Cancer Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 What with all the computer games etc. out there now, when you search for "gibbering madness" among videos, you get various gaming junk. You don't actually get any real gibbering madness. Maybe I should change that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Quote Yesterday an unknown source of fuel oil began surfacing from the library west parking area.... (lead sentence from an announcement this morning relating to reduced capacity in a campus parking lot) Sounds like a great opening line for a modern technohorror adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Cancer said: Sounds like a great opening line for a modern technohorror adventure. ...or for a comedy involving nouveau riche hillbilly oil billionaires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 If we can get someone as delicious as Donna Douglas in a part like Elly May's, I could go for that. Otherwise, gimme the technohorror. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Meanwhile, I am beginning to see everything through a haze of long-term fatigue, and we still have another month or so of this faculty search nonsense to live through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 For some reason, I can no longer save objects on my Tabletop Simulator game. Maybe there's a limit to the amount I can save, but I haven't heard about it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 I finally terminated my HBO subscription, which cost me $20/month since Game of Thrones started in 2011. Do the math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 So Jesse Eisenberg is in a new film called Resistance. He is playing Marcel Marceau. Yes, that Marcel Marceau, the mime artist. Apparently he was in the French Resistance and helped children escape from France to Switzerland. I did not know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Wheel of Pain from the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack may be the greatest orchestral piece known to humankind. Basil Poledouris is a bada$$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 I confess to be completely baffled by discussions of the social and political structure in India, and cannot make heads or tails of a great many of Wikipedia's articles bearing on these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 Youngest bro and his missus, A+A, has bought a little farm on the edge of nowhere. One can tell it's a bit banjo land, because the place names around are not entirely civilized. There's a small lake, a fishing spot, called Dyngkotjärn -- "The Tarn of The Filthy/Shitty Cow". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 Through an accident of how my institution assigns email addresses, I get occasional come-hither junk emails, intended for one of our assistant vice presidents, from various scumsucking corporate types trying to sell their stuff. One that appeared in the Clutter folder late last weeks has the subject line Quote How to Capture Alumni Data from LinkedIn the Right Way It hadn't occurred to me before that LinkedIn was as bad as Facebook in its own way, but that seems obvious to me now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 I just got recruited for a job on LinkedIn. I forgot I even had an account there! It's for Disney, and it sounds like a good job. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 Their spam comes way too frequently for me to forget I've got an account there. I don't remember my password, of course.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 I have a goal for the year. Over 1,000 more posts and I displace Zornwil as one of the people contributing most content. Others on this list are still active posters like Old Man, Enforcer84 and L Marcus so I have no hope of catching them unless I use Spam which defeats the object. Old Man and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Hostile wildlife experiences in order of increasing suckitude: Wana (sea urchin) spine poke: Didn't even hurt since the spines are so sharp. Never had one break off in there though; if that happened it would move down a couple places on the list. Dog bite: Ow! Damn dog! This was the hit-and-run type of bite, not the wild-pack-rip-you-limb-from-limb type, which I have not experienced. There is no rabies here. Bee sting: Ow! Not allergic. Still like bees. Portuguese Man O'War sting: Ow! The continued burning/itching is what sucks about these. Lasts for a couple hours. Welt takes a week to go away. Wasp assdagger: Ow! Ow! Flee! Not allergic. Intense but brief. Passionate hatred of wasps. Fire ants: Ow! Ow! Ow ow ow ow ow (dance around): This was after I parked the car on a nest and then got out wearing slippers. The ants seemed pretty irked. Comparable to wasp stings for obvious reasons, though these seem to linger and itch longer. Centipede bite: Ow. Ow! AaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA! The initial bite is like a minor pinprick, but the growing onset of the subsequent burning is really something. I mean burning like "is my foot on fire?" burning. That lasts about 30 minutes, then the aching sets in which is worse. Lasts most of the day. Box jellyfish sting: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa... The burning is instantaneous, intense enough to make it hard to think, and takes 24 hours to go away. The nausea is more worrisome since it makes you wonder if you're going to collapse and die. More than a couple of these at once and dying would start to look pretty feasible. The scar took almost a year to fade. Tiger shark bite: Have not experienced one of these yet. At least I don't live in Australia. Cancer, tkdguy and L. Marcus 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 It would be useful to include various venomous plants on the same scale ... stinging nettle, poison oak, poison ivy, devil's club, .... Lawnmower Boy and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 In the latest Dr Who episode the behind the scenes guys seem to have gone back to the old Cybermen look for the head which ran from the Patrick Troughton story Invasion until the end of the Classic era which is something I am very happy with. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 My uncle, who was an Accounting professor, used to list his title as "Dr. James S_____, BS, MS, PhD, CPA, BFD, BVD, LSMFT". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Meanwhile, the latest crop of caterpillars was pretty successful, producing four chrysalises that I could find. One has already hatched successfully. Another is due to pop today or tomorrow. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 25, 2020 Report Share Posted February 25, 2020 I just pulled a muscle yawning...I hate getting old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 25, 2020 Report Share Posted February 25, 2020 If I get too tired and am yawning too much, the root of my tongue cramps, which is both painful and approximately impossible to massage and get to loosen quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 25, 2020 Report Share Posted February 25, 2020 I got headhunted by a Disney recruiter. They found me on LinkedIn, a site I forgot I had an account on. It's very flattering, even if nothing comes of it. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 The 8 year old foster daughter came home from school yesterday and started singing the song "Milkshake". The subsequent conversation explaining that it wasn't technically about "Milkshakes" was slightly awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Kind of like how Blondie's "Atomic" isn't about nuclear energy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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