Mr.
Brown
LOL
They are hiring trainers for Carrie and Mark for the new Star Wars
movie.
9:06
AM Mr. Gray
I
want that job.
"Mark....do
what you did before"
9:06
AM Mr. Silver
"This
is called 'brisk walking'...you may remember it from 20 years ago."
9:06
AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
9:07
AM Mr. Gray
Ohhhh...PHYSICAL
trainers. Yeah, that’s different.
9:07
AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
9:07
AM Mr. Gray
I
think he needs to go all Dark side and break into the Joker laugh.
9:07
AM Mr. Silver
That
would be great!
"Cut!
Mark! Stop calling him 'Bats' in your lines, please."
9:09
AM Mr. Gray
He
really did do an excellent job voicing the Joker. All the toons I've
seen since with other people just don’t compare.
9:11
AM Mr. Brown
Didn't
Luke go Dark side for awhile Mr. Gray?
9:13
AM Mr. Silver
He
went Dark side for a while, yes.
9:16
AM Mr. Silver
Perhaps
they'll run him like Yoda and Palpatine should have been in episodes
1-3.
"Screw
sabers...I'm a grand master. Sabers are for dispatching chumps with
blasters."
"Watch
this, you Sith wannabe (Luke snaps fingers, villain's brain turns off
and he collapses. Snaps again.)
"Oww!
My head hurts! What just happened?"
9:19
AM Mr. Brown
“You
are not the one you are looking for.” (wave hand)
Man
stands there, very confused.
9:21
AM Mr. Blue
So
these new Star Wars movies come after episode 6?
9:21
AM Mr. Amethyst
Yea
9:21
AM Mr. Blue
So
no Darth Vader then? Or did he live?
9:21
AM Mr. Amethyst
He
died.
9:21
AM Mr. Brown
Yeah
he's dead.
9:21
AM Mr. Amethyst
Unless
the Sith got into necromancy, and in that case I HAVE to watch it.
9:23
AM Mr. Silver
They certainly got into necromancy.
(Undead
Vader) "I told you, you don't know the power of the Dark
Side."
9:23
AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
9:26
AM Mr. Silver
I
still want to see Darth Jar Jar
Mr.
Brown
I
still wish they could go way back on a Star Wars movie to the time of
original light sabers.
9:59
AM Mr. Silver
"Early
lightsabers" is a surprisingly long and convoluted topic.
Like hundreds/thousands of years. No one would ever pursue it as a technology.
10:02
AM Mr. Silver
As
an anthropologist, I'm skeptical of their hinted origin stories.
10:03
AM Mr. Amethyst
A
fanthropologist.
10:04
AM Mr. Silver
Nice
word!
Having
the anthropologist POV can do strange things to fandom of stuff.
10:04
AM Mr. Silver
The
Lord Of The Rings, for instance.
10:07
AM Mr. Silver
The
heroes are either total snobs who ignore common folk, or the
population of Northwestern Middle Earth is so low there that there's
something seriously wrong.
There's
evidence for both.
10:07
AM Mr. Amethyst
Mhm
10:08
AM Mr. Amethyst
Do
Harry Potter next. What's going on there?
10:09
AM Mr. Brown
Huh?
10:10
AM Mr. Amethyst
He
commented on Star Wars and LOTR as a skeptical anthropologist. Time
to do Harry Potter.
10:11
AM Mr. Silver
Harry
Potter didn't have a sustainable society until like book 5-6
There
were just not enough people in the wizarding schools. Certainly not
enough to explain the wizard/witch crowd.
10:12
AM Mr. Silver
There
are only 3 wizarding schools mentioned, and they are talked about as
THE ONLY 3 wizarding schools.
10:13
AM Mr. Amethyst
None
of the 3 are American either.
10:13
AM Mr. Silver
In
working on a roleplaying game and going through books, I generously
put each "class" of students (split into 4 houses, and boys
and girls) at something like 50 per year based on numbers mentioned.
Each house gets a table. Even in the movies if you split the great
hall into different years, the “big crowd” is tiny.
10:14
AM Mr. Silver
Fortunately,
by the time you get to Tom-Riddle-origin hunting, it turns out the
garden variety common wizard/witch was trained at home by the
parents, so there's room for plenty more who couldn't go to a fancy
public school.
Ghastly
scenario before that though.
10:15
AM Mr. Blue
I
never saw or read any Harry Potter stuff...doesn't interest me. It
seems like it's geared for kids, and I’m not one.
10:16
AM Mr. Silver
Kids?
Eh...well, it ramps up through appropriate reader age with the kids.
10:16
AM Mr. Amethyst
Its
actually pretty intense.
10:17
AM Mr. Silver
Hell...Harry
kills a villain in the first one. The adults pussyfoot around
that fact.
10:18
AM Mr. Amethyst
Mhm
Turns
him to dust with his bare hands.
10:18
AM Mr. Silver
Dumbledore
- "Uh...your mom's love...hurt him."
"But
he disintegrated, headmaster."
"Well...Lily
always was a bitch, really."
10:19
AM Mr. Amethyst
Haahaha
10:19
AM Mr. Silver
"I
don't understand."
"Just
be happy she died before she could spank you growing up, Harry."
10:22
AM Mr. Silver
By
the time Voldemort killed Cedric in Goblet of Fire, I kinda
jumped...I think everyone reading it did.
10:22
AM Mr. Amethyst
Jumped?
Like
"Sweet, he's dead?"
10:26
AM Mr. Silver
No, more an "Oh my God, the trump suit is open!" jump.
Child
murder isn't exactly common in most books, and up until then, death
was alluded to, or was “escaped” through questionable luck.
And
with Cedric, it was just Voldemort coldly saying “I don't need that one” and dropping an instant-death curse on him.
10:28
AM Mr. Silver
This
scene was immediately followed by menace, torture, desperation...
10:30
AM Mr. Silver
So
yeah...the series starts with kids and kids' issues and juvenile
literature close calls versus a bogeyman...but it ends in death, horror, destruction, misery, torture, malice, living hell...
10:33
AM Mr. Amethyst
I
haven't seen or read the last two. Are they good?
10:33
AM Mr. Silver
With
those tags? Yes!
Mr.
Blue
How
is it even possible for Windows 8 to be this bad?
1:11
PM Mr. Silver
Well,
there was this programmer walking down the road with a guitar and he
got to this crossroads. And a guy standing there got to talking
to him and told the programmer that he could make him famous with a
guitar. And the programmer said that he was just carrying the
guitar for a friend. So the stranger said well what do you
got? And the guy said he was a programmer for Microsoft...so,
they worked out a deal...
1:12
PM Mr. Amethyst
lol
Mr.
Blue
How
much would a wakizashi run? I want it to be pre-war at least.
3:07
PM Mr. Gray
In
that case.....a lot.
3:08
PM Mr. Brown
About
$20,000.
I
figured I would throw in a big price.
LOL
3:08
PM Mr. Silver
A
wakizashi would run about 2.5 feet into a human abdomen and out
the other side.
More
or less depending on the design, angle of thrust, and the skill and
strength of the swordsman.
3:09
PM Mr. Brown
Yeah
you hit that backbone and oh boy.
3:11
PM Mr. Blue
Here's
one, pre-1900, for $5000.
3:11
PM Mr. Brown
Yeah
that's more like it.
3:11
PM Mr. Brown
Well,
an actual famous/famous-owner one would go for 20,000.
3:12
PM Mr. Blue
Did
Abe Lincoln own any wakizashis?
3:15
PM Mr. Gray
No,
he was an axe man...didn't you see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?
Sheesh!
Mr.
Blue
Do
you know anything about like.. lumber or timber prices Mr. Amethyst?
Like
how much is a tree worth to a tree cutter if it's a cherry or oak and
pretty old/large?
10:59
AM Mr. Amethyst
No
idea. I used to know stuff like that.
10:59
AM Mr. Blue
Hmm
I
want to buy 2 acres next to ours. It's unbuildable, but I don't know
what the timber would cost.
What
say you, Mr. Silver?
I
don't know what kind of offer to even make on it. It's just sitting
there and it's been untouched since I was born, and I don't want
anyone to mess with it or clear it.
11:20
AM Mr. Silver
Land
grab, eh?
What's
unbuildable about it?
11:26
AM Mr. Blue
There's
an old mine on the edge of the property and a stream that runs
through the middle of it and no utilities.
11:27
AM Mr. Silver
So
50,000 tons of fill and it would be nice.
11:27
AM Mr. Blue
That
and re-routing the stream.
It's
kind of rectangle shaped, and the stream runs the long-way through
the middle. That is fed by a pond, so it's always running.
11:34
AM Mr. Blue
(sends
drawing) Like so. The L-shaped property is mine right now.
11:36
AM Mr. Silver
I
see the mine as a vast hole that was dug for mithril until it hit a
balrog.
11:36
AM Mr. Blue
It's
weird.
It
is just a big hole. I thought it was just a strip mine that needed
filled in, but we found rails that go into it, and a neighbor said
that it went pretty deep into the hillside.
11:37
AM Mr. Silver
(“Lovecraft
Alert” starts flashing)
11:37
AM Mr. Blue
And
nobody knows if they properly filled it in, or just covered the
entrance. Probably the latter. It's heavily wooded now; the trees
are 50 years old at least, but it was cleared out at one time.
11:45
AM Mr. Silver
So...just curious...do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, dreaming that you
heard singing and ancient instruments, but when awake you just hear
the normal sounds of night though you swear you think you see lights glowing out by
the mine?
11:46
AM Mr. Amethyst
Once
after drinking about half a bottle of absinthe for me...
11:46
AM Mr. Silver
Mr.
Amethyst - "And I don't even have
a mine."
11:46
AM Mr. Amethyst
Exactly.
11:47
AM Mr. Silver
By
the time Mr. Blue is in Bellevue Psychiatric and the cops go out,
they'll find no trace there ever was a mine.
11:57
AM Mr. Blue
Across
the lane was a kosher pig farm. And the barn thing they kept the
pigs in stood until a few years ago. Though I think the pig farm
stopped operating at least 75 years ago.
11:58
AM Mr. Silver
(“Lovecraft
Flags” go up)
Narrator
"Oh, the tales about that land go back to the 1600s, and if the
diary of Van Blauw is to be believed, the redskins would tell tales
of it that their grandfathers grandfathers would only whisper. To be
sure, no savage would settle there, or stay overnight..."
11:58
AM Mr. Blue
I
found a gully with a bunch of old, old large glass bottles labeled
Clorox. I assumed they used it to clean/sterilize?
12:00
PM Mr. Silver
(“Lovecraft
Rockets” launch and burst)
Oh
yeah...you're F-ing doomed.
12:00
PM Mr. Blue
And
before *that*.. it was just a run-of-the-mill Indian burial ground.
;-)
12:01
PM Mr. Silver
"Young
Mr. Blue scoffed at the so-called curse, of course. What man of
reason wouldn't?"
"And
yet, his obsession with that little stretch of land with its strange
tree, as large as an oak but strangely more phenotypic of a cherry,
could not be sated."
12:24
PM Mr. Silver
"The
tree. That curious tree. Blue destroyed it at the
end, as he collapsed into madness, screaming of unearthly things
and cursing "the old red man" as he dismembered it with a
chainsaw."
12:24
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
want to read that story.
12:25
PM Mr. Blue
Is
this based on the “Colour Out of Space”?
12:33
PM Mr. Silver
@Amethyst
Working on it.
@Blue
No...whole cloth after reading all his stuff for 25 years.
12:34
PM Mr. Blue
Ahh
12:39
PM Mr. Silver
"That
the tree was his to destroy, there can be no doubt. The
property was his, bought and paid for. And though he was loud in his
cursing, well then so was the chainsaw. It was the smell
that brought the police. Downwind, the odor of chlorine
had become miasmic. And in combination with the brash theft of
several cases of bleach from a shop the night before, the conclusions
of the local police were, unfortunately, inevitable."
12:47
PM Mr. Silver
I
was rather enjoying that...too bad it's a crap day for writing.
12:47
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
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