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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: Simple Joke about world 9
« on: November 14, 2006, 10:14:42 AM »
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A city-type business man finds himself driving across country, through rural America on his way to a big convention. On the way he gets terribly lost and cannot find his way back to the freeway. Driving for hours, he finally sees the onramp back to the main highway, but there is a lake between where he is and the onramp. Looking around, and because this is a joke, the man sees a farmer standing nearby. He asks the man how he might get around or over the lake so he can get back on his way to the convention. The farmer, with all the drawl one in this sort of joke would have, replies that the man can just drive across the lake to get to the freeway. Confused he asks, won't my car sink and get stuck? The farmer replies not. So, the businessman starts his car, moves forward, and, of course, his car sinks into the lake. Angry he jumps out of the sinking car and exclaims, "you said I could drive across this lake! What were you thinking?" The farmer holds his hand to his waist with one hand, scratching his head in confusion with the other and says, "funny, it only comes up to here on my duck." |
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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: What genre of music you love to listen?
« on: October 19, 2006, 08:14:39 AM »
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I think I like just about any kind of music when it is well done. Of course, we all think we KNOW what that means...but, my record collection (which includes several hundred 78's) spans classical, race-records, classic "guitar band rock", prog rock, and just about everything in between and after. I find "twangy" (what they used to call young country) country to be annoying and some of the more in-your-face metal and rap just bores me...same as that sort of punk...but there is something wonderful to be found in each of those genres still.
Of course, nothing will ever top Syd Barret's stuff...
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Water Cooler / This and that / Cameras in space
« on: September 19, 2006, 09:38:46 AM »
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Ok, I'm sure the guys at NASA have some good reason....but, I want to understand it.
I'm looking at the video of the "object" near the space shuttle...the one delaying landings and such...and I'm barely able to maek out more than some random image of the virgin mary surrounded by fuzz. What is the reason that, at our present day, we are unable to just take the ol' Sony Handycam into space and bring home some actually nice video footage of what is up there? I can't figure out what the limiting factor could be that keeps us from simply having NICE footage.
Conspiracy? Of course it is. Not. But, what IS the reason? |
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Water Cooler / Entertainment / Puzzle Pirates?
« on: September 18, 2006, 10:50:37 PM »
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So....September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate day...my how fast the year flies past when yer waiting for that day to come around...but, that's only a convenient segue into my post.
I've tried (and posted here about it) to get hooked on Second Life, and I've seen friends hooked on Everquest...and I've seen kids hooked on Neopets (slightly different)...but recently I became absolutely addicted to Puzzle Pirates. It is an online chat/role-play (very limited) kinda game. The basis for it, though, is solving little puzzles ala Tetris. The world of pirates is one of those online economies with the social game of dealing with people and there are all walks of life in the game as well. You can be a pirate and pillage, a merchant (and try to ship), or even a king of an island. It is quite involved. The thing I really have found refreshing is that it comes back to these simple puzzles...all of the activities are brought back to an almost quaint starting block.
The game is free to play to a degree...and cheap if you join fully. This link is a referral, but I mean no major personal gain here (and I make no personal income or anything)...if you follow the link you get some starter Pieces of Eight (the game's money) and that will make a big difference to your initial experience of the game.
I've had a great time playing with my son and without him...and, in the spirit of talk like a pirate day, this is my best offering to you all...check it out and see if you don't end up, well,...hooked.
Oh, and if you need help getting addicted to it...I'd be glad to show you around and help you get started...
If you have played, what do you think? I know the makers (Three Rings...with whom I am not affiliated) are pretty big on user feedback...they even developed the games with the people who play the game...and, they are developing a cowboy game of a similar nature...but, that's for Talk Like A Cowboy Day... |
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Water Cooler / Entertainment / Life on Mars?
« on: August 18, 2006, 08:32:05 AM »
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Anyone else out there watching (BBC America) Life on Mars? It has potential. I was, well, singing the title song (the old Bowie song) and it sort of hit me that there is a LOT more reason to think that the show was drawn from the abstraction of the song. It's a good puzzle and pretty fun to watch and realize the differences between American and British television. Two thumbs up...it is only a few episodes old here...worth finding the earlier shows, though, as it is one of those shows that won't make so much sense if you come in at the middle.
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Water Cooler / This and that / Re: jerk posts spam
« on: August 09, 2006, 11:21:11 AM »
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What about, while still trying to keep it out, allowing the regulars here the feature to simply delete the post...or make it so that it takes two regulars to boot the post...that way, as soon as it shows up, without all this fuss, it can just be dropped into the bin. I seriously doubt that anyone who is here with any frequency (and thus would be the one getting this option) would start dropping real posts... |
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Water Cooler / Entertainment / The (now) late, great Syd Barrett
« on: July 11, 2006, 09:25:17 AM »
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So, I heard the news today...oh, boy. Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett died last Friday of complications related to diabetes. Apart from this guy totally changing how I grew up and lived, and my daughter's name coming from him...well, he left a legend bigger than even he could have tried to cook-up. The world doesn't change much before and after his leaving, but knowing it is final just sends anyone who is interested to that place people go when someone inportant leaves. There's not really any official reason to post such a thing, but, well, I been thinking about the guy all day and landed here to read the other news and comments...and I figured there would still be some folks who didn't know...a lot of them I'd guess. |
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Water Cooler / Tasteless or Not Tasteless / Re: Still horse-curious? From the Great Pacific Northwest -- Equine Pr0n!
« on: July 06, 2006, 10:56:21 AM »
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The crazy thing is...and this has happened to EVERYONE I have told the story, in proper order...you start out wondering who in the hell would want to F a horse...and, you figure the guy who was killed probably deserved to be kicked to his death with his trousers around his ankles...but then you read further...and realize he died of a punctured colon...and it hits you...he wasn't, well, he wasn't DOING to a horse..he was being done-to...and, well, the image of that just makes me wonder how in the hell you ever think that is a good idea... |
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Politics Central / Conspiracy Theories / Re: 9/11 a ploy to start War On Terror
« on: June 13, 2006, 05:08:59 PM »
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It sucks when hyperbole creeps into a place like this...to say the republicans flew planes into the towers is nuts...sure...but to suggest that there might be more of an awareness than let on, or that there might have been some additional hubris or greed that got out of hand is NOT that far fetched. There are plenty of credible history books suggesting that there was a knowledge of the attacks-to-be on Pearl Harbor...not that they were done by the USA, but that there was more to the story...that some things were "let go" and eventually even regretted...why is it so hard to imagine that the US government had more knowledge of things happening than the public version? Why is it so hard to imagine some very greedy people operating at a dangerous leading edge that suddenly gets away from them? There are some very compelling questions (most compelling still is that they remain unanswered by those who could easily address them) about stock market activity and WT7 and so on...it is absolutely worth it to wonder and to press to find out more...to suggest that the only option is that the US govt. flew planes into the towers is just foolish.
I think I'm sick of hearing about the moonshot being fake too...I mean as the be-all and end-all of tinfoil-hat insults...get over it...yeah yeah...bridge in brooklyn for sale and all that...how about we all just step back and speak to each other's points with our points...and stop with all the stock rejection of wondering exclusively based on the most extreme slippery slope possibility...
And, let's not forget the prime rule of argument...the first to invoke Hitler loses... |
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The Tech Section / Tech News / Commentary / DNA database
« on: June 10, 2006, 10:50:46 AM »
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So there is an article (soppy and touching I admit) in today's paper about a young woman who is graduating (or just did) who was the center of a story years ago of a baby abandoned by the side of the road. The officer who found her gave her his CHP coat; the one he wrapped her in when he found her...and so on and so forth...it was touching, like it was meant to be. My post here is not so much about that story as wondering if there wouldn't be the technology very soon, if not already, to locate the parents of this abandoned child? I mean, if there is a growing DNA database out there and this girl has DNA...couldn't a pretty short list of likely parents be brought from the data? I am assuming a high risk of finding no match at the present, but eventually it should be pretty easy to find her family at least. Further, just making gross generalizations, the likelyhood of the kind of person who would toss a baby in a bag by the roadside being a criminal (on the grid as it were) seems pretty good. I wonder if anyone has considered doing something like this? Anyone out there know anything about how this stuff works? I figure if Google (or just about any word processor) can accurately match what my typos SHOULD be that something as complex and distinct as a DNA map should be pretty easy to crunch and check for matches. It could be the exact opposite I suppose...the complexity making it harder...seems not to me though.
Beyond that, I wonder what kind of legal/political/social mess could be made if we COULD locate the sort of person who dumps a baby...I'd sort of like to see them found. At the same time, I would also like to leave that kind of over-view out of the hands of people in charge. As always, a double edged sword.
Anyone know how this stuff works? |
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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: America love it or leave it!
« on: June 07, 2006, 02:12:05 PM »
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Well, Max...I was trying to keep in the kind spirit of this forum. It seemed like the initiator of the thread was saying, in earnest, that his question had come across in a manner unlike he intended. In that spirit, I was trying to respond to his participation as clarified. Yes? |
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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: America love it or leave it!
« on: June 07, 2006, 08:19:17 AM »
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I think I misunderstood your initial question because it was framed by the "love it or leave it" thing...which is pretty emotionally and politically charged...but, asking what other countries have things to offer is, of course, a very good question...and one that it'd be nice if more people here asked. I'd go further to say that the grumblers (reference above 'love it or leave it' stuff) are as often as not trying to pose just such a question, be it something another nation is doing or something NO other nation is doing that would be beneficial.
So, to add to the pile..it'd sure be nice if this country could get a handle on the over legislation of nudity/sexuality/etc...I know you can't just make people lighten up, but you CAN stop making laws and spending resources controlling things like television adverts...laws about what is ok for people to see have gone nuts...and not in a consistent way. You can have an advert about a guy with a huge penis (for whatever that drug is) and an advert about everthing just shy of rape (just about any beer ad) but you can't have an ad about breast cancer (I'm obviously exaggerating to make a point)...you can't speak freely in school about sexuality without couching it in a load of BS...it is absolutely nuts...we control the surface stuff and overlook or endorse (yeah, there is a money trail here) some pretty horrific stuff...as long as there isn't a nipple showing...you know? |
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Politics Central / Soapbox - general discussion / Re: America love it or leave it!
« on: June 06, 2006, 08:18:11 PM »
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To add to the first reply...that is EXACTLY the point. Most people who consider leaving (beyond as a last resort) the country simply do that...those who grumble and bemoan administrations or whatnot are actually trying NOT to leave...they want to preserve something or change something here...chiefly because they do NOT want to leave...that is why it so underscores the whole "love it or leave it" as BS...I mean, that was NEVER the point...usually it means the person saying it really means, "I don't like what you want this place to be...so leave this place..." Pretty much a selfish load of crap...
Even more...the thing that makes coming up with a place to go (if this question IS considered as a sort of game) so difficult is that other places don't seem to be (true or not) the kinds of places you'd think as open to changing through that very kind of grumbling...what make the grumblers stay is precisely that you can grumble here...when I actually start wondering when I'll be leaving it is only when I really consider that the grumbling may be something that isn't allowed in the not so distant future...or that it is so pointless that people no longer consider it a route to change...or even as a catalyst to dialogue...toward eventual change... |
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