tkdguy Posted May 29, 2014 Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 Tolkien's Lost Recording Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Concerned Person: "You better give me those keys. You're in no shape to drive home." Raging Alcoholic*: "Why? Are you suggesting that I'm drunk? That I have a drinking problem? Because if you do, you're out of my life forever. Not that I'm going to say that, just think it real hard. You get what I'm sending?" Concerned Person: "Uhm, yeah. I get it. In fact, now that I understand that we can never have a relationship/friendship/family bond if I challenge your dependency, I will never again imply that you have a drinking problem." Raging Alcoholic: "Right on!" Concerned Person: "What?" Raging Alcoholic: "Never mind, just agreeing with the big-arsed thought balloon hanging over your head. You know, the one that answered mine? Never mind. Point is, you were going to say that I shouldn't drive home? Why? Hunh, why? What you got?" Concerned Person: "Uhm, you're half naked? Because you're wearing your pants over your head?" Raging Alcoholic: "Oh, so this is about my fashion sense, is it? You can't help yourself, can you? You see one person with better style, and you have to let your jealousy crush me and hold me back. It's all about your insecurities, isn't it?" Concerned Person: "I, uhm, I no. It's...they might slide down over your head and get in your eyes." Raging Alcoholic:" Oh, now you don't think I can drive? Is that it? Just because I'm a [something] means that I can't drive? Can't be an adult? You'll take care of me, put me to bed, tuck me in, then go do adult things?" Concerned Person: "Well, if it means you don't drive home tonight, then..." Raging Alcoholic: "You know what you need to do? You and your kind need to apologise for your prejudice against all [somethings]." Concerned Person: "Please don't say that." Raging Alcoholic: "Oh, now suddenly I don't have free speech any more? I've said something un-PC that hurt your tender feelings and now you're bringing down the hammer? Well, this is a democracy, bud! Get over your butthurt!" Concerned Person: "You know what? I'm just going to go be over there now." Raging Alcoholic: "See, this is why we can't have a debate over the issues! No-one will engage in rational discourse about the important things! You all suck! Now, where's my keys?" *The director will consider other castings with rewrite. Cf. "Raging Meth-head, "Raging Narcissist," etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 GMO strain of American Chestnut may bring the tree back from the verge of extinction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 The real balrog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 We evolved to be palookas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 Guys at bachelor party find mastodon fossil ... really Truth is stranger than fiction. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 10 High-Tech Cities You'll Want to Call Homehttp://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/323932/10-high-tech-cities-you-ll-want-to-call-home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 10 Lego Projects That Will Blow Your Mind http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/323227/10-lego-projects-that-will-blow-your-mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 19 Hidden Chrome Features That Will Make Your Life Easier http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/323996/19-hidden-chrome-features-that-will-make-your-life-easier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Blue honey?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 World of Warcraft Pandaren reaches level 90 without leaving starting zone http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/06/23/world-of-warcraft-pandaren-reaches-level-90-without-leaving-starting-zone/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Batman 25th Anniversary – Six Things You Didn’t Know http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/06/batman-25th-anniversary-six-things-you-didnt-know.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 "It's a boy!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Created the "handy links" page for the class that started Monday, might as well copy-paste it in here. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Astronomy Picture of the Day (nineteen years of images in its archive) http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html Space Telescope Science Institute's Hubble Heritage Gallery http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html NASA Planetary Photojournal http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Solar System Dynamics home page http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO US Naval Observatory's site: timekeeping, astronomical data http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html NASA's eclipse site http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/02/CargoCult.pdf PDF of "Cargo Cult Science", text of Feynman's commencement address http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/ UW Atmospheric Sciences weather data site http://exoplanets.org/ Exoplanets Data Explorer https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/ufo.html "The CIA's Role in the Study of UFO's, 1947-1990" http://www.csicop.org/si/show/what_really_happened_at_roswell/ "What Really Happened at Roswell" http://xkcd.com/ xkcd, geeky webcomic http://abstrusegoose.com/ Abstruse Goose, geeky webcomic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 If I had written it, I would be tempted to submit this to a short story competition where the stories were to encapsulate the fading twilight of youth and hope in upper-middle-class America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Quick links. Fun Stuff Robots built this ultra-thin building that looks like a giant peanut (cross-posted to random videos thread) http://qz.com/227179/robots-built-this-ultra-thin-building-that-looks-like-a-giant-peanut/ Meet the future of public transport: electric cycles with onboard tablets http://qz.com/227264/meet-the-future-of-the-public-transport-electric-cycles-with-onboard-tablets/ “Frozen” is Disney’s latest baby-naming blockbuster http://qz.com/226975/elsa-frozen-disney-latest-baby-naming-blockbuster/ (cross-posted to Frozen thread) US News Wells Fargo is leading US banks in the push from mortgages to car loans http://qz.com/227286/wells-fargo-is-leading-the-us-banks-push-from-mortgages-to-car-loans/ Tech news Google is trolling the EU with passive-aggressive disclaimers on search results (cross-posted to I used to be paranoid thread) http://qz.com/227211/google-is-trolling-the-eu-with-passive-aggressive-disclaimers-on-search-results/ The world wide web may be fracturing into a bunch of regional internets (cross-posted to I used to be paranoid thread) http://qz.com/226949/the-internet-is-fracturing-into-separate-country-specific-networks/ These spy spectacles are way cooler than Google Glass http://qz.com/227316/these-spy-spectacles-are-way-cooler-than-google-glass/ International News Some traders are making a killing because they’re being paid in weird bonds http://qz.com/227265/some-traders-are-making-a-killing-because-theyre-being-paid-in-weird-bonds/ Russians love Vladimir Putin and are convinced the foreign media are lying to them about Ukraine http://qz.com/227241/the-crisis-in-ukraine-continues-to-work-wonders-for-vladimir-putins-popularity-at-home/ China’s replica of Wall Street is full of half-built, deserted skyscrapers and floods regularly http://qz.com/227271/chinas-replica-of-wall-street-is-full-of-half-built-deserted-skyscrapers-and-floods-regularly/ Problems even China’s $4 trillion can’t solve http://qz.com/226704/problems-even-chinas-4-trillion-cant-solve/ China has a lot to lose in Iraq—and not just the thousands of oil workers it has there http://qz.com/227213/china-has-a-lot-to-lose-in-iraq-and-not-just-the-thousands-of-oil-workers tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Five Ways a Nuclear War Could Still Happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 How to turn Barbies into Weeping Angels Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 My daughter will appreciate that one. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 Study: Smelling farts is good for your health Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 A Game as Literary Tutorial Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/books/dungeons-dragons-has-influenced-a-generation-of-writers.html?pagewanted=all Literary Sources of D&D http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/sources.html Burrito Boy and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 A Game as Literary Tutorial Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/books/dungeons-dragons-has-influenced-a-generation-of-writers.html?pagewanted=all Literary Sources of D&D http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/sources.html That second link is fantastic. I already knew a lot of the influences on D&D but there are things in that list that I'd never heard of before. Thanks. Kinda wonder, though, why Stormbringer isn't mentioned in the bit about cursed swords. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 The first section in the second link is Appendix N of the DMG in AD&D 1E. Also, while Balor was a name change from Balrog, it comes from Irish Mythology. Balor of the Evil eye was a king of the Fomorians, and he could kill anyone by gazing at them. He was killed by Lugh of the Long Hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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