12:36
PM Mr. Brown
Wo
man. Hmmm thinking thinking. Oh I get it: “woe to man”
12:39
PM Ms. Rose
MENstruation,
MENopause, MENtal issues. You x-chromosome types are the reasons for
ALL our problems.
I
think I read that on a Shoebox card.
12:42
PM Mr. Silver
Assume
you mean XY
12:44
PM Ms. Rose
Uh...yeah.
That one. I always forget who has which chromosomes, but I know one
gender is missing one of them. I was on drugs for most of high school
science--SHUT UP!
12:45
PM Mr. Silver
I've
come to understand that the vast majority of people I meet will never
know the vast majority of little tidbits like that.
Like
"Geography Day" at an old job.
12:47
PM Ms. Rose
I
have a phonographic memory. Like an old phonograph, it just goes
'round and 'round and gets stuck on the same groove. I can honestly
remember my locker combination from 7th grade, but I cannot remember
which gender has which chromosomes (or my own phone number, etc.)
12:50
PM Mr. Silver
The
day was overcast, cool, breezy, misty rain occasionally but quite
comfortable. The new (really cute) woman sitting in the cube nearby
says "I love weather like this. I'd like to move somewhere
that's it's like this all the time."
(My
chance to get a chat going with her at last!) "You'd
probably like Scotland then."
"Oh!
Cool! ...so the weather is like this in Scotland?"
"…
… Yes ..."
"Sounds
nice! … … Where's Scotland?"
(I
begin reconsidering my interest at this point)
12:52
PM Mr. Brown
LOL
12:53
PM Mr. Silver
It
turns out...after I hand drew a map of the Earth...that practically
no one knew the filled-in area was Scotland. I got a “UK”
or two.
Oceans?
Pretty poor.
Continents?
Same.
"Do
you know what planet this is?"
12:55
PM Mr. Blue
I’m
a geography whiz.
12:56
PM Mr. Silver
You're
constantly browsing maps, yes.
12:56
PM Mr. Blue
I
was the head of the geography club in junior high.
12:59
PM Mr. Silver
(swoon)
Sorry...I just pictured a “West Side Story” rumble between you
and the head of the Chess club.
It
was awesome.
12:59
PM Mr. Blue
Our
song was REM's "Stand".
1:01
PM Ms. Rose
That
song...is AWESOME.
1:03
PM Mr. Silver
(sings) "When
you're in Maps you're in Maps all the way, from your first graticule
to your last azimuth distortion ellipse-...-aaaay!"
10:01
AM Mr. Brown
10:03
AM Mr. Silver
I
saw a link yesterday to some other
hairless-drowned-raccoon-on-a-beach "monster", but lost it
before I could pass it around.
"snakes
with the head of an elephant!” AKA: Snelephantssss!
10:08
AM Mr. Brown
The
one looks like a capybara.
10:12
AM Mr. Silver
So
I had to follow the link to this right away:
"Is
this the Loch Ness Wave? New picture could be the clearest snap of
plain water."
10:14
AM Mr. Silver
"Loch
Ness Monster photo reveals Nessie is Uncle Deadly of Muppet Show
fame"
10:15
AM Mr. Brown
Yes.
Yes it is.
9:21
AM Mr. Silver
Watched
"White House Down".
Fun
9:24
AM Mr. Amethyst
I
like “Olympus has Fallen”.
9:25
AM Mr. Silver
Mortal
has to get Zeus out of Mt. Olympus before a team of titans can
capture him?
(looks
up “OHF”)
Sounds
like the same movie.
9:26
AM Mr. Amethyst
It
is.
LOL
9:27
AM Mr. Blue
I
watched “The Town” and “The Wild Bunch”.
9:28
AM Mr. Silver
Either
of those movies have a black president trapped by terrorists in the
White House?
9:34
AM Mr. Silver
How
was “The Wild Bunch”? It was considered horribly violent in it's
day if it's the same one I'm thinking.
9:35
AM Mr. Blue
Decent.
Better than most westerns of its time.
9:37
AM Mr. Silver
Sequel:
London Has Fallen
Direct
to DVD - “Perth Amboy Has Fallen”
Saturday
Mornings, catch "Carmen Sandiego's: Where In The World Has
Fallen?"
And,
of course, on Sprout - “Teletubbies Has Fallen”
9:41
AM Mr. Silver
I
can't recall what "The Town" is supposed to be.
9:41
AM Mr. Blue
Bank
robbers in Boston.
Kind
of like “Heat”.
9:42
AM Mr. Silver
Was
it, like, wicked awesome?
“WHD”
was one of those movies where I kept saying "That wouldn't
happen" and "They're really bad at this."
Still
a lot of fun though.
Me
"It was over right there."
Mrs
Silver "What?"
Me
"The elevator"
Mrs
Silver "Why?"
Me
"There's no way someone in security wasn't looking at the cam
that is definitely in that thing. As soon as they saw 5
para-military dorks step in with SMGs, the whole section they were
walking into would have been a death zone...that's if they could have
even opened the doors again, that is."
Mrs
Silver "It's a movie."
Me
"Yeah yeah..."
9:49
AM Mr. Blue
You
watched the Jamie Fox one?
9:56
AM Mr. Silver
Yes.
Hehe...there
was this whole thing about the extremely high standards for joining
the Secret Service at the beginning.
(S.S.
Examiner) "Now on the other hand, when it comes
to...say...aiming something like a gun, shooting it, small group and
counter-incursion tactics? Well...those are optional."
10:12
AM Mr. Silver
(S.S.
Examiner) "OK...your situation is as follows: There are
six guys with fully automatic weapons, tactical vests, grenades.
They are spread all over a large room with lots of furniture and
stuff. All you have is your service pistol and a working cellphone.
Go!"
(Agency
Applicant) "I enter the room blind and fire a couple rounds."
(S.S.
Examiner) "Correct! Next situation. Ready?"
10:19
AM Mr. Silver
(S.S.
Examiner) "The alarms are going off and you're in Ops.
You have total control of every way in and out, can call anyone from a janitor to Seal Team 6, and you have cameras all over the place. Suddenly you see these guys running around
and shooting people. Go!"
(Agency
Applicant) "I quietly sit there and look at buttons and screens and the
communications stuff. If they open the security door, I'll stand up and stare like
a meerkat."
(S.S.
Examiner ) "Correct!"
10:31
AM Mr. Blue
I
love the "walk into the gunfire" movie trope.
“The
Town” got me thinking about how bogus bank robberies are in most
films... even intricately planned ones like “Heat” and “The
Town”.
10:44
AM Mr. Blue
Like
robbing a bank in a major city where you can be closed off easily by
cops.
In
“The Town” they robbed a bank in Boston’s north end... which
has, like, 10 ft wide winding streets.
10:58
AM Mr. Silver
Boston
isn't busy, you know...they still use carriages, don't they?
11:05
AM Mr. Silver
(Boston street signs) "Bank
Robber Holiday Today"
“Vehicles
are kindly asked to avoid jamming up main roads and routes out of the
city center.”
Batman
probably has a button for that, actually.
Thinking
about it, he certainly does.
He
has to hit where he's going on the Batmobile GPS, and the computer
starts messing with the lights to make him a clear path in and a
mostly empty encounter area with every way out congested.
11:09
AM Mr. Blue
Its
certainly possible considering the other stuff he has.
Also
turn all the cross traffic lights green immediately after he goes
through.
Oh
cool, it's called a "MIRT" and they have a website.
11:14
AM Mr. Silver
I
knew about the general device. I'm talking about full control.
11:14
AM Mr. Blue
They'd
have to be smart lights, like all synced up
11:14
AM Mr. Silver
The
Batmobile is big and deadly, yet always hits city center in 3-5
minutes somehow.
"The
new traffic control system you've contributed to Gotham is a great
gift, Mr. Wayne. What inspired you?"
"A
15 minute wait during the Dibbly Metal Works robbery last year."
"Uhhhh....?"
"Missed
a surprise party."
"OH!
That makes sense."
'Yeah..."
7:46
AM Mr. Silver
"Unhandled
exception was thrown" error on the site.
Was
thrown???
"Has
occurred" is SO windows 8.0
7:47
AM Mr. Amethyst
lol
7:49
AM Mr. Silver
Someone
decided to get creative with that one.
"Application
fairy declined to curtsey"
7:51
AM Mr. Amethyst
"The mailbox you're accessing has disinclined to acquiesce
to your request, please try again later"
7:51
AM Mr. Silver
"Unhandled
exception was thrown. Process swung and missed."
7:51
AM Mr. Amethyst
"STEEEERIKE!"
8:01
AM Mr. Silver
"If
you look up in the top right, there's a couple indicators. What
does it say?"
"Uhh...2
out, 3:2 Bottom 9"
"Ok...we
only have one chance at this next part...listen carefully."
"Ok..."
"If
another Unhandled Exception is thrown, do NOT hit Enter."
"Oops...sorry...got
ahead of you. The whole department is shutting down."
Mr.
Silver
"The
paper was co sponsored by Dr. Obvious of the Society for
Getting Funding for Completely Intuitive Research."
12:58
PM Mr. Silver
"Drs.
Ray and Matheson soon hope to get more funding for their proposed
'Premature Death More Likely in War Zones' theory."
