Dusty Chalk

Still working mah wah through the AK 100 box set -- No Regrets For Our Youth is taking forever (it will be across three nights).

It'd be nice if they invented an AI that could -- after someone clicked the "post" button -- instead jump you to the single oldest post most resembling yours, and then you could read the responses, as if they were directed at you.

Paul Chambers, Whims of Chambers

Win.

There are a lot of Apple stores around here.

It's all about displacement -- all you need is a big enough rowboat.

Ah.

ShopNBC sells it (or did sell it, or will sell it, I don't know) for ~$100, which means sale price will be about 80, so it's on the good side, but not a steal. Get it if you want it, but don't get it because you think it's 89% off -- they never sell for full MSRP.

"Karlie"? I know a lot of guys name their schlong, but I've never known one to name their condom.

But that can be fixed in post.

You make that sound like a bad thing.

I don't know, I think that's pretty special.

Tourists always see more of DC than I did, even though I've lived in the area my entire life. I did see a bit when I was a kid, but mostly the Smithsonian. I have gone back and revisited Air & Space a few times, a few others, and the Spy museum is still on my list, but really, I'd go mostly for the socializing (I.E. without-of-town visitors). Pizzeria Paradiso, Lost Dog Cafe, and Black Squirrel are a couple of places on my list. Weird how they all show up on the Ratebeer.com proximity map -- Pizzeria Paradiso being walking distance from work (I don't think it's in Dupont Circle, I think that's Georgetown, innit?). Dan, feel free to talk about your allergies, I do. I sure hope it's not "air". Colin -- here's to hoping there's nothing to find, if that's possible.

"huge cones", lol

Yeezh. But it allows me to use the word I made up, based on a word from this page: bescumberment! I have not yet decided on context, however, so I leave it contextless. I will at some point in the future refer to Beellee as "bescumberbun", which will, of course, refer to this thread. As well as sounding like one of our endearing insults to each other.

Somehow, it seems less Goofy.

Like I said, a bad portent.

Lots more Anathema: We're Here Because We're Here, Hindsight, A Moment in Time, Were You There?, and A Natural Disaster (which is sounding a lot better after the passage of time, and being allowed to digest the radical change from one of the architects of the Gothenburg sound, to a more mainstream prog rock band, to a band that sounds like Radiohead meets David Gilmour era Pink Floyd).

Did they say 'nettles'?

Yes, correct. I can't speak for Duggeh, but in my case, that's just my particular brand of humor.

I was having this argument earlier -- to me, the difference between 'fantasy' and 'science fiction' is an element of the supernatural. Agreed? So the counter-argument is that how can we know that anything is supernatural? Maybe it's just as yet unknown. So my counterargument to that was, "fantasy is anything that violates science both as we know it today, or anything that may violate predictably known science or something to that effect", but I was already faltering, because the whole thing about science is that we don't know what we don't know, otherwise we'd know it. So he said, "okay, so anything with faster-than-light travel or time travel is fantasy and not science fiction, even if they don't violate any other known scientific laws". To which, I of course, had no argument, so settled with, 'yo mama was science fiction...until I did her last night, then she was my fantasy'.* So...anyone want to throw out a definition that will help either side of the argument? *Not really, I didn't think of that until just now.

Red cream soda? They couldn't be bothered to make it taste like cherry or strawberry or whatnot, so they just called it 'red'? Doesn't bode well...

That was my first thought. You don't have many just plain dull people over there?

If you cross your eyes, it almost pops out at you looks 3D.

Oh, well if it's science fiction or fantasy, than you should definitely get an iPad. [/random snark]