Cancer Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 The typo "data vile" is all to appropriate all too often. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 My brain keeps on surprising me. I just spent the better part of a day at the hospital because of an attack of transient global amnesia. I felt like a really cliche episode of a bog-standard soap opera. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Your superhero ID must be about to manifest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 I've found something that makes even less intuitive sense than quantum mechanics: the #RoastMe phenomenon on social media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 One of my cats is scared of opera music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 19, 2018 Report Share Posted June 19, 2018 Sweet creeping Jeshua on a stick, this beer my daughter got me for Fathers' Day is 8.5%!! ... I raised that girl right. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 19, 2018 Report Share Posted June 19, 2018 I'm not sure who's more frustrating in their recalcitrance: anti-science zealots when confronted with facts, or a four-and-a-half-year-old when confronted with bedtime. L. Marcus and tkdguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 19, 2018 Report Share Posted June 19, 2018 What if the 4 yo is an anti-science zealot confronted with bedtime science? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted June 19, 2018 Report Share Posted June 19, 2018 Factoid: I'm a bicycle commuter. So, yesterday afternoon it was super-low tide when the ferry docked. I had been standing on the dock for a while so I rode on with my helmet off (oh no!). One of the other cyclists comes up to me as I settled in up-top and said "I saw you ride onto the ferry." I said, "Oh, yeah?" He says, "You didn't have your helmet on." I say, "Oh, yeah." He says, "That's kind of dangerous, isn't it?" Riding in traffic is hairy as hell, helmet or not. Riding down a ramp onto a ferry with no cars around you? Not so much. I manage to keep a straight face: "Well, yeah. Born to be Wild. Easy Rider. Right here, man." After a pregnant and dour pause he recriminates: "You're dangerous." I smile: "Not to display outmoded machismo or toxic masculinity, but you and I appear to assess risk in radically different ways." He chews on that and gets suspicious: "Is that supposed to mean something?" I told him, "You should meditate on that somewhere else because this conversation is the riskiest thing you've done all day." He walked off in a huff. I admit that, in the words of a motorcycle commuter friend, I ride my bicycle like "a fighter pilot on a fat-boy," but.... really? Who is this guy? What alternate universe did he step out of? My wife rides like a demon out of hell. I mean, she makes me nervous the way she rides. Navy Seals cry for momma when she blows by. When I related this anecdote to her she grimaced and shook her head: "Gamma-male. Welcome to Seattle." Too much machismo can be a problem, but none at all? That's just plain tragic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 You were much more eloquent with that guy than I was to the jerk who poked his nose into my business today. I just yelled at him to <bleep> off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 I've undercone a subtle tectonic psychological shift over the past year or so. I've come out of it weirdly zen in a lot of ways. I have no concrete explanation as to why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 21, 2018 Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 Last week, I became very alarmed. I couldn't for the life of me remember what my family did for my sister's birthday. Then I remembered her birthday isn't until next month! I guess I'm starting to have senior moments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 21, 2018 Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 Great, that's exactly how I wanted to spend my morning. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 21, 2018 Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 Happy Solstice, everyone! Tomorrow is Midsummer Day -- a public holiday here. tkdguy and lemming 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom exceeded expectations. It's not Shakespeare, and it's a little repetitive, but it does introduce some new twists on the central philosophical premise of the franchise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 Wife found Breakfast at Tiffany's on Netflix and insisted that the ten-year-old watch it with her. Having never seen it, I watched it too. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a movie about a gigolo and an insane, alcoholic, mob-connected call girl who host wild drunken parties and go to strip clubs together. Yet the parts I was most offended by were the constant smoking and Mickey Rooney's yellowface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 Some days, The Wiggles will keep the kids entertained almost indefinitely. Today is not one of those days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 the house has lost another dog. he was very old, and had a history of medical troubles. he was a bit of an idiot and didn't understand personal space. I wasn't as close to him as I was my lab I'm going to miss him anyway Stupid beagle tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 It isn't the sheer amount of things I don't know that dismays me; it's the fact that so much of it is beyond my ability to understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 hours ago, tkdguy said: It isn't the sheer amount of things I don't know that dismays me; it's the fact that so much of it is beyond my ability to understand. I find my ignorance oddly comforting. It reminds me that the arrogance of modern human civilization lies in a demonstrably false belief that we understand what everything is and how it works. Every once in a while something drops a humbling dose of reality on us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 I've never been a wargamer. Don't get me wrong, I've played wargames. I've enjoyed playing wargames. I have a knack for wargames. But I'm not a wargamer. The price point, time spent painting, fiddly bits, and shelf-space... its not for me. I prefer my books and dice and characters and stories. So, last week I'm in the game store with my wife, who I have been running in an FFG Star Wars game. She's started to enjoy being a geek. Anyways, I'm looking for a board game we can all play as a family. While looking at The Red Dragon Inn series she calls me over and points at the wall of X-Wing and Armada. My RPG buddies of the last 26 years have gone totally bonkers for X-Wing. I played it. It was okay. I played Armada. I liked it quite a bit. But... the price point on these games. Its why I've taken a pass. So I explain the concept to her and she says "huh, weird." I end up not buying anything. The next day I come home from work to find my wife standing over stack of boxes and says "hey honey, look what I got." I go to the dinner table to investigate and find she has an Armada core set and like six expansions sitting on the table. Um.... I'm flabbergasted. She's never wargamed. I pointed out the price point when we were at the store. I ask, "just how much did you spend on all this?" She grins with an ingratieting smile and holds an Imperial Star Destroyer out to me and perly says "Look, honey, Star Destroyer!" As though that explains away everything and cannot be argued. Did I mention she is Jedisexual? In for a penny; in for a pound. We are now playing "angry space triangles." She absolutely loves it. Wait a minute, I married a wargamer?! Whaaaaat? Cancer, Pariah and L. Marcus 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Quite a lot of the seeds are falling at Wimbledon particularly among the Women in we are only in the Third Round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 The Tour de France is on. The scenery is spectacular and there is already a spanner in the works when at the end of the first day quite a few of the favourites are involved in crashes and one is hit by a puncture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 10, 2018 Report Share Posted July 10, 2018 I'm toying with the idea of creating a role-playing game in which the Player Characters are research scientists. They struggle to find grants to fund important scientific research projects while battling crackpot Internet conspiracy theorists, evil megacorporations with billion-dollar media misinformation budgets, and a government whose attitude toward science ranges from merely indifferent to actively hostile. My working title is "Feldspars & Pulsars". Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 10, 2018 Report Share Posted July 10, 2018 Change some of the names and labels, and that's been done. It's called Paranoia. ("The granting agency is your friend ....") Logan D. Hurricanes, Pariah and L. Marcus 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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