Darbor Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I have an electric razor' date=' but I hardly use it. There's something about using a brush to lather soap and spread it across my face that I find therapeutic.[/quote'] I have never shaved with a blade. I think I tried it once just to see what it felt like but didn't shave my whole face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings A Stanford University biotechnology researcher has developed a basic game console that nudges paramecia around a microfluidic chamber with chemical gradients and mild electric fields. Descriptions of the whole microarcade including games involving yeast and DNA are being published this month. Somewhere there's an RPG campaign idea here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Don't expect to see me much around these parts for a while. Somewhat against my better judgment, I got Minecraft last week Now, 'cuse me, I have to go keep digging holes in the ground and trying to relocate my lost stronghold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Nothing to see here, folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Bourbon street is really... cheesy. Strip clubs and bars with rock bands. Absolutely no jazz whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yes, it's possible to haul 15,000 feet of 5/8" plastic hose in a Ford Ranger. If you've got enough cargo straps. And provided you don't mind sharing the cab with the last 600 feet of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings God I love the internet. Chinese extraterrestrials expected to arrive in 2012: http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/extraterrestrials-now-live-among-us-china-and-u-s-a-newspapers-report Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted February 3, 2011 Report Share Posted February 3, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings So, I'm sitting there is our big studio with the lights off because it feels like the CinC on a battleship. The only light is from the PC monitor, sound boards, phones, compressors, and other audio do-dads. I'm doing a remote show via tiline with the host in Jerusalem and me in Beit El. And I ask myself: Why? Why are we doing this? Not why as in an existential why. Not why as in the mission is hopeless. No, why as in "what are we thinking running our operation from a physical studio worthy of a terrestrial radio station when we are an internet radio station with a live stream, on demand audio, and podcast downloads?" All of this made sense when Arutz-7 was a pirate radio station broadcasting from a boat in international waters. That ended with prison terms and an impounded ship, folks. Half of my hosts send audio via internet. Most of those mix it themselves. Almost all the rest of them do monologue or PHONE interview shows. We used to have several call in shows but times have changed. Only one host ever takes callers anymore. And that's once in a blue moon. Why am I paying a tech when I can set up each of my hosts to record and mix audio, including phone interviews, from their home computers or a digital recorder? Its the 21st century for God's sake! You can record phone interviews with only a smart-phone if you want. Why are we working from a stationary studio in the remote highlands of Samaria in the wireless, remote access world? Calling parliamentarian aides to set up interviews is a trial. Half the time they ask: are you in the building? Good question! If I'm supposed to be interviewing knesset members and notables why aren't I in the knesset building? I can live stream that to the internet with a laptop! Fantasy: "Israel National Radio Live From the Knesset!" What is the point of a studio when all I need is an encoding computer, broadcast computer, and a storage editing computer that can be accessed remotely while sitting in a closet? True, it means the hosts pay for their phone calls, but really, with one exception, the one's who make a lot of calls do their shows as calling cards for their own non-profits. Why aren't THEY paying? And, why am I uploading all the podcasts and making the show pages when, with an internet connection and logon, the host can do that, too? I mean, its the expletive Internet! What is the point without remote accesss? If we get the hosts into gear we can cut down our own work significantly. Then the question will be: Why aren't we out in the world doing more topical, feature, and expose related audio that supports the news site? And gets more exposure that way, anyways. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings It is purely a coincidence that at the same time my part of the world was being buried in an ice storm that covered everything in deadly layers of hard slick ice, I was huddled inside reading a novel with the title The Iceboound Land. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary, dubious of coincidence, urges Lucius to find something warmer to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings This particular magic 8-ball only gives two answers: the other one is infinity. (but only after you turn it sideways) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I was gonna start a "WoW! There are other countries. And stuff is happening in them (Oregon)" for fun...but I read the local news and beyond sports which wouldn't work so good, and apologies to Cancer for the beating his state's schools took last night in men's basketball, but the actual news only made me depressed... Homless man robs bank with toy gun sentenced to 3 years in jail Local born adult actress and her involvement in a Charlie Sheen drug/alcohol binge State and school budget cuts left and right and a glimmer of hope on the job market...but a faint one at that. *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings there's some formatting errors. but I have 2.5 weeks to iron them out. I held it in my hand...*giggle* Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 6, 2011 Report Share Posted February 6, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm back from the semi-hiatus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings From here, discussing the current state of the El Niño/La Niña oscillation: "The last time that this index [referring to a particular numerical index assembled from Australian data] showed higher values for the average of any six months was during the same half-year in 1917(!), so any [classification based on that set of weather data] would classify this [La Niña] event as ... the second-strongest event of the last century." So yeah, the atmosphere/hydrosphere has been at an extreme end of its oscillation the last month or two. It isn't just you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Why are there no threads here demanding the decapitation/deportation of Christine Aguilera after last night's mistaken rendition of your National Anthem ? I remember when Whitney Houston did it and warbled and was booed in the Stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Hmm. Y'know, I may get infracted for a rep-comment, and I can't even delete that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I want some French Toast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings This is the first and last time I shall ever allow a smoker to stay in my room. Even when I know for a fact they didn't smoke cigarettes in my room, it still smells like they did. How? My guess is the residue from the luggage and clothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings I like roller coasters as much as anyone, but eventually they stop being fun and just make you sick. I want off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings If anyone is looking for a job in southern Michigan, apparently there are quite a few to be had: http://webkit.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/11/942749/-.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Could anything be worse than watching a desperate sales rep having a run of bad luck? Especially when my fate is linked to his? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Nothing to see here, move along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 14, 2011 Report Share Posted February 14, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Rock the Vote! Please come by and cast your votes in the Avengers, Inc. Superdraft finale. Even you weren't directly involved, evreyone is invited to cast votes. As always, the draft itself is open to everyone, too, and another will start in March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darbor Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings Sometimes I am baffled by Netflix's recommendations. They recommended Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a pro intelligent design movie, which is probably the last movie I would want to watch, based on the fact that I said I liked We Were Soldiers, The Rookie and The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. Okay the first is a fight against great odds, the second is a sappy Disney movie and the last is fantasy. So maybe they think I would like a movie about sappy people living in a Disney/Fantasy world fighting against great odds to get anyone to believe their crackpot theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Re: A Thread for Random Musings So we recently learned that my wife's 17 year old niece has become engaged. Apparently a lot of people are trying to talk her out of it (based on her Facebook posts). Her most recent one was along the lines of, "We're not getting married right away! We'll have been together for almost 6 months by the time of the wedding." And then there was the requisite, "So-and-so got married after only dating for 3 months, and they've been married for 15 years!" Now she's asking us if we want to come to the wedding, and my knee-jerk reaction is, "What, so I can have front-row seats to the beginning of the train wreck?" Gah. It's her life, and it ain't none of my damn beezwax, so I'm not saying a thing. But... man. It's going to be a mess. What the hell is the hurry? If they're really in love, is waiting until she friggin' graduates from high school really such a hardship? It's a damned tragedy waiting to happen, is what it is. I want to be supportive, I really do, but this is just cracked. My wife and I have been putting money away for years to give to her and her siblings when they graduate, to help pay for their continuing education, but if she drops out and gets knocked up by some redneck punk who claims to love her... nope. We'll give the money to some worthy cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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