8:11 AM Mr. Silver
I’m reading old conversations. We seem brilliant.
8:12 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
8:12 AM Mr. Silver
Mr. Blue succumbed to that illusion too, a while back.
He forgot that 90% of the rest of a day's conversation was bitching, stupid crap, or dead silence.
8:26 AM Mr. Brown
I don't understand how someone could be so stupid.
8:27 AM Mr. Silver
Hehe. This from the fellow who spent a few days wondering if life could evolve on it, or if you could shoot planets through it.
But yeah...30 degrees? Riiiiiight....
8:30 AM Mr. Brown
Well see, I know it’s really hot all the time. It’s common knowledge. My stuff was theory based on facts; not saying “let’s walk on the Sun in winter time!”
LOL
I’m not that stupid!
LOL
8:31 AM Mr. Silver
I don't think you're stupid. A bit loopy, but no one's allowed in here who isn't.
9:53 AM Mr. Blue
Client name: RICHARD RICHARDS
That poor bastard. I tried to get him to say it…I asked him his name and he said "Mr. Richards" and I asked for the name on the order and he said "R.S. Richards"
9:56 AM Mr. Silver
Dick Dicks
I wonder what the S stands for.
10:19 AM Mr. Blue
I never played Risk, but I think I would have liked it.
10:20 AM Mr. Silver
It's a good game...some of the variants too.
10:23 AM Mr. Blue
There a way to play it here?
10:25 AM Mr. Silver
Not in any traditional way, no.
10:38 AM Mr. Silver
There's a big map, cards, 5 dice in 2 colors, and about a thousand army pieces.
There are some decent online versions.
10:45 AM Mr. Silver
But nothing beats getting angry and frustrated at a live ex-friend gloating at the table though.
11:24 AM Mr. Silver
So Mr. Blue...you haven't played Clue?
Mr. Brown, you have?
I had this idea from the other day.
11:25 AM Mr. Blue
Clue? I’ve played it.
11:25 AM Mr. Silver
Ah...must have been someone else.
11:25 AM Mr. Blue
I demand an apology.
11:26 AM Mr. Silver
Apology? Can't we just duel to the death like civilized men?
11:26 AM Mr. Blue
*sigh* I suppose. I DO demand satisfaction.
11:27 AM Mr. Silver
Dawn, swords, at that field at the park by the pool? Tomorrow OK?
11:44 AM Mr. Silver
"The new 'Vaporware Station' plan will be crowd-sourced as NASA just got a big paycut."
"We have top scientists drawing pictures now. They are the most advanced drawings of their kind."
"With a bit more funding we believe photo-realism of the new station pictures can be achieved by the end of the decade."
11:56 AM Mr. Silver
"Drawings of the SLS, or 'Space Launch System', have been tested by review boards, experts and the public for several years now, and we're still making exciting edits."
12:07 PM Mr. Silver
"We actually have a full-sized mockup or "prototype" of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle that a steampunk artist put together for us from the drawings and some old Gemini parts. It's currently in "ground testing"...meaning it's on the grounds for photo-ops and tours to get reaction data."
12:11 PM Mr. Blue
Heh..
12:20 PM Mr. Silver
Want one
What's the German for "Flying Woodchipper Accident Machine"?
12:44 PM Mr. Blue
Das Fallbeil
12:51 PM Mr. Silver
Needs "whirling" added, or something.
There's the Chinese "Flying Guillotine" but it's a different design.
1:14 PM Mr. Blue
1:21 PM Mr. Silver
Yes...just pretty rocks...about it
1:23 PM Mr. Blue
What is unfortunate is the process of extracting the diamonds. People die or get seriously maimed. Those that don't are paid unfairly for their labor.
1:24 PM Mr. Silver
I believe I read this article a very long time ago.
1:26 PM Mr. Blue
It must be old.
I don't know about you, but the banner ad at the top of my window is for diamond rings.
1:29 PM Mr. Silver
Yup!
That’s funny.
“Nothing tells your woman you love her like a valuable ring with a valueless chunk of glasslike material stuck on."
1:32 PM Mr. Blue
You never know. Diamonds are valuable in industrial processes; perhaps your lady needs to cut through steel or something.
1:32 PM Mr. Silver
(sings) "Every grinding-wheel begins with Kayyyyyyy"
(USA jewelry chain's advertising jingle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltA50HKyM14
Mr. Silver)
1:36 PM Mr. Blue
Apparently the cartel pays people in diamond-rich parts of Africa to not pan for diamonds to eliminate the possibility of a black market with more competitive prices.
1:42 PM Mr. Silver
Well, they can't have people out there with diamond-soled boots out there, y'know.
1:56 PM Mr. Silver
There was talk of thin-sheet diamond growing for use in portable electronics a while back...that never seemed to get anywhere. I suppose because of the conspiracy.
1:56 PM Mr. Brown
I’ve been so busy I have no clue what you are talking about.
LOL
1:56 PM Mr. Silver
Diamonds are low-value shiny rocks, artificially inflated in value through propaganda and control of production and trade.
They are also not particularly hard to make anymore.
1:59 PM Mr. Silver
My last allusion was to two articles...one saying a team made thin sheets of diamond suitable for display screens and windows.
And another team talking about using such surfaces for electronics.
There's a third I recall about using them for holographic data storage
And a fourth team that found out that low-grade diamonds in a microwave turns them into high-grade diamonds.
1:59 PM Mr. Blue
How much did you two spend on your engagement rings and all that?
1:59 PM Mr. Brown
About $3000
2:00 PM Mr. Silver
Wow...
About 1/3 of Mr. Brown...but in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
We'd never have afforded them up here.
2:10 PM Mr. Silver
I was trying to get some sort of comparison pictures of a jewelry store here and one there....apparently jewelry stores don't take pictures of that sort of thing.
2:13 PM Mr. Silver
Well...hmm… You've seen a department store jewelry department, right?
They have the islands of good stuff with attendants in the middle, and the tables and racks around for lesser stuff.
Picture that...
But twice as big...
With little to no space between the items...
Staked up the building walls in places...
And no costume jewelry section.
And that's one shop...
And I couldn't count how many there were downtown.
2:16 PM Mr. Blue
Why is it cheaper?
2:16 PM Mr. Silver
Supply should be apparent for one. There's no tax either for either party in the transaction.
Technically you can declare it in customs and they might want to levy something...but it's US to US and no one really asks.
2:18 PM Mr. Silver
Going in knowing full well how much competition there is, and with prices inflated for tourists, you can bargain down a lot too.
2:18 PM Mr. Blue
Cool.
So you're technically a Caribbean pirate & smuggler.
2:18 PM Mr. Silver
I'd be a pirate only if I'd come by boat and didn't pay.
A smuggler? Yeah.
My pirate/privateer past life was SCREAMING!
“GIMMIE!!!!!!”
But my modern life was thinking: "I’ll bet there's an automatic shotgun or SMG under every one of these counters, with a tactical vest beside it.”
2:51 PM Mr. Brown
I hate paying hospitals.
3:06 PM Mr. Brown
Dang it! And now my step dad is back in the hospital.
3:07 PM Mr. Blue
That's how they get ya.
If you don't pay your bills, the hospital will take it out on your relatives.
I once skipped out on a bill for x-rays, so they broke my mom's legs.
3:12 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
3:25 PM Mr. Silver
"Honey! There's a Doctor Lepipe at the door about your son's hospital bill."
"It's Lead Pipe...Doctor Lead Pipe. Actually if she's busy I'll talk to you. I'd prefer inside with none of the neighbors eavesdropping though."
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