Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[The General]

Normal people are very rare.

I prefer them to be medium rare, actually.

[onan]

I prefer them to be medium rare, actually.

For me, it is a choice between Argentine and Australian, but both rare.

[yumyumtree]

I'm at the Everett public library and there's a guy at a nearby computer talking to himself who sounds like the demon in the Exorcist. Pretty soon it looks like I may be making more money and can afford to have internet at home again.  That will be nice.

[pate]

I use this "app?" on my phone that allows me to write Memos to myself.  It is sort of my own personal Random Stupid Things thread.

So, today I am making a note to myself and discover that the last Memo entered was:

"String Cheese Theory"

I have no recollection of entering this memo, in an effort to solve the mystery I have used Google-fu

Here are the, what I assume to be, relevant things I have thus far discovered:

http://en.illogicopedia.org/wiki/String_Cheese_Theory

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080512100539AAWSa9M

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090221215555AAPZHxQ

http://stringcheesetheory.weebly.com/

http://www.memecenter.com/fun/78155/String-Cheese-Theory

Not Sure, but I find that fourth link particularly disturbing...


edit:  I wonder if this subject has potential for either Art or RCH's new shows...

[Camazotz Automat]

I'm at the Everett public library and there's a guy at a nearby computer talking to himself who sounds like the demon in the Exorcist. Pretty soon it looks like I may be making more money and can afford to have internet at home again.  That will be nice.

Captain Howdy††† has a library card. That's so darn cute.

Reminder: Always carry the Holy Water spritzer to public facilities. Whether you believe or not, the afflicted will respect it.


Meanwhile, the moon is at 99% full. And it sure as almighty hell feels like it.

http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phases/phasenow.php

I'm not saying, exactly, that the forum is a lunatic asylum tonight, but there is definitely an undercurrent as palpable as being slapped with a rubber chicken.




††† As Pazuzu first introduced himself through the Ouija board.

[jazmunda]

Nicolas Cage as Every Game of Thrones Character (Almost).

A Cage of Thrones

[ShayP]

Nicolas Cage as Every Game of Thrones Character (Almost).

A Cage of Thrones

I clicked the link. 

[Yorkshire pud]

I'm just going to leave this.....

Here.
Non-stick mayonnaise being developed - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33344955

[jazmunda]

20 Rare and Historical Photos

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

when did the teevee weather reporters turn into idiots? tornadoes here at the moment. the casters on KCTV5 cover it like they are speaking to 3 year olds.
the live video from their news chopper is great..... it got a wonderful shot of an F1 tornado as it hit Lee's Summit MO. close up and very clear. it was good because the F1 was somewhat transparent. you could see everything it was doing around it without being obscured by fine dust or debris.
the shots of the cell's rotating cloud wall is very clear and with the sunlit ground below, gives perspective of it's size.

while it lasts...  http://www.kctv5.com/category/274238/watch-kctv5-live-newscasts-and-replays

i love interesting evenings like this... 

[jazmunda]

This graffiti artist's 'experiment' with the authorities escalated hilariously.

[jazmunda]

How Many iPhones Does It Take To Stop an AK-74 Bullet?


https://youtu.be/DbVHe5A6rJs

[Heather Wade]

This graffiti artist's 'experiment' with the authorities escalated hilariously.

Good laugh, you find some trippy stuff on the intertubes.  This is the best.

[onan]

This graffiti artist's 'experiment' with the authorities escalated hilariously.

I want to see the pic where the guy doing the pressure washing beats the shit out of the guy with the paint and stencil.

[analog kid]

This graffiti artist's 'experiment' with the authorities escalated hilariously.

Found this animated version.

[Camazotz Automat]

President Obama declares Mark Cuban "OK."

Detractors say "not so fast" and cite suspicious behavior of the business mogul.

[albrecht]

 I just heard a friend of a friend got put into the pokey the other night because of a "hot check" warrant. (He got pulled over and I guess they ran a warrant check.) I was surprised because not many use checks anymore, most banks offer over-draft protection, and it has been sometime that I've heard of a check bouncing and especially a warrant for jail- but it also got me wondering:

How can a "hot check" get you jailed (when the amount wasn't even that much) but someone can default on a home worth several hundred thousand or "max out" credit-cards, and not pay, or not make a car payment doesn't go to jail? Sort of weird. The other, big, stuff seems to be handled civilly (ruin your credit score, repo your home/car, sue you in court to recoup the debt, etc) but you don't go to jail. You might need to declare bankruptcy but, so far, you don't go to prison or jail.

Is it because a "hot check" the intent is there to defraud but the "law" assumes with the others that you intended to pay but, for whatever circumstances, you can't later on? Or just a left over law from when days when it was harder to verify sufficient funds and their were check-kiting and paper-hanging gangs?

[Yorkshire pud]

I just heard a friend of a friend got put into the pokey the other night because of a "hot check" warrant. (He got pulled over and I guess they ran a warrant check.) I was surprised because not many use checks anymore, most banks offer over-draft protection, and it has been sometime that I've heard of a check bouncing and especially a warrant for jail- but it also got me wondering:

How can a "hot check" get you jailed (when the amount wasn't even that much) but someone can default on a home worth several hundred thousand or "max out" credit-cards, and not pay, or not make a car payment doesn't go to jail? Sort of weird. The other, big, stuff seems to be handled civilly (ruin your credit score, repo your home/car, sue you in court to recoup the debt, etc) but you don't go to jail. You might need to declare bankruptcy but, so far, you don't go to prison or jail.

Is it because a "hot check" the intent is there to defraud but the "law" assumes with the others that you intended to pay but, for whatever circumstances, you can't later on? Or just a left over law from when days when it was harder to verify sufficient funds and their were check-kiting and paper-hanging gangs?

Yes. Owning a car you later can't afford to run isn't theft or deception. Stealing a car through deception (via a hot cheque perhaps) is a crime.

[wr250]

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

7.3 billion people in the world, and only 210 currently on Bellgab.  Makes one wonder how the rest get by.

[albrecht]

Yes. Owning a car you later can't afford to run isn't theft or deception. Stealing a car through deception (via a hot cheque perhaps) is a crime.

You lawyerly types would like this explanation (interesting unlike your country, or the UK, for the most part, we still have archaic and common-law stuff that goes on state-wise and has not been consolidated (yet) totally. LA, for example, even has civil procedure more like the Continent- unlike most US States that goes more your, at least formerly, style Common Law based on precedent. I liked this explanation of the "cheque" issue here in TX:
http://app.dao.hctx.net/FAQs/4/Other_Divisions/5/Check_Fraud.aspx

[Autistic Star Children]

Vacation is half over. Will get a solid 2 weeks of Art before being swallowed back in the abyss

[Autistic Star Children]

[PB the Deplorable]

Just watched the highlights of the 3 day Tour of Yorkshire stage race cycling event. 

I think this was a new event, the first year it was held... (last year the roads of Yorkshire were used for a few stages at the beginning of the Tour de France). 

[Camazotz Automat]

In light of recent stunning deveopments, it came as little surprise early Friday that George Noory's classic The Face On Uranus will be slightly revised and slightly retitled.

Richard C. Hoagland's foreword will be removed and a new foreword will be added.

The title on all future editions of the book will be The Face On Uranus 2.0.

While Mr. Noory could not be reached for comment, Mr. Hoagland seemed relieved at the announcement:

"I never wrote a foreword for that GD book. George took a personal email he received from me and doctored it up in a horrendous manner and presented it as the foreword. I was shocked. When I called him out on it, he said he would make it up to me by someday letting me host on Coast to Coast."

While the name of the contributor of the new foreword has not been officially announced, our inside source provided us with the revised cover art that has already been finished. It appears below on the right:

[PB the Deplorable]

In light of recent stunning deveopments, it came as little surprise early Friday that George Noory's classic The Face On Uranus will be slightly revised and slightly retitled...

Disclosure is right around the corner. 

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Just watched the highlights of the 3 day Tour of Yorkshire stage race cycling event. 

I think this was a new event, the first year it was held... (last year the roads of Yorkshire were used for a few stages at the beginning of the Tour de France).

Where is Pud when you need him?

[BobGrau]

I wish I was fat enough to be mistaken for jolly.

[Yorkshire pud]

Where is Pud when you need him?

Contrary to popular belief I didn't compete in the Tour of Yorkshire. A lot of the route of last years Parc of the Tour de France I know very well indeed. 

Other counties exist apparently. 

[jazmunda]

In light of recent stunning deveopments, it came as little surprise early Friday that George Noory's classic The Face On Uranus will be slightly revised and slightly retitled.

Richard C. Hoagland's foreword will be removed and a new foreword will be added.

The title on all future editions of the book will be The Face On Uranus 2.0.

While Mr. Noory could not be reached for comment, Mr. Hoagland seemed relieved at the announcement:

"I never wrote a foreword for that GD book. George took a personal email he received from me and doctored it up in a horrendous manner and presented it as the foreword. I was shocked. When I called him out on it, he said he would make it up to me by someday letting me host on Coast to Coast."

While the name of the contributor of the new foreword has not been officially announced, our inside source provided us with the revised cover art that has already been finished. It appears below on the right:

Everybody knows that the Face of Uranus has only one eye. For those playing at home it is brown.