Cybertooth Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I haven't been around for quite a while now. I wonder why I don't find this place fun and inviting anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings There's a rather loud domestic argument going on outside my apartment, on the street. "Everybody knows what a jack*** you are! Everybody KNOWS you've been ****ing that tramp!" And I'm thinking, "Well, I know NOW." I shouldn't be so amused, but the alternative is to get mad at them for disturbing my quiet afternoon. And it's kind of funny. So long as it stays a verbal argument it's funny, anyway. And part of me wants to add a comment referring to the fact that my apartment is right next to a trailer park, but I won't go there. Oh, wait. Guess I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yesterday Alice and I paid off one of our closed credit cards. Yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings It has occured to me that this thread having spawned a number of threads and is still going makes it truly the foundation of themusing culture of the NGD! But is this post amusing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings "For my own part, I believe that, if someone wishes to burn a flag, he should be free to do so. In the same way, if Democrat senators want to make speeches comparing the U.S. military to Nazis and the Khmer Rouge, they should be free to do so. It's always useful to know what people really believe." -Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, June 26, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Well, my weekly game fell through for the sixth consecutive week. I am taking dice to Quiznos and roll up a sandwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Twas a good weekend. Glastonbury Festival was on despite the thunderstorms that created giant pools on the farm and I saw the White Stripes headline late Friday around 11:00 pm. There were other British bands just breaking through that played over the 3 days and on Sunday Brian Wilson played. Brian was doing old Beach Boy numbers like California Girls and Good Vibrations. And the Sun came out. Quite a sight. Some people were even surfing through the crowd on real surf boards. Saw Kung Fu Hustle on Saturday which was a laugh. If you like Martial Arts stuff you should like this. And I bought the new limited edition of Monopoly updated to show new sites. Gone are The Old Kent Road, Pentonville, Mayfair and the stations. Now we have Wembley Stadium, the London Eye, several of the museums and the airports replacing the stations. I think they may have updated the American version as well. Also got a couple of Sudoku puzzles done for the first time. I sense addiction imminent. And finally the British public finally bought something other than that pathetic Crazy Frog record. Hallelujah ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Brooklyn is a good man and we have fun together. It is the outsider in me - that loves the underdog that wants to see him rise to the challenge of being in my world. But I don't think you can learn that intellectual/cultural base - you need to be in it from an early age. We are good for eachother. That's all that is required for now. She's a dear friend, but golly she's even more arrogant than I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Hmm, there's no thread up yet on the recent (this AM) Supreme Court ruling re the Ten Commandments...or the cable ruling, either, yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Five bypasses and some additional angioplasty is more than I like thinking about, but it seems better than the alternative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm back after four days of 100+ temps in full paintball gear. Refs sucked and then you die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings So ... would you want the job where your official title is "Testbed Manager"? And if so, what project would you want it to be for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Setting up phpBB was incredibly easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proditor Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings True Image is hands down the best imaging software ever. I'm still stunned at how much easier it is to use than Ghost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings why do electronics have to use the most high-pitched ear-splitting beep to signal that something is worng. AGGGGGG!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yesterday as I drove up to pick up Jenn from the Welcome Center, a couple of her coworkers are near the entrance with one holding a puppy. Someone had just dumped her nearby. Very sweet puppy. Jenn & I took her up to the Clinic to get her checked out. A quick 10 minute test for Parvo and she was taken in. Her name may be "Bonny Blue". Sadly, she's #24 of dogs left near the sanctuary this month. Not a good place for pets to be outside. And the pict got edited because Jenn didn't like her image in the shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Sometime back in the 1960's on manuvers in Germany, a soldier got himself killed. He got run over by a tank, the tread smashed him right across the midsection. Word is it was nighttime, he was sleeping on the manuver grounds, and the tank driver didn't see him, though how you can sleep through a tank rolling up to you I can't understand; tanks are incredibly noisy. (We have speculated that the soldier was high on something at the time, but however it happened, it's not relevant to the story.) The person I heard this story from was an ambulance driver. He had to pick up the body and deliver it to the nearest US Army Hospital to be dealt with. So the body was put in a stretcher, belted down with a single strap across the thighs, stretcher put into the ambulance. Away he went with the corpse. It was late, after midnight, but as an Army ambulance driver, it wasn't the first time he had driven with a corpse in the back of his vehicle. Part of the job. However, when rigor mortis set in, the abdominal muscles that had been smashed exerted a much greater force than the back muscles. As a result of this and being belted down below the hips, the corpse slowly sat up. Since the road was empty, it was quite a while before the driver glanced into the mirror ... and when he did, the corpse was sitting up, staring directly into his eyes in that mirror. The driver carefully brought the ambulance to a stop, and ran a quarter-mile down the road. Eventually he talked himself into returning to the vehicle ("He's dead, I know he's dead."). Peering in from behind, sure enough, the corpse was still there, sitting bolt upright in the stretcher, not moving at all. The story has it that the driver went in there, first belted the corpse's legs down securely using all available ties, and then leaned on the torso to get the body into a regular supine position, which he belted down very securely. After which he drove like hell to the hospital, without looking in that mirror again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'd just like to say that in the past couple weeks darthvegita666 has become my favorite NGD poster by far. It's sort of like watching Rage: The Early Years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings has the Musing Culture of the NGD died? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings "I do professional domination, and I owe it all to twelve years of Catholic school." -'Mistress Cherry,' MAXIM Magazine, July 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I have a random musing.... AAAAAAAAAUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH!!! Work is nuts...on the regular old con call while on the boards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Why do cliques form? Do we, as gamers, have cliques? Why do these cliques, in particular, form? Why do you enjoy gaming with some people but despise gaming with others. Why do the others seem so popular with other gamers not in your clique? How could you speed up PbP/Pbem without losing the crunchy character developement bits and still allow players full control of the combat? What is the perfect game for me and how do I figure that out without trial and error? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings A minor fringe benefit of teaching physics -- specifically, the optics lab courses -- is that you can get your 8- and 10-year-old kids excited by offering to take them to the school and show them the lasers. They are at first disappointed that they aren't the giant death rays of infinite destruction that are all the lasers on the kidivd shows, but playing around with them is still cool, even to the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Gah. I caught a cold. Since my sinus surgery last year, it's the first time I've almost called in sick to work. And I don't think I was sick during the unemployment era. yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Today I noticed that alphabetically Death Tribbile is encapsulated by both Zornwil and myself, and there is nothin' De Tribble can do about it. (B DT Z) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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