Saturday, August 1, 2015

349 - "There's Infinite Room For J-E-L-L-O", Little Orphan Annie Thorsdottir, Mr. Brown's Aunt Is Allergic To Colon, "How Does A Kiwi Pronounce 'Waitangi' then?", Great Squirts Forward In High Speed Vehicle Design, and Robin & I Are Feeling Off Balance

11:11 AM Ms. Rose
*waves*
11:12 AM Mr. Amethyst
Hello
11:13 AM Mr. Brown
jello
11:17 AM Ms. Rose
"There's always room for J-E-L-L-O!"
11:18 AM Mr. Brown
Are you supposed to chew Jell-O?
11:19 AM Ms. Rose
No. The proper way to eat Jell-O is to squish it back and forth between your teeth until it basically turns to Kool-Aid.
11:39 AM Mr. Silver
If there is always room for Jell-O...
Well...the physics implications become quite interesting.
Is Jell-O, for instance, a delicious extra-dimensional projection of a black hole singularity?
Or
Is it an apparently dense substance that does, in fact, have only a virtual mass?
11:40 AM Ms. Rose
Jell-O can expand and contract, like the universe.
11:41 AM Ms. Rose
Black-Hole-Berry flavor
11:43 AM Mr. Brown
I shall reject your forces and become liquid once more.
11:46 AM Mr. Silver
What about the storage potential?
People will put mini marshmallows in Jell-O, for instance.
How many will fit?
I mean...do they become part of the Jell-O matrix?
11:48 AM Mr. Brown
They become encased by it.
I believe as many marshmallows as you can fit in a container will still be the number when Jell-O is added as well.
11:48 AM Mr. Silver
So there's infinite room for Jell-O, but not what it's adulterated by.
11:49 AM Mr. Silver
They say there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum...even if on paper you can have one. Perhaps theoretically perfect Jell-O is similarly unachievable.
12:03 PM Ms. Rose
Jell-O shots, regardless of color, can create interesting opportunities for science when consumed en masse.
12:05 PM Mr. Amethyst
^
12:06 PM Mr. Amethyst
Generally in the form of ..."Jell-Ohhhh baaaa-by!"
12:09 PM Mr. Brown
I have consumed a whole tray of Jell-O shots before.
12:10 PM Mr. Silver
Well, there's always room for them.



12:31 PM Mr. Brown
12:47 PM Mr. Blue
The girl in the picture w/ the Game of Thrones guy is Annie Thorsdottir...whose name literally means "Thor’s daughter".
12:48 PM Mr. Amethyst
She need any help making Thorsgrandottir?
12:48 PM Mr. Blue
Hahaha
12:57 PM Mr. Silver
I believe I watched her compete on one of those weird sports competition shows where they do like 20 bizarre events.
12:59 PM Mr. Blue
Crossfit?
She does Crossfit games
1:00 PM Mr. Silver
Crossfit, ja!
The chinups were a prime memory.
1:01 PM Mr. Blue
Crossfit chinups are a joke.
"Kipping" pullups.
Basically full body spasms that use every muscle but what they're supposed to target.
Bruce Lee didn't get that cobra back by doing kipping pullups.
1:02 PM Mr. Silver
"Wellllll...it's like chin-ups, but involves whipping like a flag, or someone trying to shake a biting snake off of their ass."
1:02 PM Mr. Blue
Yep.
1:03 PM Mr. Silver
Bah...break time.
I was just about to start composing lyrics for "Annie Thorsdottir" Starring Annie Thorsdottir as 'Little Orphan Annie Thorsdottir'.
1:04 PM Mr. Blue
"Bet your 1 rep squat max that tomorrow... there'll be curls..."
1:05 PM Mr. Silver
"It's the hard pec life - for us!"
"It's the hard ab life - for us!"
1:07 PM Mr. Blue
"'stead of dinner we do dips. 'stead of snacking we do squats!"
1:07 PM Mr. Silver
Nice!



(Warning, parts of the following text from Mr. Brown are exceptionally un-edited.  [He's not usually so bad] - Mr. Silver)
2:40 PM Mr. Blue
Peanut allergies are weird.
My mom is allergic to peanuts but her throat just gets itchy.
She doesn't die if she's within 10 feet of them.
2:44 PM Mr. Blue
How come people aren't deathly allergic to bananas or jelly beans?
2:45 PM Mr. Brown
I was allergic to Swiss cheese at one time. My mouth would get itchy.
I just kept eating it until the itching finally stopped.
2:48 PM Mr. Blue
There are less food allergies in developing worlds.
3:01 PM Mr. Brown
What about people allergic to wifi?
3:04 PM Mr. Brown
My aunt cannot handle sented candels and strong colon or purfum. Gives her a migrane
3:04 PM Mr. Blue
Me? I love a strong colon.
3:04 PM Mr. Brown
i cannpt spell thaqt ever
3:04 PM Ms. Rose
A strong colon is essential to good health. ROFL
Strong cologne on the other hand...not so much.
3:05 PM Mr. Brown
ah its the g and da e i forget
colongggggneeeeee\
3:05 PM Mr. Blue
Mr. Brown's colon smells so strong, everyone knows when he's in the building!
3:05 PM Ms. Rose
HA!
3:06 PM Mr. Blue
He was a little late today because he was finishing up his bowel of cereal



10:01 AM Mr. Silver
Hey! it's Waitangi Day!
(looks up Waitangi Day)
10:02 AM Mr. Brown
New Zealand
10:04 AM Mr. Silver
This sure ain't no US “4th o' July”...
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
(Me interviewing Princess Chelsea) "Well...mostly we sleep in. Go to the beach. We put a flag up. There's a speech or two and some of the natives will do a protest Haka. I never really paid attention."
Love that accent.
10:15 AM Mr. Blue
I like it too: "this" becomes "thee-is", yes becomes "yisss"
10:17 AM Mr. Silver
Nod
10:18 AM Mr. Blue
Did you ever watch “Flight of the Conchords”?
10:21 AM Mr. Brown
Sounds familiar.
10:22 AM Mr. Blue
They even spell their names like they pronounce them now.



Mr. Silver
Morning
"The understanding this study provides could also have an impact in other engineering fields where drag is critical, such as airplane wing design, and to the study of different shape-changing biological systems."
Translation – "Military submarines and next generation torpedoes"
7:17 AM Mr. Silver
I wonder what an engine like that would be like on a sports boat.
7:18 AM Mr. Brown
Insane Mode”
Oh shit! I'm flying!
7:18 AM Mr. Silver
Whiplash Special
7:18 AM Mr. Brown
Have you seen videos for that new car with a button that, when you push it, in 5 seconds or less you're at 70 mph?
7:24 AM Mr. Silver
On the steering wheel, I hope.
7:24 AM Mr. Brown
He pushes the button then hits the gas. I looks like one of those roller coasters launched by magnets when it takes off.
7:24 AM Mr. Silver
"They crashed another prototype, boss. Before the driver expired he asked 'why in the glove box'? The R&D guys wouldn't answer my questions. Does that mean anything to you?"
7:31 AM Mr. Silver
Is this an experiment or an actual car?
It sounds a bit dangerous and impractical.
7:32 AM Mr. Brown
I think its real but just costs a lot.
7:33 AM Mr. Silver
Well, the stupid modifications usually do.



8:46 AM Mr. Silver
So it's all over.
Got that “Hint-Set of Doom” going.
Nasal passages too clear, so there's a bit of burn...
Sides of the tongue irritated...
Noticing I'm swallowing...
I was thinking of leaving you both something in my will.
Was thinking my Snark to Mr. Blue and my Smarm to Mr. Brown.
8:54 AM Mr. Silver
You can trade if you want, I'm still writing it.
8:56 AM Mr. Silver
8:58 AM Mr. Blue
What, feeling a cold coming on?
8:58 AM Mr. Silver
Feels like.
8:58 AM Mr. Blue
Those Reliant Robins are silly.
They had one on Top Gear. Kept rolling it.
9:56 AM Mr. Silver
#6 "Woman carefully balancing on the bonnet of a three-wheeled Reliant Robin before toppling over."

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

348 - Mr. Brown's Dream Geneaology, Red Ranger Pleas Innocent By Reason Of Acting, and Punxsutawney Feh

10:38 AM Mr. Brown
10:40 AM Mr. Brown
So 11 guys just “made” Asia.
Hehe
11:01 AM Mr. Silver
Isn't, like, 30% of Europe descended from one of the King Edwards?
11:02 AM Mr. Blue
Most of western Europe belongs to the r1b1 haplogroup, which is related to Tsar Nicholas the II, I think, including myself.
11:09 AM Mr. Blue
Since all the monarchs were related in some way anyway, I guess we're all related then.
Isn't Queen Elizabeth even supposedly a descendant of Mohammed?
11:10 AM Mr. Silver
Apparently.
"We can therefore conclude...insofar as access to the ladies is concerned...'It's good ta be da king!"
11:11 AM Mr. Brown
I'm Scottish and German
11:24 AM Mr. Silver
The problem with "German", of course, is who are you talking about?
There was no unified "Germany" until pretty recently.
1880s?
So are you German or germanic?
If you are germanic...well...so are we.
Mr. Blue more recently, me further back.
11:31 AM Mr. Brown
Well, there is Dutch too.
11:31 AM Mr. Silver
You, sir, are a United States American.
11:31 AM Mr. Brown
English, Dutch, French, Asian
Hehe
11:32 AM Mr. Silver
Three relatively recent nations and an entire friggin' continent?
Homo sapiens sapiens
11:32 AM Mr. Silver
Cosmetically you are merely Caucasian.
11:32 AM Mr. Brown
Which makes me translucent.
11:33 AM Mr. Silver
(native squaw for butter commercial) "My people call it 'Honky'."
11:33 AM Mr. Brown
Somebody said somewhere in the family there was Native American, but apparently it was not important enough to keep track of, so probably not.
However It would be nice to find out if there is a Native American in my heritage. Then I can say this is the land of my people.
11:37 AM Mr. Silver
Bleh
11:37 AM Mr. Brown
Well, at least if you find out, could know what tribe you might be able to claim, I think that would be cool.
11:38 AM Mr. Silver
And there it is...that's where this was going...
11:38 AM Mr. Brown
Apparently they have cards.
11:39 AM Mr. Blue
If you're, like, 4% Native American, it's hard to claim America as your own.
11:40 AM Mr. Brown
Right.
I would like to know how much.
If I can claim my tribe and be accepted in it, that would be cool.
11:45 AM Mr. Silver
(Mr. Brown on reservation) "Greetings grandfathers...I come to you wishing to be cool."
11:46 AM Mr. Blue
"When do I get a tomahawk and a percentage of the casino earnings?"
11:47 AM Mr. Brown
Actually it would be nice to take a journey of the mind
11:47 AM Mr. Silver
The concept you want is “spirit quest' and it has nothing to do with the mind...
(Mr. Brown at reservation) "Across the long years...across the many seasons...my ancestors walked this land beneath the stars. At least one of them didn't take your land or massacre anyone in this particular tribe."
11:49 AM Mr. Silver
"We call him Walks Cool 6%, though we know not his true name and the in-laws covered it up."
11:51 AM Mr. Silver
(I being too mean?)
11:51 AM Mr. Brown
Hold on. Sharpening my tomahawk and painting my face.
11:52 AM Mr. Silver
I mean, I've apparently got the whole "4 coats of arms" thing, but I'm never going to try to figure it out.
11:52 AM Mr. Blue
"My great great great grandfather raped your great great great great aunt! So we're basically brothers!"
11:52 AM Mr. Brown
Relations level: Ultimate
11:56 AM Mr. Silver
This stuff is much more important to the nearly non-extant aristocracies of the world than it is to any normal modern people now.
11:59 AM Mr. Brown
I mainly would want to find relatives I could visit.
Hehe
Show up Germany - “Hey! What's up relatives? Take me to Oktoberfest now!”
11:59 AM Mr. Silver
"Relatives I could visit that have lots of money or that are cool...preferably both."
12:05 PM Mr. Silver
Honestly, I'd rather see if I could get accepted by the mongols or college of heralds under Edward the Third.
12:07 PM Mr. Brown
OK, so something that's fun is finding other people with your name on ancestry.com.
I just found one.
NAME:
Mr. Brown
BIRTH:
abt 1875 - Northern Ireland
RESIDENCE:
1935 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
RESIDENCE:
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
12:09 PM Mr. Blue
"Arrested for buggery - 1921"
12:18 PM Mr. Silver
"Charge of possession overturned, deemed feebleminded by parish - 1910"
I always wondered about the conspicuously missing records on those old family trees
"Thackery, Edward -- Vance, Beverly"
Then a list of four kids names and their spouses.
And then "Son" 1832-1905
"Son" eh?
This the “Son” hidden up in the attic?
Or the half Native American cool one?
12:32 PM Mr. Blue
Back when they didn't name you until you were 5 because you were likely to die.
"We aren't wasting a good name on another crib death."
12:33 PM Mr. Silver
"When the dog dies, the kid gets 'Timmy' next."
"Agreed."
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
And back then it'd be a name like "Defiance" or "Gertrude"
12:34 PM Mr. Brown
I would like to name him Didntdie
12:35 PM Mr. Blue
Pleasedonot Diesuddenly Brown
12:47 PM Mr. Silver
Madeit Silver
12:49 PM Mr. Brown
Mom, why is my name Thirteen?
1:00 PM Mr. Blue
"Well, that was a bet... 13 was the over/under."
"Did you take the over or the under?"
"Say, who wants ice cream?"



9:03 Mr Brown
OH SHIT A RED RANGER WENT ROGUE!
Used his powers for evil.
9:04 AM Mr. Silver
Power Rangers Are GO!-ing to prison for a while...
9:07 AM Mr. Silver
"Ricardo 'Red Ranger' Medina Jr. didn't realize that swords are actually sharp after his months of on-screen fighting."
9:15 AM Mr. Blue
Heh... From his Wikipedia page:
Ricardo Medina, Jr. (born July 6, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor of Puerto Rican descent, and the first Puerto Rican Power Ranger to be accused of murder[1].
9:16 AM Mr. Silver
Nice.
"I just expected him to, like, spin around and disappear or something...maybe a squib and some colored smoke. Guy didn't even shape change!"
9:23 AM Mr. Silver
"Psychologists inquired if Medina believed he had also transformed. He stated that he pushed his watch face and performed his kata, so assumed so, but didn't check."



Mr. Brown
In other news: Six more weeks of winter
Hehe
12:04 PM Mr. Silver
Hehe
12:05 PM Mr. Brown
Also a full day of Bill Murray on TV.
12:05 PM Mr. Silver
"Punxsutawney Phil predicts he wants to go back in his cage and munch pellets."
"Once again...100% accuracy!"
12:06 PM Mr. Brown
I forget how we came to have that tradition.
12:09 PM Ms. Rose
I went out to Punxsutawney one year for the whole ordeal. (Yes, I have quite the exciting life.) I thought St. Patrick's Day was bad in Pittsburgh... Man, those groundhog people were all drunk and loitering by 10am the day before!
And it's such a crap-hole town. I don't think any of the stores or streets have changed since they filmed the movie. Probably not, on purpose.
12:11 PM Mr. Silver
Well, the big money influx for the years is one day, and it's over in the early AM.
'T'ain't Disneyworld loot.
12:13 PM Mr. Silver
In fact, if they sold Phil and the show to Disney for a modest sum, they'd probably be able to rebuild the entire place.
12:14 PM Ms. Rose
True that! I just can't ever think of "Gobbler's Knob" without the Beavis & Butthead voices in my head.
12:16 PM Mr. Silver
Uh....heh heh...Gobbler."
Hmm...hm...knob...hmm!”
12:17 PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
12:17 PM Mr. Silver
I can't remember who told me so, but I was told once that about 80% of the people that come to see it are foreign exchange students and their host families.
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
Why?
12:18 PM Mr. Silver
"Here kids. Something else to remember about why not to move to the USA."
"Along with none of us being able to dance for crap."
12:19 PM Ms. Rose
Ever go to Niagra Falls? I've never seen so many people from so many foreign colleges in one place.
12:19 PM Mr. Silver
Sorry...the dance thing was an add-in from a demo from the two kids from South American civilizations in my 11th grade.
12:23 PM Ms. Rose
Of course, the Falls are one of the 'wonders of the world' though, aren't they? Not sure Gobbler's Knob qualifies as a 'wonder'.
Uhhh huh huh...you said knob again. Huh huh!”
12:38 PM Mr. Silver
"Wonder what knob gobbler thought this place was worth visiting over anywhere else in the world?"
12:38 PM Ms. Rose
HAHAHAHA!
"Bah, screw it. I think the Falls are only a 6-hour drive from here."

Sunday, July 26, 2015

347 - For The Cost Of A Cup Of Coffee Per Day You Can Keep Mr. Silver Caffeinated, I Hope I Win The Reincarnation Lottery Some Life, and Some Facts Are only Opinions

Ms. Rose
I think you really do need to get some magical inheritance money, or maybe rob a bank, or some kind of windfall... So that you can just work on all this stuff and not have to worry about any income it generates (or doesn't). That is my wish for you--seriously. I'll start a donation fund. We'll sponsor a 5k race. "Mr. Silver--Race for the Creative but Not Independently Wealthy"
1:15 PM Mr. Silver
Do a Kickstarter
1:21 PM Mr. Silver
"The Silver Project"
1:26 PM Mr. Silver
At the $50 level – Mr. Silver will chat with you about weird crap for 30 minutes.
(Note, Mr. Silver may not stop. At the $75 level you can call it off.)
1:27 PM Ms. Rose
We could start the commercial with a long, sad shot of you sitting at a blank chat screen. Emotional music swells. "Imagine a world where creative minds can run free. Can hypothesize. Can quote obscure references. Can chat..."
"Don't let these gifted minds spend another lonely day of working for a living. Donate now to ensure their future...and their future procrastinating 'editors'..."
1:30 PM Mr. Silver
"For the cost of a cup of coffee per day, you can make a difference in an author's life."
1:31 PM Mr. Silver
(Note, we're talking, like, civet coffee here folks...$50 a cup.)
     [That's local BTW...here in the states it's like $200 per, but I'm not that greedy.]
         {I mean, I'll take that per day, sure. But you don't have to.}
            <Me again...running out of bracketing symbols here. Hacienda la Esmerelda is
              like $60 less per pound...we could base it on that instead.>
1:31 PM Ms. Rose
Hahahaha!
"With your monthly gift, receive this colorful, 16" Mr. Silver plush, with matching tote bag."
1:40 PM Ms. Rose
Really the only reason I still talk to you is for the tote bag. :-p
2:22 PM Mr. Silver
I can keep the 16" plush, eh?
Well, don't blame you...I’m a mess.
2:23 PM Ms. Rose
No, it's not that. It's just I already own too many stuffed animals and I'll be physically harmed if I bring another in the house. But tote bags... Man, you can never have enough tote bags.
2:31 PM Mr. Silver
"What's this tote bag for?"
"That holds my extra tote bags."
2:33 PM Mr. Silver
(20 years from now) "Western PA Hoarder Reported Missing Found Under 2 Tons of Tote Bags"



Mr. Blue
Ouch on the armor.
9:41 AM Mr. Silver
"In compensation, we're sending home what is left of your dad's spine with a commemorative silver plate. Have a nice day!"
9:42 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah that silver plate thing was strange.
9:42 AM Mr. Silver
Yeah...cannonball vs armor never ends well.
Had my head knocked off by a cannon ball in the Napoleonic wars...not my best past-life end.
It's my most-lingering heebie-jeebie shudder-it-off death paranoia.
I didn't mind the others as much.
9:44 AM Mr. Brown
I’ve taken a shotgun blast to the chest.
Well, it was a strange dream.
Not completely memory like, yet the blast was very real.
9:45 AM Mr. Silver
(no reaction)
9:45 AM Mr. Blue
Maybe I don't have past life memories because this is my first life.
9:45 AM Mr. Silver
It's possible. It doesn't seem likely.
You come off as extremely well developed
9:46 AM Mr. Blue
I don't feel any particular draw to any past culture/civilization, nor do I have knowledge of anything that can't be explained by my own reading.
I was probably just worms and bugs in past lives, or maybe I died as an infant a lot.
9:49 AM Mr. Silver
You've not necessarily been playing the same game, of course.
I know I've not always been human.
Or on Earth, for that matter.
9:50 AM Mr. Brown
My friend swears he died on the Titanic.
9:53 AM Mr. Silver
Only had one future vision...odd...will wait and see on that one.
9:53 AM Mr. Brown
I’ve seen lots of those, and lots have already been confirmed to have happened.
9:53 AM Mr. Silver
No, not precognition. A vision of who I'll be.
9:54 AM Mr. Brown
Oh. New life. OK.
9:54 AM Mr. Blue
Why are people only involved in things that are famous?
Why did your friend die on the Titanic and not on some crummy steamboat nobody ever heard of?
9:55 AM Mr. Brown
Great tragedies are famous.
9:55 AM Mr. Silver
I've only been nobodies in a couple vaguely famous things I found out really happened much later. On the other hand I have no idea who I was, or what army, or what campaign, or where I was when the cannon ball got me.
There was the crusader thing...a historically research-able battle, but not a history book lynchpin or anything.
9:56 AM Mr. Brown
I'm not saying he has seen anything else famous, but if we are all repeating til we are done learning or something, then I would bet most of us got to experience some great history thing.
9:56 AM Mr. Blue
When do you get new people?
There's 7 billion people on earth now.
9:57 AM Mr. Silver
Different games/schools.
9:58 AM Mr. Silver
There is certainly no material evidence of the non-earth people I was part of, but I've found other references to people feeling the same weird thoughts about them.
9:59 AM Mr. Brown
I feel like I’m not here a lot.
I have to be careful. Sometimes it happens when I'm driving. The funny thing is, I keep on doing the driving normally, yet feel like I’m not here doing it.
10:00 AM Mr. Silver
Detachment is very common.
No...I mean like me being sure there's supposed to be a 3rd sex and wondering where they are.
And frustration that I'm moving so slowly and I should just be able to be somewhere so much faster.
10:00 AM Mr. Blue
What I’m saying is, if we keep renewing, then we must have shared bodies in the past.
10:00 AM Mr. Blue
Like maybe Napoleon was like 15 "players" or whatever. Hence, so many people will claim they were him in a past life.
10:01 AM Mr. Brown
Right.
10:01 AM Mr. Blue
But I don't buy into all that. We're born, and then we become aware, and then we die, and that's it.
10:01 AM Mr. Silver
So the suggestion is that he's an actual major game piece, or perhaps a “fantasy life” for a tourist?
Win the lottery...get to play Napoleon?
10:03 AM Mr. Blue
Considering the time he spent in exile/prison it doesn't seem like a fun choice.
10:04 AM Mr. Brown
Was your alien a greenish-blue hue, Mr. Silver?
10:05 AM Mr. Silver
Up til the exile/prison days it was a pretty good time.
No idea on color, Mr. Brown.
Only associated imagery I ever get with the feelings is the impression of somewhat distended triangular...somethings...



10:07 AM Mr. Brown
Wasn't there a myth that people don't dream in color?
10:07 AM Mr. Silver
Yes. I never understood that.
10:08 AM Mr. Brown
Everybody could disprove that one. 
"I dream in color." 
LOL
10:08 AM Mr. Silver
"I declare that no one makes yellow pencils. I wrote it in a book. It's a fact."
"Um...this penc-"
"FACT!"
10:09 AM Mr. Brown
Hehe
Well, recently they found out how fast a cheetah actually goes.
I think they said 58
10:09 AM Mr. Silver
"This cheetah runs 58 MPH."
"So cheetahs run 58 MPH?"
"No...this one does."
Granted there are not a lot of cheetahs in the world...but...there are a lot of cheetahs in the world.
Maybe there's been one that can clock 85.
10:11 AM Mr. Brown
Possible.
Its just funny how its always been printed they run 70.
Well, how about they “average about 70”?
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
In my youth is was 60
Then 65
Then 70
Then I think 74
10:11 AM Mr. Brown
Oh shit! They're getting faster!
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
And now someone claims 58
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
(Nature show Voiceover) "Our team has had a stroke of luck. We've stumbled upon the very rare 'Doughy Cheetah'. This majestic animal is stalking a lame antelope and is preparing to charge. Let's watch it miss and pant for a few minutes."