Daily Thread, 9/26/06

[Lycos]

DNP. Instead, I did some reading. Cindy and I watched Heroes, Law and Order CI (the good one), and Law and Order SVU. Then I went to bed a little early. That was pretty much it. :D

[Caranthir]

Played Calliandra for a bit, then watched Heroes and Eureka. Called it a night early.

[Serani]

DNP. Rubi did, but I don't know what he did. I'll let him tell ya.

I read more of Witness in Death and then watched a few more episodes of SG1, season 5.

Tonight is class. (BLEH)

[Charinida]

I didn't go shopping. Really!! Okay, I did go out, for a sandwich from the Barista, a few lotto tickets and coca-cola...

Still trying to clean some junk outta the apartment... It's a long arduous process... I need to stop the PC Gamer subscriptions (I hardly play many of those games anyway). Same for PMS/OPM... I'm picky on my games... Although the hardware reviews are nice... Gotta stop buying Maximum PC and all the various Mac magazines too. With all the times I visit Border, and the money spent, might be cheaper to just read there. I've a lot of magazines (with CDs) to toss... Or maybe try and eBay them for a buck a piece...

Finally got the new Corel painter program. Silly canadian company. Wasn't sure if it was shipped or not. One time, the status said shipped, another time it said processing. Never got an email saying that it was shipped, other than the order was placed. Ordered it last sat, shipped Monday. received yesterday. And the status still says processing. Using their "Customer Support Feature" didn't help too much. But, now I've something to play with more... And study with...

Still can't enter EQ1, but did get EQ Classic installed on the Mac. Of course, EQ-Mac server is named Ak'Anon I believe. Blerg. Gnomes. Can't get away from them... Server population is very light from what I read. Seeing the graphics, totally different from L2 and EQ2 (naturally)... Heck, at times, WoW character models puts it to shame! Now, if I can remember what I did with all my EQ notes... Oh yeah, I tossed them. /sigh. But I still have those books! If only for the artwork...

Speaking of games... I suprised quite a few folks by popping into EQ2. Kelli anyway... Did get a system lockup/freeze 'cos of QH... Finished a few quests pretty much when everyone left and she is now L31... After how many months of being 30? :D Dropped a couple of adept books in the bank (paladin, and shadowknight) and a collection item.

Enjoyed Heroes. Very nice...

Overall, it was a quiet day... Now to figure out what breakfast I want from the Dodo...

[Sagar]

Whew! Work has been WAY to hectic lately...

Weekend: Went to Atlanta to visit Murgos and to take Tucker to a dog show. Tucker came in 4th each day so no points. We had fun at Murgos' though. Evenstarr, after much complaining about being picked-on, kicked our buttes in Settlers of Catan.

Sunday: Got a flat tire on the way back from the dog show. Tried to get the tire fixed before we left Atlanta, but it was ruined. Then we got stuck on the interstate for 45 minutes as a bus caught on fire and they closed all the eastbound lanes while it burned. Luckily, it looked like everyone got out ok as the bus was pulled over to the side of the road and 100 yards down the road, a passel of teenagers were sitting on the guardrail looking bored.

Monday: Checked on new tires. The front two were almost worn out. One back one was good but the other one was the flat one. So 3 bad out of 4. *sigh* $625 for new tires. I swear I will remember to rotate this time.. HONEST!

Tuesday: Planned to play but wound up vegging, watching Dancing with the stars and playing on my GBA.

[leng]

Played a bit of WoW. Warlock is now 9 (need 10 for a hardy pet to keep me from getting bashed) and the night-elf druid is 3, which more or less means that I've logged on with her once.

Managed to find a home for one of my older PC's. I hate throwing things away that still work.

[EricStratton]

DNP. Worked until 6-ish then met Joy for dinner out in Centreville. Came home, watched a couple old episodes of Simpsons and Scrubs then went to bed.

[Raveneye]

DNP.

Soccer practice for the boy, then kids bedtimes after which I watched Eureka and then House which I taped earlier. Good stuff.

Feeling like total crap this morning, but plugging away at work anyway because I want to take Friday off and have a lot of stuff to do before then.

[Andrea]

DNP. Jack was promoted in karate yesterday. He now has his Orange with a White stripe belt! Although he still kills zombies on a daily basis (ie. sister, dog, neighbors etc etc) he now wants to be a ninja. He dresses in all black, hides, and scares the **** outta everyone. I have a ninja hiding in my home at any given moment, i never know what is hiding behind the corner. I have clothes that hang above the washer/dryer that need to be line dryed, well the other day when Nina was washing her clothes (yeah, i make my 9yr old do her own laundry now, aint no free ride here in my home). Jack was hiding in the clothes that were hanging up and he scared the **** outta her. In fact she was so scared that she started to cry a lil bit (but she wont admit it). I scolded him but after it was all said and done, it was pretty damn funny. Meanwhile all Celina does is talk on the phone and ride her scooter with her friends all day.

[EricStratton]

(yeah, i make my 9yr old do her own laundry now, aint no free ride here in my home)
Damn, what's up Mommy Dearest. :lowrazz: I didn't start doing my own laundry until I left for college (and even then I only did enough to get me thru to the next holiday). :lowlol:

Oh and as for Jack being a ninja, at least you have protection from both zombies *and* pirates now. *That's* security.

[Sylvene]

Got Acronis TruImage 9.0 and it didn't quite do what Bro - who had been using 8.0 expected.

It clones disks. Not partitions. So it makes a bootable clone. After much discussion... if I want the comp to dual boot, I'm going to have to install Windoz into the other partition as well. With all the patch / update / driver updates... what we'd been trying to avoid. :(

During all that discussion, I was updating EQ, DDO and WoW. So... let that run and distracted kids while Bro re-set up the house listening system as the electronics and X-Box got back from the Tradeshow. Played some tunes, video and the Lost Planet demo to make sure everything ran alright.

Hmm... Bro's gotten a whole lot better at the game. Wonder why. :lowlol:

[Sylvene]

Damn, what's up Mommy Dearest. :lowrazz: I didn't start doing my own laundry until I left for college (and even then I only did enough to get me thru to the next holiday).

I'll admit that I didn't do my own laundry until I left for college myself. But I did lay the table, help clean it, and dry the dishes at nine! Also folded my own clothes and put them away.

[Andrea]

I'll admit that I didn't do my own laundry until I left for college myself. But I did lay the table, help clean it, and dry the dishes at nine! Also folded my own clothes and put them away.

Jack does the dishes (rinses them and sets them in the dishwasher then unloads it when its done). Nina does her own clothes. Hey, they now want allowance, so they gotta earn it! :mrgreen:

[Caranthir]

I'll admit that I didn't do my own laundry until I left for college myself. But I did lay the table, help clean it, and dry the dishes at nine! Also folded my own clothes and put them away.

When I was a kid, I had to wash the dishes, keep my room clean, take the garbage out, and help my mother when she asked me. Of course, this was at a time when my dad could still tan my hide for not doing what I was told to do without having the government threaten him for doing so.

[Greebo]

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

[Lycos]

I forgot. Yesterday, Cindy showed me a class exercise paper that Clarissa wrote for school. It said, "My brother is a stinky and a pain in the butt.". :lowlol: The comment on the paper from the teacher was "Let's use nice words". :lowlol: She obviously never had a brother! :D

[Drax]

Took care of some chores before the real cable guy should up (named Larry, I kid you not :lowlol:). He apologized several times that we had to put up with the subcontracted idiot. Wish Larry had shown up on Sat... He was professional, polite, informative, punctual, and a cool guy. *sigh* We now have cable, but the house is untouched from Sat so we can should a supervisor the "finished product," and get as much fixed/corrected as possible.

Larry left before 10am, but I stayed home until ~1:30pm so I could set up and update my computer. Downloaded free Zone Alarm, updated Spybot and Microsoft/Windows, and installed a couple other programs. Uninstalled AOL and cancelled that service. So nice being able to download programs at 700-900kbps, as opposed to 25-28kps. :roll: :D

Worked a 5hour day, discussed my faith with a friend at work, then stayed up later than I should've playing around on Limewire. Some great (and some very disturbing) things to be found... :evileye:

[Kiir]

Damn, what's up Mommy Dearest. :lowrazz: I didn't start doing my own laundry until I left for college (and even then I only did enough to get me thru to the next holiday). :lowlol:

Oh and as for Jack being a ninja, at least you have protection from both zombies *and* pirates now. *That's* security.

Dang your parents were nice. My mom did mostly do the laundry because it was easiest for her to sort and wash it. We had to do the folding though and putting it in siblings rooms, we also had to do all the dishes, babysitting of siblings, random cleaning pieces, and I was the main driver for all afterschool activities starting as soon as I got my licence (though that obviously wasn't at 9). And we did have to move the laundry and start it on occation, it just wasn't a main, you must do your own laundry chore.

Okay Andrea be a mean mother ;).



As for yesterday, I played some CoV, thought about playing some DDO but didn't end up in the mood in the evenings. So just a bit of CoV and reading yesterday for me.

[Asharad]

Took care of some chores before the real cable guy should up (named Larry, I kid you not :lowlol:). He apologized several times that we had to put up with the subcontracted idiot. Wish Larry had shown up on Sat... He was professional, polite, informative, punctual, and a cool guy.

You have just described every experience I have ever had with a cable company. I just ask that they don't send a subcontractor out now, because 3 out of 4 times, you just have to get them to come back.

[EricStratton]

Dang your parents were nice.
No, my mother was nice. I'm not saying we had no chores (and when you've got 6 kids, most stuff gets done pretty fast), I'm just saying she did the laundry.

[Drax]

You have just described every experience I have ever had with a cable company. I just ask that they don't send a subcontractor out now, because 3 out of 4 times, you just have to get them to come back.
Yeah, Larry encouraged us to ask for an "in-house tech" every time we need to have a house call.

The bottom line is that, with the house pre-wired for the cable jack in the living room, there was already a black prewire cable ready for splitting. The JA (short for the subcontractor) should've wallfished from the basement, instead of going through the wood wall above the foundation to the outside, back in the garage, up through the garage ceiling, then down the individual walls to the newly installed cable jacks, during which he also drilled two holes into our bathroom walls (Thought it was one, but Larry said it looked like two holes.) *sigh*

[deepfred]

bah still no word on DSL =p DNP.

[Aananla]

DNP. We watched Heroes, which we both enjoyed.

Jennifer has been getting busier with her natural body care (http://www.sensaria.com/jmariebennett) business, which is really great.

[deepfred]

Yeah, Larry encouraged us to ask for an "in-house tech" every time we need to have a house call.

did you at any time say, "Git rr done!" - even whisper it?

[Drax]

did you at any time say, "Git rr done!" - even whisper it?
I said it right to his face! I swear to God I did!

I gotta go...




(The preceding was an imitation, as I don't really swear to God. ;))

[Asharad]

I think Larry the Cable guy is endemic of everything that is wrong with this country.

I don't mind if your aren't highly educated and don't know about stuff. There is lots of stuff I don't know about. However, I am constantly annoyed that- at some point- it became okay to be proud of the fact your were ignorant. General stupidity is now a celebrated trait.

[Sylvene]

I forgot. Yesterday, Cindy showed me a class exercise paper that Clarissa wrote for school. It said, "My brother is a stinky and a pain in the butt.". :lowlol: The comment on the paper from the teacher was "Let's use nice words". :lowlol: She obviously never had a brother! :D

:eek: :lowlol: :rotflmao:

What nice words are there to describe stinky? Teachers! Haha. Better for her to say "Tell me the good things about your brother."

[deepfred]

General stupidity is now a celebrated trait.

what do you mean now?

[Caranthir]

I think Larry the Cable guy is endemic of everything that is wrong with this country.

I don't mind if your aren't highly educated and don't know about stuff. There is lots of stuff I don't know about. However, I am constantly annoyed that- at some point- it became okay to be proud of the fact your were ignorant. General stupidity is now a celebrated trait.

This goes along with my theory that the eventual downfall of American civilization will not come as a result of terrorism or any other foreign enemy, but simply from the fact that the stupid breed more quickly and frequently than the intelligent.

Jackass 2 is evidence it's already begun.

[Aananla]

I think Larry the Cable guy is endemic of everything that is wrong with this country.

I don't mind if your aren't highly educated and don't know about stuff. There is lots of stuff I don't know about. However, I am constantly annoyed that- at some point- it became okay to be proud of the fact your were ignorant. General stupidity is now a celebrated trait.
For the life of me, I don't understand why someone saying "get er done" with a southern accent is funny. I feel like I missed the entire joke.

[Andrea]

For the life of me, I don't understand why someone saying "get er done" with a southern accent is funny. I feel like I missed the entire joke.

Gah, that reminds me, there is this HUGE truck that is raised with HUGE tires that has this HUGE decal that is on the back window that read "Git R Done". And everytime I see it around town, I just shake my head and think to myself, "How ****ing dumb is that?!" I should take a pict of it next time so yall can think the same thing. :roll:

[Caranthir]

For the life of me, I don't understand why someone saying "get er done" with a southern accent is funny. I feel like I missed the entire joke.

I know I only watch the Blue Collar stuff for Ron White.

EDIT: {In all fairness though, I also don't understand why people find Dane Cook funny either.}

[Drax]

EDIT: {In all fairness though, I also don't understand why people find Dane Cook funny either.}
I hear ya. He's one of the biggest success stories in recent time, imo, b/c he's publicized himself to be this fantastic standup comic even tho' he has absolutely no material or charm. Amazing.

[Andrea]

I hear ya. He's one of the biggest success stories in recent time, imo, b/c he's publicized himself to be this fantastic standup comic even tho' he has absolutely no material or charm. Amazing.

Different strokes for different folks....

I think he is funny as hell and OMG he is DAMN HOT too. Who doesnt like to look at a hot piece of....

[deepfred]

salon wrote an intersting article on dane cook recently that had a lot of explanations as to his success. primarily his comedy is uncontroversial, non-political, doesn't require much intelligence, etc.

but i gotta say i laugh with a lot of his stuff - especially the blow job in the car routine.

the interesting thing about the salon article was the link to an audio analysis of dane cook to louis ck (?), where basically they were telling the exact same jokes, only slightly differently.

as for larry & git-r-done, it's just a catch phrase to remind everyone who we're talking about. i like a few jokes larry tells, the pussy-willow farming one being my favorite bit, but a lot of his stuff can be hit and miss.

much like ron white, i love some of his stuff, eg the classic tater salad alias joke, but some of it is eh.

i think we're spoiled with comedy, we get used to the likes of a george carlin, bill hicks, stephen wright, or a jerry seinfield and then wonder why everyone else is no where near as good - well, it's cause those guys were/are masters.

but there's always something new out there coming because of the way comedy works these days, and i love that. the minute you think all that's left out there is blue collar tour comedy, an eddie izzard comes out of nowhere and reminds you that it's an evolutionary process.

(and "OMG he is DAMN HOT" is probably the root of dane's larger success, listen to one of his live gigs and sounds like an elvis or beatles concert in the 50s/60s, tons of screaming chicks throwing their underwear on stage)

[Caranthir]

Different strokes for different folks....

I think he is funny as hell and OMG he is DAMN HOT too. Who doesnt like to look at a hot piece of....

Fair enough, but his last HBO special put me to sleep. And I don't think I even chuckled once before I did so.

I'll stick with Stephen Lynch and Lewis Black. They may not be hawt, but they're definitely funny.

[Charinida]

I thought Cook was pretty cool... Not sure on the hotness, but cool! ;)

not sure I know who Lynch or Black are... :(

I used to watch Lente Loco a lot a long while back... these days, not much comedy/comedian watching :(

[Zyzzyx]

How about Gallagher? OK, maybe the Sledge-o-Matic was an early downturn in the intelligence of comedy, but a lot of his other stuff wasn't.


Or... a bit more classic, how about Red Skelton. Or Victor Borge. His 'phonetic punctuation' bit is always great.

[Caranthir]

I miss Richard Jeni. His "Jaws: the Revenge" skit was hilarious.

[Charinida]

I remember Gallagher... Felt sorry for the folks in the first few rows of seats... :D

I still have my Carlin, Williams and Cosby albums... Wasn't really that keen on Murphy...

Mind of Mencia... That's not bad... :)

/ponders

[Caranthir]

Mencia's too self-congratulatory. It's not hip and edgy if you announce to the audience you're being hip and edgy.

[Drax]

Several of the guests on Bob and Tom Show are great. I particularly enjoy listening to the likes of Heywood Banks (songwriter; his newest, Big Butter Jesus, is pure genious), Mike Birbiglia, Brian Reagan, Jim Gaffigan, Auggie Smith, Roy Wood Jr, some Sean Morey stuff, Henry Phillips, Mike McCray, Mike Armstrong (this guy does a fantastic Indiana Jones impersonation, along with Sean Connery as the father), and a few others. Some great stuff out there, still, even if few are the masters of yesteryear.

[Andrea]

I saw Gallagher once in Lake Tahoe about 8 yrs ago. It was fun. Sledge-o-Matic is da bomb.

[GravenStone]

Gah, that reminds me, there is this HUGE truck that is raised with HUGE tires that has this HUGE decal that is on the back window that read "Git R Done". And everytime I see it around town, I just shake my head and think to myself, "How ****ing dumb is that?!" I should take a pict of it next time so yall can think the same thing. :roll:

Every time I see a vehicle like this, I have to ask myself "I wonder how well that overgrown piece of trash would drive if I took out his right front tire?" Something tells me he wouldn't be too damned stable on only three points when raised that damned high off the ground...

[GravenStone]

Several of the guests on Bob and Tom Show are great. I particularly enjoy listening to the likes of Heywood Banks (songwriter; his newest, Big Butter Jesus, is pure genious), Mike Birbiglia, Brian Reagan, Jim Gaffigan, Auggie Smith, Roy Wood Jr, some Sean Morey stuff, Henry Phillips, Mike McCray, Mike Armstrong (this guy does a fantastic Indiana Jones impersonation, along with Sean Connery as the father), and a few others. Some great stuff out there, still, even if few are the masters of yesteryear.

I like a lot of the comics they bring on. They, however are well past their Sell By date in terms of freshness. I used to listen to those two idiots in the late 70's on WIOT out of Toledo. That's where they crafted a lot of their schtick, before moving to Indy in 82 or so. Granted, they've dropped some of their most racially insensitive bits, but they still get a lot of play out of gay baiting, for example.

[EricStratton]

I can't stand Dane Cook. Jokes about smashing ice cream into a kids face just cuz? Yeaaaah.

Mencia is a hack.

I like Jim Gaffigan. He cracks me up.

[EricStratton]

Every time I see a vehicle like this, I have to ask myself "I wonder how well that overgrown piece of trash would drive if I took out his right front tire?" Something tells me he wouldn't be too damned stable on only three points when raised that damned high off the ground...
Different strokes, right? Riding in a lifted truck/jeep w/ big ol' swampers is fun as hell.

[Serani]

Carlin, Williams, Cosby, Goldberg...I'd prefer their stuff anyday. I did like Gallagher and there have been a few others I've just laughed my arse off over, but not Cook. Back when I was with GameDog, the chicky who ran it sent me a Dane Cook CD and I was bored to tears.

[Andrea]

Different strokes, right? Riding in a lifted truck/jeep w/ big ol' swampers is fun as hell.

Thats right! I love riding in my lifted off roading mo-chine! Offroading is fun as hell. You, Gravenstone, are NOT allowed to ride with me. ;) :mrgreen:

(Yes, my Xterra is lifted with huge ass tires. TYVM)

[Sylvene]

tons of screaming chicks throwing their underwear on stage

I've never quite gotten that. Is it an American thing or is it European too? I still remember my mom's story about Englebert Humperdink's engagement at an exclusive club in Singapore.

Asians are no where as exhibitive - especially in those days. Polite applause is best you get. If you are reallly, really good, standing polite applause.

So he does his usual routiine and gets hot and sweaty... whips out a handkerchief... tries to hand it to these "bedecked with jewelry" chinese ladies sitting at a front table with their spouses. Gets horrified looks before one finally takes it between thumb and fore-finger, leans back as far as she can and dabs gingerly.

Meanwhile, a table of American women farther back are about to swoon with envy.

It's changed a lot now, as evidenced by screaming hordes in the DVDs of Live performances of the hottest stars in HongKong / Taiwan I've seen, but still no tossing of underwear on stage.

[Caranthir]

I've never quite gotten that. Is it an American thing or is it European too? I still remember my mom's story about Englebert Humperdink's engagement at an exclusive club in Singapore.

Asians are no where as exhibitive - especially in those days. Polite applause is best you get. If you are reallly, really good, standing polite applause.

So he does his usual routiine and gets hot and sweaty... whips out a handkerchief... tries to hand it to these "bedecked with jewelry" chinese ladies sitting at a front table with their spouses. Gets horrified looks before one finally takes it between thumb and fore-finger, leans back as far as she can and dabs gingerly.

Meanwhile, a table of American women farther back are about to swoon with envy.

It's changed a lot now, as evidenced by screaming hordes in the DVDs of Live performances of the hottest stars in HongKong / Taiwan I've seen, but still no tossing of underwear on stage.

Tom Jones must not come to Asia much then.

[Asharad]

I don't find Dane Cook particuarly funny either. I watched about 45 minutes of his HBO special and was bored. I'm obviously wrong though, cause the guy is amazingly successful. I blame Myspace.

I saw Gallager about 15 years ago and admit he was really funny.\

However, in my opinion the funniest comic working today, without a doubt, is Eddie Izzard. Check out Dressed to Kill, it is inspiring.

[deepfred]

yes... but do you have a flag?

[EricStratton]

This reminds me. Bill Cosby: Himself is on DVD now (I don't think it was before but I could be wrong). It is hands down one of the funniest standup routines I've ever seen. Pure classic.

[deepfred]

le singe avec du fromage... est dans l'arbre.

[Asharad]

yes... but do you have a flag?

No flag no country, that's according to these rules that...I just made up.

[Lycos]

This reminds me. Bill Cosby: Himself is on DVD now (I don't think it was before but I could be wrong). It is hands down one of the funniest standup routines I've ever seen. Pure classic.

I can't agree more. That was his best I think. :D

[Drax]

This reminds me. Bill Cosby: Himself is on DVD now (I don't think it was before but I could be wrong). It is hands down one of the funniest standup routines I've ever seen. Pure classic.
I think I bought the dvd 1-1.5yrs ago, and have watched it a handful of times.

Only a handful b/c prior to watching it the first time on dvd, I already had every bit but maybe a couple near the end, memorized.

"Dad is great!..... He gave us the chocolate cake!...."

[Charinida]

*grins* I still love that one...

I don't think I'll tire from listening to Cosby really... Even his "Adult Only" show in Las Vegas was great...

And yes, I like having cake for breakfast... and other stuff... Gotta agree with him... it has all the basics... Why fuss? :)