[10:11
AM]
Today's
walking to work humming Mary Poppins lyrics thought:
"Girls
name mentioned: “Millicent”. Millicent? Is there a
girl's name that is literally 'One-thousand-one-hundred'?"
(I
haven't looked it up yet)
(looks
it up)
Answer
no
However
if I ever meet one... ;)
So...speaking
of "Mary Poppins".
I'd
hoped to watch the original again before going to see the new one.
Silver Jr. had never seen anything but parts, and then very young.
Mrs.
Silver...
Did
not want to see either one.
Based
on “Pee Wee's Big Adventure” and “Ernest: Scared Stupid”, you
can start making guesses here.
The
planned movie day was a weekend matinee. Wednesday I went to
the video place.
Found
the “Mary Poppins” box with no disks.
"Anything
I can help with?"
"Only
if someone brought MP back."
[10:31
AM] Mr. Brown:
Mary's
Poppin'
[10:31
AM]
"I'll
check...was due Monday."
"I
see..."
return
return return...no MP
We
went to see the new one.
Checked
when we got back...
No
MP
Check
back
Check
back
Check
back
FINALLY
– day later – it was there.
I
take it home
We
have dinner
Start
"Mary Poppins Night"
Skip
the trailers for all the new stuff that Disney is releasing to video
in 2005...
Get
to the menu
The
menu goes wonky
But
the movie starts
And
then locks up solid in the first 2 seconds
The
teeth-gritting glare I turned on Mrs. Silver as I fought with the
remote must have been pretty vicious because she threw an angry fit
that she “didn't do it”!
"Pee
Wee...Ernest...who knows how many of the others we returned before I
noticed?"
I
restarted, got through it all and then it played...no issues.
I'm
sure she killed “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” too, in retrospect.
Anyway...that's
the latest Mrs. Silver kills undesired videos update.
[10:38
AM] Mr. Brown:
When
she don't like it
It
don't work
[10:38
AM]
Yup
[10:39
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
need a witch-proof DVD player
[10:40
AM]
After
it was done and we had a small fight over some of her jabs at Silver
Jr. finding stuff "musical-embarrassing" in it, I tried to
watch the special features.
Had
to slog through the menu 2x to get it to even open and then they
didn't run.
I
gave up.
Perhaps
if I wrap her in aluminum foil
[10:44
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
had a DVD player that would act up
[10:50
AM]
Remember
this is the woman who witnessed my examination of the pristine "must
be scratched" Ernest DVD and who telekinetically added scratches
to it while it was sealed in the case - in my possession - on the
drive to the video place.
(Video
store girl) "Oh, it's scratched, see?"
It's
like "Bewitched" except she never conjures anything good.
Well...that's
not true...but the balance is WAY off.
[9:50
AM] Mr. Blue:
Are
the Berenstain bears Jewish?
[9:51
AM] Mr. Brown:
There
is a fun thing with that too - the way that Berenstein was spelled.
lol
[9:52
AM] Mr. Blue:
Isn't
that a Mandela Effect thing?
[9:52
AM] Mr. Brown:
yep
[9:52
AM] Mr. Blue:
People
swear it was stein but it's always been stain
Probably
because they were too young to read it so had someone read it to them
and they pronounced it stine.
[9:54
AM] Mr. Brown:
[9:54
AM] Mr. Blue:
Ah
[9:54
AM] Mr. Brown:
Lots
of books that were not Jewish
lol
They
have a Sunday School book
[10:32
AM]
Mandela
effect or multiverse tangents? The end result the same: the victims sound crazy.
[10:33
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
think people just confused Mandela with Gandhi or MLK
[10:34
AM]
Always
associated it with these, myself -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala
I
mean I know the "didn't he die" thing
But...you
know...Mandalas
[10:35
AM] Mr. Brown:
The
Berenstain Bears Make a Mandala
[10:35
AM]
Considering
Gandi died in the 40s and MLK in the 60s...no. No one is confused
about that.
Biko
was the 70s and no one was confused by that either.
I
am one of those who remember Mandela dying and being surprised and
confused when he was still alive.
I'm
obviously a universe-shift guy
I
have a variety of (paranoid) suspicions. Like it appears to be
happening more often.
Someone
succeeded making a time machine or something and is damaging reality.
[10:41
AM] Mr. Brown:
Or
its just the natural collision of dimensions.
[10:41
AM]
Perhaps I was correct in my method back in high school and I – or
one of me – diverged and have been breaking shit ever since.
[10:41
AM] Mr. Brown:
As
more people are born more dimensions are created to include their
possibilities,
thus
causing more and more of them to contact and interact.
We're
running out of dimensional space
[10:42
AM]
I
mean...I have considered and written down techniques to do this crap
on purpose. Versions of me are trying them.
Sorry
guys
[10:43
AM] Mr. Brown:
I'm
sure there is more than just you who has figured it out and been
messing stuff up
lol
[10:43
AM]
You
know me. I'd explain and teach it to people.
[10:43
AM] Mr. Brown:
(shifty
eyes) So how did you do this again? (holding up recorder)
[10:45
AM]
"We
call it the 'Interview With The Vampire Effect'. See, Mr.
Silver figures all this stuff out. And then spends 400 pages
explaining to an interested person how horrible and dangerous and
unpleasant it is. And then on the last page explains how to do
it anyway."
(Anne
Rice books tick me off)
[10:46
AM] Mr. Brown:
This
is a bad idea guys, but this is how I did it
lol
I
still think a lot of it is just dimensions colliding
Its
one thing in the one, another in the other. They collide and switch
[10:49
AM]
Yes
Leaving
anyone too close to the interaction who remembered the Sinbad genie
movie in such detail that they remember the family video store owning
3 copies -- and playing it on the store TVs so many times they were sick
of it -- stuck in a reality where
it never existed when they
slipped over.
[10:50
AM] Mr. Brown:
Like
in movie dimension of “Last Action Hero” - The Terminator was
played by Stallone
[10:51
AM]
Its
valid somewhere...
Some
poor sap out there is confused that the Arnold version isn't a remake
[10:53
AM] Mr. Brown:
Odd
deja vu when you dip into another dimension
[10:54
AM]
I
used to think about and logic out trying to find this stuff when I
was in my teens and early 20s with only suspicions of success.
Now
they just happen.
Like
the en passant rule in chess changing.
[10:55
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
think it's easily explained by our brains being not quite the
"computers" they're made out to be
they're
flawed
[10:55
AM]
Ok,
how about the (Project X) record here:
I
selected my next job in sequence. Went through everything...recorded,
reviewed, notated, etc.
Saved.
And
then I moved on.
And a few entries later I find a “new” one where I know all the names and
information already.
“Oh. Someone
just submitted it twice by mistake.”
So
I went back and the original and my entire report in two different programs were no longer there.
The ones I did before
and the ones I did after were.
I
didn't cherry pick it from lower down the list...do the work, then fail to Save in 2 different programs because it would still be in the original
list...there...because they don't get deleted.
I
had no trouble remembering where in the list it used to be or the
contents in detail or my conclusions.
So
I had to do that one all over again because it had literally vanished from my past and moved forward in time.
@Blue
as a conventional scientist I agree, brains are flawed
As
an unconventional scientist, that example is quite a bit of a stretch
since I'd have to remember it before I encountered it.
Moving
to Chess
It
was rather a shock, playing chess from the age of 5 or 6 and knowing
a rule for decades, just to have my kid hand me "the rules"
after I called him on an illegal play.
45 years of playing chess and the only thing that was the same about en passant was the
name of the rule.
I'd
never seen what I read described or used.
Did
everyone I've ever played with play wrong for 40 years?
Privately...in
clubs...at events?
Everyone?
That's
a lot of flawed brains.
[11:01
AM] Mr. Brown:
It
says en passant has been there since the 15th century
[11:01
AM]
(points
up)
Gave
me the creeps
[11:02
AM] Mr. Brown:
What
part changed?
The
whole rule, or how it is used.
[11:03
AM]
Yes
[11:04
AM] Mr. Brown:
Double
step past enemy pawn means they can be taken on that turn by the enemy pawn as if they moved one.
[11:06
AM]
In
my universe it was "If a pawn crosses to the other side of the
board and abuts against the opponent's pawns in their original
position under threat, the opponent can take the pawn without moving his own.
Basically
you walk up to the shield wall and die. There apparently is no such rule.
[11:07
AM] Mr. Brown:
Men
with polearms
lol
Stab
[11:08
AM]
You'd
only do such a thing to force the line to break. So...it means
you can't force your opponent's line to break.
His pawn
kills your pawn and stays in place
Checkers,
for comparison and depending on rules, if you purposely move into a
space where they can capture you, they have to capture your piece.
