A Tidy Subject

[schally]

First post, first thread. Neener.

[Gump]

I believe this calls for some uncontrollable squealing.

/me squeals like a schoolgirl.

[dnl2ba]

:rolleyes:

I need to figure out how to disable the minimum post length.

[Ballz]

[Ballz]

First post, first thread. Neener.

So like, how come she's not listed in the members page? :confused:

[dnl2ba]

[dnl2ba]

So like, how come she's not listed in the members page? :confused:

You've been here like 10 minutes and you're already stalking!

I might've broked her when I changed her user group. I'll investigate when I get back later.

[Ballz]

Thanks.

[dnl2ba]

[Ballz]

[dnl2ba]

[Rhys]

You're all mad.

And what's up with the color coded smilies?

[Gump]

Don't tell me you just now figured that out.

[Rhys]

I meant compared to normal. Which makes you something even worse.

[dnl2ba]

You're all mad.

And what's up with the color coded smilies?

:p

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[dnl2ba]

You've been here like 10 minutes and you're already stalking!

I might've broked her when I changed her user group. I'll investigate when I get back later.

Turns out settings were wonky for the Arenian group. It was inheriting base permissions from the "Banned users" group. She probably wasn't even able to post after I added her to the Arenian group. :p

[schally]

She probably wasn't even able to post after I added her to the Arenian group.
I sho' wasn't. But now... :) :) :) SCORE! Yesh.

[dnl2ba]

Did anyone get a steak and BJ today (http://www.steakandbjday.com/)? Cuz I didn't. :(

[Gump]

That was today? Hot dammit.

Not that there's anyone available to provide me with such things.

[Rhys]

I don't think I even touched another person today, and I had chicken. I guess I'm a Steak and BJ failure.

[Ballz]

Did anyone get a steak and BJ today (http://www.steakandbjday.com/)? Cuz I didn't. :(

We celebrated it a day early because we knew my roommate wouldn't be around Sunday evening.

[dnl2ba]

Damn, the Ides of March passed without good event, too. I'm glad Wednesday isn't a holiday or I'd be all worked up.

[dnl2ba]

Someone with no qualifications whatsoever for UI design just emailed me about a UI design job posting I put up an hour or two ago. I hope the low barrier of entry doesn't imply to people that you need no experience to be a good UI designer.

[dnl2ba]

Damn, the Ides of March passed without good event, too. I'm glad Wednesday isn't a holiday or I'd be all worked up.

Oh shit, Thursday is St. Patty's Day!


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Hm. Maybe guests count as users.

[schally]

Hm. Maybe guests count as users.


Yesh. I was here at that time and I was the only listed member.

[Rhys]

That really makes me wonder just what the hell happened.

[dnl2ba]

Maybe the forum briefly showed up at the top of some Google results page.

My old Kenneth Cole Reaction black square-toe loafers are getting really worn. They're wrinkling despite my best shoe tree efforts, they're scuffed past what polish will help with, and they just kinda feel loose. I was extra conscious of it because they've become my default dailies when I'm not wearing something that suggests another pair. And my female coworker kept looking at my shoes surreptitiously. :p

Tonight, I went and got new Florsheims that are stylistically similar, and now I feel like a king. Does that make me TEH GAY? I'm up to 10 pair if you count my slipper moccasins, sandals, and running shoes.

[schally]

Pretty gay, good buddy.

I've got three pairs of shoes: work shoes, running shoes, sandals. I was gonna get hiking boots, so that'll bump me up to four. Hope that Rhys has like sixteen pairs and you'll come out about average.

[Rhys]

I've got three. Matt's the gayest.

[dnl2ba]

Hey you fag-fucking fag fuckers, any future use of the term "gay" when applied to me must be swapped with "metro." This is more socially sensitive and will keep my from crying at night. While I suck dicks.

I mentioned that I found some cat on my car's hood some morning last week (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fezwashu/126134.html?thread=252086#t252086). I guess the hood is warm at night after I get home, and the car cover makes it softer than the other cars. The cat was there again today, and damnit, there's white/orange cat hair all over my black wool coat now.

It won't even say harro. It scurries away when I get close. I wanna make friends! PLS PRETTY PLS? Should I just show up with a slab of salmon or something? Tuna sandwich?

[Gump]

My backyard has become a haven for strays. Maybe it's the cat statue marking the grave of my old cat (my mom's idea, not mine), but we've had several cats lurking in bushes, raising kittens, sleeping under the car, and serenading each other. It's kinda weird, but kinda cool, too.

[dnl2ba]

My backyard has become a haven for strays. Maybe it's the cat statue marking the grave of my old cat (my mom's idea, not mine), but we've had several cats lurking in bushes, raising kittens, sleeping under the car, and serenading each other. It's kinda weird, but kinda cool, too.

HOW MANY SHOES

[Gump]

I have a pair of boots that I wear everywhere because my mom threw away my old pair of shoes. They have huge holes in them now; I desperately need to replace them. I also have a pair of dress shoes, which I never wear.

Why are you being so metro tonight?

[dnl2ba]

wa-ha i hate you all :(

[Rhys]

How many scarves do you own? What about berets?

[dnl2ba]

Fuck you!

I have a beret. My mom brought it back from France. :o

Shit, even the smiley is gay.

[dnl2ba]

Ah-ha, a Google-fu master helped me dig this up.

How many pairs of shoes can guys own and still have ham sammich privileges? (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/34709834/m/521005358631/p/1)

So I've got:



Eddie Bauer moccasins
Clarks sandals
Adidas running shoes
Caterpillar steel-toe hiking boots
Hitchcock black dressy wing-tips (that I didn't buy myself and probably haven't worn in like 6 years, so uh, maybe it's time to get new ones)
Kenneth Cole black casual cap-toes
Rockport brown casual plain-toes (scuffed toes, and even if I could find polish in the right color, I dunno if it would really do the trick)
Bostonian brown loafers (3 months old)
Kenneth Cole Reaction black loafers (worn, scuffed, and loose)
Florsheim black loafers (new)
I love loafers. They're so good for loafing.


I think I got so used to my steel-toe hiking boots in college that I haven't fully gotten used to taking care of shoes, hence scuffs. :( I only have a couple shoe trees for the lot of these.

[schally]

It won't even say harro. It scurries away when I get close. I wanna make friends! PLS PRETTY PLS? Should I just show up with a slab of salmon or something? Tuna sandwich?
Buy some canned salmon and tempt it with the juice. They love it.

[schally]

oh yeah worrying about shoe scuffs is totally metrofag. you're not doing yourself any favors by listing all the shoes you own, either. maybe you should just drop it while you've got your dignity.

[dnl2ba]

You nazi-humping thundercunt. You're just jealous because you know how fantabulous I look in my new shoes.

[deevan]

Hmm... I have 4:

basketball shoes (new balance)
work shoes (gbx casual dressy)
work boots (generic steel toed... freakin heavy)
running shoes (also nb)

[dnl2ba]

That's awesome.

Yesterday, for maybe the first time in a year, I left my cell phone at home by accident. "Oh, well," I thought. "Most days, I don't even get any calls." When I got home and dug it out of my coat pocket... 13 missed calls, 4 messages. Oops.

[dnl2ba]

Damn cold.

Last night, I sneezed while eating ramen. I contemplated whether I should keep eating, since I'd just sneezed directly into my ramen, and figured hey, what the hell.

15 minutes later, I blew my nose, and I found an inch of ramen in the tissue.

[schally]

1) That's cool and gross at the same time.

2) I hope to God that wasn't instant ramen. That's what my roommate and my brother eat all the time--that junk that they get for 25 cents a pack. I'd include a smiley, but none of them look disgusted enough.

[Rhys]

Is instant ramen the kind in a cup that you make in the microwave? Because that stuff is really nasty. The stove top saimin is way better, especially if you cut up vegetables and stuff to throw in it.

[dnl2ba]

It was totally instant ramen. Mmmm.

[Rhys]

By the way, can we do something about that giant image up there? I'll be reading a post here, and then suddenly the image loads and everything gets shifted way the hell down.

[dnl2ba]

Okay, I've set it to fixed dimensions now, so your browser should reserve a space for it.

Does it just look too big? What's your screen resolution?

[Rhys]

1280 x 1024. I was just bothered by how I'd be halfway through a sentence and then the image loads and everything gets shoved down.

[dnl2ba]

(did I post this already?)

[schally]

Aw, that makes me sad.

In HS my teachers were convinced I was ADD. The truth? BORED BORED BORED. Not shocking. Everybody knows I'm a genius.

[Gump]

I know how that is. I basically spent first through third grade with teachers who were convinced I should be put in the "special" class. My parents finally put me in a Catholic school, because that's where the teachers who were willing to help me out rather than stash me away were hiding (not that private school didn't repeatedly kick my ass, of course).

The other day I thanked my parents for standing up for me back then, because I don't know where I'd be if they didn't. Fluffy music played, the audience went "aww," and we were all happy. My dad suggested we dance on my third grade teacher's grave, but I wouldn't go that far.

To this day, when I hear someone say they have ADD, it always sounds like an excuse.

[schally]

To this day, when I hear someone say they have ADD, it always sounds like an excuse.

I'm convinced that for the majority, if not all, it is.

A HS friend of mine was officially diagnosed with ADD. She ended up writing a paper on how ADD is just a myth. She pretty much just came out and said, "I don't have a disorder, I'm just really lazy and I don't care all that much about my academic future." Which was true.

I think she got an A.

[Gump]

My hero(ine)! I should have written that paper. I had a lit teacher in HS who hated the idea of ADD, and gladly encouraged my weirdness in class.

[dnl2ba]

I felt horribly dissatisfied. There was a creeping hunger deep within, one that I hadn't quenched for all my toil... then I realized I should probably eat dinner.

[dnl2ba]

I <3 Target. They're the only store open after 7 PM on Sundays that has ink cartridges, far as I could find. Lies, CompUSSR, Worst Buy, Circuity Shitty, Bad Guys... everyone else closes at 6 or 7, and Walmart closes at 5! Target must really clean up, seeing that they're the only big store open till 9.

[Rhys]

Where the hell do you live that everything closes so early? And Walmart closing at 5 is absolutely insane. The earliest I've seen one of them close is midnight, and many are just 24 hours. Those are the fun ones because you can drive the little carts around at 2 am.

[dnl2ba]

For what it's worth, our Safeway is 24/7. :(

[dnl2ba]

I go to Portland on business argh. Be back Thursday night. Miss me much or else!

[Rhys]

Time for the mice to play, I guess.

For years Sheri has told me the way to a girl's heart is through cereal in your pocket. I've always thought it was crap, honestly, but after having another conniving female play the "haha, I don't really like you as much as I was leading on" joke on me, I decided it wouldn't hurt to try. Since there's no one in particular I'm interested in, I just brought a little bag of cereal to school and gave it to every female I knew. Results were interesting, even considering I saw only a small number of females I know. Most refused the cereal, and the ones who took it looked at me all doe-eyed. This leads me to think that Sheri may actually know something, which destroys all notions I have about how the world functions.

[Gump]

:eek:

You mean I've been handing out bags of cold oatmeal all this time for nothing?

[schally]

And you know what else? If you write, "I LIK COCKS," on your forehead in black marker a girl will marry you.

[Rhys]

So don't do that then?

[dnl2ba]

Rhys, you're not supposed to take the cereal out of your pocket. That's her job.

[Rhys]

It's strange you should say that. I actually really dislike other peoples' hands in my pockets. Anyone's hands. No matter what she may look like.

[dnl2ba]

You're probably autistic, or maybe asexual.

[Gump]

I once had the chance to stick my hand in a girl's pocket, but I didn't take it.

[Rhys]

You're probably autistic, or maybe asexual.
Incredibly misanthropic sounds more accurate to me.

[dnl2ba]

I once had the chance to stick my hand in a girl's pocket, but I didn't take it.

That's okay, unless she was hot.

I think I want to start embellishing my anecdotes to make them more outrageous. As it is, not enough weird stuff happens to me. I figure that if I advertise myself as having participated in any number of wacky situations (though I don't necessarily have to be intrinsically wacky, myself; I would merely be wacky by extension), I might get invited on more adventures in which I can rack up genuinely odd anecdotes.

I was going to make one up right now and try and pass it off as my one genuine anecdote, but I'm either dead tired or completely uncreative.

[schally]

I can see through your dirty lies. Always.

[dnl2ba]

Why does Snoop Dogg have an umbrella?

Fo drizzle.

[Gump]

That's okay, unless she was hot.
Well, she was cute. And my girlfriend at the time. We made out at some point that night.

Then a couple weeks later I found her making out with some other guy. Sometimes I wonder if it was because I didn't stick my hand down her pants.

[Rhys]

If she asked you to, then yeah, that probably did it. It's okay though, because obvservational evidence would suggest that she's a dirty whore.

[schally]

And we all know what happens to dirty whores.

[schally]

We cut them so they're as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside.

[dnl2ba]

I hate how Comcast schedules a 2 hour block and the guy might show up any time within that block. That means you have to take any shits BEFORE the start of the block.

[Gump]

We cut them so they're as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside.
Um. . .

Thanks?

[Rhys]

I hate how Comcast schedules a 2 hour block and the guy might show up any time within that block. That means you have to take any shits BEFORE the start of the block.
How many times do you realistically need to shit within a period of two hours?

[dnl2ba]

Any one could be the fatal one!

[Rhys]

"The Fatal Shit" would make a nifty name for something.

[Gump]

Sounds like the kind of episode title they'd use if they ever made a Goth movie serial.

"How long will Matt hold out? Will he be undone by the time bomb ticking inside him? Can anyone survive the blast from his unholy bowels?

"Find out next time in Blood of the Bloody, episode XV: The Fatal Shit."

[dnl2ba]

[schally]

At least we don't drive drunk, fucker.

[dnl2ba]

Shit, you weren't supposed to be able to edit your title thingy. Can anyone else?

[Gump]

I saw that, and was trying to figure out how.

So, short answer: no.

[Rhys]

I spent a minute or two poking around the control panel looking for an option to change mine and didn't find one, so I'm going with Gump and saying no.

[schally]

Shit, you weren't supposed to be able to edit your title thingy. Can anyone else?
Aw. :( Custom titles make us unique snowflakes.

[dnl2ba]

Ahahaha back to post count-based for you.

It'll take us forever to get back where we were.

[schally]

[deevan]

I want to see a flash based simulation on what it's like to fall headfirst into a giant vat of legos.

[Rhys]

It would probably hurt a lot.

[Gump]

Remind me to show you all a photo of the Lego scar on my right hand one of these days.

[dnl2ba]

Actually, I bet Scrooge McDuck could do it painlessly.

[Rhys]

Legos have a lot more pointy edges than coins. Scrooge McDuck would be torn to shreds.

[dnl2ba]

If anyone hasn't been keeping up with Sinfest, now is a good time to catch up on the latest arc (http://sinfest.net/d/20050328.html). The new guy is my hero.

[dnl2ba]

This is my first time with local anesthetic, I think. I went under for getting my wisdom teeth out in late high school or early college, and also when I had my extra baby teeth removed when I was like 6 or 8 or so. Nothing was that painful, but I definitely felt the needle for about 75% of the stitches. I also cringed whenever I felt the hint of snip-snip in my upper palate because I was worried those clippers were about 1 mm from delivering excruciating pain to a less anesthetized area. In short, I am a big sissy.

I'm supposed to wait 24 hours to rinse, but come on, that's disgusting. So I rinsed (gently) at about 10 hours, after sleeping for about 6. One of these pills is supposed to be a painkiller, but damn if I can tell it's doing anything. The pain's not bad, but it nags.

Gonna have fun figuring out how to brush and spit without dislodging clots.

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I got invited to a party late. Now, being invited is cool (nice to be thought of), and not being invited is cool (we've all got our own lives; I'm not going to expect to be invited to everything. Plus, I've personally invited many fewer people than I respect and care about). But getting invited late is a dis. Especially because I think I only got invited because one of the two organizers, S, happened to mention it in front of me. I could just imagine the second organizer, V, who was present, being like, "Shut up shut up shut up I didn't invite him!" Then it becomes one of those awkward situations where they feel obligated to invite me, regardless of whether anyone was interested in hanging out in the first place.

Remind me never to mention anything sensitive to S. At another event (where S & V first started planning the upcoming party), someone else was praising me, and I think we all knew he was lying through his teeth. But hey, that's how social things work, so I wasn't gonna bat an eye. And then S was like, "That's not what you said when we went out drinking!" I mean, I actually sympathized with lying-through-my-teeth guy. S just needs to shut up. Bitch starts more shit than prune juice.

I guess the abstracted pattern is that there are implicit dises all over in this world, and we can't sweat em because there's just too many of them and we can't afford to be pansies about that shit. But then when some stupid bitch has to make them explicit dises, then we're all uncomfortable.

[dnl2ba]

Pain killers definitely work :D :D :D

[schally]

Did you ever say what you were going under the drill for? The pain killers for my wisdom teeth removal made me a pretty happy lady, which was saying a lot at the time.


Then it becomes one of those awkward situations where they feel obligated to invite me, regardless of whether anyone was interested in hanging out in the first place.
There's always the quick, immediate solution: you just tell them that you're busy, but thanks for the invite.

[dnl2ba]

Gum grafts. :eek: I don't know about you, but I usually associate the word "graft" with "burn victim," so you can imagine my reaction when my new dentist first suggested it. Apparently, brushing with hard and medium bristles in my youth has taken its toll on my gums, which have receded a bit and exposed roots of some teeth. I haven't noticed sensitivity when eating, but I feel it when the hygienist scales my teeth at the base, and the worry is that if it gets any worse that my teeth might lose bone support.

PSA: Soft bristles only!

And I've always been spotty with flossing, but I'm going to floss religiously now. I apparently only had a couple spots of localized gingivitis (blunted gums, minor sensitivity/bleeding), which my hygienist wasn't worried about at all (she barely mentioned it), but it's gross to find out you had a big piece of tartar crammed between two molars and you couldn't get at it otherwise.

For pain/swelling, I'm on Etodolac, the generic name for Lodine (http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/etodolac.htm). I still have a bottle of Codine sitting around from when I had viral conjunctivitis, but I didn't take that at the time because I figured I'd rather be in pain than taste that stuff again. Not that I'd mix drugs without asking a doctor...


There's always the quick, immediate solution: you just tell them that you're busy, but thanks for the invite.

Well, that's easy-- I actually do have other stuff going on that night. I was just griping about the awkward invite situation.

[Rhys]

I think I'm going to be better about flossing now too. Gum grafts do not sound fun at all.

[dnl2ba]

Soft bristles! Soft bristles! Flossing is about preventing gingivitis from tartar build-up between teeth. Of course, with enough gingivitis, that would probably lead to gum grafts too.

Whenever I wake up, I have all kinds of yummy stuff in my mouth. Mmm-mmm!

I think the Lodine / whatever painkiller does make me drowsy. I slept something like 11, maybe 11 and a half hours last night if you stitch the bits together (I got up around 10:30 PM to shower and wash up).

[Gump]

God damn you. I slept five hours this morning, after working on a 20-page paper until 6 AM. I've never pulled an all-nighter on a school assignment before, and since I should be graduating on the first, it should be the last time. I only like all-nighters when they're absolutely necessary, like an anime marathon, or a Dynasty Warriors binge.

I actually just now finished another paper (that's three down, six more to go), and this is actually earlier than I expected to finish it, after last night. I mean, hell, I've stayed up till three before with or without using a paper as an excuse. As long as I get to hand it in tomorrow, I'm totally good.

Anyway, if someone wants to know anything about alchemy or Hermes Trismegistus, they can now ask me, because I'd like to feel as if I've learned something through that paper.

[dnl2ba]

You've got 9 papers?

[Gump]

Technically it's six papers, three take-home exams. They're pretty much amounting to the same thing now.

[dnl2ba]

So my friends and I finally got around to playing Risk 2210 AD (or 2x10 AD-- I forget what the x is). Pretty good, but like the original Risk, turns at the end of the game take forever. On the plus side, it's limited to 5 turns, so the games can't go on forever like in Risk. Plus, amassing troops / Command Cards in new Risk is more reasonable than collecting Risk cards in the original, since the original would just get fucking crazy when people start turning in Risk card sets every turn.

[dnl2ba]

Mandy Amano (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0023915/HH/0023915/iid_898797.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Amano,%20Mandy) (from the Pepsi/iTunes commercial) is apparently in the May 2005 Maxim. I'm not sure, but my free subscription may have lapsed. :( All I can see is the online gallery (http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_1122.html).

[Gump]

I only have two more assignments left (one paper, one take-home exam), then I graduate on Sunday! Yay!

[dnl2ba]

Mandy Amano (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0023915/HH/0023915/iid_898797.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Amano,%20Mandy) (from the Pepsi/iTunes commercial) is apparently in the May 2005 Maxim. I'm not sure, but my free subscription may have lapsed. :( All I can see is the online gallery (http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_1122.html).

HAY GUYS

DID I MENTION SHE IS HOT

[Rhys]

We're doing 20th century music in theory right now. Late 20th century, as in 70's drug trip music. We had to write a piece, so here's what I came up with.

That's the piano score, which is a representation of new notation. The other part of the piece is me repeating the phrase "the happy crabs go marching off in a little row, but I'm all confused, there's a whole bunch of stuff going on" while putting marshmallows in my mouth. That's an example of absurd.

[schally]

ROCK OUT FOR THE HORDE, MOTHER FUCKER!

Shouldn't a crucified Xenogears character be on there somewhere?

[Rhys]

That would have been a good addition. However I didn't have it readily available on my computer, and I doubt I would've bothered at 1:45 am to go look for one. Besides, I have to save material for my next John Cage-esque production.

[dnl2ba]

I've been hesitating to buy my latest batch of stuff from Amazon (music, books, movies) as I used to do every 4-6 weeks, since my last paycheck for a while will be in a week or two. Lots of this stuff has been sitting in my cart since February. But every now and then, I check my Amazon shopping cart again to see if anything delights me enough to make me buy it right then and there. And each time, a bunch of items go up in price $1! Is it punishment for not buying them?

I wouldn't be surprised if they just don't tell you when things go down in price, but man.

In my cart:
CD / The Killers: Hot Fuss (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002858YS/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
CD / Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006BTCA/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
CD / Dntel: Life is Full of Possibilities (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005QHR8/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Book / Andy Riley: The Book of Bunny Suicides (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452285186/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Book / Andy Riley: Return of the Bunny Suicides (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452286239/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Book / Elan Fleisher: Unpleasant Ways to Die (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312032692/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Book / Jhonen Vasquez: Everything Can Be Beaten (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0943151651/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Book / Roman Dirge: The Cat with a Really Big Head, and One Other Story that Isn't as Good (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0943151589/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Subtotal: $70.86

Saved for later:
DVD / Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XAPZ6/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
DVD / Miyazaki: Porco Rosso (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XAPY2/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
CD / Byron Janis + London Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra: Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2 and 3 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000057LA/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
CD / Godspeed You Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004ZD69/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Game hardware / Logitech: 2.4 GHz Cordless Action Controller for PS1/2 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001VNNE8/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)
Book / Stuart Kauffman: At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195111303/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance) (I'm trying to read his The Origins of Order now, which is about self-organization in evolution, and it's incredibly dense)
Book / Mitchell M. Waldrop: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671872346/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance)

[dnl2ba]

Hey, I get a 1.57% (pi / 2) discount at Amazon for having used their A9 search engine (http://www.a9.com/). A9 search for dnl2ba (http://a9.com/dnl2ba)

[dnl2ba]

Shit! That dntel album has gone up another dollar, to $14.99. I think it was like $11.99 when I first added it to my cart.

New addition to the cart of stuff I may never buy: Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet: Requiem for a Dream soundtrack (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Y6Q5/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance). I never even saw the movie, but I downloaded some tracks and they range from eerie to strident. Lovely!

[Rhys]

I just noticed that said Kronos Quartet. I still don't know how I feel about them. They're quite the strange group.

[dnl2ba]

I thought I had an MP3 of them playing some classical piece, but I can't find it now.

[Gump]

So, um, I graduated today.

Now I've gotta find something to do.

[dnl2ba]

I just had a few minutes of panic. For some reason, I suddenly fell under the impression that my favorite boxers had gone AWOL. Then I checked my underwear drawer, and there they were.

How does this happen?

[schally]

I just ate some leftover ribs and a load of baked beans. Look out, world.

[Rhys]

Yay Gump! Matt's crazy! Sheri's stinky!

[dnl2ba]

Rhys is a whore!



They're keeeeelling me. :( DAMN YOU TAXES! The only upside is now that I won't be making any money, I won't be paying any income tax.

Though admittedly, I could've been more frugal ("fun" is the only part I consider discretionary) in some recent months.

[schally]

No income tax in TN, bro, and I hope it stays that way.

What'd you make that graph in?

[ohvermie]

What happened to you in April that required that much health bar?
If it makes you feel better Matt, I get about 30% of my pay taken away by income tax. Of course I think CA has higher taxes than NY since they are the trendsetters of taxation, but I think our income tax is higher here. ;p

[dnl2ba]

Fuck you and your no income tax. :(

Just Excel. I'm too dumb to track this stuff in Money or Quicken, so I actually track and categorize expenses in Excel. All cash is just counted as "fun," though it includes things like lunch, because it's too hard to track cash.

It's just stunning that I had two recent months where I spent as much as Oct '03, which is when I bought a ton of furniture and reimbursed my dad for the down payment on my car.


What happened to you in April that required that much health bar?

GUM GRAFTS

I just had my follow-up today. That flap that hung from my palate for half a week and then disappeared wasn't flesh (which worried me because they made a flap cut to pull out connective tissue, and I was worried the flap came undone and it'd never heal right); it was just the surgical dressing. Whew! They yanked the last of the sutures. Just a couple weeks till I can go back to brushing and flossing normally.

edit: haha, health bar. Made me think of video games.

[ohvermie]

GUM GRAFTS = gross
No dental plan where you work? :) Or is that huge white bar AFTER they paid their share of like .01%? OUCH!!!!
::clutches wallet desperately::

[dnl2ba]

My shitty plan maxed out at $1500. :p

[dnl2ba]

Shit! That dntel album has gone up another dollar, to $14.99. I think it was like $11.99 when I first added it to my cart.

Gah! It's up to $15.98. Can I invest in dntel futures or something?

Out of 4 items in my cart with changed prices today, I see one went down $1. So I guess they do tell you; it's just that almost everything has been going up.

[ohvermie]

Why the hell is it taking days for you to purchase stuff over the web? Then again I've been to sales at ebgames.com and have had items go out of stock on me in my cart. *sigh* No $9.99 copy of Alias on the Xbox for me...

[dnl2ba]

I can't bring myself to spend $100 on music and books when my last day of working for a steady paycheck is TOMORROW.

[ohvermie]

I hear ya. Went through the same fun a couple months ago. I think the last day I worked, I went out and bought myself Morrowind on the Xbox to keep myself busy while I wasn't looking for work, and I felt bad for spending 20 bucks on that.

[dnl2ba]

Okay, here's the deal. If I end up broke, well, who knows what unspeakable things I'll have to do to make cash. But if I make it rich, you better believe I'm gonna blow it all on cocaine and hookers. I'll die young, but my corpse will have a HUGE grin.

What would you do with big bundles of money?

[Rhys]

I'd use it to find true love. Not even joking.

...Okay, cocaine and hookers.

[Gump]

I never really saw the appeal of cocaine and hookers. Manga and video games always had the same effect on me as drugs, so adding more addictions would just be redundant, and with enough money, you can convince any girl to like you, so why waste my time with some cheap whore?

In all honesty, I would like to buy my grandfather's cabin back, if only to tell my kids and grandkids ghost stories about the former inhabitants and the green light my grandfather saw outside the window.

[Rhys]

Do I even have to say I was joking about cocaine and hookers?

Last night while doing dishes I dropped a knife and got an awesome cut on my left pinky. It's not too long, but it seems kind of deep. Of course it was hard to tell what with all the blood. I give myself bonus points for running from the kitchen to the bathroom without any getting on the floor. But I suppose those get taken away because the sight of so much blood made me so lightheaded I had to lie on the floor while squeezing my wrist to make the bleeding stop. Good times.

[dnl2ba]

My sister dropped some garden shears on her toe when she was younger (late grade school to maybe middle school). We had to take her to the ER. I jump backwards every time I drop something sharp now.

[Gump]

The very day I got my driver's license, I had to take my dad to the hospital after he cut his thumb with a razor.

[dnl2ba]

I was finally present in my apartment in a night time power outage, and got to see that nearby buildings lost power too. So my complex isn't to blame, but it's still annoying. There was another a couple days ago, too. Seems to be maybe once every 6-8 weeks on average.

I'll probably get a low-end UPS for each MC and my workstation. The outages have been lasting only a few seconds each (10s for this last one), so I don't need anything heavy-duty. I probably won't even support my monitors on it-- the point is just to keep the machines up and prevent server downtime, lost file transfers, etc.

[dnl2ba]

AH-HA PURCHASED

I AM NOW TEH SUPAR NERD

You know how phone lines keep working when the power's out? I wonder... if I put my cable modem and router on the UPS, would my cable Internet connection continue working, so long as the local Comcast office had power?

[ohvermie]

Yeah, just make sure the cable modem and router are on the UPS as well. My old work place didn't put these things on a UPS and when we had a power outage, both the modem and router somehow fed back electricity through the network cables and fried some PCs.

[ohvermie]

AH-HA

I purchased tickets to see Green Day in New Jersey last night. Anyone else going?

Oh and WTF is up with ticketmaster and their need to charge me an extra 30% on my ticket price for "handling" fees. If I wanted to be handled that much, I would've gone to Vegas and got me a prosty.

[dnl2ba]

How did I miss that last message? NO I'm not going to fucking New Jersey! I actually haven't heard all of American Idiot, though.

I'm not sure whether I want to work, draw adult Link (as in older, not as in XXX), or play Minish Cap. I just finished the second dungeon Friday.

[ohvermie]

Wish I could plop down the dinero for a Game Boy device. Somehow it makes me feel dirty for paying 80 bucks for a glorified SNES. Maybe if the DS becomes 100 I'll do it. It seems to be different enough experience to warrant a purchase.

[dnl2ba]

I actually held out on a GBA till there were good games with GC-GBA connectivity. I actually got it for Crystal Chronicles, then my friends and I only played it once. I still used it for Four Swords (got maybe halfway through-- fun with friends, but too easy alone) and Pac-Man Vs. (good with the ladies), plus it gets some mileage when I travel.

[ohvermie]

Heh, I don't travel or at least when I do, I'm doing the driving, so NO GAMEBOY for me! It'd be nice though to have something that'll let me get a videogame fix while the TV is occupied by girlie stuff. ;p

[schally]

I'm not sure whether I want to work, draw adult Link (as in older, not as in XXX), or play Minish Cap. I just finished the second dungeon Friday.
XXX Link is a home run, d00der.

I'm probably 3/4 of the way through Minish Cap, and I still like it a lot, but I'm pissed off because I've got about a billion kinstone pieces and everyone in Hyrule wants to fuse the one green type that I don't have any of at the moment.

I don't really give two craps about the action figures or statues or whatever those things are for the mystery shell trade-in but I'm collecting them all anyway in the hopes that I'll get something good as a result.

[Rhys]

Who's up for worldwide genocide?

[dnl2ba]

I slept 50 minutes last night, zoned through today's meeting, came home, and slept 9 or 10 hours. Mmmm.

[ohvermie]

I keep on waking up every other hour I'm sleeping. I blame the cats tearing shit off the shelves in the bedroom and the ferrets crunching on their kibble/gnawing on the cage bars in the living room. That's the only detrator of having animals is that they don't sleep when you sleep, and they usually choose to wander around and be ASSHOLES while you sleep.

[dnl2ba]

Since when do you have ferrets?


Most users ever online was 51, 05-15-2005 at 04:33 PM.
dnl2ba, Gump, rei

WHERE DO THEY COME FROM!?!?

[Gump]

A transdimensional vortex?

[Rhys]

More importantly I think, why do they come in such droves? Is it some sort of bad attempt at flooding the boards?

[ohvermie]

Since when do you have ferrets?

I've had ferrets since this January. They're awesome pets. Altho they don't quite go poing like Kiki from Sluggy Freelance, but it's close.

I saw that counter for most people online too and thought it was weird since I don't even think there are 51 registered users for this board. I know I log on as a guest on this first and then log onto my account...would that mean I count twice? Once as guest and once as ohvermie. And if I accidently close the window and then come back, will it log me a third time? That number was in the 40s the last time I paid attention to it. I BET IT'S A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX!@!!@!!!!!!

[dnl2ba]

I think maybe the board occasionally comes up as a top hit for some term on Google for about 5 minutes.

[ohvermie]

Are you paying for it to do that? I thought you had pay to get that sorta priviledge.

[dnl2ba]

Only for sponsored results, not for organic search.

[dnl2ba]

Aw, Blizzard posted a fanart update (http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/fanart/page19.shtml) and didn't include my Infested Kerrigan tentacle pr0n (http://mostlycloudy.net/%7Ednl2ba/images/artwork/2005/big/Infested%20Kerrigan.jpg). I'm not too stunned when the competition is doing stuff like underage Nova as Mary-Kate & Ashley's long-lost sister (http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/fanart/ScreenShot.aspx?ImageIndex=224&Set=0) and Joe Mad did SC: Ghost promo art (http://www.blizzard.com/ghost/), but I didn't even beat out this thing (http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/fanart/ScreenShot.aspx?ImageIndex=215&Set=0)? :(

[ohvermie]

You know what I want? I want Joe Mad to fucking draw comic books again. THAT LAZY FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!!

As for you not beating out that thing. Maybe you should have used a nice linear gradient for your background. That = the win!

And the Nova as the Olsen twins won because I can almost spy cameltoe.

[dnl2ba]

WHERE DO THEY COME FROM!?!?


Currently Active Users: 23 (1 members and 22 guests)

I checked out the IPs. Most (68.142.*.*) belong to Inktomi. It's probably a crawler.

[Rhys]

How disappointing.

[ohvermie]

That's what my dad tells me everytime I talk to him...

[schally]

This Saturday I am going to Sarasota, FL for a week. For those who are unfamiliar, it's about an hour from Ballzyville, give or take. If you want delicious, delicious FL postcards PM me with your address by Friday morning. Otherwise fuggidaboutit.

[ohvermie]

Hooray for vacations!
I'm going to Sorryexcuse, I mean Syracuse this weekend. Anyone want some Orange Men paraphenilia?

[dnl2ba]

Someone who posted to the latest Spamusement LJ entry has a series of God quotes as his avatar. My favorite:


Okay, guys, I'm back. What'd I miss?

OH SHIT!

[dnl2ba]

There was a beauty pageant thread on the old MCBB, but I'm too lazy to make a new one.

Natalie Glebova (http://images.google.com/images?q=Natalie+Glebova&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&sa=N&imgsz=small|medium|large|xlarge), a.k.a. Miss Canada 2005, a.k.a. Miss Universe 2005.

[ohvermie]

Now now. I am only interested in children's beauty pageants... o_O

[Rhys]

Wonderful, another "hit it before the hair does" person.

[ohvermie]

Hahaha...that's a funny expression, but I was kidding. Saw the episode of South Park last night where Butters was "killed" by his mother and they had the Ramseys on it. Whatever, it's messed up and not really funny...

[dnl2ba]

Hey, I just wanted to say I LUB JOO GUYS. insert gay smilies

[Rhys]

Hahaha...that's a funny expression, but I was kidding.
Yeah, I know. The police are not on their way right now.


Hey, I just wanted to say I LUB JOO GUYS. insert gay smilies
I'm so full of lub right now that I might be able to stand shaking someone's hand.

[ohvermie]

I wish I was full of lub. Someday the wizard will give me a heart...

[ohvermie]

Let me just take the time to say I found some lub. I lub the cheeze.

[dnl2ba]

What about us? Do you love us?

[Rhys]

I bet he would if we had bigger cheese. Dirty bastard and his one track mind.

[ohvermie]

Yes, if you had a nice stinky piece of cheese, I'd love you all. I'm that much of a cheap whore...

[dnl2ba]

I was looking for a new place barber shop earlier today, and it was down to the $9 local place with a few good recommendations on the web vs. the schmancy salon in Palo Alto that starts at $40. Since I'm on a budget now, I went with the former. I started off thinking it was good, even though it was a lot shorter than I asked for. (It was hard to see what was going on because he had my pointed at a mirror on the other side of the room the whole time.) I've liked my new haircut less and less as the day's worn on, and now I regret giving the barber such a nice tip. I think I was just impressed because it's the first place that's ever leveled my sideburns with a straightedge razor.

Regardless of the cut I ask for, it seems I always like my hair best 2-3 weeks after a haircut, anyway. So maybe in the future, I'll have to second-guess myself.

The most I've ever paid for a haircut was $23 (also in Palo Alto, natch), but that's because I was such a judger (http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm) at the time that I would've felt uncomfortable deviating from my committed course even after seeing the price. So I just went through with it. And it was nice, because they also washed my hair first, though it didn't really help me any since I didn't know they'd do that and I'd already washed my own damn hair.

[Rhys]

I'm thinking of cutting my own hair, just because I kind of don't care anymore.

[ohvermie]

Yeah, I always wash my hair before going the barber. I just go to some chain place in the mall (Mastercuts I believe it's called). They do a pretty craptastic job, usually go way too short on it, but after a week of growing in, it's satisfactory to my standards. It's about 10 bucks if I use my old college ID to get a student discount, so I don't complain. -_-

And Rhys should totally get a Flo-bee to cut your own hair! It's a marvel of 80s technology!

[Rhys]

I care enough to not use a Flo-bee.

[dnl2ba]

Gag... Comcast has been godawful slow all day. I wouldn't be surprised if you guys've all noticed MC being (extra) slow.

[ohvermie]

I didn't. But then again I only check the boards in the AM and I guess that's like 6-7AM PST for you, so....

[ohvermie]

BOOGIE BOOGIE BOOGIE!
bump?

[dnl2ba]

Despite my fading budget and the need for me to do some serious frickin product development, I'm OFF TO VEGAS!!@% Thursday night. Back late Sunday night. I'll put down $20 on black for MCBB!

[ohvermie]

Try not to get murdered. But if you do, make sure it's in such a fantastical manner that it inspires an episode of CSI. Then...I will admire you forever!

[dnl2ba]

[ohvermie]

HAHAHAHA!!
That's great.

[deevan]

Mmm... Chinese food... Crap it's all over my shirt. Stupid yellow shirt.

[dnl2ba]

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/34709834/m/668002393731/r/766003393731#766003393731



I can do this weird thing with my hands that I haven't seen anyone else be able to do. You give the "thumbs up" with one hand and point with your index finger (all other fingers closed) in the other hand, then rapidly switch the gesture in each hand simeltaneously, as follows:


I can do this weird thing with my hands that I haven't seen anyone else be able to do. You give the "thumbs up" with one hand and point with your index finger (all other fingers closed) in the other hand, then rapidly switch the gesture in each hand simeltaneously, as follows:


I can do this weird thing with my hands that I haven't seen anyone else be able to do. You give the "thumbs up" with one hand and point with your index finger (all other fingers closed) in the other hand, then rapidly switch the gesture in each hand simeltaneously, as follows:


Left hand Right hand
===========================
Thumbs up Point
Point Thumbs up
Thumbs up Point
...... .....


I tried it and all I can do is laugh.

[dnl2ba]

Who the fuck is vacuuming his car in the car wash next door at 4 in the morning?

[schally]

Someone who has to get rid of the evidence and ditch the body before sunrise.

[ohvermie]

Well the body's probably been ditched already if he's vacuuming. ;p
I work out sometimes when its like 4 AM. But that was when I used to work nights.

[dnl2ba]

So who voted this thread below 5 stars!? I want answers!

[Rhys]

I've been wondering that myself for a while now. It is clearly a five star thread.

[dnl2ba]

Your sneaky ways won't fool me. Out with it!

[ohvermie]

Grrrr...I had to mail out some catalogs today and the stamps.com sheets kept on getting stuck in the printer. To get a refund you have mail in this signed form with your destroyed/misprinted sheets. Well everytime I tried to print the postage to mail the misprinted sheets, the printer kept on misfeeding, so I'd have to fill out another form. In total, I just sent out 4 forms for refunds. I get clumsy when I'm impatient.

[Gump]

I'm starting to think that automobiles hate me. Today I had to take my car in to get its brakes fixed. That's the third time this month that this car has had to be taken in, and the third time it's been incapacitated right as I was about to go somewhere. Is this thing trying to tell me something?

[dnl2ba]

What's the year / make / model?

[Gump]

'94 Mercury Sable.

[dnl2ba]

So not that old... the only thing really going against it (besides maybe high mileage?) is that it's an American car.

[ohvermie]

I have had nothing but American cars (currently drive a 2000 Chevy Prizm and used to have a 88 Chevy Nova) and they didn't really have too many major problems. Of course these models were actually Japanese designs that Chevy bought and manufactured for this country, but that's besides the point!

[dnl2ba]

I have had nothing but American cars (currently drive a 2000 Chevy Prizm and used to have a 88 Chevy Nova) and they didn't really have too many major problems.

I'll chalk that up as n = 2.

[schally]

hey can u guys show me how 2 use the internat! thx

[Rhys]

Last night I beat the internet. The end guy was hard.

[ohvermie]

I usually just beat off to the internet.
*FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP**FAP*

[Rhys]

Don't make a mess, this is the Tidy after all.

[dnl2ba]

That avatar rules.

[dnl2ba]

Haven't seen this bash.org gem (http://bash.org/?405221) before.


#405221 +(6666)- [X]

<T-Wolf> man, my girlfriend left me for some faggot named robert
<RdAwG20> you don't live in Hope mills do you?
<T-Wolf> ya, why man?
<RdAwG20> lol, just wondering, was her namne alisson?
<T-Wolf> you mother fucker

[Rhys]

That's really amusing and really sad all at once.

[dnl2ba]

I can hear fireworks and sort of see them from my window. Looks like they're maybe in San Jose somewhere...

...But it's cold by the window, so I'm going to sit here in front of my compubox and keep programming.

This weekend's been crazy fulla shit, and I'm having to cram every minute full of work/play/sleep, but that's how I like it. Sure beats dicking around for stuff to do.

Nausicaa and my set of 96 Tombow brush pens arrived. Found my N64, though I'd forgotten I have 3 first-party controllers and 3 shitty third-party ones, 2 of which I bought online based on pictures of first-party controllers... I laughed when CDUniverse.com went under. Gauntlet Legends, motherfucker! Classic Smash! Yeah!

p.s. it's cold by the window because I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS

[Rhys]

The 4th of July was never a huge deal for me. It was just another excuse to blow up fireworks, and a sort of halfhearted one compared to New Year's.


p.s. it's cold by the window because I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS
PICS. NOW.

[dnl2ba]

[Rhys]

HOTT

[ohvermie]

Not so hot. I am forever mentally scarred.

[dnl2ba]

You know, seeing someone and not remembering that you met them once isn't that bad since you normally just sorta cross paths and that's that. But I'm always worried I'm gonna hit on some chick and it'll turn out to be a friend of a friend and we met at a party or something. Or worse, met several times, or something like that. Everyone says they're bad with names, and some say they're bad with faces, but I can be REALLY fuckin terrible.

[ohvermie]

Hey, all throughout college I would be at stores and random people would assault me (usually kinda hot looking chicks) and strike up conversations with me. They know my name, what I do and all that, yet I don't remember them at all. I worry one of these days its going to get me killed.

[deevan]

Man... I want hot chicks to assault me.

[dnl2ba]

He said hot-LOOKING, which suggests to me that maybe they're not intrinsically hot.

[deevan]

Eww... I can't begin to imagine what that actually means...

[dnl2ba]

[Rhys]

You know what we need? A thread where we can post weird/artistic/mildly pornographic images.

[ohvermie]

You know what we need? A thread where we can post weird/artistic/mildly pornographic images.
Well there was that incest spam post... ISN'T THAT PORNOGRAPHIC ENOUGH?!?!?

[deevan]

Eww incest spam... Hormel is really trying to reinvent their products in the wrong way.

[Rhys]

Well there was that incest spam post... ISN'T THAT PORNOGRAPHIC ENOUGH?!?!?
I'm sad that was there, because now I can't make my thread.

[ohvermie]

I'm sad that I didn't copy the links before Matt edited them. o_O
Altho John has the honor of getting in before the lock.

[deevan]

WHOO!!! Look at all those *edited*. I didn't believe you could fit a whole turkey in your sister's *edited*.

[schally]

hay do u guys remember that time some d00d posted pr0n and it got locked!

that was awesome :) :)

but when my threads get locked it makes sad panda :(

[dnl2ba]

ham

[Rhys]

I think we're all losing sight of the real issue here.

[schally]

Which is giving me money. Paypal plz.

[deevan]

>insert meow mix theme song<

[Rhys]

Dude, what is up with old ladies at churches wanting to touch you? Their skin is all leathery and they smell like bad perfume and it's horrible. Why, crazy old ladies, why!?

[schally]

Because they are Reptoids and they want to devour your nubile young manflesh. When they touch your arm and pat your back and stuff they're just getting a taste to see if you're ripe.

Are you ripe, Rhys?

[Gump]

I know I'm not ripe. In fact, I'm probably too stringy for any Reptoids. Eating me would probably be like munching on a toothpick.

That said, I've never encountered any grabby old ladies at any churches. Maybe your church is just weird, Rhys. Or maybe the Reptoids are just highly concentrated where you are.

[Rhys]

I don't actually have a church. It was someone else's, I was just there playing flute. But anyway, I think there's not enough meat on me to satisfy. Though I'm sure I could be made into a delicious stock.

[dnl2ba]

I've definitely lost it. I was washing up or something before strolling over to my computer. I had a fresh-feeling mental image of some Black Angus ad that said, "For people who really love steak." It felt like I'd seen it just seconds ago, but where would I have seen that in my apartment? So I retraced my steps. Twice. No Black Angus. TV's not on, no web banner ads, no scattered flyers or magazines around my apartment, nothin.

[dnl2ba]

Whew! There's a pile of newsprint by the fireplace. The top paper is an ad. The line is actually "If you really love steak."

[ohvermie]

So I take it the advertising has worked. Either that or your mind is ripe for alien abduction.

[schally]

OR FOR REPTOID MOLESTATIONS MABYE

[Rhys]

Matt would probably need several steaks before he's ripe though.

[dnl2ba]

I feel like eating steak for some odd reason.

[ohvermie]

I never feel like eating steak. It's just so damned expensive for not much purpose...but I don't want to turn this into the food/cooking thread, so I'll stop.

[dnl2ba]

New goal in life: Find Party Ben's 6/24/05 (http://www.live105.com/music/sixx_mixx/default.htm) Sixx Mixx online for download (http://www.partyben.com/downloads/sixxmixx.html) and rock out. He links to a few sites, but the archives are far from complete... hm...

[dnl2ba]

Best avatar spotted in today's iharthdarth (http://www.livejournal.com/users/iharthdarth/8523.html).

[dnl2ba]

I must accept that I am no longer a user experience designer. In my current job, I am a web developer and programmer.



(from Waxy)

[dnl2ba]

Do you believe in time travel?

[dnl2ba]

Huh, I didn't realize... apparently, the woman who plays Donnie's older sister is actually his actor's older sister.

[Rhys]

Donnie Darko made me sleep with the light on for almost a week. Frank is really damn scary.

[ohvermie]

Yes and Donnie's older sister from the film is also the star of Secretary, the greatest office romance movie ever made. Well I guess its between that and maybe May, but May isn't really in the office...

[schally]

Damn, I saw Secretary the other day and I had the nagging sense that I'd seen the chick before, but I never would have guessed she was in Donnie Darko.

Whether you believe in time travel or not, the good news is that you may not have to worry about accidentally creating a paradox (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18625044.300) when your older, eccentric scientist friend sends you back in a Delorian.


"Whoa, that's heavy."

[deevan]

Man I burned a lot of bridges today.

I fucking hate people.

Not you people, but people in general.

Sorry, had to say that.

[ohvermie]

I fucking hate people too. They're always calling me at work asking for stuff. I hate that, what do they think I am...customer service or something...oh wait...I am... :(