Saturday, February 4, 2012

Day 159 - Hurling Was Nerfed In Ancient Days By The Addition Of A Ball, Vast Brown Waist, There's Ghost Hunting & There's Ghost Hunting, How To Curb Mr. Brown's Cravings, and A Ghost-less Ghost Story Of Revenge Or Accident From Beyond The Grave Or Not

7:01 AM Mr. Silver
End up doing anything with Mr. Gray on Friday?
7:02 AM Mr. Green
Wrestling and drinking.
7:03 AM Mr. Silver
The Celtic pastime.
7:03 AM Mr. Green
Yepper!



8:03 AM Mr. Brown
I found out I’m fat.
LOL
In some pants, I have to wear a size 38 waste now.
8:11 AM Mr. Silver
Waist/waste...either word use is illuminating.
8:12 AM Mr. Brown
Oops
LOL
8:12 AM Mr. Silver
You always spell it waste...no biggie.



10:54 AM Mr. Brown
Mr. Silver, I saw some of that Ghost Adventures show.
What a bunch of bull.
10:55 AM Mr. Silver
Where were they?
10:55 AM Mr. Brown
On a ship.  They kept switching to Top-Gun-like clips.
What the hell does that have to do with ghosts on the ship?
10:57 AM Mr. Silver
Heh
10:57 AM Mr. Brown
I couldn't continue to watch them to see what the ghost hunting they do is like.
The beginning was too much for me.
11:04 AM Mr. Silver
They get rather goofy/dramatic/gross on GA.
11:04 AM Mr. Gray
I just don’t like Ghost Adventures much.
11:04 AM Mr. Silver
I'd rather stick to Ghost Hunters, but Mrs Silver gets a kick out of them, so we watch together.
11:15 AM Mr. Silver
We used to watch Most Haunted, partially just to make fun of the brits’ histrionics and constant swearing.
11:25 AM Mr. Silver
Yvie - "Stuart decided to go down in the dungeon, alone, to see if he could make any contact with the Bloody Countess." 
Me - "We told Stuart he had to go down to the dungeon alone because he always freaks out at a pin drop and makes for hilarious telly."
11:25 AM Mr. Gray
LOL
11:28 AM Mr. Silver
Their first psychic, Derrik, had them all at some medieval inn...might have been Ram Inn.  He channeled the Satanic priest there (Derrik loved calling things Satanic) and instructed them in scary-voice to "Gooooo to the Baaaaaarrrn...." 
Where Stuart got attacked.
But the thing is, it really sounded like he said "Go to the bar", since the bar was haunted...
Mrs. Silver and I've been using that as a running gag since we saw it.
11:30 AM Mr. Silver
"Gooooo to the baaaaarrrrrr..." 
"Go to the barn?"
"Uhhhh.....(shrug) yeeeaaaahhhhh....gooooo to the baaaaarrrrrn...."
11:31 AM Mr. Brown
I just like that, in GH, they will have video of something moving - nobody moving it, just moving on its own - but they still will not call it haunted.
11:32 AM Mr. Gray
I agree.....they try to debunk and really don’t like to call a place haunted.  When they do, you know there is a lot of weird crap going on.
11:33 AM Mr. Silver
They didn't call Hales Bar Marina haunted and the place was constantly busy from the moment they walked in.
Review - "Honestly...it's all just sounds and shadows of people working and talking.  There's a lot, and it's really creepy, but it’s all residual."
Waverley Hills, on the other hand...that place is haunted.
11:35 AM Mr. Gray
I want to go there.
11:35 AM Mr. Silver
Yeah, me too.
11:35 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah that Hales Bar place was awesome.  Instant activity.
11:36 AM Mr. Silver
It’s not often those guys act so spooked in a place.  Meanwhile they went out to the sunken cemetery and were all jolly...just happy to be out of the old power station.
11:36 AM Mr. Brown
Well that feminine guy on the team always acts spooked.
LOL
11:37 AM Mr. Silver
The guy who seems just slightly gayer every episode?
11:37 AM Mr. Brown
Yep
LOL



11:41 AM Mr. Brown
I swear I have to have a vitamin deficiency or something.
I keep getting muscle cramps.
11:45 AM Mr. Silver
Rigor Mortis.
It’s not permanent, but you can expect to be pretty hungry after you loosen up again.
11:46 AM Mr. Gray
Please tell me you have something up there to defend yourself when Mr. Brown starts craving gray-matter.
11:47 AM Mr. Silver
Tron disk
11:47 AM Mr. Gray
That'll help.
Sharpen the edges.
11:48 AM Mr. Silver
Got a multi-tool too.
11:49 AM Mr. Gray
Better.  Remember....double-tap.
"Dear sirs,
I would just like to write to tell you how satisfied I am with your multi-tool.  I have, however, encountered one situation in which the tool did leave me lacking and would like to suggest a chainsaw or shotgun attachment for your next product."



1:38 PM Mr. Brown
Hmm.  I just read a Taiwanese ghost story.
It sounds a bit made up:
(Basically the story was long sentimental set-up for a doctor prescribing the wrong treatment and a beloved relative dying.  There were no ghost elements to the story at all.  However, it ended like this…)
Ten years later, the doctor was riding his motorcycle through town when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a tree. The accident killed him. Witnesses said that just before impact, he was screaming my aunt's name and imploring her to forgive him.”
1:41 PM Mr. Gray
Interesting story.
1:42 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah.  It seems made up to me though.  Somebody who knew the all the references 10 years after the fact just happened to be there to hear him yelling all that before he whacks into a tree and dies?
2:42 PM Mr. Silver
The aunt's Taiwanese name was "Oh Shit No Brakes!"

Day 158 - Ban Airline Pilot Sex, Ban Airline Pilot Weather Control, Assuming They Don't Kill You They Aren't Hard On Your Physique, Proponents Of The Wikipedialist Theory, and The Ante Is Two "Fun-Size" Hershey Bars

9:22 AM Mr. Blue
Who *are* these people?
9:23 AM Mr. Silver
People pandering to uneducated boobs.  Often also uneducated boobs themselves.
9:23 AM Mr. Blue
What gets me is the "It was an airline pilot, as I recall"
He's so specific about his recollection that it MUST be true!



11:00 AM Mr. Brown
That’s cool.
11:01 AM Mr. Blue
That one's weird.
11:01 AM Mr. Silver
"I can see that you're upset about this, Dave..."
11:03 AM Mr. Brown
What would cause a hexagon in weather patterns?  Normally it’s going to be circular.
11:04 AM Mr. Blue
It looks like it's at the pole.  So possibly upward forces that take the circular polar vortex and skew it.
11:05 AM Mr. Silver
The eye of the biggest hurricanes have been angular...pentagons I believe.  The tinfoil-hats think they were artificially made by weather control devices.
11:14 AM Mr. Blue
I remember that.
It was an airline pilot, as I recall
11:15 AM Mr. Brown
lol



12:30 PM Mr. Blue
If she's been eating them since 2, she should have been taken away from her parents a long time ago.
12:39 PM Mr. Brown
DAMN
I like that McCrazy chick!
lol
12:41 PM Mr. Blue
It’s hard to fault her.  Her mom was feeding her nothing but Chicken McNuggets before she was old enough to make her own decisions on food.
12:41 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah. 
It's tough for us to get Brown Junior to eat vegetables, but he loves fruit.
12:43 PM Mr. Silver
Give him nothing but veggies for a few days and let him decide if he’s hungry...
A bit gunboat, but he’ll start munching them up.
12:44 PM Mr. Brown
That McCrazy chick got nuggest
man
12:48 PM Mr. Silver
I assume you are admiring her 17 year old "nuggets". 
Well...apparently heavily processed chicken doesn't affect body type too much at that age.



3:04 PM Mr. Blue
Have you ever tried the thing where you open any Wikipedia article and click on the very first link in the article (and continue to do so) until you end up on philosophy?
3:04 PM Mr. Silver
Heh  No.
3:04 PM Mr. Blue
It works.  It took about 12 clicks to get from "Carrot Top (comedian)" to "philosophy"
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
I did see an "art" thing where a guy wasted everyone's time by starting with an image search, and then picking the first image (subject to some rules) in the “related searches” column.  He did this for 14000 images.
He then assembled them into a video showing them in rapid succession.
I actually sat through it, when bored out of my mind, to see if there was some sort of write-up explaining the purpose by the end.  There wasn't one.
3:13 PM Mr. Silver
About 10 years ago, Mr. Pig-Iron and I used to pick two words at random out of a book to see how many clicks were needed to take us to something x-rated.
That also always worked.
Rule 34...the early days.
3:14 PM Mr. Blue
Heheheh



(on gambling with candy – Mr. Silver)
3:33 PM Mr. Silver
"I win with 100 (urp) pieces of candy!"  
"Why is everyone moving so slow?"
"My pancreas hurts."
3:35 PM Mr. Blue
Heheh

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Day 157 - Femme Feat-ales, Police Still Seeking A Recipe For The Crime, Buckaroo Banzai: Unnecessary 4th Dimensional Adventures At Yoyodyne, McDreamy & Aliens, The Search For Germy Scum In The Solar System Goes On, and "Oh Sure! I Want To Rule The World! Riiiight! Sign Me Up For That!"

Mr. Yellow
So I found a feat that would allow all my spells to have a special effect.  For example, a fireball spell could appear as a screaming skull flying at you before exploding.
I thought it was funny but I’m not wasting a good feat on it.
2:32 PM Mr. Silver
A feat for special effects is a feat for girls...
2:34 PM Mr. Yellow
LOL
2:35 PM Mr. Silver
"This one sounds cute!"
2:35 PM Mr. Yellow
My spells are all pretty unicorns and go “Weeee”!
2:35 PM Mr. Yellow
It could be distracting.
2:35 PM Mr. Silver
Well it should be.  If that's written into the feat, then I'm for it.
2:35 PM Mr. Yellow
Imagine you cast a spell and it goes weeeee.
Your opponent might bust out laughing.
Everything sparkles!”
2:36 PM Mr. Silver
Well, try this...
My fireball looks like a singing bluebird.
Make a Sense Motive roll or get no Reflex save.
2:38 PM Mr. Silver
"Huh!  A bluebird, here!  Listen to that song; so pretty!  I wonder h-"  BOOOOM!!!!
2:38 PM Mr. Yellow
If I was a necromancer I might think about it. Screaming green skulls could be cool.
2:38 PM Mr. Silver
Add an Intimidate check…
-X to Spellcraft rolls…
Whatever; just make it do something.
2:41 PM Mr. Yellow
Yes, but the feat doesn’t work that way.
2:42 PM Mr. Silver
Bleh.



Mr. Mustard
Back to New Guinea for the deli with the Long Pork Cold Case?  With head cheese?
2:30 PM Mr. Silver
Any new ingredients in the Hollywood Sign dismemberment case?
Sorry...typo..."clues"
2:30 PM Mr. Mustard
They found out who the victim is so far, but not who dunnit.
 


Mr. Silver
So...Buckaroo Banzai...
I finally got through it (sober) recently.
And...well...
It didn't do it for me.
Mr. Silver
I liked the idea of Buckaroo Banzai.
I think a lot of people do.
"Wow!  I like this guy and this team and this tech.  I wonder what they'd be like in a good movie."
9:04 AM Mr. Yellow
I liked the movie when I watched it what back in the 80's.
9:06 AM Mr. Green
Yeah.  The concept and team was very cool.
9:18 AM Mr. Silver
I took issue with the Black Lectroid plan to hit the USSR with a particle beam if Buckaroo didn't destroy the Reds. 
9:08 AM Mr. Silver
"Um...you know the Reds are ALL at Yoyodyne, and where that is.  And you apparently have since the late 30s, but if you didn’t, you know now.  Just blow up Yoyodyne from orbit."



10:30 AM Mr. Brown
I had a zombies-and-aliens dream last night.
The aliens invaded Earth through our electronics.  They were energy-based aliens and were able to infect electronics and control them.
And the zombies were superhuman.  They could jump really high and move really fast.
But a crew-cut blonde Harrison Ford could kick their asses.  He had his Blade Runner look in the dream, except for the hair.
10:39 AM Mr. Blue
And then Patrick Dempsey shows up all oiled and tanned to save the day?
10:40 AM Mr. Brown
No.
He is not in my dreams.
I just like his movies.



12:08 PM Mr. Silver
It is my sincerest hope that Gingrich retires to our 51st state:
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
Most of his supporters probably still believe the Earth is flat and the Moon is fixated to a dome over top of the Earth.
Subjects like astronomy and evolution are voodoo to Republicans.
12:20 PM Mr. Blue
What percent of Republicans believe the Moon is made of cheese?
 I’m going to guess at least 25%.
12:20 PM Mr. Brown
The Moon is a base made to look like a moon.
12:26 PM Mr. Brown
If we made a sun on Earth the size of a golf ball, I wonder how much energy that would take to make and then how much would it give out .
(Never got a chance to say “That sounds like some kind of insane sci-fi ‘fusion reactor’ scheme” and put in a link for an existing project.  Oh well.  – Mr. Silver)
12:31 PM Mr. Brown
I wonder if life could form that can live on the Sun.
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
Since stars are pretty much the origin of all elements and the surface of any star is probably one of the harshest and most brutal places in the entire known universe, I’m going to say that it would take too long for life to learn to adapt to such conditions.  The universe would probably die sooner.
12:45 PM Mr. Brown
Well I’m looking at the fact that organisms live in hot pools in Yellowstone.
Not as hot as the Sun.
12:45 PM Mr. Blue
Bugs live on glaciers.
But the most extreme condition on Earth is still a paradise compared to any star.
12:46 PM Mr. Brown
So basically, there are already places we thought things could not live, but they do.
12:48 PM Mr. Blue
Nothing lives on Mars or the Moon.  If they're too extreme for life, a star definitely is.
1:03 PM Mr. Brown
There was life on them at one point, I’m sure.
1:03 PM Mr. Blue
Stars?  Oh, Moon/Mars.
1:03 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
1:03 PM Mr. Blue
Maybe microbial.
1:03 PM Mr. Silver
(blinks) Earth's moon? 
Uh...hmm…no.
Mars, sure.  And before it turned into a furnace, Venus possibly.
1:19 PM Mr. Silver
As long as we're in space again, last night I was watching a thing on Venus and got to pondering.
If we made the appalling effort required to shift that sucker out to an orbit following Earth's path, it'd be a much better place to terraform than Mars.
Mars is useless.
Venus is bigger and has an actual substantial atmosphere.
1:23 PM Mr. Blue
Venus is a lot more like Earth than Mars is.  Put it in Earth's goldilocks zone and yeah, good idea.  But if we can move planets, then we can probably do more than just terraform existing ones.
1:23 PM Mr. Silver
Yup, that's the trick.
1:24 PM Mr. Blue
Like ring worlds: not necessarily around the Sun but perhaps around the Earth.
1:25 PM Mr. Brown
We could build something like a Death Star to live in.
1:26 PM Mr. Blue
Or a big floating boiler room…like in "Space Mutiny".
1:27 PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps like a mall food court.
1:27 PM Mr. Blue
Sbarros in space!
1:27 PM Mr. Brown
Replace the Moon with Venus!
LOL
1:28 PM Mr. Silver
"Earth Destroyed By Ultra-Tides...No News At 11"



1:48 PM Mr. Brown
Did they ever find Hitler’s body?
1:48 PM Mr. Blue
No, he's still living in Argentina.
1:51 PM Mr. Silver
His living brain is in a jar in Die Glock in Noah's Ark in Turkey
1:51 PM Mr. Blue
I’m sure any charred remains they may have found were quickly picked apart by the troops for souvenirs
So I’m sure Hitler’s remains are scattered throughout the former USSR, in dusty attics and safe deposit boxes.
1:52 PM Mr. Silver
His backside is a public bicycle parking rack in Poland.
1:54 PM Mr. Brown
Well, I know there are a lot of stories of how he died.
1:54 PM Mr. Blue
There’s only 1.
He and Eva killed themselves.  They were wrapped in (probably) a swastika flag, burned, and their remains were buried.
2:04 PM Mr. Blue
So what were the other stories?
2:05 PM Mr. Brown
More stories of what killed him.
Like if he shot himself or if he took cyanide.
2:07 PM Mr. Blue
I thought most of the folks in the bunker did both in case one failed.
A 9mm bullet to the brain isn't foolproof.
2:07 PM Mr. Silver
They got through cyanide, bullet, and fire...
They never got to the rabid hedgehogs, steamroller and scything blades before the enemy showed up.
2:17 PM Mr. Brown
I bet Hitler had a nice side too, like most psychos do.
     (I was not available to define ‘psychopath’ for Mr. Brown at this point. – Mr. Silver)
2:19 PM Mr. Blue
Of course
2:38 PM Mr. Blue
Under his regime they passed some forward-thinking environmental regulations.
2:39 PM Mr. Brown
He was just hardcore about pursuing a belief that was not that good.
2:43 PM Mr. Blue
They needed a scapegoat.
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
Right...they needed some insidious plot or belief system that might exist in some perceived or minor way, and then claim evidence and inflate it beyond all reality...like the Nazi claim of financial manipulation, racial enmity or harboring weapons of mass destruction.
Wait...wrong war on that last one.
2:47 PM Mr. Blue
hehehe
Or even a radical socialist Muslim president.
2:47 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
2:47 PM Mr. Silver
Right!
Something to get the gullible behind so you can spend decades-crippling amounts of money on it, hoping it will pay off.
2:51 PM Mr. Blue
a lot of things would apply here
3:18 PM Mr. Silver
I'm still tickled by the idea that maybe Hitler was just constantly being sarcastic, a master of straight delivery, and nobody ever "got" it.
That if he'd thrown in finger-quotes, and the words "Like", "Oh, sure", and "Right" occasionally, he'd have never rose to power and the war wouldn't have happened.
It's come out that pretty much everyone he hung around in his younger days...school, arts, military...thought he was a jerk.
3:23 PM Mr. Silver
"Right.  Like Germans are the 'master race'.  And, like, 'everything' is terrible because of 'Jews', right?  Because 'everybody' knows they're out to get us, right?  And they're obviously an 'inferior race'.  Puh-leeeze.  Me?  Being sarcastic?  Oh no, I'm not being sarcastic.  Riiiight.  Chancellor?  Pff.  Heck yeah, I want that job." 
"Oh sure, we 'own' Poland."
If you re-edit all his speeches you'd see he was clearly making fun of everyone he met.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Day 156 - "Normal-Sized Foot" Spotted At Local Supermarket, He Loves Patrick Dempsey Like A Love Song, Delving Into Disturbing Dreams, and Video Of Swamp Gas Corpse Found In Russia!,

8:08 AM Mr. Silver
I miss much?
8:10 AM Mr. Brown
Not really.
The most exciting thing that happened was me passing you at the grocery.
8:10 AM Mr. Silver
"Look, Junior!  A "squatch"!  His name's Mr. Brown."



8:59 AM Mr. Brown
I have to listen to Selena Gomez up here.  Somebody turned the music hits channel on.
8:59 AM Mr. Blue
What up, honkies?
8:59 AM Mr. Brown
Love You Like A Love Song” is stuck in my head.
9:00 AM Mr. Silver
He's turned off by Selena Gomez.
9:00 AM Mr. Brown
I like watching her.
9:00 AM Mr. Silver
What he needs is more Patrick Dempsey.
9:00 AM Mr. Blue
Definitely.



9:01 AM Mr. Silver
So Mr. Blue, I don't suppose you saw my groggy posting this morning.
9:02 AM Mr. Blue
The dream?  Yeah.
9:02 AM Mr. Silver
 (Paste)  Before the "main feature" started at the end of the night, my pre-dream was sitting in a small theater with several people from work, and the trailer was from Lucasfilm. 
George Lucas's next big project was collecting all the assorted "making of" and "behind the scenes" content of the Star Wars movies and re-working them into a Special Edition theatrical release. 
Apparently the documentary content didn't match his vision of how he created the films. 
9:12 AM Mr. Blue
My dream was a two-parter.
9:15 AM Mr. Blue
The first part was a trip through the mountains (it kind of felt like the Blue Ridge parkway), only it was crowded in places.  We came to a small amusement park at one point (I guessed it was Dollywood), some small clusters of homes, then large casinos, and then a big mega-church.  We ended up at a house that had some significance to me and we knew the people that lived in it.  We were looking through old photos (and from the pictures I found out I was related to Drew Barrymore) and some haunted stuff started happening in the house.  People started getting injured.  I opened a door to a closet and found this huge room with a bunch of hissing grey things.  There were eyes in the walls.  I think we blamed it on one of the kids that lived in the house dabbling in the occult.  I told him to be more careful and left.
9:30 AM Mr. Silver
Hehe!
Great ending to yours, Mr. Blue
It's just like the end of The Exorcist: "Yup, she's possessed.  Welp...gotta run."
9:35 AM Mr. Silver
And Star Wars: "Wow...that thing is big.  Let's abandon Yavin."
9:42 AM Mr. Silver
My main dream-film itself was much more interesting than the mentioned trailer.
Unfortunately the theater was in a small setting...like a school or library showing.  I was in the front row with Mr. Mustard.  And there was a rack of pamphlets and books below the screen.
During the introduction...where what was going on was being explained (some sort of magic system/setting) Mustard kept standing up in front of the text to poke around the racks and read titles, so I didn’t know what I was expected to going in. 
(Young) Cybill Shepherd was some sort of sorceress who was empowering herself by assessing the potential powers of people she encountered on her luxurious island estate and taking it.  She'd refer to the process as "making a pie", but it was more like a necromantic process of blending 3 complimentary people into a mass that she and her servants would bury, and it'd grow into something they dug up for her to consume.  On top of the ground, these fermenting things kind of looked like a pie. 
Rather gross inside too.
9:57 AM Mr. Blue
Ohh!  I love young Cybill Shepherd.
10:06 AM Mr. Silver
Anyway, it opened with the brunette teen from Poltergeist wandering the beach confused (and considering she was murdered some 28 years ago, that might explain Cybill’s age – Mr. Silver).  Cybill was nice as could be, but looked her over, and all sorts of ratings came up for her somehow. 
"Hmm...A 15 in steel-gray.  'The Dead'." 
And she calls over her butler to "make our guest comfortable".
10:11 AM Mr. Blue
This sounds like something she'd do.
10:16 AM Mr. Silver
They needed to keep the girl under control until they could get a complete set of 3.  Then they (Cybill + I can't see who the other is but can guess it's the guy that played Smith from Sex And The City) start digging up a "pie" and chatting about it. 
Meanwhile in long shot, through the window of the guest bungalow, the girl and butler are fighting and both go down out of sight. 
The butler eventually runs up with a bleeding head wound, bitching about the girl and Smith ends up stabbing him in the back by mistake after recommending sic-ing a vampire on the girl to control her. 
(wakes up)
Mr. Silver
I actually had a couple doozies over my long weekend.
11:08 AM Mr. Silver
The one was so remarkable that I'm not sure I didn't just shift to another multi-verse for about 30 minutes.
11:13 AM Mr. Silver
Extremely real; I had trouble believing I wasn't in a dream, but I felt wide awake in a real place in real time. 
Mr. Silver
I was suddenly with Mrs. Silver, visiting my mom's house.  Her house if she had a lot more money.  Very nice place, all clean and bright.  I remembered the house because a friend's family had lived in it.  She told me she'd bought it from them a long time ago.  Two of my sisters were there visiting.  All of us were younger than we are now.
Mr. Silver
The one was pregnant with her first (she has one now, already grown).  She remembered dating her (real) husband in college but hadn't seen him since then and was married to someone else.
The other sister had 4 kids, but none of them were the 2 she has now.
11:38 AM Mr. Silver
They all remembered me as I am to look at, but I was acting funny to them.
I went all over the house looking at rooms and opening drawers and such.  I was most interested in the computer.  The one sister had brought her laptop and I decided to have a look at it.
11:46 AM Mr. Silver
It had a really odd interface and old-looking menus, like it was all 8-bit.   I asked if it was Windows or Apple and she told me those companies had merged years ago.  It had an unfamiliar logo and text that suggested it was an amalgam of both, but I can’t recall what it was like.
I wasted a bunch of time trying to sort out the computer and then I was back here.
12:09 PM Mr. Silver
I woke up so confused and impressed that I had to wake up Mrs. Silver to tell her about it, which is something I never do.
12:13 PM Mr. Blue
weird one



12:24 PM Mr. Brown
This was on the site I was reading.
It looks funny.
12:34 PM Mr. Silver
I remember that video.
12:36 PM Mr. Silver
It’s just swamp gas.