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:00:32pm

re: #76 vxbush

Okay, I'm lost.....

[Link: tlc.discovery.com...]

80 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:00:46pm
81 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:00:51pm

re: #74 IslandLibertarian


thought it was okay but couldn't get over Zachary Quinto playing Spock. In her mind, there can only be Leonard Nimoy.

but.....but......Nimoy was Spock.......while Zach played....oh never mind.

I don't want to be a spoiler, so I'll just say this; the storyline completely changes all future episodes/movies and makes them incorrect.
Yeah, that makes no sense.
We'll discuss in a year........

No, it doesn't; it just gets around everything else. :D Yes, further discussion on this, after everyone has seen it. I have some thoughts on that aspect.

82 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:00:54pm

re: #77 Cato the Elder

Is that like an iBrator?

Kinky!

83 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:01:07pm

re: #30 ArrowSmith

Yeah I can't get over that either. I'm a TOS purist myself.

what's TOS? The Original Stuff?

84 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:01:34pm

re: #80 ArrowSmith

Barack Obama says "we're broke"

Like the kid who kills his parents and then pleads for mercy because he is an orphan?

85 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:01:43pm

re: #72 Cato the Elder

Who are they?

And why is there an apostrophe after "gonna"?

The Gosslings, the couple who had twins then went for IVF or (something similar) and wound up with sextuplets. It's a show on TLC that chronicles their lives.

I always put that punctuation mark after words that I don't fully spell out, such as wanna' and gonna'.

86 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:01:49pm

re: #28 capitalist piglet

Well, as the resident Calvinist, I firmly believe in eternal 'pun'ishment!

87 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:01:56pm

re: #79 Nevergiveup

[Link: tlc.discovery.com...]

Ah. A cable show. I don't have cable.

88 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:07pm

OT: So far, I like Hannity's show tonight. He's giving the GOP's proposals a good airing, which they badly need. He's giving the brand the positive exposure it needs.

89 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:08pm

re: #71 Nevergiveup

Well enough kids to go around and they do have 2 dogs don't they?
/

They have enough for five families!

90 _RememberTonyC  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:09pm

re: #66 HoosierHoops

Hey bro..Hope today finds you well..
Can you believe Denver is just kicking the holy crap out of LA? I mean seriously kicking butt? Whoops...Melo twists his ankle...stand by

Hoosier ... Denver looking good ... but that Kobe dude always has something left in the 4th qtr ... the playoffs have been awesome (except last Sunday in Boston)

91 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:10pm

re: #37 Killgore Trout

Thanks, I'm already planing ahead for another article on simple, cheap and possibly very productive year round indoor gardening. I'm still trying to figure it out but I hope there will be another Christmas edition of the LGF cook book.

That reminds the that I was going to write up my Happy Lucky All Week Pork Chop Udon Noodle Party recipe today. Maybe later this week.

Killgore - deadline is June 30th for recipes and articles.
But I do believe we'd be willing to work with you if you want to do the year-round indoor gardening for this one but can't meet the June 30th deadline

92 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:14pm

re: #83 Alouette

what's TOS? The Original Stuff?

The Original Show, yes.

93 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:48pm

re: #83 Alouette

what's TOS? The Original Stuff?

The Original Series that ran from 1966-1969.

94 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:02:56pm
95 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:03:01pm

re: #63 MandyManners

Are Jon and Kate gonna' divorce?! Split custody would be a freakin' nightmare.

Or child support payments.

96 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:03:32pm

re: #86 Irenicum

Well, as the resident Calvinist, I firmly believe in eternal 'pun'ishment!

And Kelvinists believe in eternal hell fire.

// ;-P

97 soxfan4life  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:02pm

re: #80 ArrowSmith

Barack Obama says "we're broke"


Yet he won't slow down on his spending spree.

98 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:05pm

re: #74 IslandLibertarian

I don't want to be a spoiler, so I'll just say this; the storyline completely changes all future past episodes/movies and makes them incorrect.
Yeah, that makes no sense.
We'll discuss in a year........

Fixed that for ya.

99 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:10pm

re: #81 vxbush

No, it doesn't; it just gets around everything else. :D Yes, further discussion on this, after everyone has seen it. I have some thoughts on that aspect.

Oh, golly. Now I have to go see it instead of waiting for netflix.

100 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:14pm

re: #90 _RememberTonyC

Hoosier ... Denver looking good ... but that Kobe dude always has something left in the 4th qtr ... the playoffs have been awesome (except last Sunday in Boston)


Denver is looking tough

101 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:19pm

re: #63 MandyManners

Are Jon and Kate gonna' divorce?! Split custody would be a freakin' nightmare.

4 each. What's the issue?

/////////////

102 Spare O'Lake  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:20pm

re: #77 Cato the Elder

Is that like an iBrator?

I'm gonna go out on an iLimb and guess that a trillion samoleans would shake my mainframe all right.

103 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:20pm

Okay, the cats are officially begging for their supper, and I have to go to bed before I turn into a pumpkin. Have a good evening, everyone.

104 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:29pm

re: #39 itellu3times

AAaaaaa, Polly wants an antibiotic!

105 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:04:57pm

re: #95 reine.de.tout

Or child support payments.

Are royalties from a best-selling book included in calculating income?

106 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:05:06pm

re: #94 Iron Fist

I have repeatedly offered to take my bailout in automatic weapons and gold bouillion.

Soup? You'd settle for soup?

107 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:05:23pm

re: #98 Cato the Elder

Fixed that for ya.

The strength in TOS wasn't continuity, but the great self-contained didactic stories. Not exactly on the level of Rod Serling, but at times they came close.

108 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:05:41pm

re: #101 jcm

4 each. What's the issue?

/////////////

Jon was seen out with another woman, drunk and not wearing his wedding band, while Kate was on the road promoting her book.

109 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:06:00pm

re: #103 vxbush

Okay, the cats are officially begging for their supper, and I have to go to bed before I turn into a pumpkin. Have a good evening, everyone.

Sweet dreams!

110 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:06:30pm

re: #81 vxbush

Lots of possibilities, but I'll throw this into the mix.
How can this ever happen?

111 soxfan4life  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:06:37pm

re: #105 MandyManners

Are royalties from a best-selling book included in calculating income?


What about all the free stuff they get plus the million dollar home and 36 acres. I feel bad for those poor kids, she's a bitch and he's a tool.

112 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:06:45pm

re: #94 Iron Fist

I have repeatedly offered to take my bailout in automatic weapons and gold bouillion. I'll do the same with any "stimulus" money or other wealth they want to spread my way. That should make things easier on the Obama Administration, as those aren't things that can "print" money.

There's too much of that going on as we speak.

Diamonds, easier to transport. And you forgot ammo dude.
;-)

113 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:06:47pm

re: #108 MandyManners

Jon was seen out with another woman, drunk and not wearing his wedding band, while Kate was on the road promoting her book.

She seems like she is kinda tough on him and doesn't smile alot?

114 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:07:21pm

re: #108 MandyManners

Jon was seen out with another woman, drunk and not wearing his wedding band, while Kate was on the road promoting her book.

Typical sleeze. A man is led to folly by his penis, not the first time that has happened.

115 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:07:29pm

re: #108 MandyManners

Jon was seen out with another woman, drunk and not wearing his wedding band, while Kate was on the road promoting her book.

Jackass.

Guy has a wife and 8 kids.

Man up dude, raise your family.

116 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:07:39pm

re: #107 ArrowSmith

The strength in TOS wasn't continuity, but the great self-contained didactic stories. Not exactly on the level of Rod Serling, but at times they came close.

Oh yes. I was just a kid, and the Prime Directive made a big impression on me.

117 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:07:41pm

re: #103 vxbush

Okay, the cats are officially begging for their supper, and I have to go to bed before I turn into a pumpkin. Have a good evening, everyone.

Tuna, vx.
It's cocaine for cats.

118 vxbush  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:08:03pm

re: #110 IslandLibertarian

Lots of possibilities, but I'll throw this into the mix.
How can this ever happen?

Argh! I would love to discuss this, but I'm trying to be considerate to those folks who haven't seen the movie yet. I have an answer, but it must wait.

Now, off to bed....the yawning has begun....

119 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:08:08pm

re: #111 soxfan4life

What about all the free stuff they get plus the million dollar home and 36 acres. I feel bad for those poor kids, she's a bitch and he's a tool.

That stuff has no bearing on calculating child support. As far as her being a bitch, she is a stong-willed and bossy woman so, I guess that makes her a bitch in some people's minds. I don't know if he's a tool or not but, he needs to tell her to STFU at times.

120 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:08:17pm

re: #98 Cato the Elder

Fixed that for ya.

yeah, that's it!

121 soxfan4life  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:08:39pm

re: #108 MandyManners

Jon was seen out with another woman, drunk and not wearing his wedding band, while Kate was on the road promoting her book.


According to reports she has been having an affair with her bodyguard and Jon lives in the apartment over the garage.

122 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:08:52pm

re: #117 reine.de.tout

Tuna, vx.
It's cocaine for cats.

My cats go for lox--Nova preferably.

123 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:09:11pm

re: #63 MandyManners

Are Jon and Kate gonna' divorce?! Split custody would be a freakin' nightmare.

Who?

124 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:09:25pm

re: #113 Nevergiveup

She seems like she is kinda tough on him and doesn't smile alot?

Yes, she is tough but, you need to be with eight kids. He needs to tell her to stop with it when it comes to him. However, she has to ride herd or stuff wouldn't get done.

125 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:09:52pm

re: #114 Dark_Falcon

Typical sleeze. A man is led to folly by his penis, not the first time that has happened.

They were in a public place so we don't know if he did the deed.

126 tjseagrove  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:10:12pm

Stationary

127 Spare O'Lake  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:10:36pm

re: #122 Nevergiveup

My cats go for lox--Nova preferably.

After they eat the lox, do you feed them a couple of keys?

128 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:10:51pm

re: #115 jcm

Jackass.

Guy has a wife and 8 kids.

Man up dude, raise your family.

He needs to realize what's at stake but, getting drunk and dancing with another woman does not mean he's cheated.

129 irongrampa  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:11:02pm

re: #112 jcm

I'll take mine in diesel fuel, and we'll be good to go.

130 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:11:19pm

re: #124 MandyManners

Yes, she is tough but, you need to be with eight kids. He needs to tell her to stop with it when it comes to him. However, she has to ride herd or stuff wouldn't get done.

I don't really watch the show, my wife does. I only catch bits and pieces. The kids seem incredibly well behaved for such a circus.

131 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:11:26pm

re: #121 soxfan4life

According to reports she has been having an affair with her bodyguard and Jon lives in the apartment over the garage.

What reports? Tabloids?

132 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:11:49pm

re: #93 ArrowSmith

The Original Series that ran from 1966-1969.

But the original actors are old as fuck.

133 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:11:54pm

re: #123 Sharmuta

Who?

The family with eight kids (two sets of multiples) on TLC.

134 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:06pm

re: #105 MandyManners

Are royalties from a best-selling book included in calculating income?

Absolutely! ..Remember when the Goldman's went after the proceeds for OJ Simpson's Book, I Did It?

135 livefreeor die  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:15pm

re: #121 soxfan4life

According to reports she has been having an affair with her bodyguard and Jon lives in the apartment over the garage.


Attention, Jon and Kate. You have 8 children. You are their parents. Their needs are more important than yours right now. Cut it out!

136 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:18pm

re: #125 MandyManners

They were in a public place so we don't know if he did the deed.

Good point, but he was still being stupid. Something like that is bound arouse suspicion. If he wasn't cheating, it would have to go in the "What were they thinking?!" file.

137 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:23pm

re: #56 vxbush

See, I haven't gotten into BSG, although my husband watched it online. I can't help but think back to BSG in the 70's and the hokiness level gets to me.

But note: it's a TV show. You've got just a one-hour format (actually more like 44 minutes) where the producers don't mind if you save money so they can spend it on a bigger season ender. With movies, you don't have as many options.

It took me over a year to get into the modern BSG, and Bear McCreary's music helped me do it. It's FANTASTIC. Get the Season 1 Soundtrack, followed by the Miniseries Soundtrack, which Bear assisted Richard Gibbs (from Oingo Boingo fame!) before turning over the reins.
At that point, you WILL be hooked and you WILL be asking for your next dose of chamalla.

138 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:40pm

re: #85 MandyManners

The Gosslings, the couple who had twins then went for IVF or (something similar) and wound up with sextuplets. It's a show on TLC that chronicles their lives.

I always put that punctuation mark after words that I don't fully spell out, such as wanna' and gonna'.

Ah. Those guys.

Has the "baby addict" mom in L.A. got her own show yet?

As a lexicographer, I can save you a keystroke from now on: "gonna" is a slang word, spelled that way in dictionaries. No need for the '.

Just sayin'.

139 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:44pm

re: #130 Nevergiveup

I don't really watch the show, my wife does. I only catch bits and pieces. The kids seem incredibly well behaved for such a circus.

I'd be popping valium or even main-lining heroin if I were the parent.

140 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:12:58pm

re: #132 Alouette

But the original actors are old as fuck.

That's not the point. Of course I wouldn't want to see them in any new Star Trek content. But the best of what they did is better then this new film which seems to pander to the Transformers crowd.

141 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:13:09pm

re: #96 jcm

Oh, that's just cold! You would have to zero in on that, wouldn't you!

142 Nevergiveup  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:13:19pm

re: #131 MandyManners

What reports? Tabloids?

Hasn't her brother been selling reports to the press? Or something like that?

143 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:13:22pm

re: #134 unrealizedviewpoint

Absolutely! ..Remember when the Goldman's went after the proceeds for OJ Simpson's Book, I Did It?

For the purposes of calculating child support?

144 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:13:50pm

re: #137 Macker

I'm hooked onto BSG more then anything. I bought all the seasons on DVD, all the soundtracks. I can't wait until the prequel series Caprica hits the air in 2010.

145 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:14:06pm

re: #128 MandyManners

He needs to realize what's at stake but, getting drunk and dancing with another woman does not mean he's cheated.

True.

He got some splainin to do!

146 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:14:10pm

re: #115 jcm

Jackass.

Guy has a wife and 8 kids.

Man up dude, raise your family.

it's fake...as in not real

147 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:14:47pm
148 unrealizedviewpoint  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:14:52pm

re: #143 MandyManners

For the purposes of calculating child support?

I jumped-in not up to speed on the thread. But yes.

149 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:14:53pm

re: #136 Dark_Falcon

Good point, but he was still being stupid. Something like that is bound arouse suspicion. If he wasn't cheating, it would have to go in the "What were they thinking?!" file.

We're all allowed to be stupid at times but, this was monumentally stupid.

150 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:15:34pm

I hate reality TV. What's next- reality movies? "Documentaries" following people around whose only claim to fame is they have cameras following them around?

151 tedzilla99  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:01pm

re: #16 ArrowSmith

Did anyone see Star Trek or Terminator: Salvation? I heard they both blow.

Star Trek was awesome!

152 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:03pm

re: #138 Cato the Elder

Ah. Those guys.

Has the "baby addict" mom in L.A. got her own show yet?

As a lexicographer, I can save you a keystroke from now on: "gonna" is a slang word, spelled that way in dictionaries. No need for the '.

Just sayin'.

I don't think anyone wants to touch Suleiman. She's a freakin' nut-job.

As for the "'", I like it.

153 Last Mohican  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:09pm

Is anyone following the story of that bomb that went off outside of a Starbucks early this morning? Some damage to the store, but no injuries, because of the early hour. They don't know who did it yet. There seem to be some indications that it was amateurs:

Authorities say the container was white plastic wrapped in black tape. The explosive material was the same type used in M80 fireworks, and they say there was enough to fill several M80s. The device was rigged with a hobby fuse, like used in a firecracker.

Several people claim to have seen teenagers in the area of the explosion, but nobody saw them actually place the device. One resident who lives above the Starbucks says he saw two boys he described as between 13 and 16 running from the scene just seconds before the explosion.

And because no story today would be complete without some freak's opinion on it, here's the first comment after the WABC story:

Most of the people who know how to make bombs are, or were, in the military. Let's bring real peace to the world and remove the need for bombs whether real or false flag. Audit the fed

154 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:28pm

re: #150 Sharmuta

I hate reality TV. What's next- reality movies? "Documentaries" following people around whose only claim to fame is they have cameras following them around?

yes...it's pathetic, but I'm not a fungi I guess

155 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:32pm

re: #144 ArrowSmith

I'm hooked onto BSG more then anything. I bought all the seasons on DVD, all the soundtracks. I can't wait until the prequel series Caprica hits the air in 2010.

Dang, what are you waiting for? Do you also have the Caprica DVD?

156 livefreeor die  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:32pm

If I had 8 children, and my husband was out drinking and dancing while I was home, it wouldn't matter if he was having an affair or not...

157 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:44pm

A Day in the Life of Paris Hilton

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

158 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:44pm

re: #135 livefreeor die

Attention, Jon and Kate. You have 8 children. You are their parents. Their needs are more important than yours right now. Cut it out!

Yeah, like, maybe, stop putting their whole fappin' lives on a teevee show so their peers can mock the shite out of them later in life?

You'd think these people could make enough from Pampers endorsements without turning their home into a reality soap.

159 SteveC  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:45pm

Hello, everyone!

The 2009 Bolder Boulder went great! The weather held until the very last moment - then the bottom fell out and we got soaked! (When we arrived at our meeting place I said "We came! We saw! We almost drowned!")

The Congenital Heart Defect group I support put 24 participants in the race. Nine of them have defective hearts and have had a total of 16 heart operations. All nine walked the entire route (10K, or 6.2 miles)

One of the walkers was a 60+ year old woman who had her first heart operation in the late 1940's. (Modern heart surgery was born on November 29, 1944). The healthy walkers were mainly moms and dads, but also a few friends: People who have seen their friend struggle with a heart defect and said "No more!"

When you pick up the newspaper, you'll read that two Ethiopian runners "won" the Bolder Boulder. I think they just happened to finish first. I personally know the real winners!

160 Last Mohican  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:48pm

re: #153 Last Mohican

Oops, should have mentioned: the bombed Starbucks was in Manhattan. Upper East Side.

161 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:52pm

re: #142 Nevergiveup

Hasn't her brother been selling reports to the press? Or something like that?

I'd not heard that one. If so, he'd never darken my door again.

162 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:16:53pm

re: #108 MandyManners

I gotta say, I'm not a fan of either of them as parents, selling their privacy for profit and all. He is the bigger asshole in the current situation though. The ones I feel sorry for are the kids. I can't imagine what they must face among their friends.

163 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:02pm

re: #88 Dark_Falcon

OT: So far, I like Hannity's show tonight. He's giving the GOP's proposals a good airing, which they badly need. He's giving the brand the positive exposure it needs.

I think Mr. Hannity is a good talker, but he needs someone to point him in the right direction. He just gets stuck on stuff sometimes and just repeats it and repeats it, which is annoying. He is not exactly a deep thinker, so he kind of bores me, I'm afraid, and a lot of his points can get stale. I haven't watched him since Skeletor left, but I suspect he's better with a foil than solo.

I hardly ever turn on the TV, but I do like Neil Cavuto and Greta. They are both sharp as tacks. I like the weekend guys, where they have give and take from different sides - I especially like Juan Williams, who I think is sharp and thoughtful.

164 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:10pm

re: #145 jcm

True.

He got some splainin to do!

To Kate for sure.

165 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:11pm

re: #152 MandyManners

I don't think anyone wants to touch Suleiman. She's a freakin' nut-job.

As for the "'", I like it.

Fair enough! ;^)

166 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:12pm

re: #141 Irenicum

Oh, that's just cold! You would have to zero in on that, wouldn't you!

I'm a absolute cad!

167 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:22pm

re: #146 albusteve

it's fake...as in not real

That he is the father of those children is not fake. He's their father and he needs to put them first. Full Stop.

168 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:22pm

re: #155 Macker

Dang, what are you waiting for? Do you also have the Caprica DVD?

I'm going to rent it on Netflix(its in my queue right now), because I'm sure when the 1st season of Caprica comes out the pilot movie will be included. I don't want to pay extra.

169 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:26pm

re: #157 Sharmuta

A Day in the Life of Paris Hilton

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

it'll be a blockbuster...hahaha...we're DOOMED!

170 MandyManners  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:42pm

Gotta' go rassle The Kid.

171 Spare O'Lake  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:17:54pm

re: #150 Sharmuta

I hate reality TV. What's next- reality movies? "Documentaries" following people around whose only claim to fame is they have cameras following them around?

Maybe they could try reality news.

172 Opilio  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:18:00pm

re: #150 Sharmuta

I hate reality TV. What's next- reality movies? "Documentaries" following people around whose only claim to fame is they have cameras following them around?

Precisely the plotline of Ed TV (1999)

173 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:18:19pm

re: #146 albusteve

it's fake...as in not real

Huh?

I'm not up on pop culture.....

174 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:18:27pm

re: #6 Dark_Falcon

Now what is that supposed to be?

Just what the title says: "Forward"

Unfortunately, the last time anybody saw anything go forward was January 19, 2008, so it's hard to recognize.

175 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:18:32pm

re: #157 Sharmuta

A Day in the Life of Paris Hilton

Coming soon to a porn store near you!

fixed

176 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:18:47pm

re: #158 Cato the Elder

Yeah, like, maybe, stop putting their whole fappin' lives on a teevee show so their peers can mock the shite out of them later in life?

You'd think these people could make enough from Pampers endorsements without turning their home into a reality soap.

it's fake...there is nothing real about any of it...it's all contrived

177 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:19:15pm

re: #168 ArrowSmith

I'm going to rent it on Netflix(its in my queue right now), because I'm sure when the 1st season of Caprica comes out the pilot movie will be included. I don't want to pay extra.

One thing's for sure: the current DVD is the unrated and extended version of what will be played on Skiffy in January.

178 livefreeor die  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:19:29pm

re: #171 Spare O'Lake

Maybe they could try reality news.

Nah, the MSM couldn't stand doing that to Obama, Pelosi, Clinton, etc.
Better to stick with posies and unicorns.

179 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:19:53pm

re: #167 Dark_Falcon

That he is the father of those children is not fake. He's their father and he needs to put them first. Full Stop.

no he doesn't...he can sell off all of it, which he did

180 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:07pm

re: #144 ArrowSmith

I'm hooked onto BSG more then anything. I bought all the seasons on DVD, all the soundtracks. I can't wait until the prequel series Caprica hits the air in 2010.

While waiting for the next BSG, I'm waiting for 4.5 on DVD. Have you watched Firefly?

181 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:08pm

re: #176 albusteve

it's fake...there is nothing real about any of it...it's all contrived

That's even worse.

182 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:12pm

re: #157 Sharmuta

A Day in the Life of Paris Hilton

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

"She's not a girl...she's a WHORE!"

/bad channeling of The Who

183 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:14pm

re: #177 Macker

One thing's for sure: the current DVD is the unrated and extended version of what will be played on Skiffy in January.

So what they're going to re-air in January will be edited from what's on this DVD? Cool, I always like the unedited directors cut. F.e., the extended cut of Razor is better then the original.

184 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:20pm

re: #174 gmsc

Just what the title says: "Forward"

Unfortunately, the last time anybody saw anything go forward was January 19, 20089, so it's hard to recognize.

PIMF

185 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:27pm

re: #127 Spare O'Lake

That'd be quite the combination.

186 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:49pm

re: #127 Spare O'Lake

After they eat the lox, do you feed them a couple of keys?

My cats like pastrami. My Siamese REALLY likes pastrami.

187 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:20:54pm

re: #180 jcm

While waiting for the next BSG, I'm waiting for 4.5 on DVD. Have you watched Firefly?

I have.

Anyone who loves Firefly gets automatic updings from me!

188 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:21:21pm

I don't really follow celebrity "news". I'll click around to see some fashion, but that's about it. So I get pissed when I keep seeing these reality show nobodies in the entertainment section, ruining my fashion slideshow. I keep thinking, "who the hell are these people?"

That's the price I pay, I guess, for keeping the idiot box off. It's worth it.

189 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:21:30pm

re: #180 jcm

While waiting for the next BSG, I'm waiting for 4.5 on DVD. Have you watched Firefly?

I was thinking about it - now I'm going to watch it. 4.5 can't come soon enough!

190 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:21:35pm

re: #181 Cato the Elder

That's even worse.

indeed...I can't describe my contempt for this shit

191 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:22:57pm

re: #178 livefreeor die

Nah, the MSM couldn't stand doing that to Obama, Pelosi, Clinton, etc.
Better to stick with posies and unicorns.

I heard that when unicorns eat posies, they fart floral smells.

///

192 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:22:58pm

re: #80 ArrowSmith

Barack Obama says "we're broke"

Barack says "we're Baroque".

193 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:39pm

re: #188 Sharmuta

I don't really follow celebrity "news". I'll click around to see some fashion, but that's about it. So I get pissed when I keep seeing these reality show nobodies in the entertainment section, ruining my fashion slideshow. I keep thinking, "who the hell are these people?"

That's the price I pay, I guess, for keeping the idiot box off. It's worth it.

my adult daughter is visiting me and she just finished that show....I was floored...I've never really seen anything like it...just deplorable and I'm ashamed my girl has any interest

194 Spare O'Lake  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:42pm

re: #186 Catttt

My cats like pastrami. My Siamese REALLY likes pastrami.

You got a Jewish Siamese cat?

195 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:43pm

I hope some of you are watching the History channels special on the Ida fossil on now. (started 10PM EST)

196 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:46pm

re: #189 ArrowSmith

I was thinking about it - now I'm going to watch it. 4.5 can't come soon enough!

Firefly is on-demand at Hulu.com, Serenity the movie "final episode" is at Netflix on demand.

197 saberry0530  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:51pm

re: #191 Dark_Falcon

I heard that when unicorns eat posies, they fart floral smells.

///

ONly if your down wind!

198 livefreeor die  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:52pm

re: #191 Dark_Falcon

I heard that when unicorns eat posies, they fart floral smells.

///

They only fart if Bush or Cheney feed them. Otherwise everything is wonderful!
/

199 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:23:56pm
200 ArrowSmith  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:24:50pm

re: #196 jcm

Firefly is on-demand at Hulu.com, Serenity the movie "final episode" is at Netflix on demand.

Thanks!

201 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:26:28pm

re: #128 MandyManners

He needs to realize what's at stake but, getting drunk and dancing with another woman does not mean he's cheated.

I've been drunk and danced and flirted with women many times in public, but did not end up in bed with anyone.
I was cold sober when I fell from grace.

Why do men have names for their genitalia?
We need to be on a first name basis with anyone who makes our decisions for us.

202 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:27:03pm

re: #199 Iron Fist

Pretty fancy cheese slicer.

203 Racer X  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:27:34pm

OK I got about 7 minutes on this computer before the logic board glitches.

Go Lakers!

204 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:27:36pm

re: #195 avanti

I hope some of you are watching the History channels special on the Ida fossil on now. (started 10PM EST)

I'm there now. Thanks for the heads up.

205 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:28:11pm

re: #188 Sharmuta

I don't really follow celebrity "news". I'll click around to see some fashion, but that's about it. So I get pissed when I keep seeing these reality show nobodies in the entertainment section, ruining my fashion slideshow. I keep thinking, "who the hell are these people?"

That's the price I pay, I guess, for keeping the idiot box off. It's worth it.

I just read in the paper today that Americans of all age groups watches an average of five hours of teevee a day.

I got a digital converter for Christmas. Haven't even opened the box yet.

The tube hasn't been on for over a year now. And I watch DVDs at the computer, so I can pause and surf when I get the urge.

The money I almost blew on an impulse when I saw a flat-screen teevee at a pawn shop went to the Kindle.

The network and cable guys hate people like us. In fact, Comcast, my ISP, signed me up for cable teevee last year without my knowing it. On the sly. Just started charging me an extra $50 a month on my automatic bill. They had to refund me $350 when I caught on.

(The networks probably have their reprogramming SWAT teams locking on to our positions as we type...)

206 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:28:15pm

re: #183 ArrowSmith

So what they're going to re-air in January will be edited from what's on this DVD? Cool, I always like the unedited directors cut. F.e., the extended cut of Razor is better then the original.

Then I know you'll enjoy this parody of that episode.

207 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:28:34pm

re: #187 Cato the Elder

I do.

208 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:28:55pm

re: #150 Sharmuta

I hate reality TV. What's next- reality movies? "Documentaries" following people around whose only claim to fame is they have cameras following them around?

Michael Moore? Oh wait, those were fiction............

209 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:29:02pm
OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits,...

Did anyone not already know that?

210 saberry0530  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:29:14pm

re: #199 Iron Fist

I gotta bitch to someone, and the Girlfriend is asleep. I found this on EBay. It is a really nice tanto knife, and it is out of production. This is the first one I've seen since I started looking for them. I might could get it for under $200, and there's the rub. I already bought something nice in this general vein over the weekend, and I promised her that it would be the last thing for a while. I never exactly expected this to pop up.

I'm not going to bid on it, just whine. I've got an Al MAr Backup that is nearly as nice, and ably fills the niche of legal fixed blade carry (at least in my State). Still, the Spyderco is really, really nice.

Upper limit in price. Seen them selling for around 150 at shows . Not very often but still if your going to get one, then why not.

211 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:29:15pm

re: #207 Macker

I do.

Ding!

212 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:29:23pm

Here's an idea for a reality TV show- MTVs "The Real World" meets "Survivor" meets "The Simple Life".

Gather a group of spoiled brats, and make them live in a poor African village with no electricity for a month. I nominate pamela geller for the inaugural season.

213 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:29:55pm

re: #202 itellu3times

Pretty fancy cheese slicer.

It slices, it dices, it juliennes!

214 NY Nana  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:29:58pm

If anyone is a returning veteran, or has a family member and/or friend, this site, Hire a Hero, seems to be good. It was just featured on the local news on TV.

215 irongrampa  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:30:02pm

re: #199 Iron Fist


I feel empathy for you. I go through the same thing, looking at restorable cars. Kinda glad to have some company.

216 capitalist piglet  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:30:11pm

re: #198 livefreeor die

They only fart if Bush or Cheney feed them. Otherwise everything is wonderful!
/

Bush and Cheney would be great dog names. (I don't mean that in a negative way.)

217 solomonpanting  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:30:49pm

re: #203 Racer X

Go Lakers!

They'll have a much better chance to win if
-they start rebounding and limit Denver to one shot
-shoot better than 38%
-Stop making the "Birdman" look like a Hall of Famer.

218 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:30:50pm

re: #213 jcm

It slices, it dices, it juliennes!

your'e gonna like my nuts!

219 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:31:47pm

re: #189 ArrowSmith

I was thinking about it - now I'm going to watch it. 4.5 can't come soon enough!

I'm the type of guy who not only downloaded it from iTunes, I'm also going to fork out the dough to get it on DVD too!

220 Cato the Elder  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:32:02pm

Well, night, everybody. Back to the Kindle.

221 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:32:02pm

re: #195 avanti

I hope some of you are watching the History channels special on the Ida fossil on now. (started 10PM EST)

On another board (yep, sorry, I'm seeing another forum behind your backs!), I've already run across the creationist/ID talking points on Ida:

Facts to remember about "Ida."

• The well-preserved fossil (95 percent complete, including fossilized fur and more) is about the size of a raccoon and includes a long tail. It resembles the skeleton of a lemur (a small, tailed, tree-climbing primate). The fossil does not resemble a human skeleton.

• The fossil was found in two parts by amateur fossil hunters in 1983. It eventually made its way through fossil dealers to the research team.

• Ida has opposable thumbs, which the ABC News article states are “similar to humans’ and unlike those found on other modern mammals” (i.e., implying that opposable thumbs are evidence of evolution). Yet lemurs today have opposable thumbs (like all primates). Likewise, Ida has nails, as do other primates. And the talus bone is described as “the same shape as in humans,” despite the fact that there are other differences in the ankle structure.

• Unlike today’s lemurs (as far as scientists know), Ida lacks the “grooming claw” and a “toothcomb” (a fused row of teeth) In fact, its teeth are more similar to a monkey’s. These are minor differences easily explained by variation within a kind.

Besides which, losing the "grooming claw" is a loss of information, not a gain which would be required for evolution to be proven.


...and...

Too bad this "missing link" is imaginary.

Evolutionary scientists have a nagging ability to find exactly what they want to find if they look hard enough.

Some extinct variation of lemur is unearthed in a bunch of oil shale -- which wasn't carbon dated, I wonder why -- and even scientists admit in their own research that they're not fully certain about their conclusions, but ...

... the media trumpet from the hills that the "missing link" has been found and that evolution of human beings from apelike creatures is a dead-certain fact.

It is a tissue of lies.

222 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:32:23pm

re: #216 capitalist piglet

Bush and Cheney would be great dog names.

We used to have a red chow named Reagan and now we have a beardie named Lincoln.

223 Racer X  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:32:37pm

re: #217 solomonpanting

They'll have a much better chance to win if
-they start rebounding and limit Denver to one shot
-shoot better than 38%
-Stop making the "Birdman" look like a Hall of Famer.

Agreed.

Just hit some shots. Play a little better defense.

224 jaunte  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:34:01pm

re: #221 gmsc

"These are minor differences easily explained by variation within a kind."

There's that word again. I wonder how they define it.

225 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:34:36pm

re: #212 Sharmuta

Here's an idea for a reality TV show- MTVs "The Real World" meets "Survivor" meets "The Simple Life".

Gather a group of spoiled brats, and make them live in a poor African village with no electricity for a month. I nominate pamela geller for the inaugural season.

Bullshit. I want to see these crying babies sweat it out in frakkin' ANTARCTICA!

226 The Shadow Do  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:34:53pm

I am watching "The Link" on History Channel. Fascinating, and huge in its historical significance. Lucy is to human as Ida is to ape. 47 million years of evolution and here you are. We are not separate.

227 Spare O'Lake  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:34:56pm

re: #222 Mich-again

We used to have a red chow named Reagan and now we have a beardie named Lincoln.

Anyone who names their dog Michelle is a racist.

228 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:35:00pm
229 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:35:02pm

re: #217 solomonpanting

-Stop making the "Birdman" look like a Hall of Famer.

He looks like a walking comic book.

230 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:35:17pm

re: #220 Cato the Elder

Well, night, everybody. Back to the Kindle.

A Kindle? Ah, well, if you can't run Eucalyptus, I guess the Kindle will have to do.
;)

231 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:35:26pm

re: #221 gmsc

The Messel pit was carbon dated.

232 justdanny  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:35:32pm

Bedtime sucks.

233 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:35:44pm

re: #212 Sharmuta

Here's an idea for a reality TV show- MTVs "The Real World" meets "Survivor" meets "The Simple Life".

Gather a group of spoiled brats, and make them live in a poor African village with no electricity for a month. I nominate pamela geller for the inaugural season.

I nominate Barack Obama. We can even make it one of his families villages, just to throw some spice into things. The other advantage is that he'd be away from the reigns of power for a month. I grant that would mean we'd have to survive a month of Joe Biden...

234 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:36:22pm

re: #221 gmsc

She didn't "lose" her grooming claw. She never had one. What idiots.

235 Racer X  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:36:45pm

re: #229 Mich-again

He looks like a walking comic book.

Dude can play. Gotta give him credit. But c'mon, he aint that good.

236 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:36:49pm

re: #231 Sharmuta

The Messel pit was carbon dated.

And that's supposed to stop an ID/creationist from claiming otherwise because . . . ?

237 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:37:26pm

re: #221 gmsc

Wow- that whole list of talking points is just sad.

238 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:37:38pm

re: #159 SteveC

Wow. Wonderful! It's amazing what's been done the last generation. I was born with a heart murmur, but thankfully didn't need surgery for it. I needed several for other stuff. But not as serious. I hoped you raised a ton of moolah!

239 shiplord kirel  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:37:42pm

Speaking of dysfunctional families, I was at my mother's house this evening, something of a rarity for reasons that will be obvious.
The occasion was my brother D's arrival from Colorado with his new girlfriend in tow. "D" is really the only normal and emotionally healthy person in the whole clan besides my humble self (if I may presume to count myself as such). His new girlfriend is a very attractive and well-educated woman in her 40s.
My mother was her usual charming octogenarian southern belle self for a while, then she started to reminisce about what it was like when my brothers and I were growing up. She spoke almost nostalgically of the time when my brother Judas (as he is now known) became smitten with a girl when they were both just 15, and how she, mom, eventually had to put an end to it. Then she added, "I never had much trouble like that with him afterward." There was the little business of Judas running away with my wife (aka Jezebel) some 8 years later, and all that followed including a federal court case, but mom apparently does not count that as trouble. Mom went on to describe what a wonderful time she had at Judas and Jezebel's house during her visit there last year.
D's girlfriend, who apparently knows the whole story, was looking increasingly uncomfortable and even horrified through this, since my mom was talking up the traitor right in front of me like I wasn't there or, worse, like it was no big deal to me. Mom seemed completely oblivious to this reaction.
A little later, mom mentioned my army service in passing, but could not remember what rank I had held. She never alluded to me having been mayor, but she did brag a great deal about Judas's new barbecue grill and his status as a deacon of a creepy little church.
My mom is utterly, sublimely unaware that people outside the family are not at all impressed when she belittles me in front of them. I just let her run on, since I thought D's girlfriend is entitled to know the whole truth about this bizarre family and its inverted values. Most of the relatives on my mom's side are like that about it. To them, I swear, I am the one who should be ashamed of the Judas/Jezebel case, not those world-class hypocrites themselves. It is like being the normal chick in the Addam's family, with "D" and his children as my only blood relations with the real world.

Well, I am not just a grown man, but an old man, so I am well able to understand that this is the family's problem and not mine, but I still feel cheated by kinship with a group of people who are far inferior to virtually any caveman or savage in terms of sensitivity and their moral obligation to their own flesh and blood.

240 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:38:09pm

re: #225 Macker

Bullshit. I want to see these crying babies sweat it out in frakkin' ANTARCTICA!

Needs to be someplace survivable.

Just the Pasayten Wilderness with nothing but a knife.

241 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:38:25pm

re: #236 gmsc

And that's supposed to stop an ID/creationist from claiming otherwise because . . . ?

.....never argue with a true believer.....better to clean the bathroom or kitchen.....get some real work done............

242 JHW  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:38:46pm

re: #195 avanti

I hope some of you are watching the History channels special on the Ida fossil on now. (started 10PM EST)

I'm on the West Coast, they're showing some Sasquatch crap now.I've spent practically my whole life in the wilderness, along with many others, and nary a sign of such thing. I'd like to hear what one of our trained biologists would say about how many of such creatures it would take to maintain and sustain a genetically diverse population. Our local Natives like to pull the chain of outsiders and play on their credulity. An employer I had of an Indian owned business ran a river fishing guide service on the side.He had a party of city people, mostly from the legal profession on one trip. He spied a big pile of bear crap, threw some toilet paper on it, and then went back and steered the party past it, saying he'd just taken a dump and didn't feel good, moaning and holding his stomach. His party freaked out when they saw the huge pile and wanted to get him to a doctor right away. He still laughs about it.

243 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:38:48pm

re: #236 gmsc

And that's supposed to stop an ID/creationist from claiming otherwise because . . . ?

If I were to tell them that, it would just become a conversation about the flaws in carbon dating. It's an endless loop of ignorance.

244 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:38:51pm
245 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:39:41pm

re: #239 shiplord kirel

May the Lord show your mother the truth, and may she come to see how she hurts you.

246 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:40:06pm

re: #163 Catttt

"I suspect he's better with a foil" I'm sure you meant to include "tin" along with the foil!
/

247 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:40:19pm
• The fossil was found in two parts by amateur fossil hunters in 1983. It eventually made its way through fossil dealers to the research team.

As if this is supposed to somehow invalidate the fossil? Also- they're incorrect. Ida was found by one amateur.

248 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:42:49pm

re: #166 jcm

So I was thinkin', if the Beatles made an album dedicated to Charles Darwin, would they have called it "Evolver"? Just wonderin'.

249 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:43:06pm

re: #247 Sharmuta

As if this is supposed to somehow invalidate the fossil? Also- they're incorrect. Ida was found by one amateur.

So when an amateur makes a discovery the discovery is invalid?

How elitist.

250 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:43:18pm
• The well-preserved fossil (95 percent complete, including fossilized fur and more) is about the size of a raccoon and includes a long tail. It resembles the skeleton of a lemur (a small, tailed, tree-climbing primate). The fossil does not resemble a human skeleton.

Nor would we expect the earliest primate to look like a human skeleton. It wouldn't be evolution otherwise. Lost, they are.

251 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:43:20pm

re: #248 Irenicum

So I was thinkin', if the Beatles made an album dedicated to Charles Darwin, would they have called it "Evolver"? Just wonderin'.

2 pts...easy

252 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:44:01pm

re: #171 Spare O'Lake

It would never get ratings!

253 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:44:52pm

This is a drive-by post as we are out to celebrate a friend's birthday. Just wanted to give my heartfelt thanks to all of the lizards who are serving or have served our country. To those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we will never forget you.

254 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:44:53pm

re: #249 jcm

So when an amateur makes a discovery the discovery is invalid?

How elitist.

In the Ida book, they specifically mention how often times it is amateurs who make incredible advancements in science. It's not the scientists who discount amateurs. If the science is sound, it will be accepted, regardless of who presents it.

255 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:45:35pm

And in honor of Memorial Day
Iran Sends 6 Warships to International Waters in 'Saber Rattling' Move

North Korea, Iran, Venezuela..........Mr "0", you have some business to attend to.

256 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:46:09pm

re: #175 Dark_Falcon

Oh, there are so many bad puns going through my head right now, but I'm sure I'd get the shaft for even saying one. Ooopsie!

257 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:46:19pm
258 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:46:51pm

re: #255 IslandLibertarian

And in honor of Memorial Day
Iran Sends 6 Warships to International Waters in 'Saber Rattling' Move

North Korea, Iran, Venezuela..........Mr "0", you have some business to attend to.

"Turkey shoot"? But it's Memorial Day, not Thanksgiving!

259 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:47:07pm

re: #239 shiplord kirel

It is like being the normal chick in the Addam's family,

You mean Marilyn Munster. But Lily and Herman treated their strange daughter much nicer.

260 solomonpanting  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:47:22pm

re: #248 Irenicum

So I was thinkin', if the Beatles made an album dedicated to Charles Darwin, would they have called it "Evolver"? Just wonderin'.

Either that or "Let it Be"
/What?/

261 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:47:37pm

re: #259 Mich-again

You mean Marilyn Munster. But Lily and Herman treated their strange daughter much nicer.

She was a niece, not their daughter.

262 saberry0530  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:47:45pm

re: #244 Iron Fist

Thanks! You are right. My current paucity of funds won't last forever, and it is not like this knife is a one-of-a-kind blade (were that the case, my credit card debt might take a little hit...)

No Problemo. Its not like it is this Item

263 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:49:56pm

re: #194 Spare O'Lake

Does your cat meoy!

264 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:50:36pm
265 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:50:43pm

re: #248 Irenicum

So I was thinkin', if the Beatles made an album dedicated to Charles Darwin, would they have called it "Evolver"? Just wonderin'.

Charles Darwin's Gradually Modified Hearts Club Band

266 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:50:47pm

re: #261 Sharmuta

Yup!

The family at 1313 Mockingbird Lane is a little ... different. Dad Herman looks like Frankenstein's monster; mom Lily and her dad, Grandpa, are vampires; and son Eddie is a werewolf. Poor Marilyn, their niece, is the odd one out - she's just a normal girl. And the family doesn't like to call attention to her unfortunate looks.
267 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:51:24pm

re: #256 Irenicum

Oh, there are so many bad puns going through my head right now, but I'm sure I'd get the shaft for even saying one. Ooopsie!

The shaft his what she gets on a frequent basis.

/jumps into bunker to avoid shelfire

268 solomonpanting  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:52:03pm

re: #248 Irenicum

So I was thinkin', if the Beatles made an album dedicated to Charles Darwin, would they have called it "Evolver"? Just wonderin'.

Let me try that again.
If the Stones had been in that position, their album would have been "Let it Breed".

269 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:52:38pm

OT and Bad News:

Northern Ireland Soccer Mob Beats Catholic Man to Death

This one is not over. There will be reprisals.

270 shiplord kirel  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:52:51pm

re: #259 Mich-again

You mean Marilyn Munster. But Lily and Herman treated their strange daughter much nicer.

Oh year, I'd forgotten after 40 years. I was a bigger fan of the Addams family but I identified with the Munster girl even then.
I should mention that my dad is much, much better about it all. He and my mom have been divorced since 1964. Go figure.

271 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:53:20pm

re: #264 Iron Fist

Would it be considered advocating violence if I remarked on "how lovely it would be" if some of these ships "went out into dark waters and the Bermuda Triangle swallowed them whole"?

It would be truly unfortunate if there were to suffer some sort of mishap.

272 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:53:28pm

WTF?
[Link: www.breitbart.com...]
Are they suicidal? Have they not seen Team America World Police?
Do the Norks think it was just some stupid movie?
Oh wait.......

273 IslandLibertarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:53:44pm

re: #263 Irenicum

Does your cat meoy!

mentioned here before, cats cannot pronounce the letter "N", hence
ME _OW!

We're off to watch the sunset and a cultural event.

God Bless 'all........

274 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:53:49pm

Magical Mystery Natural Phenomenon Tour

275 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:54:00pm

re: #268 solomonpanting

Let me try that again.
If the Stones had been in that position, their album would have been "Let it Breed".

and if you want to well you can breed on me....
3pts

276 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:54:10pm

re: #205 Cato the Elder

To quote John Cleese: Bastards! Yeah, that's cable companies for you. Evil bastards.

277 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:54:12pm
278 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:55:24pm

re: #255 IslandLibertarian

Senator Joe tried to warn us.

279 solomonpanting  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:55:44pm

re: #275 albusteve

and if you want to well you can breed on me....
3pts

I kept my promise
Just keep your distance

280 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:56:00pm
281 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:56:50pm

re: #269 Dark_Falcon

OT and Bad News:

Northern Ireland Soccer Mob Beats Catholic Man to Death

This one is not over. There will be reprisals.

I was at a Seattle v. Chicago football game, some European tourist sitting in front of us were amazed opposing fans could be sitting so close, with no one getting hurt.

282 saberry0530  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:56:52pm

re: #277 Iron Fist

Art in steel, In Japan there is a museum dedicated to preserving the ancient weapons. I truly do hope to see it before I die.

Been there! Lived in Japan for 3 years back in the 80's. Was a time that purchase of a Katana was against the law by anyone but a Japanese citizen.

283 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:57:46pm

re: #264 Iron Fist

There's no accounting for natural phenomena, so you're off the hook.....

285 The Shadow Do  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:58:02pm

re: #250 Sharmuta

Nor would we expect the earliest primate to look like a human skeleton. It wouldn't be evolution otherwise. Lost, they are.

Ida (47myo) progresses in a sort of continuum through lemurs and all modern monkeys. The wonder is that she also spun off ape-like animals that at first were quadrupedal but eventually evolved to Lucy (3.2 myo, with a human-like skeleton) and beyond. This discovery is equivalent to or greater than the first moon landing IMHO - if science is about understanding our place in the universe, and I think it is.

286 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:58:18pm

re: #282 saberry0530

Been there! Lived in Japan for 3 years back in the 80's. Was a time that purchase of a Katana was against the law by anyone but a Japanese citizen.

I believe their export is still prohibited?

287 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:58:53pm

re: #283 tradewind

There's no accounting for natural phenomena, so you're off the hook.....

Did somebody say "phenomena"?

288 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:59:18pm

re: #277 Iron Fist

Art in steel, In Japan there is a museum dedicated to preserving the ancient weapons. I truly do hope to see it before I die.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has some beautiful examples, if you want something nearer to home.

289 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 7:59:21pm

re: #269 Dark_Falcon

OT and Bad News:

Northern Ireland Soccer Mob Beats Catholic Man to Death

This one is not over. There will be reprisals.

I just read that. What made me click on the thing was that I thought it said "Soccer MOM." And you are right, I'm afraid.

290 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:00:05pm

re: #285 The Shadow Do

Ida (47myo) progresses in a sort of continuum through lemurs and all modern monkeys. The wonder is that she also spun off ape-like animals that at first were quadrupedal but eventually evolved to Lucy (3.2 myo, with a human-like skeleton) and beyond. This discovery is equivalent to or greater than the first moon landing IMHO - if science is about understanding our place in the universe, and I think it is.

BTW, the Ida show on History channel started at 9 PM EST, not 10 as I first posted. those of you west of me, don't miss it, it's a great show and 2 hours long.

291 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:00:46pm

re: #285 The Shadow Do

I think its amazing that 47 million years ago evolution already figured out the 10 fingers and 10 toes part.

292 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:01:05pm

re: #289 Catttt

What IS IT about soccer? This behavior happens all over the frickkin' world at soccer matches.

293 itellu3times  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:01:07pm

re: #239 shiplord kirel

Got elements of that in my family, but sounds like you got the giant economy package. Kudos to you for maintaining yourself under the circumstances.

294 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:01:08pm
295 pink freud  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:01:34pm

re: #239 shiplord kirel

I really like these family updates of yours, Shiplord. I've been following your saga since that first post of yours way back when recounting the whole sordid thing.

Oh ...and you're just fine by me. :-)

296 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:02:11pm

re: #292 Occasional Reader

It is nothing about soccer. It's about the mobs, the overcrowding, and the booze.

297 NY Nana  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:02:18pm

re: #269 Dark_Falcon

After 'The Troubles' seemed to be in the past, after so many years, this is starting up again. It hurts. When I was in London over 20 years ago, for the first time, a friend and her husband (Protestant) came to London to see me, as they were afraid to have me visit them.

That is why I fear so for Israel if Hussein breaks Bibi's will, and allows a '2-State solution'. Israel does not belong to the cult of islam to begin with, and it is not The One's to do anything about, nor is it Shrillary's.

I fear that Ulster and Ireland are headed back into the bad old days, but pray that I am wrong.

298 Afrocity  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:02:58pm

I hope everyone is having a good evening. I put some steaks on the grill, made German potato salad, made caramel cupcakes. It was a nice day despite the nasty weather.

299 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:03:27pm

re: #285 The Shadow Do

Ida (47myo) progresses in a sort of continuum through lemurs and all modern monkeys. The wonder is that she also spun off ape-like animals that at first were quadrupedal but eventually evolved to Lucy (3.2 myo, with a human-like skeleton) and beyond. This discovery is equivalent to or greater than the first moon landing IMHO - if science is about understanding our place in the universe, and I think it is.

She's the oldest (and most complete) fossil of a primate ever discovered. She clearly belongs in the line of primates that resulted in our more recent ancestors. Even if the creationists want to deny her importance to evolution, her very discovery is still remarkable simply because of the existing circumstances surrounding the fossilization process. It's why we have so few fossils of primates to begin with- conditions have to be just right.

What's sad is this little girl had injuries to her arms, which may have led her to falling into the lake that preserved her. Well- sad and fortunate at the same time, I guess. Were it not for her injured arms, we might not have her fossil at all.

300 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:04:24pm

re: #291 Mich-again

I think its amazing that 47 million years ago evolution already figured out the 10 fingers and 10 toes part.

It's a good thing too, because I have a hard time counting in the base 8 system for example, but I can do binary OK. our 9 in base 8 would be 11 (I think.)

301 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:04:37pm

The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

Can't recommend this enough. It's amazing.

302 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:04:53pm

re: #292 Occasional Reader

What IS IT about soccer? This behavior happens all over the frickkin' world at soccer matches.

it's a refuge for the weak...collectively they got some mojo...soccer is such a pathetic excuse for a game I can understand fans turning into killer zombies

303 The Shadow Do  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:05:14pm

re: #291 Mich-again

I think its amazing that 47 million years ago evolution already figured out the 10 fingers and 10 toes part.

It's even there on fishes if I'm not mistaken.

304 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:05:51pm

re: #258 Occasional Reader
Even though I know it's actually serious as a heart attack, the phrase ' Iranian Navy' makes me want to giggle.
The two words just don't seem to belong in the same sentence.

305 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:05:52pm

re: #292 Occasional Reader

What IS IT about soccer?

Good question. I blame the beer.

306 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:06:32pm

Also- from now on, every time JCM says "stop plate tectonics!" I'll be giving him an upding. In a couple million years, Italy will be really screwed.

307 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:07:12pm

re: #300 avanti

It's a good thing too, because I have a hard time counting in the base 8 system for example, but I can do binary OK. our 9 in base 8 would be 11 (I think.)

How's your base 12?

308 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:07:20pm

re: #297 NY Nana

After 'The Troubles' seemed to be in the past, after so many years, this is starting up again. It hurts. When I was in London over 20 years ago, for the first time, a friend and her husband (Protestant) came to London to see me, as they were afraid to have me visit them.

That is why I fear so for Israel if Hussein breaks Bibi's will, and allows a '2-State solution'. Israel does not belong to the cult of islam to begin with, and it is not The One's to do anything about, nor is it Shrillary's.

I fear that Ulster and Ireland are headed back into the bad old days, but pray that I am wrong.

Sharmuta posted this song a while back, but its worth posting again:

309 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:07:33pm

re: #16 ArrowSmith

You serious? Star Trek is fantastic!

310 Randall Gross  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:07:44pm

re: #290 avanti

Dang I forgot all about it. I found this weird lump thing in my back yard while mowing. Turns out it's a fossil and I've been poking around trying to figure out what it is.

Any experts in carboniferous marine fossils out there?

I've got something big that looks like a coral crusted large tooth, but that doesn't really fit (it's not shark, just the wrong shape, being too curved over and not symetrically spade shaped...) So I'm thinking maybe it's not a tooth, but a rugose that got other-coral encrusted. I'm trying to get some good pics but they aren't turning out so hot.
This is from Kansas, and probably Mississippian, but I"m no expert, I'm wild-assed guessing.

311 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:08:29pm

re: #298 Afrocity

I hope everyone is having a good evening. I put some steaks on the grill, made German potato salad, made caramel cupcakes. It was a nice day despite the nasty weather.

I'll bring the wine, what is your preference?

312 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:08:43pm

re: #291 Mich-again

Does this mean that if the human race somehow keeps on keeping on, in a few million years we'll have one giant digit on our dominant hands from eons of mouse-clicking, and our butts will be four feet wide?.......
Somehow, I don't think so.

313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:08:49pm

re: #300 avanti

It's a good thing too, because I have a hard time counting in the base 8 system for example, but I can do binary OK. our 9 in base 8 would be 11 (I think.)

12 Toes would be worse...

314 _RememberTonyC  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:09:21pm

re: #100 HoosierHoops

Denver is looking tough


sorry for the non response ... wifey stole the laptop.

315 Last Mohican  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:09:29pm

re: #248 Irenicum

So I was thinkin', if the Beatles made an album dedicated to Charles Darwin, would they have called it "Evolver"? Just wonderin'.

It's Getting Better All the Time?

316 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:09:46pm

re: #300 avanti

It's a good thing too, because I have a hard time counting in the base 8 system for example, but I can do binary OK. our 9 in base 8 would be 11 (I think.)

You would find base eight easier if you had eight each of fingers and toes. :D

317 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:09:50pm

re: #307 gmsc

How's your base 12?

[Video]

re: #313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

12 Toes would be worse...

GMTA! (We even picked the same video!)

318 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:09:56pm

re: #312 tradewind

Does this mean that if the human race somehow keeps on keeping on, in a few million years we'll have one giant digit on our dominant hands from eons of mouse-clicking, and our butts will be four feet wide?.......
Somehow, I don't think so.

HuH?

319 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:10:16pm
320 Afrocity  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:10:18pm

re: #311 jcm

Riesling

321 Charles Johnson  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:10:27pm

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

For reference, his/her/its name over there is 'NoThreat2U'.

322 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:10:44pm

re: #296 tradewind

It is nothing about soccer. It's about the mobs, the overcrowding, and the booze.

We have all those things here in the US at your average professional baseball game. Yet you never hear the phrase "baseball hooligans".

323 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:10:57pm

re: #313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

12 Toes would be worse...

Then our 13, would be 11 in base 12 ?

324 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:10:58pm

re: #321 Charles

That's pretty petty.

325 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:11:03pm

re: #239 shiplord kirel

I am so sorry. I all too well remember heart rending moments from my own family's disfunctionality. Thankfully, those who see reality, see through their sickness. But it still hurts.

326 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:11:05pm

re: #307 gmsc

Dammit!

327 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:11:14pm

re: #307 gmsc

How's your base 12?

[Video]

Lets do hexadecimal! :D

328 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:11:53pm
329 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:12:04pm

re: #321 Charles

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

For reference, his/her/its name over there is 'NoThreat2U'.

Are you going to ban UI67?

330 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:12:20pm

re: #323 avanti

Then our 13, would be 11 in base 12 ?

Yep.

331 The Shadow Do  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:12:22pm

re: #299 Sharmuta


I think Ida is a treasure for the ages. The chances of finding anything else like her are beyond remote. Just wonderful she was so well preserved. We do not have human-like fossils, 57 times less ancient, nearly as complete. Lucy is 43.8 million years younger. Staggering.

332 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:12:47pm

re: #321 Charles

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

For reference, his/her/its name over there is 'NoThreat2U'.

WTF is anyone's problem with the Mapping the Fallen site ?

333 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:12:50pm

re: #322 Occasional Reader
The mobs.... the drunks... the overcrowded conditions?
Not on European levels.

334 shiplord kirel  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:13:02pm

re: #293 itellu3times

Got elements of that in my family, but sounds like you got the giant economy package. Kudos to you for maintaining yourself under the circumstances.

re: #295 pink freud

I really like these family updates of yours, Shiplord. I've been following your saga since that first post of yours way back when recounting the whole sordid thing.

Oh ...and you're just fine by me. :-)

Many thanks folks. Sometimes I am a little unsure about unburdening myself on Charles's bandwidth, but I think it does serve a useful purpose in terms of disclosure, letting readers know just where my drive comes from.
More importantly, it lets others with screwball families know that they are not alone and that such things are not at all insurmountable.
One of the relatives compared me to Captain Ahab of Moby Dick fame for my relentless and only partially successful campaign to reclaim my daughter from Judas and Jezebel's brainwashing. I took this as a compliment, since I actually admire Ahab for his single-mindedness, if not his choice of cause, especially as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1956 movie. The irony of this analogy, of course, is that the biblical King Ahab was the husband of the notorious adulteress Jezebel. I don't think the relative who made the comparison was aware of this.

335 albusteve  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:13:08pm

re: #321 Charles

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

For reference, his/her/its name over there is 'NoThreat2U'.

that's gonna leave a mark

336 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:13:27pm

re: #321 Charles

I promise to just disappear. Love ya Charles.

337 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:13:48pm

re: #330 gmsc

Yep.

I just love useless brain exercise. :)

338 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:14:00pm

re: #331 The Shadow Do

It can't be said any better than "treasure for the ages".

339 jaunte  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:14:05pm

re: #321 Charles

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

That's odd. What's offensive about that?

340 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:14:13pm

re: #321 Charles

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

For reference, his/her/its name over there is 'NoThreat2U'.

I don't get that at all. Memorial Day, fallen heroes, each named, placed on the map, and with links to detailed information about them and memorial sites honoring them. What is Memorial Day for if not that?

341 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:14:25pm

re: #328 Iron Fist

I've got two

I hate you, you goddamn bastard That's terrific!

342 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:14:27pm

re: #332 avanti

WTF is anyone's problem with the Mapping the Fallen site ?

As my mother is fond of saying, "He/She/It wouldn't be happy if you hung him/her/it with a brand new rope!"

343 pink freud  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:14:51pm

re: #334 shiplord kirel

My best wishes for a strong, stable, lasting, and enjoyable relationship with your daughter, Shiplord.

344 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:15:10pm

re: #321 Charles
Good evening Charles! Uh, can I ask which Stalker site (I always assume it's LGF2 but..?) and how do you know that 'NoThreat2U' is the same person as
'UberInfidel67'? And who the heck was 'UberInfidel67' - that nic doesn't ring any bells with me over here at LGF.

345 Last Mohican  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:15:36pm

re: #321 Charles

'UberInfidel67' has decided he/she/it is more comfortable at the stalker site tonight, because he/she/it was horribly offended that I would post a link to the "Mapping the Fallen" website.

For reference, his/her/its name over there is 'NoThreat2U'.

Wow, it's really blowing a fuse over there.

346 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:15:55pm

re: #327 Catttt

Lets do hexadecimal! :D

Here's one of the best explanations of hexadecimal (and other number bases) that I've ever found.

347 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:16:06pm

re: #339 jaunte

That's odd. What's offensive about that?

I think the term we're looking for is "manufactured outrage". Just a guess.

348 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:16:08pm

re: #336 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I promise to just disappear (if you decide you don't want me any more). Love ya Charles.

Prolly should have put that there. In retrospect, that kinda read like a flame out.

349 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:16:09pm

The last time Kobe played Chauncey in a playoff series it didn't end well for Kobe. And this Denver team has some parallels with that Detroit team besides Chauncey. The ex-North Carolina standout player as head coach. The team approach. The super subs. hmm.

350 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:16:23pm

re: #333 tradewind

The mobs.... the drunks... the overcrowded conditions?
Not on European levels.

I think you're confusing cause with effect, quite frankly.

(And by the way, football hooliganism is also rampant in Latin America, too; use the terms "barras bravas" or "hinchadas" to search on Youtube.)

351 pink freud  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:17:20pm

re: #348 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Phew. Thanks for the clarification, FBV. Would hate to see you go. :D

352 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:17:21pm

re: #337 avanti

I just love useless brain exercise. :)

Really? Ever clicked my screenname?
;)

353 jaunte  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:17:31pm

re: #347 Sharmuta

Next, someone will take offense to iPhone photography.

354 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:17:40pm

re: #265 Sharmuta

There you go!

355 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:18:22pm

re: #346 gmsc

Here's one of the best explanations of hexadecimal (and other number bases) that I've ever found.

Very cool, thanks.

356 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:18:24pm

re: #339 jaunte
Thanks juante! I was gonna ask that too - I didn't see anything offensive about that map at all!

357 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:18:27pm

re: #331 The Shadow Do

I think Ida is a treasure for the ages. The chances of finding anything else like her are beyond remote. Just wonderful she was so well preserved. We do not have human-like fossils, 57 times less ancient, nearly as complete. Lucy is 43.8 million years younger. Staggering.

What amazes me is that reading about her demise, I felt my heart tug - her hurt arm, trying to get a drink of water, the noxious gasses, falling in and not being strong enough to get out again. This is a little girl creature who passed away a long long long time ago, and I not only know many details - I feel for her. Amazing.

358 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:18:28pm

re: #353 jaunte

Next, someone will take offense to iPhone photography.

Well, there was a user named Blackberry12 . . .

359 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:18:45pm
360 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:19:10pm

re: #353 jaunte

Next, someone will take offense to iPhone photography.

They already have over there.

362 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:19:47pm

I sent reine.de.tout my recipe for New York Cheesecake and Cheese Blintzes. I'm working on recipes for Shwarma and Falafel.

When my son got married last year, I put the recipes for all his favorite foods into a binder and gave it to my daughter-in-law for a wedding present. I also told her that he should cook everything first himself, so he can't complain.

363 Last Mohican  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:19:50pm

re: #332 avanti

WTF is anyone's problem with the Mapping the Fallen site ?

Well, the basic idea is that the mapping the fallen project is insulting to our fallen heroes, because it reduces them to mere points on a map. At least, that's what I'm hearing. If I may quote from the stalker site (I won't link, Charles, I promise):

SOmeone pinpoints who our dead are on a map and LGF thinks it is great? Google sucks. Google Earth sucks. Our men and women are worth more than a blip on the damn radar! I quit!

...

I just got home and saw a 1.0 post about someone pinpointing US deaths on a map. the 1.0ers thought it was so great. My GOD! Is that all they are? I am livid. I apologize if I am not being clear about this, but really, how lame is that?

...

I am so mad that I cannot breathe! Grrrrrr!

364 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:19:54pm

re: #357 Catttt

What amazes me is that reading about her demise, I felt my heart tug - her hurt arm, trying to get a drink of water, the noxious gasses, falling in and not being strong enough to get out again. This is a little girl creature who passed away a long long long time ago, and I not only know many details - I feel for her. Amazing.

Me too! I wondered about her mother- if she wondered where her child went.

365 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:20:05pm

re: #351 pink freud

From my cold, dead fingers.

366 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:20:09pm

re: #352 gmsc

Really? Ever clicked my screenname?
;)

Do you have a Itouch app ?

367 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:20:34pm

re: #342 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

As my mother is fond of saying, "He/She/It wouldn't be happy if you hung him/her/it with a brand new rope!"

Hanged. I know that you are quoting an old saying, but I have to repeat the English teacher joke:

Two ladies are looking at a dead guy hanging from a tree branch. One lady frowns and says to the other, "OH! You said HUNG!" :D

368 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:20:42pm

re: #355 avanti

Very cool, thanks.

Go through that entire site. There's some very cool stuff, including shared links, an embeddable and customizable calculator, simpler ways of thinking about complex things and much more!

369 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:20:56pm

re: #359 Iron Fist

UberInfidel67

UberInfidel67
This user is blocked.

Karma: 1,430
Registered since: Dec 8, 2007 at 6:49 pm

No. of comments posted: 2,129
No. of links posted: 28
Recent comments

That answers that. Consort with nutcases, get the ban stick. It's like Cognito last night: UI67 was warned but didn't listen,

370 Charles Johnson  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:12pm

There's nothing wrong at all with "Mapping the Fallen." It's a wonderful heartfelt tribute to the men and women of the military who gave their lives to protect America, and it was done with a lot of sensitivity and the approval of families and friends.

Anyone who takes offense at that has a big hole in their soul, and it's not surprising to find them at a site full of evil psychos.

371 pink freud  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:35pm

re: #365 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

From my cold, dead fingers.

Me too, FBV, me too.

372 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:38pm

re: #363 Last Mohican

Looks like quotes from DKos. You can hardly tell them apart.

373 The Shadow Do  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:41pm

re: #357 Catttt

Me too. I think the three of us are related.

374 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:42pm

re: #368 gmsc

Go through that entire site. There's some very cool stuff, including shared links, an embeddable and customizable calculator, simpler ways of thinking about complex things and much more!

Thanks, I will.

375 Canoe Train  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:51pm

re: #128 MandyManners

I agree with you here.

376 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:21:58pm

re: #359 Iron Fist
Hey Bro' - thanks for that - no wonder I didn't recognize his/her/its nic name!
How are you doing tonight?

377 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:22:18pm

Regarding this thread: I take offense to handlebars.

378 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:22:54pm

re: #377 Occasional Reader

Regarding this thread: I take offense to handlebars.

So do the stalkers.

379 pink freud  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:22:58pm

re: #368 gmsc

Avanti, I can't recommend it highly enough. One of the best of its type that I've seen.

Great site you have, gmsc.

380 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:23:07pm

re: #372 NJDhockeyfan

Looks like quotes from DKos. You can hardly tell them apart.

Moronic convergance.

381 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:23:11pm

re: #370 Charles

I was able to find a couple of local folks who had died in combat that I did not know (or know about). Was able to post a note of encouragement to their families.

I can see how that may be upsetting for some folks.

Am I taking crazy pills, or what?

382 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:23:24pm

re: #366 avanti

Do you have a Itouch app ?

An iTouch App for what?

My site does feature several iPod Touch/iPhone online games.

Also, if you scroll down on the rightside of my main page, there's a section marked "Downloads" (about halfway down), and there are some iPhone/iPod Touch Apps there (although Age Square still seems to have some bugs in it).

383 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:23:32pm

re: #361 Ojoe Nice Ojoe - they sorta look like the Smoky Mountains here in that setting! Pretty shot!

384 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:24:21pm

re: #275 albusteve

Oh that's wrong! Even though I'm laughing.

385 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:24:25pm

re: #379 pink freud

Avanti, I can't recommend it highly enough. One of the best of its type that I've seen.

Great site you have, gmsc.

I think there is some sound science behind the concept of "use it, or lose it" for both mind and body.

386 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:24:42pm

re: #379 pink freud

Avanti, I can't recommend it highly enough. One of the best of its type that I've seen.

Great site you have, gmsc.

To be clear, BetterExplained is not my site. My site is Grey Matters.

387 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:25:21pm

Lunacy or sleep? I choose both.

Goodnight, folks.

Great job, Charles.

388 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:25:29pm
389 pink freud  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:25:38pm

re: #386 gmsc

Ahh ...that's what I get for not clicking through to your link. I thought it was yours you were referencing. Pardon. :-)

390 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:25:55pm

re: #381 Fat Bastard Vegetarian I don't get it either FBV - unless folks like the Phelps clan can use it for their always nasty, awful purposes.

391 freetoken  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:26:21pm

re: #377 Occasional Reader

Apparently others do to...

Opinions about images are as numerous as the sands of a beach (which, btw, are often found on very amateurish seascapes and beach scenes... )

392 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:27:12pm

re: #350 Occasional Reader

I think if the source of the problem is the game itself, it would probably be due to the nonstop play. No timeouts, very few substitutions, it just keeps going for 45 minutes straight. A really good game the action just builds and builds. I think that has something to do with the passion from the crowds.

393 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:27:56pm

re: #391 freetoken

Apparently others do to...

Opinions about images are as numerous as the sands of a beach (which, btw, are often found on very amateurish seascapes and beach scenes... )

*snicker*

394 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:28:18pm
395 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:28:44pm

re: #388 buzzsawmonkey

but I would love to get it into the hands of someone who can take care of it

I think Iron Fist is about to selflessly volunteer!

396 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:28:45pm

re: #320 Afrocity

Riesling

Excellent, I'll pick up some at Chateau Ste. Michelle on my way over.

397 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:29:02pm

re: #367 Catttt

Sometimes (ya braniac!) colloquial works best.

398 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:29:30pm

re: #287 gmsc

Oh great, now you have me hot for Sandra Bullock! Now that's a phenomena I can subscribe to.

399 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:29:32pm

re: #396 jcm

Excellent, I'll pick up some at Chateau Ste. Michelle on my way over.

I love their Gewurztraminer.

400 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:30:07pm
401 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:31:47pm

So the question in Denver is will Chauncey be Mr. Big Shot or his alter ego Missed your big shot.

402 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:31:57pm

re: #394 Iron Fist Oh yeah, that ole missing part will do it do you every time! Course, way back in the day when I used to do drag race car modifications, I always wound up with parts left over - and somehow I think that's worse!
We're doing ok, thanks. It appears (fingers crossed) that Mom didn't have a "very minor stroke" just a major screw up in dianosis.

403 Afrocity  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:32:52pm

I have pics of my meeting on Friday with fellow lizards Deseeded and Chicago dude who trades if anyone wants to see them. My nic is blue.

404 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:33:01pm

re: #397 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sometimes (ya brainiac!) colloquial works best.

Shit, I misspelled a word while calling someone a brainiac.
Okay. I take lunacy.

405 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:33:52pm

re: #403 Afrocity

I have pics of my meeting on Friday with fellow lizards Deseeded and Chicago dude who trades if anyone wants to see them. My nic is blue.

Are they nekkid pictures?

/just asking

406 gmsc  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:33:52pm

re: #389 pink freud

Ahh ...that's what I get for not clicking through to your link. I thought it was yours you were referencing. Pardon. :-)

That's OK. I just don't want to take credit for someone else's work.

407 Macker  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:34:00pm

re: #321 Charles

I wonder if one can find Casey Sheehan in all that?

408 Last Mohican  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:34:19pm

re: #370 Charles

There's nothing wrong at all with "Mapping the Fallen." It's a wonderful heartfelt tribute to the men and women of the military who gave their lives to protect America, and it was done with a lot of sensitivity and the approval of families and friends.

That's certainly how I saw it. Quite the opposite of reducing our lost servicemembers to data points, I thought it made them human. It connected each one with a photograph, and a place where he or she lived, where hearts are still filled with love, with loss. Scrolling around the map started to give some scope to the sadness, finding little town after little town where there's a hole in someone's life because of someone else's sacrifice. And as you travel more and more across our country, you come upon more and more lives that were given in its defense. And as I widened the time range to show more and more of the fallen, the yellow arcs across the planet grew and grew, until they were just a big solid band, like a fabric, each strand of which was dedicated to a whole human being, whose picture you have just seen, whose town you have just explored. Really moving, I thought. A very evocative way to communicate the scale of the sacrifice.

At least that's how I saw it. But I guess if one's main hobby is finding ways to hate you, Charles, then one can find a reason to do that in just about anything.

409 Afrocity  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:35:30pm

re: #405 Occasional Reader

You really did not ask that./

410 freetoken  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:35:34pm

re: #393 Sharmuta

*snicker*

Heh... As MM said... "quick draw"!

411 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:36:06pm

re: #403 Afrocity

Love to see them, but someone (was it you?!) did not set up my mail client correctly.

I hate it when that happens.

412 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:36:14pm

re: #408 Last Mohican

Haters are irrational like that. Best to just smack them down or ignore them.

413 Afrocity  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:37:27pm

re: #411 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Maybe it was me?

414 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:37:39pm

re: #312 tradewind

Though I would like to see the visual on that!

415 Occasional Reader  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:37:41pm

I'm going to call it a night.

"It's 'a night'."

416 avanti  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:37:45pm

re: #408 Last Mohican

That's certainly how I saw it. Quite the opposite of reducing our lost servicemembers to data points, I thought it made them human. It connected each one with a photograph, and a place where he or she lived, where hearts are still filled with love, with loss. Scrolling around the map started to give some scope to the sadness, finding little town after little town where there's a hole in someone's life because of someone else's sacrifice. And as you travel more and more across our country, you come upon more and more lives that were given in its defense. And as I widened the time range to show more and more of the fallen, the yellow arcs across the planet grew and grew, until they were just a big solid band, like a fabric, each strand of which was dedicated to a whole human being, whose picture you have just seen, whose town you have just explored. Really moving, I thought. A very evocative way to communicate the scale of the sacrifice.

At least that's how I saw it. But I guess if one's main hobby is finding ways to hate you, Charles, then one can find a reason to do that in just about anything.

A very eloquent description of what I think the programmer intended to convey. I bet the person that was so offended did not bother to spend a few minutes exploring the map, if they even downloaded it.

417 realwest  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:38:34pm

re: #408 Last Mohican
Evening Last Mohican - I saw it the same way, but I guess weirdos like the Phelps clan and, ah, others can use that for some nefarious or obscene purpose. I mean they make up shit to hate Charles about, don't go looking for rationality about people hating Charles.

418 jcm  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:38:40pm

re: #399 Sharmuta

I love their Gewurztraminer.

We had a corporate Christmas party there. The food was out of this world, and sampling all the wines. Great stuff.

419 lazardo  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:38:57pm

Morning, folks.

Saw the iPhone Photography section below and thought I could share a few photos-from-a-non-professional camera myself.

The following were taken by the ChottoShot/Go!Camera attachment for the PlayStation Portable.

Dragonfly
Imperfect Offering

420 Racer X  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:39:49pm

re: #401 Mich-again

So the question in Denver is will Chauncey be Mr. Big Shot or his alter ego Missed your big shot.

I had to turn it off. Lakers are playing like crap and its getting me pissed off.

421 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:40:05pm

BTW, those are some pretty smokin' Muslim women there on that Matrimony site.

422 Dar ul Harb  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:41:50pm

re: #377 Occasional Reader

Regarding this thread: I take offense to handlebars.

Those freaky mustaches? Me, too.

/never mind

423 Racer X  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:42:23pm

re: #421 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

BTW, those are some pretty smokin' Muslim women there on that Matrimony site.

Nice ankles.

424 Mich-again  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:42:29pm

re: #420 Racer X

Kobe might be starting to take over. Made 3 in a row.

425 Canoe Train  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:42:33pm

re: #191 Dark_Falcon

LOL.

426 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:43:07pm

OK. This thread has how many topics? Memorial day celebrations, Ida, Japanese steel sharp things, various pics, sports, bikes, pets, the awesomeness of cats, carbon dating, octal, hexadecimal, the fact that I am a brainiac (hee hee), and lots more.

I took a short trip to camp swampy this eve. They are talking about - this place! They mentioned Charles' pic and made fun of it, talked at length about how much they totally hate our own Sharmuta, and actually quoted my remark where I tried to say something nice about Chen but may have possibly called the rest of them psycho, and etc., etc., etc. And major projection. No matter the topic - the threads are all all all about this place. It is freaking strange.

I realize I am talking about them talking about us, which sounds very teen clique gossip, so I will stop now.

427 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:43:14pm
428 JHW  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:45:24pm

re: #408 Last Mohican

I agree wholeheartedly.I just tried to find the 1969 Life magazine issue that had the faces and names of one weeks casualties, a very famous issue, Must be some kind of copyright issue with it, it was available on the web recently, but not now.

429 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:47:14pm
430 Sharmuta  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:47:24pm

re: #426 Catttt

And they say things like I need to get a life. Um- I'm not the one stalking a blog.

Talk about irony.

431 reine.de.tout  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:47:54pm

re: #353 jaunte

Next, someone will take offense to iPhone photography.

They did.

432 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:48:05pm
433 Catttt  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:49:00pm

re: #370 Charles

There's nothing wrong at all with "Mapping the Fallen." It's a wonderful heartfelt tribute to the men and women of the military who gave their lives to protect America, and it was done with a lot of sensitivity and the approval of families and friends.

Anyone who takes offense at that has a big hole in their soul, and it's not surprising to find them at a site full of evil psychos.

I found my hometown and read about each of the four men from there on the map. The tributes on their memorial pages got to me. I am positive lots of other people felt that way. Each time someone reads, looks, and feels, it is a memorial - kind of an offering or prayer - for those people who died for us. In an electronic age, when lots of people may not go to the cemetery to decorate a grave, many will make an offering this way, and I think that is just awesome. That Google and the engineer did this really impressed me.

To me, Google, in doing this, is like a young fellow who is a bit callow and who suddenly does something very grown up and nice.

434 Kulhwch  Mon, May 25, 2009 8:55:34pm

re: #16 ArrowSmith

Liked 'em both. Nothing spectacular, but still pretty good.  Much better than Crank 2 which just mocked itself.

}:)     [Now trying to avoid the new Transformers film.]

435 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 9:01:13pm
436 Irenicum  Mon, May 25, 2009 9:06:16pm

re: #433 Catttt

Well put!

437 Kulhwch  Mon, May 25, 2009 9:11:17pm

re: #239 shiplord kirel

Wow.  At some point everyone looks at the people from which they sprang and wonders at the miracle that they got out fairly normal after all.

Good that you can see things for what they are.

}:)     [And good that you realize that it's not you that's off.]

438 Kulhwch  Mon, May 25, 2009 9:25:00pm

re: #370 Charles

There's nothing wrong at all with "Mapping the Fallen." It's a wonderful heartfelt tribute to the men and women of the military who gave their lives to protect America, and it was done with a lot of sensitivity and the approval of families and friends.

Anyone who takes offense at that has a big hole in their soul, and it's not surprising to find them at a site full of evil psychos.

I thought it touching, and I spent the day wishing someone had done that with the 9/11 victims ...

}:)     [Bet they'd hate that too.  Twerps.]

439 tradewind  Mon, May 25, 2009 10:03:55pm

re: #350 Occasional Reader
[Link: books.google.com...]
Overcrowding is a major factor in most of these:
[Link: sports.yahoo.com...]
It's not at all similar to America's stadium scene.

440 [deleted]  Mon, May 25, 2009 11:39:30pm
441 joshucla  Tue, May 26, 2009 3:17:14pm

Charles: Is the bike a Schwinn Voyageur hybrid?
Mine looks pretty much identical. I thought you were a road bike kinda guy!

442 Charles Johnson  Tue, May 26, 2009 4:04:38pm

re: #441 joshucla

Charles: Is the bike a Schwinn Voyageur hybrid?
Mine looks pretty much identical. I thought you were a road bike kinda guy!

Yep, it's a Voyageur. I use it for errands around town.

443 Ayeless in Ghazi  Wed, May 27, 2009 7:08:20am

re: #442 Charles

Charles you can't take pictures of handlebars! That's against the roolz of ART! Photography is about pointing a camera in the general direction of 'nice stuff' and only clicking the button when you are certain the resulting image will have no compositional merits and no conceivable point or idea behind it whatsoever. See the cesspit for more...:D


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