The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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figmentPez
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Yes, Alton Brown is the host of Good Eats, which does teach a lot of science alongside the cooking.
Anyone know if The Brain Scoop would be age appropriate?
I liked watching Cyberchase.
Brain Scoop would be a bit over his head, I suspect. Plus, the dissection episodes ... might be a bit early in life to see all that. They don't really pull punches with the blood, sinew, guts, etc
GasBandit
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I've been seeing in various places around the net - people referencing "Hampster Dance" as "the first meme." I just want to point out here, so you guys can be less dumb than the rest of the internet, that the website "Hampster Dance" actually was not created until 1998. The first web meme I can remember (not counting crap that got forwarded around in e-mail or usenet like "The Shit list" or "the wit and wisdom of norm peterson") was actually: "Mr. T Ate My Balls."
Let's go back in time to 1996. The internet was still new and nerdy, and webrings were still a thing. Neon colors were still cool, as were mullets. BBSes were still a thing, and the 33.6k modem was just coming out (the 28.8 was still the de facto standard). Internet explorer was on version 3.0, and still was the best browser at this point. Duke Nukem 3D came out on shareware. People actually worried about the ozone layer, cloning sheep, and Independence Day was the movie of the year.
And at that time, a website started getting passed around like crazy. It simply contained 4 images:
Very quickly, spinoffs started popping up. "Spock ate my balls." "Sailor Moon ate my balls." "Monica Lewinsky ate my balls." They multiplied and ran out of control for what seemed like an eternity (but was probably only a couple months).
So, now you've learned it, you can't unlearn it. The first meme. Remember Mr. T, when you're witnessing the rise of whatever the next memetic monstrosity is.
Let's go back in time to 1996. The internet was still new and nerdy, and webrings were still a thing. Neon colors were still cool, as were mullets. BBSes were still a thing, and the 33.6k modem was just coming out (the 28.8 was still the de facto standard). Internet explorer was on version 3.0, and still was the best browser at this point. Duke Nukem 3D came out on shareware. People actually worried about the ozone layer, cloning sheep, and Independence Day was the movie of the year.
And at that time, a website started getting passed around like crazy. It simply contained 4 images:
Very quickly, spinoffs started popping up. "Spock ate my balls." "Sailor Moon ate my balls." "Monica Lewinsky ate my balls." They multiplied and ran out of control for what seemed like an eternity (but was probably only a couple months).
So, now you've learned it, you can't unlearn it. The first meme. Remember Mr. T, when you're witnessing the rise of whatever the next memetic monstrosity is.
The Electric Company? Old ZOOM?
I bought the box set of The Electric Company just for Cary later. Also the box set of Schoolhouse Rock (minus the three-ring government episode due to legal problems, of course).
--Patrick
It's time for the semi-daily installment of "Nice moments ruined by old people."
An old woman was chatting with me at work today, and told me a story from her church.
Her: "A woman had a lottery ticket worth $10,000 and lost it, but someone at the church found it and gave it back to her."
Me: "Aww, that's nice."
Her: "Yeah, and the people that found it were colored, so it's even more surprising."
Me:
Old people... ruining nice moments with unexpected racism.
An old woman was chatting with me at work today, and told me a story from her church.
Her: "A woman had a lottery ticket worth $10,000 and lost it, but someone at the church found it and gave it back to her."
Me: "Aww, that's nice."
Her: "Yeah, and the people that found it were colored, so it's even more surprising."
Me:
Old people... ruining nice moments with unexpected racism.
yeah I too was having a good night until some bastard living in a country WHERE NOTHING HAPPENED 25 YEARS AGO posted...
I don't get my taxes in writing anymore - the government just sends an e-mail to go check an electronic document, I complete a few forms, use my electronic identity card to identify myself, and presto. Iw as wondering why I still hadn't gotten my mail...Turns out, Gmail flags it as spam, as a money grab. Can't say they're wrong.
Stayed up past 3:00 AM watching shitty Godzilla movies. Not the good ones. Shitty ones.
What is wrong with me?
What is wrong with me?
me and anime right on the nose.
Yeah, it's not good.
And I look at the clock and think "my wife has to get up for work in a little over 2 hours". Mind-boggling.
Also mind-boggling; when I spam my Tumblr blog making fun of these movies I should be losing followers, but instead I gain them. So less what is wrong with me, and more what is wrong with people?
You've saving them the time from having to sit through shitty movies?
Today is double self-torture day!
1. I watched a really awful Godzilla movie. Up there with the 98 Godzilla and Godzilla's Revenge.
2. I had to move some stuff out of the doorway until delivery people come, so our standing coat hanger is in the middle of the living room. Every time I come out of the bathroom, I forget it's there and think there's someone standing in the apartment until I recognize it's the pole with coats hanging on it. This last time made my heart stop.
I should just put the Happy Meal box on top facing the bathroom and finish myself off.
1. I watched a really awful Godzilla movie. Up there with the 98 Godzilla and Godzilla's Revenge.
2. I had to move some stuff out of the doorway until delivery people come, so our standing coat hanger is in the middle of the living room. Every time I come out of the bathroom, I forget it's there and think there's someone standing in the apartment until I recognize it's the pole with coats hanging on it. This last time made my heart stop.
I should just put the Happy Meal box on top facing the bathroom and finish myself off.
GasBandit
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Playing Kerbal Space Program a lot recently, and it occurred to me... why isn't a small gas-launched magnetic grapple on a spincast reel standard issue external mount for spacesuits? Think Mission to Mars or Gravity... imagine how much heartache would have been saved if Tim Robbins and George Clooney basically had batman's grapple but with a magnet on the end. And in zero gravity, it doesn't take much propellant as there's no arcing... it'd basically need less oompf than a shaken can of soda to have range of whatever length of cable was on the spool.
Send that suggestion to NASA.
GasBandit
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What, did you forget to preface it with a trigger warning and forget to say how you can't even?
I just wanted to tell people in the Welcome to nightvale fandom my point of view on something.
I basically told them that expecting a writer to write a 100% happy couple is...well..boring in fiction.
And now I'm being told I am homophobic for not wanting to see the gay leads together...which isn't what I said? I just said conflict isn't bad and you can't hold you expectations over a witter? I mean...how can they advance the story that way?
I basically told them that expecting a writer to write a 100% happy couple is...well..boring in fiction.
And now I'm being told I am homophobic for not wanting to see the gay leads together...which isn't what I said? I just said conflict isn't bad and you can't hold you expectations over a witter? I mean...how can they advance the story that way?
In microgravity, you could basically just fling it yourself.
Buuut if the vessel is made of aluminum, it's not gonna stick.
--Patrick
figmentPez
Staff member
Oh my goodness. You mean you actually said you want a homosexual couple to be written to be just as human and flawed as a heterosexual couple... on Tumblr? At least you didn't insult pansexuals... Wait, are either Cecil or Carlos pansexual? Because pansexuals are to Tumblr what cats were to ancient Egypt.
I really want to argue with this person on tumblr but I just...ugh. Do I have the energy?
They are saying, basically, if a writer is told something could be offensive by a group they should not write it.
I find that to be a...disturbing line of thought and I am not sure I can properly articulate WHY. Especially when it comes to the realm of fiction.
Also, this person keeps using the word 'trope' like its a bad thing and that irks me.
..and we are arguing over a theory, something that may happen...not something that has happened.
...no...probably not worth it.
They are saying, basically, if a writer is told something could be offensive by a group they should not write it.
I find that to be a...disturbing line of thought and I am not sure I can properly articulate WHY. Especially when it comes to the realm of fiction.
Also, this person keeps using the word 'trope' like its a bad thing and that irks me.
..and we are arguing over a theory, something that may happen...not something that has happened.
...no...probably not worth it.
I know Cecil is pretty canonly exclusively gay. Carlos...well...not sure?
You must have seen the post. I'm not WRONG , am I?
Again, keep in mind they are all riled up over a rumor from the live show that happened. I read the spoiler and thought 'oh wow! I can't WAIT to see how this plays out!"[DOUBLEPOST=1402099026,1402098958][/DOUBLEPOST]
I think I'm going to boot up Brutal Legend. That's fun.