Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Day 180 - The Plan Requires Two Bald Eagles & A Nice Pair Of Tits, Vi'lations O' The Piratical Dress Code'll Earn Ye A Dance Wi' The Cap'n's Daughter, NASA Smoke & MIB Mirrors, "Pirate Adventure" & "Space Opera" Can Both Be Spelled With Three Xs, and Architecture That Puts The P & U In Pittsburgh

7:50 AM Mr. Brown
7:52 AM Mr. Silver
"Steve Moore is not only the lawyer for NARF, but also works closely with POIT and EGAD."
"The head of NARF, a Mr. David Brain, affectionately refers to Steve as 'Pinky'."
7:54 AM Mr. Brown
They should have Pinky as the mascot.
lol
8:18 AM Mr. Silver
"Hmm.  Yesss!  It could be done with two bald eagles!  Pinky?  Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but would Ronco spray-on hair look like feathers?" 
8:40 AM Mr. Gray
LMAO
Mr. Brown
I’ve been bird watching lately.
I put in a feeder.
8:44 AM Mr. Silver
Bird watching, eh?
Bald eagles?
8:45 AM Mr. Brown
No.  So far I’ve only had sparrows and titmouses at my feeder.
8:46 AM Mr. Silver
A nice pair of titmouses can keep a red-blooded fellow watching a bird for hours.



(A few of us at Katzenjammer Corp. send our bodies to work but keep our souls on the Spanish Main. In my case, at least, it's a past life thing. Technically, though, I was a privateer ;-) – Mr. Silver)
Mr. Silver
(memo) "Neck Ties are requested for the gentlemen (and even for the Pirates)"
11:02 AM Mr. Teal
>:-(
11:02 AM Mr. Silver
We should lodge a protest on it being a violation of our beliefs.
11:03 AM Mr. Teal
True.
11:04 AM Mr. Silver
"We will wear secret keys, bandannas, treasure pouches, gaudy jeweled necklaces, and even nooses...however..."
11:06 AM Mr. Gray
LOL
12:25 PM Mr. Teal
Shrunken heads?
12:25 PM Mr. Silver
Aye...those make a fine fashion statement as well.



11:57 AM Mr. Silver
"Alien Fleet To Make Planetfall Off US East Coast Early AM March 15th"
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/nasa-five-rocket-mission-to-launch-tonight-with-live-webcast.ars
12:00 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
12:06 PM Mr. Gray
I suspect they expect a giant radioactive lizard to head for New York.
12:07 PM Mr. Silver
"NASA spokesmen, closely flanked by unidentified security men in black suits and dark glasses, attempted to explain an obviously hastily fabricated plan to do with watching smoke blow in the wind.  The claim stated the plan had been in the works for months.  When this reporter asked if NASA had ever studied the jet stream over an ocean before, and postulated that the National Weather Service was more likely to perform such experiments, the spokesmen were visibly confused."
12:07 PM Mr. Silver
"After a brief huddle, the NASA team replied 'Sure, all the time.' and were escorted out by the security team."
"20 minutes later, the NWS called a press conference regarding their long standing jet stream project, and thanked the people at NASA for all their help behind the scenes."
12:10 PM Mr. Silver
"The spokesman for the weather service further explained - 'These tests over the west coast...EAST coast, I mean.  These smoke watching tests are crucial to determine... ... ... …stuff about jet streams.  And that's it.  No questions, please...seriously.  Have a good day.  Thanks for coming to the press conference.'
12:15 PM Mr. Silver
"Despite this abrupt dismissal, this reporter managed to corner a scientist to inquire why these tests were taking place in the middle of the night, to which he replied that 'we'll be able to see the smoke better in the dark at 100km distance.' "
12:20 PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
12:20 PM Mr. Silver
Hi Mr. Blue
12:20 PM Mr. Gray
Hey Mr. Blue
12:21 PM Mr. Blue
Tomorrow is the last day of training.
12:21 PM Mr. Silver
We were just talking about that, after a fashion.
There will, indeed, be no training some point after 12-1:30am tomorrow morning.
12:24 PM Mr. Gray
No training? Why?
12:25 PM Mr. Silver
Well...our new alien overlords will want us intellectually suppressed.
12:25 PM Mr. Gray
Ohhhh....well, all hail the new alien overlords. I want to join up if we get cool costumes...like Nazi jackboots or something.
12:26 PM Mr. Silver
Like the guys on “V” before getting eaten?  Yeah, cool!
12:27 PM Mr. Gray
Yep yep
I'd make a great pet.



Mr. Brown
“Pirates 2: Stagnetti’s Revenge”?
1:31 PM Mr. Blue
A XXX “Pirates of the Caribbean” spoof, sounds like.
1:45 PM Mr. Silver
Well...sort of…
1:54 PM Mr. Silver
I saw the first one and about 20 mins of the second.
There's no Jack Sparrow or similar in them.  They’re original scripts.
1:55 PM Mr. Blue
The porno one?
1:55 PM Mr. Silver
Yes.
Although there is the obvious "extra" content, the first at least wasn't a bad pirate-magic tale.
#2...well...I don’t know very much of what happens in it.
1:59 PM Mr. Silver
The other bit of trivia I know from #1 is that the production company rented a historical ship for use as a set and didn't clearly mention what kind of movie they were going to be doing using it.
Heh
There was a try at a lawsuit, but I think it failed.
2:02 PM Mr. Silver
The guy playing the principle hero is pretty funny.  A mix of Captain Kirk swagger and Walter Mitty pathetic.
2:02 PM Mr. Blue
How’d you watch it?
2:04 PM Mr. Silver
On a DVD.
Ironically, a pirated one (heh) given to me.
2:24 PM Mr. Silver
Did you ever see the one video on YouTube of the Star Trek: Next Generation XXX film where the submitter had taken out all the adult scenes, leaving basically a full episode Star Trek fan film?
2:24 PM Mr. Blue
Heh, no.
I guess "Flesh Gordon" was pretty good.  Like, it got some acknowledgement for its special effects and things.
2:24 PM Mr. Silver
Honestly, the Star Trek thing was pretty good
Decently cast, good production values, interesting story, passable acting, including the accents.
2:25 PM Mr. Blue
I’m sure Bollywood stuff is good without the song & dance numbers, too.
2:29 PM Mr. Silver
I’ve heard of "Flesh Gordon", but never ran across it to watch any of it.
2:32 PM Mr. Silver
Were you here the day I put up that the new XXX spoof of "Star Wars" was reviewed better than "The Phantom Menace"?
2:32 PM Mr. Blue
No
2:33 PM Mr. Silver
Mr. Gray said "Of course you know we have to see it now."



2:34 PM Mr. Brown
I just watched two black birds attack a hawk.
2:34 PM Mr. Blue
3/14/12 - never forget.



2:43 PM Mr. Blue
I’m not a huge fan of this guy's work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei
But I think a lot of architecture goes through a period where at first it's impressive, but perhaps controversial…then just hated & loathed for awhile…and then after a couple hundred years people really start to appreciate it.
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
He is pee?
2:46 PM Mr. Blue
I do like the Bank of China building in HK, though, and the Louvre pyramid isn't half bad.
2:57 PM Mr. Blue
Jean Nouvel was supposed to redesign the Carnegie Science Center.  I’m not sure what happened to that plan.  They probably got no funding.
It would hang out over the river; and that's not a cross section, it'd actually be glass.
2:59 PM Mr. Silver
I think when the committee saw that it looked like a North Sea oil derrick, they suddenly “couldn't find the funds”.
"I think the check is in my other pants.  No Mr. Nouvel, we'll call you back."
2:59 PM Mr. Blue
Heh, the other plans were even crazier.  One architect made it look like a giant caterpillar/worm type thing.
3:00 PM Mr. Blue
3:02 PM Mr. Silver
A celebration of the architect's love of muscle cars with big air scoops.
(Committee chairman, shouting) "What's that 'vrooming' noise all the time?  Is that being piped in or is it part of the design???"
3:12 PM Mr. Blue
Let’s design our own.
I hate how everyone designing anything in Pittsburgh uses the city's history as a steel Mecca as an excuse to make things cheaply.  Just open steel beams everywhere, like Heinz Field.
"It will be a throwback to Pittsburgh’s proud steel heritage, and also because we can't afford glass or brick."
The opposite of steel would be, like, jello.  So make the Carnegie Science Center look like a giant pink blob on the North Shore.  To enter, you literally press yourself through the substance.
3:21 PM Mr. Silver
Speaking of Pittsburgh’s Heinz heritage, we could make it look like a big pickle or blob of ketchup.
3:22 PM Mr. Blue
The Rooneys are cheap, and won't ever spend their own money for aesthetics.
3:23 PM Mr. Silver
How about a Bingo theme?  Apparently it started there.
3:25 PM Mr. Silver
(Architect revealing finished facility) "It's designed to look like an abandoned mill.  The corrugated metal panels were made in France from brass, then painted dull gray with rust spots for a very reasonable 30% of the project budget."
"The thousand small windows in the south wall were pre-broken and clouded to exacting specifications before installation."
Mr. Blue
"But where are the exhibits going to be set up?"
Mr. Silver
"I was just going to scatter them around the building at random, maybe in careless piles."
3:32 PM Mr. Blue
Heheh
3:34 PM Mr. Silver
“It's very 'Pittsburgh', no?"
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