Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

Pragmier · March 21, 2013, 08:17:16 AM

Whenever it's on I must watch the last scenes in Constantine with Stormare as Lucifer. What an entrance. Does Walken, Oldman, and Glover proud.

Feb, 1964. Ali (then Clay) faces the most feared fighter of the day, Liston, who destroyed the previous champ. Very few give him a chance to survive.
Oct, 1974. Ali faces the most feared fighter of the day, Foreman, who destroyed the previous champ. Very few give him a chance to survive.

In 1898 a short novel titled Futility is written. It features the Titan, an almost unsinkable ocean liner, which goes down in the north Atlantic after striking an iceberg.

Sardondi · March 21, 2013, 09:58:34 AM

Quote from: Sardondi on March 09, 2013, 01:59:09 PM
Otherwise, dammit, there's still that floral smell. Except now cat piss is mixed with it. God, do I hate cats. I wish I could throw every cat in the world in a woodchipper, and then Peter Stormare should be allowed to uselessly lounge around all day. Cats are vile, useless animals. Just like their owners.

Quote from: Nucky Nolan on March 20, 2013, 01:42:10 AM
Even my dog winced at that one. Now, Art will never post on here again.

Heh. That was my double extra clever attempt to smoke out a returning-after-ban multiple-offender who was cat crazy. Well, this person was just plain crazy, but also irrational about anything unkind said about cats. By baiting this person - who should make yet another attempt to sneak in any day now - I was hoping to force a revelation of true identity, which would have been almost as good as making everyone come to the Great Hall while I harangued them with how I solved the big crime.

ItsOver · March 22, 2013, 07:42:26 AM

That's interesting. I'm getting ads on this site for Crest toothpaste in Spanish. Must be my love for Mexican food.

lonevoice · March 22, 2013, 10:47:10 AM

Quote from: ItsOver on March 22, 2013, 07:42:26 AM
That's interesting. I'm getting ads on this site for Crest toothpaste in Spanish. Must be my love for Mexican food.

I'm getting no ads anywhere on the interwebs, including CG, since I installed this: http://privacychoice.org/trackerblock

I have no association with PrivacyChoice, but I sure love their (free!) add-on.

It also adds an option to your browser tools where you can temporarily disable the trackerblock for any specific website where functionality is affected by it. So far, I've had very few instances where that's been an issue.

This was a random stupid thing on my mind when I read your post, so I guess it's on-topic.

ItsOver · March 22, 2013, 12:27:48 PM

Thanks. Oh, well, at least no adds for Noory's crapfest of "Beeyond Beeleef" have popped-up.

McPhallus · March 23, 2013, 11:51:24 PM

I'm starting to think Steve Ballmer is the George Noory of Microsoft.

b_dubb · March 25, 2013, 06:25:32 PM

Don Draper - Sex Monster

Sardondi · March 26, 2013, 10:20:47 PM

I found myself guffawing at these Terry Gilliam-style illustrations of student malapropisms and other errors in papers and exams: http://undergradhist.tumblr.com/

Eddie Coyle · March 26, 2013, 11:29:07 PM

I have witnessed and been a party to some really fucked up drug fueled behavior in my not so sweet nor short life...but holy shit, what I'm seeing tonight seems to take the cake.

A life long neighbor across the street, a 40-ish woman with a well known "habit"(she's a nun...wakka wakka, just kidding) is now starting her sixth hour of sweeping the sidewalk. In front of her house, which is probably 10 feet wide and 6 feet across. SIX HOURS. I'm going to presume she accomplished what she needed to clean about 5 hours and 50 minutes ago.

I'm not fond of her, so I'm staying the fuck out of it, this meth-addled witch is now drawing the attention of passerby(leaving the bars at 1am) and she seems to be getting more frenetic. It's really, really creepy. But the occupants of this house know that helping her is likely the fable of the scorpion and the frog.

Sardondi · March 27, 2013, 06:29:45 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on March 26, 2013, 11:29:07 PMI have witnessed and been a party to some really fucked up drug fueled behavior in my not so sweet nor short life...but holy shit, what I'm seeing tonight seems to take the cake.
A life long neighbor across the street, a 40-ish woman with a well known "habit"(she's a nun...wakka wakka, just kidding) is now starting her sixth hour of sweeping the sidewalk....

Damn. Around here it's a scandal if we hear someone's car after 10:00 p.m.

MV/Liberace! · March 27, 2013, 12:29:29 PM

fat women really hate me.

Eddie Coyle · March 27, 2013, 12:37:43 PM

Quote from: MV on March 27, 2013, 12:29:29 PM
fat women really hate me.

I notice how you didn't put that in the "things that annoy you" thread.

Yorkshire pud · March 27, 2013, 01:20:40 PM

I heard today on the radio that a certain species of vulture (It might be all, I don't know), are impervious to anthrax, cholera, and pretty much many things that would make our day not the best we've had.

ItsOver · March 27, 2013, 05:15:16 PM

They're known as politicians in the U.S.

Falkie2013 · March 27, 2013, 05:21:18 PM

Quote from: Sardondi on March 27, 2013, 06:29:45 AM
Damn. Around here it's a scandal if we hear someone's car after 10:00 p.m.

There's a homeless lady in Berkeley who does the same thing for hours across from the Foster's Freeze.

Have you tried to talk to her superiors about her behavior ?

Both people need help.

It's a harmless obsession but ...

Though if we could train them to move down the sidewalk and do it in shifts, we'd have much cleaner sidewalks.

BobGrau · March 27, 2013, 07:48:51 PM

Just got in from my first "Randall Flagg" walk of the year... 4 miles from one small town to another, bright full moon, snow on the fields, a lump of 'unobtainium' in my pocket and and a fair amount of it in my head already... fucking lush. Such a nice night I almost took the short cut through the spooky woods. Almost.

Eddie Coyle · March 27, 2013, 10:02:19 PM

Quote from: Sardondi on March 27, 2013, 06:29:45 AM
Damn. Around here it's a scandal if we hear someone's car after 10:00 p.m.

My 10 pm would probably be around 4am. I live at a confluence of three bars within 200 feet each other and they start emptying out around 1am. You know what's worse than frozen Chinese food vomit on your sidewalk in the morning? The still "fresh" Chinese food vomit of the summer months.

MV/Liberace! · March 28, 2013, 12:33:06 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on March 27, 2013, 12:37:43 PM
I notice how you didn't put that in the "things that annoy you" thread.

heh heh

McPhallus · March 29, 2013, 05:48:59 PM

Given that Facebook has about the shittiest usability I've ever seen, who the fuck wants a phone running "Facebook OS." Seriously, what the fuck.

MV/Liberace! · March 29, 2013, 09:58:16 PM

back in 2005, a friend and i made a two disc, 3.5 hour card magic instructional video set. we didn't have the money to market it, so the project fizzled out and we sold shit. i finally got around to uploading these to youtube.

if you want to be a card magician or just a slick card cheat, these are for you. disc 1 is an encyclopedia of card sleights. disc two puts these sleights together to form actual effects performed on the street, each of which is broken down in detail for you. i allowed youtube to run the anti shake processing on these videos, so sometimes it makes the image look a little weird... but i think you can see what's happening with the cards more clearly.

disc two is far more entertaining, so maybe you should start with it... but if you're serious about learning, start with disc one.

Cram Session Disc 1 - An Encyclopedia of Card Handling Fundamentals

Cram Session Disc 2 - Card Magic Fundamentals On The Street

999 · April 01, 2013, 07:10:02 PM

my concealed carry permit finally arrived today woo hoo

MV/Liberace! · April 05, 2013, 02:32:41 AM

My sleepy baby...

Favorite song makes sleepy baby wake up quickly...

stevesh · April 05, 2013, 10:12:47 AM

I'm not usually much of a sucker for darling baby pics and videos, but there's something about this kid ...

MV/Liberace! · April 05, 2013, 11:15:16 AM

Quote from: stevesh on April 05, 2013, 10:12:47 AM
I'm not usually much of a sucker for darling baby pics and videos, but there's something about this kid ...

believe me... she's soooooo going to be able to manipulate me. with a face like that, i don't know how i'll ever say no to her.

ChewMouse · April 05, 2013, 11:22:48 AM

Quote from: MV on April 05, 2013, 11:15:16 AM

believe me... she's soooooo going to be able to manipulate me. with a face like that, i don't know how i'll ever say no to her.

I suspect you won't. When she pulls you aside and says, "Pwease, Daddy, I NEED a real unicorn!" you'll be out bidding on ponies and buying a fake horn.

The good news is that I had a dad like that and look how I turned out!

West of the Rockies · April 05, 2013, 01:54:31 PM

Quote from: MV on April 05, 2013, 11:15:16 AM

believe me... she's soooooo going to be able to manipulate me. with a face like that, i don't know how i'll ever say no to her.

I agree with ChewMouse (above), Michael -- trust me, as a dad, it is very difficult to say no to your daughter. They have an ability like the cat in Shrek to somehow enlarge their eyes and force obedience!

Pragmier · April 05, 2013, 01:57:13 PM

Single dad to a teen girl here, and yeah, you're in deep shit.

West of the Rockies · April 05, 2013, 02:03:51 PM

Quote from: Pragmier on April 05, 2013, 01:57:13 PM
Single dad to a teen girl here, and yeah, you're in deep shit.

Any advice for raising an emotionally healthy teen girl, Pragmier? My daughter is just eleven, and I do worry about the years ahead. I've heard one obvious answer: keep communication open. Research suggests that getting girls involved in athletics and other events/clubs, etc. can be very beneficial. We did away with the TV years ago, so I can keep some control over the toxic flow of pop-culture influence on her. You got any suggestions?

MV/Liberace! · April 05, 2013, 07:43:55 PM

Quote from: West of the Rockies on April 05, 2013, 02:03:51 PM
Any advice for raising an emotionally healthy teen girl, Pragmier?

you didn't ask me, but i think the key to a girl growing into a healthy, balanced woman is to have a good relationship with her father. most of the screwed up women i've known have had no relationship with their fathers or the relationship was screwed up in some way. a girl being close to and receiving love from her dad is, i think, 90% of the battle.

West of the Rockies · April 05, 2013, 07:54:47 PM

Quote from: MV on April 05, 2013, 07:43:55 PM

you didn't ask me, but i think the key to a girl growing into a healthy, balanced woman is to have a good relationship with her father. most of the screwed up women i've known have had no relationship with their fathers or the relationship was screwed up in some way. a girl being close to and receiving love from her dad is, i think, 90% of the battle.

I agree, MV. I'm reading a book called Alpha Girls. One of the points it makes is that involved fathers who share with their daughters the sorts of things dads typically show their sons (sports, tree-climbing, bug-catching, and such) end up with strong girls who aren't afraid to speak up in class, who have positive self-esteem, and who won't necessarily be over-awed by boys who are all ego and bravado and nothing more.