608 - Decimal Savings Time, In The End Mostly Reagan Was Just Corrupt, The T-999 Terminator, March Madness Basketspeck, and "She's A Witch!"

[3:44 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I hope they take away Daylight savings time
Also I wonder if there was anybody ditzy enough to ask where are they keeping all the daylight they saved
lol
[3:46 PM]   
Mrs. Silver is all for dumping it
I had to be a complicated jerk and say "Just shift it all 1/2 an hour"
And moved on to
"And pull days off of 31 day months to fix February"
[3:48 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I think it should be the same time everywhere
No time zones
[3:48 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
That would be f'd up
lol
Its 3am and its midday sun
lol
[3:49 PM]   
But it's all an artificial mechanism anyway
[3:49 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yes it really does not exist
[3:49 PM]   
At one point I said we should go back to early church hours
(checks complicated digital watch) "Coming up on Vespers"
[3:49 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
You'd get used to it
[3:50 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
We only watch time cause we are scheduling things
"I must measure how long I'm working"
or "I must set a specific point at which I go to this place"
When it used to be you did whatever whenever.
til you can't do it
like when its too dark
lol
DST is and only was created for the power issues
that's when it was mainly implemented
in 1970s
its old and we don't need it anymore
I think a bill was put in to end it
looks like very first time it was used was 1916
using solar time
welp this month things are a little longer
[3:59 PM]   
"I say...this Great War is a deuce for telling what time we're supposed to coordinate anything."
[3:59 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
now if they do pass it and nix it in US
will they stay on Savings
or Go back to Standard
that is the question
lol
[4:18 PM]   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#France
I can't imagine that on top of their moronic counting system.
Have to put children through a year of Metric Time math classes in school.
"Ah!   But zee ad vonTEEGE is a man would honlee 'ave a work day that lasts 3 hours 33 minutes 33.33333333333333333333333333..."
"That ees enough.   But zee common laborair ezz more likely too 'ave worked 16 hour in zee o'd way."
"Nozing zimplair.   E would now work 6 hours, 45 plus 21 minutes, and 45 plus 21 point 45 plus 21 and 45 plus 21 and 45 plus 21... (gasps for air)"
[4:27 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Lets get a 3 day weekend
I'd take up arms for that one
This 5 Days is BS



[9:13 AM]   
(Corn) "Reagan was a Democrat.   You know that."
[9:13 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I'd love to listen to a podcast of Corn's and Chips's conversations
[9:13 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[9:13 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Just have one guy that shouts out a topic and let 'em go
Of course his head is more worms than brain cells at this point
[9:14 AM]   
(think of an answer that will kick the conversation a different direction) "I've got to be honest, I never liked the guy."
(perfect...he doesn't know WHY I never liked the poster god for Republican ethics and principles)
[9:15 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[9:17 AM]   
"All the nationalism, economic and environmental irresponsibility, and US corruption was all a disguise for him being a Democrat so no one would know."
[9:17 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
uh
[9:17 AM]   
Exactly
[9:18 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
His only argument would be maybe he was a Democrat before he went Republican,
but there would be documentation of it.
And I did not look at any of it, but I still believe there is none
lol
Lots of people choose a side and stick with it all their life

[9:18] He started as a Democrat with ethics then started working over conservatives to gain power.
[9:19 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Corn's just an idiot
There's no thoughts going on, words just come out of his mouth
[9:21 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Makes you wonder if he does it on purpose



[10:33 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Let’s get some! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6831835/Scientists-develop-Terminator-style-liquid-metal-stretch.html
[10:35 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Looks pretty lame
“are able to flex and mold into shapes with the use of magnets, much like the iconic movie villain, T-1000 from 'The Terminator 2: Judgement Day”
Except he didn't use magnets, and he could alternate between liquid and solid
[10:43 AM]   
"It’s a T-999.   Advanced prototype...goopy metal and magnets that don't fall apart in water and stretch horizontally and vertically."
(John C) "Can you beat it?"
"YOU could beat it."
(John C) "Where are we going?"
"Somewhere safe for now til I can get some machine shop grade magnets at a Lowes or Home Depot."
(John C) "There's an Ollie's over there."
"(pause, calculating) That will be adequate."
[10:48 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
"The t-999 is designed to enter your gastrointestinal system, causing mercury poisoning and, without treatment, slowly shutting down your organs and killing you."
[10:54 AM]   
(Approaches counter.   Ollie's Army cashier looks up) "I'll have neodymium magnets."   
"Uh.   Toys or hardware?"   
"Any adequately strong magnetic objects."   
"There's those ball toy ones in Aisle 3.   You know, where you can make the structures out of?"   
"(considering)"   
"There's a whole mess of refrigerator ones over in housewares."   
"Approximately how many?"   
"Hundreds.   We just got cases of them in.   Old Christmas stuff."   
"(raises shotgun) I will have all of the Christmas magnets."   
"I can't leave the register...they're over there."   
(considers) "I'll be back."
(later, cart full of boxes of magnets.   Raises shotgun.)   "Do not attempt to hinder me."   
"Hey, those are a nickel each."   
"(considers...considers...lowers shotgun)  Uh.   (digs in pocket...hands two $20 bills)."
"Ok, that's..."   
"I will require 20 cents in change."   
"Right.   Here you go.  Have a good night, buddy!"
 (1 hour and 20 minutes later...a T-999 covered in snowmen, Santa Clauses, reindeer, Currier and Ives sleighs, and seasonal greetings in calligraphy struggles to continue the assault.)
(Sarah C) "Shoot it!"
"Negative.  They will fall off."
Good point on that T-999, Mr. Blue.
While the T-1000 is centrally or distributionally controlled somehow, the bits seem to be able to move and operate independently at a fairly good range.   
There's actually no good reason for it to look like a human at all
It could infiltrate an area with considerable ease as a fluid and just kill anything it got near.  Internally, if desired.   
(Humans in wasteland...find several T-1000 "Boxes" marked "MREs")
"Look!   Grab them and we'll take it back to base!"   
[11:20 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, you're right
It could disguise itself as a flock of birds, find John Connor, disguise itself as parts of his dirtbike and crash it
Or just creep along the sidewalk
Lay in wait on Connor's sidewalk, turn into stabby knives when he walks over
[11:44 AM]   
Yup
"Terminator 10 - The Day Skynet Realizes What It Can Do"
(Terminator 10 - [Town] Pennsylvania. House, Front, exterior, night.   Lightning flashes in the back yard.  Camera tracks.  Terminator appears.   Grabs old towel left on the patio table.)     
(Cut to bedroom, dark.   Light flicks on.)   "Are you Mr. Silver...game designer?"
"Uh...yeah?"
"I must consult with you on...a...strategy war game.  I will interface with your computer and transfer $2,000,000 to your account for your assessment."
"Oh?  Sure... You from a German company?"
“That explanation is sufficient.”
(Cut to living room...looking over print outs and miniatures)
"What do you think of the...German company war game?"
"Well…the idea as a whole is good.  Nice pieces.  Interesting team balancing.  The time travel concurrent game is super cool.  The tactical flaw is this little guy.”
“The model T-1000 Terminator…playing piece…”
“Yeah.  You only need these T-1000 things to win the entire game.   The rest is fluff.  Waste of resources.   Your bot-team players will see it right away."
"Please explain the proper tactical and strategic deployment of the T-1000 to win the entire game… for rules adjustment."



[8:02 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
morning
[8:03 AM]   
(Case Description) "Agent's son needs UN and PW to stream some basketball on his cellphone today."
(Solution) "Agent's son needs a life."
Granted I don't like basketball so I'm prejudiced
But coupling it with a tiny screen?  (off our connection)
"My son made plans...in advance...to sit on a chair for at least TWO HOURS holding up a small piece of glass to watch tiny color-coded people - who even full-sized have to have a number written on them to tell them apart - run left and right chasing an orange dot and tossing it hundreds of times at wee little nets."
March Madness indeed
[8:31 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah I wouldn't even watch it on a big screen
[8:39 AM]   
I would probably enjoy myself if I was watching it live.   There's a huge amount of energy if you are actually there, as you know.   
I can overlook the flaws of a game if I'm loaded with endorphins   



[12:22 PM]   
Funny...leaving lunch.   Look outside...raining.   Grab an umbrella.   
Mrs. Silver "Is it snowing out there?"   
"No, just raining."   
"Aww..."   
I open the umbrella and the rain instantly turns to snow.   
She closes the door.   
[12:23 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
She's a witch!
[12:23 PM]   
Well, yes

607 - IS Flash Gordon Alive?, and "Hail Silver Jr. Hail"!

[3:02 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Last night had a hankering to watch Flash Gordon again
I only watched it that one time before, a few years ago
I had to buy a digital copy to watch it, but whatever
I think it's like Krull... gets better with subsequent viewings
[3:03 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[3:03 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I dunno where they got the story for the film... like if it was based on the serials even at all.
[3:03 PM]   
It was based on newspaper comics
[3:04 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Was it a comic too?
[3:04 PM]   
Yes
For ages
It might still be running
(shrug)
[3:04 PM]   Mr. Blue
It'd be cool to see a big remake of it, with Ming being the authoritarian ruler of his little world and everyone hating him but having to kiss his ass... and then some foreigner coming along and uniting everyone to defeat him
The beginning is cool with how you only see what Ming is seeing through his little periscope or whatever
"I'm bored... I'm gonna ruin this place"
[3:04 PM]   
Best opening line in Sci-fi, in my opinion
"Klytus I'm boooored..."
[3:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[3:05 PM]   
All the events happened because the supreme a-hole of the universe had nothing better to do
[3:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, I like that
He's like a little kid burning ants with a magnifying glass, or me turning on disaster mode in Sim City
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Flash would be a good remake for film
But not TV again
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
More alien / scifi than the fantastical thing that the film was
[3:06 PM]   
That's been talked about for ages
The art direction in Flash Gordon was amazing
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
The original actor is still alive right?
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, but he hasn't done anything since other than Ted
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Could always do a film and have him as another character
Hemsworth is Flash
[3:07 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
He didn't even finish Flash Gordon.  They used someone else's voice in post
Its been around so long the original was like, a polo player?
Which was popular at the time
Most baseball teams originally played in polo grounds because purpose-built baseball stadiums were unheard of for such an obscure sport
[3:08 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I just had this bad image of the guy who plays Gronk as Flash
[3:09 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I wonder who could be Ming if Hemsworth is Flash
[3:09 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Patrick Stewart
[3:09 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
That's a good one
[3:10 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Cause he looks like you could just push him over, but he is so menacing at the same time
[3:10 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
He plays against type well in that Green Room movie I watched... he'd be great as Ming
[3:10 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
With the accent and such it would fit
[3:12 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Ben Foster as Klytus
I'm not sure why, but I notice that guy in everything he's in even if it sucks
He's good at being bad
Maybe too short
[3:13 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
That's what I was thinking
Dolph Lundgren as Klytus
[3:14 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
That'd be good
Klytus reminded me of Skeletor in the Masters of the Universe movie when he's in the gold getup at the end
[3:14 PM]   
Fan boys drool over "Slave Leia", but I'm a "Court Daywear Aura" man...
[3:15 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes!
The movie does seem really dated though...
[3:18 PM]   
Well yes
But there will never be anything quite like it
It's so extreme in it's glamour
"Here's the original insignia."   
"Great!   I want it saturated in crystalline beads and jewels."
"Uh...and our concept for the Frigian queen."
"Beautiful!  Cover that sh- in mirrors!"
[3:18 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I mean even more than it is
1980 but it seems like... much older
It almost seems like the 60s.  Like it's a companion to Barbarella
[3:19 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Black and White scifi gone color
[3:19 PM]   
Yes, Mr. Brown
[3:19 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
If it were me I'd just make it straight up scifi and not so much fantasy
Oh I like when they're going through the Dr's memories
Obviously the guy survived the Holocaust and they get to Hitler and Klytus make some comment like "now HE had the right idea!" or something along those lines
Ahh.. "now HE showed promise!"
They should make Ming more like a petulant child
Super powerful and everyone has to kiss his ass and pay him tribute but he's also a whiny brat
[3:24 PM]   
But Ming is a sophisticated villain
[3:24 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, that's true
[3:24 PM]   
Supposed to be green as I recall.
Lucas made Star Wars because he couldn't secure Flash Gordon or Dune
So...it's kinda both
[3:26 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah
Ming in the film looks identical to Ming in the serials
[3:28 PM]   
Ming...
Who could play him now?
Voice...'tude...bearing...look
Cumberbatch popped in
[3:29 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
[3:29 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
For a young Ming, yes
[3:29 PM]   
Ming doesn't age
[3:34 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Lance Reddick as Klytus
Maybe Fassbender - he seems like a psycho in real life.
[3:38 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[3:45 PM]   
Tommy Wisseau IS Mhing Thee Mersillis
(Ming slouches in...slumps on couch...)   "I conkerd a lodda planets taday..."
[3:48 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I still have not watched that film
Yet I know the film
“Ming's Room”
by Tommy Wisseau
“Hey Flash you want to play catch?”
Awkward 20 minutes of playing catch with metal eggs
“I didn't blast that plannet!  Thas bullshit!  Oh, hi Klytus.”
[4:01 PM]   
Adds new dimension to the football scenes in both films!
[9:41 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Something weird about Flash Gordon is that the Hawkmen all wear like roman style sandals, but Brian Blessed - I guess because he's kinda short and he's supposed to be the leader - has heels on his.  They look like straight up women's high heels
Kinda like they took the soles of a dress shoe and put on the sandals
[9:42 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Makes him larger in stature
[9:42 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
And once I noticed I couldn't unnotice
Pretty impressive that his lines, which on paper are pretty bland, have become so iconic just because of his delivery of 'em
"Gordon's alive!”
"Diiiiiive!" etc.
[9:44 AM]   
Blessed has charisma
[9:44 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
[9:44 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Eh, would be interesting having Orson Wells do Vultan
Though he would argue about the lines for an hour first
[9:45 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
lol yeah
"Why do I keep yelling dive?   Isn't once enough?   There's too much directing around here."
[9:47 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
“Hawkmen. They are not Hawk Men, they are men with wings on their backs.  They are Men wearing hawk wings.”
“Who are you and what is your name?  Yes yes you will be fired by the end of the day.
Where is my wine?”
[9:49 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
"AHHHhhhhhhh Gordon's aliveeghhh" [zonks out]
"Get me a jury to tell me how to emphasize "boy" in "impetuous boy" and I'll... go down on you."
[9:52 AM]   
"In July on Arboria, Prince Barin grows peas..."
"In July...that's a funny thing isn't it.   As if Arboria has a July.   And you're talking about July and showing snow.   Arboria is a Temperate Rainforest.   Show me when Arboria has ever had snow and...and I'll go down on you."
[10:01 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh



[9:20 AM]   
Silver Jr. has reached his Benevolent Dictator phase
"If I ruled the world...this is how everyone would be happy under my rules ON PAIN OF ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION.”
"But I'd be so nice about it that no one would revolt.  ESPECIALLY AFTER I CRUSH ALL WHO RESIST WITH OVERWHELMING POWER so the world would be much better, you know?"
"I was thinking of writing up my government ideas."
"Title it 'Manifesto'."
"Why that?"
"Traditional."
"Oh."
[9:30 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Its very easy to come up with a working government when you just kill anyone who doesn't wanna live by your rules
[9:31 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
My ruling name will be Vlad the Taxer
If you don't pay I impale you
[9:36 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
There wouldn't be enough construction material to build the camps that I'd have to put people in.

606 - "The Man With The Golden Allowance", Silver Jr.'s Military Dreams

[8:33 AM]   
"Man With The Golden Gun"
Silver Jr. pick.   As usual recently someone dragged ass so long starting we finished half again
[8:35 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
That one was.. okay
neat idea with the world's greatest killer wanting to kill Bond just for competition's sake
[8:36 AM]   
About how I feel about “View to a Kill”.  OK
Yes
Best assassins pair off for the sake of the game.   
[8:38 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
And Britt Eklund is one of the best Bond girls, at least in terms of looks
[8:39 AM]   
Implied as his favorite way to relax, if not just shoved in your face.   
"Nick Nack... I feel like a game.   Find me a good shootist.   Feeling like something Italian this week."
Britt is one of those odd ones for me.
Bach too
I step back and think about it, I don't find either one to have very attractive features
And then you take in the whole thing and they...just are.
Ruben sandwiches of Bond girls
I always had a spot for Diana Rigg
And Daniela Bianchi
[9:03 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Barbara Bach I liked
[9:03 AM]   
Bianchi's character didn't have a whole lot going on upstairs
But Rigg was the complete package
[9:04 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
As a character Bach's was one of the best
[9:04 AM]   
XXX?   Yeah, very good character
Morning Mr. Brown
Catchup sent.   Bond Girl stuff currently
[9:12 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
I think I have seen A View to a Kill, but was a while ago
[9:14 AM]   
Moore was just a tad past his prime to play Bond...
...'s dad.
"But Silver," you protest, "Bond was an orphan.   His dad had been dead since he was a child."
(touches nose, points)
Still fun though
[9:16 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
It has Grace Jones and Christopher Walken
[9:18 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Walken had very blond hair
[9:22 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
"His character is German but speaks 5 different languages... but Walken can't do accents so we have to add the caveat that he speaks them all *without* accents."
[9:26 AM]   
Not sure you can speak another language without it sounding like that language
Perhaps
(Q) "We couldn't identify him by the usual voice print technology, but have a look at this.   All these odd pauses and drags.  He speaks all five like an American actor from New York...it's quite unusual.”
"Well, he is rather creepy, Q..."
[9:30 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
“Frerra... Jacka.  Frerra... Jacka.”   
I know that is spelled wrong
[9:32 AM]   
Yet I can see him saying "jacka"
[9:32 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
"I'm gunna blow up dose Silicon Valley gooks.."
[9:33 AM]   
The butterfly assassination thing was fun, if completely ridiculous
(Zorn) "Just in case... he ever has lunch at the Eiffel tower... we want to fit you... Mayday... for a costume.  And train you... to use this rod... in case the butterfly act is playing... while he's there... just in case... he gets a table... up front."
[9:39 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah that was ridiculous
Just shoot him with a suppressed gun. Either one causes a scene
[9:39 AM]
(GM of restaurant)   "Who is the new butterfly girl?"
"Hmm?"
"The one standing there casting it like a fly fishing rod over and over at table 3 and swearing about missing?"
"Not sure.   Built like an Amazon though... Wow!"   
"She's running away now."
"I think she hit someone."
"Bout time...the table is smashed up.   It's like it was intentional.   Who's THAT?"
"Dunno but he had a gun."
"OHHHHHhhhhhh... James Bond.   Usually has a standing reservation on table 6.   It all makes sense now.   Call the coroner."
[9:41 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Mr. Bond, would you like your favorite table sir?
You in town spying again?
I did not forget, you like a martini
[9:43 AM]   
Hehe
15 minutes earlier... maitre d' sees Bond entering.     
"F!   Not again!"
[9:44 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
(Bond shows up at hotel)  Yes, Mr. Bond your favorite room has been setup for you. Will you be needing any dry cleaning for blood?
[9:45 AM]   
"And as usual, sign here for any assassination attempt damage...and the deposit please...no, I think we'd like cash this time."
[9:46 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
(Casino) "Yes Mr. Bond we have your usual amount of chips ready for you. Are you going to be dropping in on any specific games again?"
Somebody should do a movie with the restaurants and other places prepping like you had Mr. Silver - somebody recognizes Bond and says “oh here we go again”
[9:51 AM]   
I had another angle where it's some rich guy's thing and he spends a fortune playing secret agent.
[9:51 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[9:52 AM]   
(villain du jour) "4 Queens, Mr. Bond."
"Ah...well...I have a 2, and an Ace, and a 9, a 10, and a 6."
(table approves)
(Villain) "You seem unbeatable, Mr. Bond.   Care to raise the stakes?"
No... How about he's a rich guy's son living the spy fantasy and not so bright
Would explain why the villains take time to explain their plots when confronted.



[8:19 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1897#World_War_I_protests
[8:24 AM]   
Slowly drowning in your own lungs after chlorine gas exposure is OK though
Always love weapon protests and bans
Crossbows?!   Cruel!   Pope says NO!
[8:26 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Or flame throwers
[8:26 AM]   
Almost a kindness, those
[8:27 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I guess I'd rather get killed by a flame thrower than chlorine gas
With any luck i pass out from the fumes of my own burning flesh and clothes
[8:29 AM]   
Mrs. Silver was reading Tarot cards at a psychic fair yesterday.   Silver Jr. and I got to wander for 5 hours in Town.
His current fascination is joining the military to see the world and have an adventure
The mall had a little Military Surplus store so we went in.
Quite a lot of memorabilia all around the walls surrounding the gear
We talked about individual pieces and such...
Lot of Nazi stuff people brought home.
Some WWI stuff, even
(Looking at a big curved whatever)   "Man...what did THAT?"   
(I lean in) "Aircraft hull...wood with metal skin.   B-17?   That's 20mm cannon hits."   
"That must have been a surprise to the pilot."
"Nah.   Normal.   Wonder if they made it."
There was talk of helmet holes and forensic analysis.   
"I thought these were bullet proof."
[8:38 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Probably just shrapnel proof.. or maybe if a bullet is at the right angle it'll deflect off
[8:39 AM]   
"No.   They're better than they were in earlier wars, and believe me I'd want one on, but it depends what they hit you with.   Helmets are mainly to block debris and cast off shrapnel, not deflect bullets.  This guy couldn't have been too happy..."
"How could the bullets do THAT?"   
"He was shot in the chin or something...see?   All 3 are coming up OUT of the helmet, not  going in."
He was fascinated with the knives and bayonets.   We talked some history.   
"I can't buy one, but you could and let me have it."
"This is true.   You realized those things were used, right?"
"Yeah."
"You've got shaman training and a psychic mom and you wanna put one of those in your room?"
"...Ah..."
Heh
He's still interested and I don't mind too much.   Technically it's a lot better than most of history.   
(The scene earlier in the day leading up to this occurred when Mrs. Silver was taking a break)   "Wanna read my cards?"   
"No, but I will if you like."
"OK."
(Throw out 4 – Past, Present, Future, Bonus - like she's been doing for the day.)
[1/2 second] "Seriously?   You're actually thinking of enlisting?"   
(spooked) "You could tell that that fast???"
"I've been doing this a long time...I just don't like to. [explains individual cards]"
[9:03 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Heh
Maybe push him towards the Peace Corps or something
I wouldn't have minded enlisting if we weren't currently the world's police
Although i probably wouldn't have been able to cut it
[9:15 AM]   
I know I couldn't
I was skeletal through half of college
[9:16 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Somehow my dad lucked out even though he enlisted during Vietnam, he was stationed in Germany the whole time
Same with his brother
[9:17 AM]   
(Tom Waits sings) "In the land of 98 pound weaklings, the 108 pound weakling is king..."
[9:18 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I wouldn't like people yelling at me and telling me what to do all the time.  and as an only child i assume i don't work well with others.
[9:18 AM]   
"So I became an IT guy"
[9:58 AM]   Mr. Blue: 
LOL.  Maybe suggest to him the French Foreign Legion
A better chance of traveling and meeting different kind of people without getting merc'd by some Afghani villager
[9:59 AM]   
Damn
[9:59 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
+ a shot at an EU passport
[10:00 AM]   
The Foreign Legion is one of those teams you join to get out of a prison sentence/escape your government/etc
An adventure indeed
[10:00 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Still?  I think now it's just foreigners that want French citizenship
[10:00 AM]   
Oh, you get that if you make it, yeah
I did say one thing - "It's funny this came up, because the other day I felt like saying to you - 'If society looks to be on the verge of collapse, sign up for the military ASAP.'"
Get trained, armed, supplied, billeted...end up with everything.
There's Survivalism and then there's actually having a decent post apocalypse
"We're prepped for 10 years!"   
"We're prepped for 150."
[10:11 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[10:12 AM]   
"Got food, weapons, medkits, water filters..."
“Got hoards of food, farming options, small and large unit tactical, reactors, hospitals, full environmental treatment..."
"Got a library of useful skills and tools..."
"Got a cadre of experts, engineers, scientists, and a full education program..."
"We can hold off looters."
"We can engage with foreign military incursions"
[10:29 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes

605 - Old Enough To Serve Buffet, Elly's Odds, Russians Pre-Bandaged Their Foot Injuries, and "The Big Yellow One Is The God"

[1:40 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
It seemed like some of the guys were hitting on the girl running the food tables downstairs
[1:41 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Which guys?
[1:41 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
One was an IT guy
I don't remember his name
She is cute though
lol
Looks like she is 16 though
[1:42 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
I just barely noticed that she looked like a kid, and then my brain went to the food
[1:42 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yeah i jumped to the food too
But I was sitting down there eating
[1:42 PM]   
(book) R. Kelly Skool of Hittin' on Chix
"Chapter 1 - Fair Game"
[1:43 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Well i figure she has to be 18 or she would be in school
unless she has work release for school or something
[1:45 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Or... Spring Break?
Or home schooled?
[1:45 PM]   
I was listening to her conversation with some cousin or other who came through the line. She didn't talk very “kid”.
[1:45 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Well when you look at her in detail, you can tell she is older
[1:45 PM] 

“That weird guy is still staring at you.”
“I know!  He's creepier than the guys hitting on me!”
[1:45 PM]   Mr. Brown:
lol
I was just perturbed by the guys hitting on her
Got that strange protective thing going
I can't believe some of the stuff parents let young girls wear, actually
I think in my head - that child would not leave my house that way if she was my daughter

[1:50 PM]   
Meanwhile, this morning I read an article that reported that - seriously - see-thru wedding dresses are a thing
[1:50 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
WHAT?
[1:50 PM]   
Yeah
[1:50 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Has to have a small market
OK, I can't get that image out of my head
The wrong person buying it popped into my head
lol
[1:52 PM]   
The girl running the food tables downstairs?
But yeah, wedding dresses for the 5% of brides who could sport a bod to show off...and the 1% of that set who'd want to.
[1:52 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Those who are extremely body confident
[1:53 PM]   
Dad...so proud...escorting his little virgin exhibitionist down the aisle
[1:53 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Wouldn't even good bodies look weird in see-thru?
[1:53 PM]   
Oh, the examples looked very good...  Advertising
[1:53 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
It'd be like looking at a cut of lean meat wrapped in cellophane
[1:53 PM]   
It's all lace, not clear plastic
[1:53 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
ah
[1:59 PM]   
"Do I get a discount for the 10 million holes in this dress?"
[1:54 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I've seen some dresses that I went “what is that?”
like extreme low cut
no back
These leggings the women are wearing
Mrs. Brown likes them too but she wears a long shirt with them so its mainly just her legs you see
[1:59 PM]   
Shameless
[1:59 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
hah
[1:59 PM]   
Those leggings are menswear
[1:59 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
We should start a trend
Restart the what's the thing that knights wore
crap it left my head
cod piece
we should get it back in style
lol
wear tights and a cod piece
[2:14 PM]   
Yup...can't tell by look, can by listening to her talk to other women.
But can confirm she's 22
Mr. Oleo basically just asked her history while I sat in a massage chair.
[2:14 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
he is hitting on her now?
[2:15 PM]   
Just jovial chatty like he always is
[2:15 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
ah
[2:15 PM]   
Grandfather owns the catering place.   Started helping at 16
(Oleo) "How old are you now?"
(I wince)
"22...so 6 years"


[12:50 PM]   
Car started, went 2 seconds, spinning starter.
(image in head of wormhole generator effects from "Contact")   “Awesome...”
[1:50 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
It's doing something!
Just wait, it will soon jump from here to there
[1:53 PM]   
Whoever was in charge of the Machine design in that movie did a nice interpretation of "We want it big, complicated, not very earthlike, convey extremely power...and scary as Hell to be anywhere near.   And then we're going to hang her over it and freefall drop her inside."
[1:53 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
hehe
“OK, now just jump in there.”
[1:56 PM]   
(Elly) "You're sure it'll work?"
"Absolutely!   99.99%   90%   Yup.   Good bet at 65%"
"65%?"
"Assuming the timing is all good and it does what it says.   So a solid 65% if that's correct.   So about 11%...in RAW stats.  But if those stats are, in reality, 100%...then 65%...or so."
"(Elly calculates) So 1%"
"Assuming it's not all a hoax, yeah."
[2:01 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
"Well, if you make it'll be 100%."



[2:17 PM]   

https://www.soviet-power.com/russian-army-portyanki-military-foot-wraps-socks.html

For only $10!
[2:18 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
What is the importance of wrap socks?
[2:18 PM]   
Shipping ALSO $10
“Now used in Russian, Ukrainian and other armies from former USSR. New and never used, 2 pieces.”
Actually I know about them because Russia discontinued using them after 400 years of soldiers hating them and protesting.
[2:20 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I just don't understand the reasoning of them
[2:20 PM]   
So they're new and never used because they've been sitting in surplus for years behind the crates of socks
Just look how easy they are to put on in the instructions
[2:21 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Do they do anything that normal socks don't?
lol
[2:24 PM]   
Yes...lead to blisters, callouses, and frostbite
[2:25 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Hmm
Looks like it was just because it was easy to get them compared to socks
Strip off some sheets and wrap it up
Seems like it was for boots in general
[2:25 PM]   

https://snarkynomad.com/portyanki-russian-footwraps/

[2:28 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
“I grew up with these strip of foot fabric, and some vodka.  It made me strong.”
If you get a roll in it you would get a blister
[2:29 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Or get all bunched up / loosen up and you'd have to re-wrap every few miles



[2:39 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Making a solar system at home
Brown Jr. has that as a project
[2:52 PM]   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBzv1sjKpCU

[3:02 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
damn he's young there
[3:02 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
The yellow one!
[3:02 PM]   
Yes
[3:02 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Ours is yellow and orange
You know - correct
[3:03 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
He had the same haircut as every 90s comedian
“The Seinfeld” I guess
[3:03 PM]   
Before the instant your retinas burn through, the Sun is white
[3:03 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
It would be cool to get into it and add sunspots lol
Add flares to it with orange yarn
I could get crazy with it
But its a school thing so not going to go all out
[3:04 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
You should make the solar system to scale
I mean distance between the sun & planets
[3:05 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
We have smaller balls and bigger balls
[3:05 PM]   
Well that's just age and genetics
[3:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
It'll take up more than the gymnasium
"Here's the sun."
"And where's the planets?"
"Mercury is waaaaaaaaay over there."
[3:07 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I keep telling Brown Jr. we have to put rings on Uranus but he won't
[3:07 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
He a Uranus rings truther?
[3:08 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
He knows they are there just does not want to put them on it
I keep saying well we are putting them on Saturn
We even got primary colors paint and mixed our own colors to paint them
White green blue to make Uranus
We are not going with extreme detail though
So when he paints Earth he is going to do his best to make it look like it
I told him we have to paint the caps and the land
[3:12 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Get the land masses right
Don't forget New Zealand
[3:12 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Tiny speck
lol
[3:12 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
2 specks
[3:12 PM]   
"Uhhh...   Brown?  This solar system has the Earth in the center."
"I know..."
"You KNOW it's wrong.   Why'd you do it?"
"'Cause DAD wouldn't let me make it FLAT."
[3:14 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Extra credit - make a Flat Earth dome
[3:15 PM]   
Do all 3 and if he DOESN"T get extra he's gettin' robbed.
[3:15 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
“What is that serpent-looking thing around the Earth?  Is that a wolf biting the Sun?  How is this part of the solar system?”
“The end time is near.  Ragnarok is coming.”
We'll play cool Viking-like music
[3:17 PM]   
"Brown Jr's Museum of Inaccurate Solar Systems - YOU make the CALL"
Then not specify which is right
[3:17 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
“Why is this Earth on a turtle's back?
[3:17 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[3:21 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
If we really want to get complicated, we can build a historical Indian astronomy one
“What are all these tiny ships around the Earth?”
“Those are the GODS!”
Put the Aliens Guy's picture in the backdrop.
I actually painted the box black cause Jr was doing it wrong
lol
[3:36 PM]   

https://ourwayisthehighway.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/flat-earth8-wide.jpg?w=940

"We were torn between putting in Sheol or the fiery pit of Hell."

604 - The Bacteria Drank Too Much, Funding Bond, "Lemons Of The Caribbean"

 [10:47 AM]   
Hmmmm
Well.   We'll be getting an odd email soon on it anyway
[10:48 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
hopefully
or possibly we wont
won't
wonton
loo
[10:49 AM]   
Wontonloo
Where Napoleon had bad Chinese food and ended up spending the afternoon on the toilet while his army lost the battle
[10:50 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[12:11 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Woke up Sunday feeling like garbage
Achy, chills, headache and sore throat
Was gone by the next morning
[12:12 PM]   
(Muddy Waters guitar) Na na NANNA na nah
So whatever bacteria you picked up while you were binge drinking Saturday night was gone by Monday?   Good immune system.
[12:16 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[12:17 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah not sure what it was
It felt like it was gonna be a 5-dayer
Still not 100% but I'm at about 90%
[12:18 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Bad digestion
Body going “What do i do with this?  Well, better make him feel sick so he don't eat it again.”
[12:19 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh



[9:39 AM]   
Finished about 1/2 of Thunderball last night
Mrs Silver's pick
"We didn't do anything for Mardi Gras.   Didn't James Bond go to Mardi Gras?"
"In a couple of them, yeah."
"Well let's watch one then."
Always liked that one.   Was my favorite for a long time.
Looking back the tiny seeming ransom is the most amusing
"100 million pounds sterling in diamonds or we blow up a city in the US or the UK"   
Current money values with inflation...the ransom for 2 nukes was 2.5 billion dollars
A bargain vs a major city
[10:23 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
But Bond can get it done and it will cost us just his pay check
lol
[10:24 AM]   
Operation startup would probably cost that much now
(M) "We'll need to send out all 9 double O's."
(MI6 Treasurer sharp breath) "Ehhhhhh.  Isn't the CIA going out on this?"
[10:24 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
I have wondered the cost of all his gadgets he uses and breaks and costs of him getting here and there and things he damages vs the payment to the Villain
I bet paying is cheaper, as long as the villain will actually stop after payment
Some of the jobs make sense because they are going to do it no matter what
[11:14 AM]   
Wonder how many diamonds it takes to make a 2.5 billion dollar pile
[11:16 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
And who are they re-selling those to?
[11:16 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
About a cup and a half?
lol
[11:16 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Diamonds aren't like gold where you can melt down and re-sell and they are, practically, worthless
[11:17 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
I want diamond bars!
[11:17 AM]   
Gems are/were apparently the best way to smuggle anonymous bulk value
At least up until (tries to recall National Geographic year) 2003?
Probably bottomed out with virtual currency though
One of my favorite bits from "Dodgeball" was the suitcase with a couple bundles of bills in it.   
"Betcha never saw $100000 all in one place like that before."
[11:21 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh yeah
[11:22 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
I want 1,000,000 dollars in 5's
if somebody was diabolical they would ask for it all in pennies



[8:03 AM]   
We watched the rest of Thunderball, and then Goldfinger a couple days ago
"This was back when the women in the credits still wore something."
[8:17 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
Goldfinger is considered one of the best and i liked it. But for a long stretch Bond is just kind of there, not doing much
[8:18 AM]   
(M) "You'll be signing that gold bar out with the quartermaster 007...it's worth 5000 pounds."
(me) "HA!"
That's $35.50/oz back then.
Not that 5000 pounds was anything to sniff at back in those days...very nice chunk o change
Meanwhile Bond and villains were making 500 pound bets at cards
Which is $342,500 in gold in 2017 dollars since I can't get this calculator to do 2019
1965 (Largo, frustrated losing at cards)
"Anyone object to raising the bet limit to 500 pounds?"
(chorus of "no"s)
2019 (Largo, frustrated losing at cards)
"Anyone object to raising the bet limit to $34,250?"
(chorus of "Fuuuuuuuck Youuuuuu”s)
[8:37 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
lol
[8:41 AM]   
Side note... the bar was supposed to be from the Lake Toplitz Nazi gold dump.
That's never been found that anyone ever admitted.   (wink wink)
So according to the Bond universe, the Brits nabbed it and never told anyone without clearance.
[8:45 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I see
That sort of thing would've been recovered in... months.. if not weeks or days.. by one of the many people who either handled or knew about the dump.
Then smelted it down and stored or immediately resold
[8:49 AM]   
Some, sure.   
People still find Nazi caches



[10:15 AM]   
Speaking of incoherent weirdness...
Finally watched the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie
[10:16 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
I have not watched that yet
[10:16 AM]   
I always thought it didn't do any good because of Depp's scandals
It turns out it was because it wasn't very good
It had good elements.   Story core was fine to me.
Poor writing though
Weak characters and relationships
Jack was a dull fool
[10:22 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I saw the 1st one and felt like it was enough
[10:23 AM]   
It's amazing how Jack Sparrow went from deceptively brilliant and capable in 1 and 2,  to a fool in 3 thru 5.
Perhaps death gave him brain damage
Anyway...I'd rather watch Captain Barbossa.
[10:26 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yes
He has more story
[10:27 AM]   
He's consistent and well written.   They stuck to his rules.
[10:27 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I'm still waiting for the Master & Commander sequel
Both came out at the same time and audiences decided to give their money to the Disney ride one over the real one
[10:32 AM]   
I have a copy at home.   Have to watch it again.
The issue with the real one is that its a military drama vs ghost pirates!
Coming this summer:  
"Master and Commander 2: The F-n' Bermuda F-n' TRIANGLE Man!"
(headline) "New Period Naval War Film Breaks $1.5 Billion At Box Office!   Historians PISSED."
[10:37 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
"Where we're going were we don't NEED compasses"
[10:54 AM]   
(interviewing director) "There are some people who feel the laser battle between the ship and the alien spacecraft as they were approaching light speed in the warp from the 28th century back to 1810 was unrealistic and too CGI heavy."
(director) "Well, it comes down to the desire to move the story forward versus the sort of exposition that would be required to explain the period weaponry at those speeds.   obviously they couldn't be lasers."
"R-right..."
[10:56 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
You could add some supernatural stuff into M&C without it being too much.  Lots of superstitions when you're on a boat in the middle of nowhere and things are happening that can't be easily explained
[10:56 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Kraken
Mermaids
Ghost ship
[10:57 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
And the job of the captain to reign people in and make sure they don't get caught up in the spooks
[10:59 AM]   
M&C did have the old brain-damaged dude ranting about someone being a Jonah
[10:57 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Scurvy
Need to add the scurvy
[10:58 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Scurvy was probably cured by then
[10:58 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Not really Cured
[10:59 AM]   
Yes, they knew how to prevent scurvy long before that movie
Called 'em Limeys for a reason, sir
[11:00 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
OK
Well if all the limes fell off the ship
[11:01 AM]   
lol
[11:01 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
and kraut
[11:01 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
That will be the story
They lose all their limes
[11:02 AM]   
"Captain!   The 3rd Lt. sends his compliments and reports that all the limes fell off the ship."   
"Fell off, Mr. Jones?   They're in the hold.   How is that possible without a massive hole?"   
"Aye, captain!   He also requests you be made aware that approximately 1/3 of the starboard hull is missing and we are taking on water."
"Mmmm.   Send my compliments to the Lt. and that I will be coming to inspect the issue after I've finished my tea."
[11:12 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Maybe they have a girl-drink-drunk on board that used all the limes to make frilly drinks
[11:13 AM]   
"Eh...we just dumped it.   Don't like lime."
[11:16 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
" Aye Captain remember you told us to reduce the cargo weight?  Uh well we threw out all the limes"
[11:28 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Crazy that scurvy cures were known in the 1400s but not really widely implemented until the 1800s
[11:28 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
Life secrets of the long term pirate

603 - Chess Asylum, (Sings) "Sometimes When You Cringe"

 [1:28 PM]   
Should tell the (Town) Chess Club thing before end of day?
Silver Jr. has been wanting to go to where he can play with live players (besides me and especially since I'm no longer competitive) for a while now.   
Finally satisfied that his emotional 'tude when losing could handle it...and various snow and wind storms past.
I took him last night.
[1:34 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
where is it?
[1:36 PM]   
Uuuuuhhhhhh......(Town) somewhere.   You'd find it just looking it up before I could point it out.
So we got there and there were two guys
One on his computer the entire evening doing who knows what but it wasn't chess
The other Silver Jr. played and beat once
And then two others showed up.
I did not want to play
I CAN play...but my long memory left impressions of "chess people" even though I hadn't hung with any since I was a kid
1st guy leaves
[1:39 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Sounds like he must be getting pretty good at it
[1:39 PM]
He is
Junior is vs #2
#3 asks if I'll play
"Sure!” (“F**K!  Exactly what I wanted to avoid.”)
[1:39 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Is it an official meeting or just anyone can show up anytime?
[1:40 PM]   
You can contact them and ask for a couple freebie visits, which I did for him.
All four of the guys who showed up for the evening were older than me.
[1:41 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Old guys playing chess in the park
[1:41 PM]   
Oh no, much worse
These were competition player since school days and actually studied it...for fun...for decades
[1:42 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I bought chess cause Junior wanted to play
Beat him every time
I'm not going to let him just win
lol
[1:42 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
When I went to a get together with my dad's side of the family i was surprised they were playing chess
They're a low-brow bunch
(literally as well as figuratively)
[1:44 PM]   
I like chess, but I don't like that kind of chess
[1:44 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Strategy chess
[1:45 PM]   
The chess geek is almost the poster child defining “geek”
This is my assessment as a gamer geek, a game designer geek and a chess player.
Chess is ancient and it's fun and it's a good game
But – gods don't strike me and may Junior not hear me say it – it's not that good.  Not good enough to waste that much life on.
[1:46 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
OK as a hobby, not a lifestyle
[1:46 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Not unless its like poker where you get lots of money
[1:48 PM]   
Right...in which case I respect a chess player because a poker king is a lucky halfwit next to a chess grandmaster
[1:48 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yes cause you actually out play the other player – there's nothing random.
[1:48 PM]   
You can be skilled at piloting a poker table but it's nothing like what these chess people do
[1:49 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Lots of those guys are 5 steps ahead
Or have the entire game planned in their head before you even move
[1:51 PM]   
The one I played against admitted to "playing and studying so much that I've burned out a few times"
I translated that quietly as "I obsessed and went insane"
[1:56 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
How'd it go then?
[1:57 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Sounds like he at least beat one once
[1:57 PM]   
He beat #1 because the guy goofed and surrendered.   
He played a total of 7 games and lost 6
#2 started out as an interesting fellow to overhear chat until he started seeming odd and ultimately started seeming like he had Asperger's.
[1:59 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Ran out of normal people talk, huh?
"Oh no, I ran out of predetermined talking points"
[2:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
how long did the games last?
[2:14 PM]   
The kicker with that guy was "I used to be in a club.   It was '73.   We had a place at Smith and Maple in town.   The X building.   You'd go in the west side door.   Then down a 20 foot hall and then there was an elevator.   And you went up 2 floors.   Turned left and down 30 feet through a green double door, then a left.   And we had two suites and they were hot and uncomfortable.   It didn't smell good there.  One Tuesday in May, the 15th, we had... etc."
Meanwhile nobody was talking to him at all.
Games were probably 15 mins.   No timers
I don't like them, myself.
Junior likes playing speed games but all of them said it's good for practice but not for real games
[2:26 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Speeds up the brain a bit, having to go faster
[2:26 PM]   
Leads to mistakes
[2:26 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
yes
[2:27 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
How do timers even work?  You have X amount of time to make a move?
[2:27 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yes
[2:27 PM]   
No.  The timers are time limits for total games, per side
So you play for x seconds...hit the button and the other's timer starts and yours stops. Run out of time it doesn't matter if you were winning or not.
In short...artificial and stupid IMO.  Good as an exercise and toy.   Serves to kill out anyone who just wants to filibuster or whatever, but that sort of person shouldn't be competing.
[2:27 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah
[2:30 PM]
All 5 of us were contemplators
We like to study the board.
I played 2 games with #3 (who used to be a national master so I had no chance) and then we watched Silver Jr. and #2, and then Silver Jr. played #3.
[2:35 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
15 minutes seems pretty good against some chess autists
[2:41 PM]   
Anyway...game one I did fair
[2:43 PM]   
Game two I messed up 2 things early and I surrendered my queen as officially blundered because I F'd up fair and square.   Ended up locked in a section and eventually couldn't do anything else.
My guy went into giving me some suggestions how to play.
I was interested
I picked up a few things
Problem is there was about 40 things
AND
He started referring to the previous positions of the pieces ... from our first game.
Like I'd remember every move.  I'm sure he did.
Anyway...learned some bishop and knight stuff.   
We chatted about some other stuff like AI and chess.   More board techniques.
Watched Silver Jr. and then they played while the other Asperger fellow talked about old chess games...and everything else
At one point he started reciting the lyrics to a Vietnam protest song that was sung at Woodstock.
Which he didn't go to.
He's rated 2399.   
"He's a point short of Grand Master and they wouldn't give it to him."
"No.   No.   I recalculated that.   It was 2399.75"
(doh)
Anyway
Silver Jr. loved it.
:S
So I'm torn
He loves the game much more than I do and has ambitions to go far
I'm just not sure he's insane enough
(driving home...tone of voice used by a father to check if son is attracted to girls) "So uh...you studying diagrams yet?"   
"Huh?"
"Oh!   That one guy...said he studies diagrams.   Said he burned out a few times and quit the game.   Guess that ...uh...can drive you a little nuts."   
"Hmmm...nope.   No diagrams."
(exhales in relief)
"You just need to play a lot more, like I do.   Play online and stuff and you'll get caught up.   But I definitely want a membership.   Mine would be $23 a year.   Yours would be 60-something."   
"How do I want to put this... I really don't want to invest anything like the kind of effort it would take to do this.   I'll bring you out but I don't want to be a member."
[3:59 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Those chess guys would probably be crazy no matter what
They just happened to land on chess
[3:59 PM]   
Entirely possible
[4:00 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Instead of math or poker or whatever else
[4:00 PM]   
Thing is, chess is faboo for the mind (in moderation)
It's like learning the basics of troubleshooting
You automatically gain "troubleshooting thinking" no matter what sort of practical troubleshooting you learn.
Chess you get focus and patience and thinking ahead and analyzing position and process and all that.
And if you get REALLY into it, you uh...you...um...  https://66.media.tumblr.com/aa4d46d46b6b91fabb2ee193c54099ed/tumblr_nw84a7vmbj1r0hgato1_540.gif

 
[12:43 PM]   
So...the classic song...   "Sometimes When We Touch".   Still gets occasional play.   I know none of the lyrics except part of the chorus.   
And I didn't think about those til fairly recently either.   
You know how you notice...things...?
Like years later?
Vis -
“And sometimes when we touch
“The honesty's too much
“And I have to close my eyes
“And hide
“I want to hold you till I die
“Til we both break down and cry
“I want to hold you til the fear in me subsides
...
I want to hold you til I die???  Til we both break down and cry???

https://media1.tenor.com/images/a65cffa52ee9fd6f6d19fee484d7a3ae/tenor.gif?itemid=3535836

[12:45 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
[12:46 PM]   
"That's so ... sweet.   Look, I think we need to see other people."
I think her version of breaking down and crying involves pleas of "Please let me GO!"
[12:53 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Wait I was just taking a nap and now I'm tied up
What the hell is happening?
LOL
“It puts the lotion on its skin”
[12:55 PM]   
LOL

602 - The Times They Are Repeatin', Kennedy-Like, Thoughts On The Goon Docks & Willy's Ship

[2:21 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
So on time travel was thinking - would you age normally while your traveling through time?
[2:41 PM]   
Well...yes
There are a variety of theoretical techniques, but...I mean...you're still moving forward a bit.
You could move to your own future and kill your older self and take over
Being a multi-verse kind of guy, you probably wouldn't know you were coming.
If you go for more rigid streaming...you would.   And the repercussions would be awful.
Because if you beat your younger self...you go too.
and if you always lose, you are in a time loop and trapped for eternity...knowing...
You could attempt to make a deal
But as soon as you agree you'd start a resonance and more, and you'd start multiplying occurrences of yourself at...to put it cutely..."the speed of light".
Basically you'd destroy local temporal space with an infinite number of yourself.
Which could be a fun "Big Bang" event I suppose.   
Which might be related to Doc Brown's "they can't see each other or the results would be catastrophic...eh...maybe it would just destroy the local universe." (or whatever he said)
[3:07 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Once they know of each other
[3:15 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
You'd think if time travel (in reverse) were possible we'd know about it by now.
Or maybe we do
Maybe wacky historical stuff was just previous human beings trying to interpret time travel
Maybe Jesus was a time traveler
[3:40 PM]  
Remarkably...this entire section from Hitchhiker's Guide is online -

https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/t/956236

Enjoy
Sums up some time damage issues rather nicely
[3:46 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Small child falls, scrapes knee
Jesus walks up
Pulls out a tub of ointment
Puts it on and puts a TMNT bandaid on the child
MIRACLE
[3:54 PM]   
"By the power of Bactine..."



[1:04 PM]   Mr. Blue:   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#/media/File:John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg

(Artist) "I'm not too good with faces so I decided to portray him looking down, as you see here."
That's his official presidential portrait, posthumously painted
"Backgrounds are tricky.."
[1:06 PM]   
"The press called this one The Shoe-Gaze Kennedy.   I like how the hair came out."
[1:06 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[1:06 PM]   
"Kennedy had medium to dark brown hair..."
"Yeah!”
"And a wave and a part on the side."
[1:08 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
They gave him bog body hair color
[1:09 PM]   
“Somebody said he was Irish, so I went for red and curly"



[9:56 AM]   
So Goonies
Put a post up yesterday
The conversation "Was that little pile of gems actually enough to save the Goondocks?" we had
Afterwards I went to look and someone did a video on topic:
"Buying out ... if as stated ... 50 +1 houses.   Currently valued in the range of $X to $Y.   Adjusted back to the 1980s..."
"The club would probably have to pay $Z."
(Tangent for a “clarity cut color carat” instructional)
"So the answer...at the size they are and if they were what they looked like (actual precious gems) and if the government was nice about treasure trove laws and the courts would suspend the deal, and there was no historical claims to get through by the governments who probably have records of loss..."
"Yeah, it was probably enough cash value.   But that's a lot of ifs."
Real life?  Nope.
Hollywood feel-good?  Lots of millions of dollars.
[10:08 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Lets just say ripping up the paper was still the right thing to do
We just did not get to see the real conclusion of them going through all that
lol
So the ending is still not completely wrong
They got their Ray of Hope
[10:11 AM]   
(two months later...Walshes moving into gated community... Dad grinning.   Mikey) "But dad!   It's not the Goon Docks!  It's not HOME!"
"It's good enough for me."
(queue Cyndi Lauper song)
[10:13 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yep
lol
“We tried son”
[10:15 AM]   
"You see son, most of the 51 households not only got paid for their property, but now we're totally loaded."
[10:15 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I woulda just made a deal with the Fratellis
"Plenty of rich stuff for all of us."
[10:15 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
They don't make deals
I mean look at Sloth
[10:17 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
In reality the Goon Dock neighborhood wouldn't have been at risk of developers
It was upper middle class at worst and not practical land for a golf course
They don't demolish actual neighborhoods to build golf courses.
[10:18 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Buy it and rent out the whole community
lol
Seaside property
Son of a gun
A client just said “good enough for me” on this call
HEHEH
[10:20 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[10:25 AM]   
Were they actually building a golf course?   
[10:25 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
i think so.. didn't they say they wanted their house to be the "sand trap" or something
[10:25 AM]   
I know the kids said they HOPED they build a gold course and their house became a sand trap that they'd never get their balls out of
[10:26 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
ahh... sounds right
Facing  foreclosure  of their homes in the Goon Docks area of  Astoria, Oregon, to an expanding  country club.
I guess it could've been anything country-club related
[10:26 AM]   
I can't think of anything
But I don't hang at country clubs
Waste of space, really
[10:27 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yes
Golf courses are too, but i guess it's better than a strip mall
The other scenes at the country club showed typical country club stuff i think... gym/spa type stuff... tennis / racquet courts maybe?
[10:28 AM]   
From the few I've been to, it seems to be a fine-dining set of rooms, couple lounges, bar or two, a pool, tennis and golf.
The Goon Docks were needed and suitable for none of it
[10:28 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I guess in a movie world they could've been tearing down the Goon Docks just for extra parking or to improve the views from the country club
[10:28 AM]   
Unless they were going to build housing
[10:28 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
But in reality, country clubs probably don't "expand" in the first place
When i picture country clubs they're usually already out in the open with lots of its own undeveloped land if expansion is needed
[10:30 AM]   
"It's less a country club so much as an In Town club"
"Since...well...I mean we're right next to the commercial and cultural areas."
[10:32 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Also... Their dad was the museum curator who could hire a foreign maid... They'd be very likely to be country club members or at least friends with its members
[10:32 AM]   
They just got her for cleaning and packing
couple days work
Mom had a broken arm
[10:33 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
True
Still, they were probably reasonably well connected for a small town
Maybe that's why they were the last house left
[10:34 AM]   
No
They were #1
"We have 50 more houses to get to AFTER yours"
[10:34 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
ahh
[10:35 AM]   
If Walsh caved it was politically (or whatever) over
Possibly/Probably was trying and failing to establish Historical significance and was out of time.  Can't bulldoze a historical district
Obviously had no money "It'll never happen. My dad'll figure it out."
Figure what out?   He curated a (looks up “a ha!”) history museum which was about The History of Astoria
Which is funny because Astoria was founded in 1811 and the map is early 15th century
[10:42 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Well they could have been there ahead of that specific town
[10:42 AM]   
Lewis and Clarke got there 1st in 1805
Whole thing would have made a hell of a lot more sense in New England
[10:43 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah were there pirates in the Pacific?
[10:43 AM]   
In the world of pirates, you go where the money is
[10:44 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Where transport ships go
[10:44 AM]   
The money is NOT in the Pacific in 1632
That being said, Willy was running away from Charles I and people had sailed to there.
[10:44 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
There were great lake pirates
[10:46 AM]   
Meanwhile a bunch of seriously good captures or a plate fleet cutting action off the Spanish Main could have loaded a ship like that, which might have run for Canada...but the Pacific Northwest?  Eh.  Grant it.
[10:47 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
He would've had to have either sailed around or through cape horn, around Africa and through the east indies and the entire Pacific Ocean.. or carried the treasure overland and rebuilt the ship on the west coast
[10:49 AM]
LOL
Fortunately this is one of my favorite movies and I don't care about the problems.
[10:49 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
A Goonies prequel about One-Eyed Willy would be interesting, to make it make sense
How'd he get there, who's he hiding his treasure from
How he gets all his treasures
[11:01 AM]   
Ship was OK for 1632
I was thinking it would be an older design but no
"Look!   It's the remains of Willy's ship!   The Inferno!"

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1062251/thumbs/o-SUNKEN-SHIPS-SWEDEN-570.jpg?4

"Look at all the RICH STUFF!"

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrKdO1qTEDzu6z0GX-bVEQJXE7xZKN-HdTYWaxojn_pvdlNRWzyA

(sorry...gotta pause...getting too giggly IRL)
"Watch out for boody traps!"  "BOOBY TRAPS!"  "That's what I said!

https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/images/icon-excavations.jpg

...thing sat unmaintained in salt water for 350 years after all...
[11:12 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
yes
[11:16 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yes, how it was able to still sail like that is just not right
 

601 - Yuri Did It, The MIB's Found The Wiki Page Too Embarrassing, China Officially Didn't Exist

[2:27 PM]   

https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-investigation

Heard about this new investigation but haven't read about it yet
[2:27 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
yes more investigating
more stuff released
[2:28 PM]   
I still think the 3 Yuri's tried and failed to assimilate everyone into the Yuri Collective.
[2:29 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
lol
Yuri?  
No not you. Yuri.
No not you either.
Yes (pointing at small Yuri raising hand) you.
[2:32 PM]   
"Igor...I know it sounds kind of crazy but... Wasn't there only one Yuri on the team when we left?"
[2:33 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
The weather theory is interesting
The way the wind comes around the mountain there making it seem like something bad was coming their way.
they for sure were suffering from hypothermia
that is a given
Just what drove them to it?
[2:34 PM]   
According to Wikipedia they were driven to it on a train
and then by truck
The group arrived by train at  Ivdel  (Ивдель), a town at the centre of the northern province of Sverdlovsk Oblast in the early morning hours of 25 January 1959.[7]  They then took a truck to Vizhai (Вижай) – a lorry village that is the last inhabited settlement to the north
(just being a jerk ;) "Just what drove them to it?")
[2:35 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
HAHAH
did not notice
[2:37 PM]   
Looks like one of the Yuris suspiciously quit after one day
There's yer clue
[2:37 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Yuri could not handle the Yuri I guess, so Yuri
Lets get back to the group, Yuri
[2:37 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
a lot of the weirder stuff is either uncorroborated or easily explainable
Like how some were missing eyes or tongue.. just picked off by scavengers
"radiation".. no evidence this was even tested
[2:38 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
It was a weather issue
caught a bad wind storm forced them out
[2:38 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
But they were all experienced hikers that knew not to wander out into nowhere
I think someone went nuts.. maybe there was some kind of love triangle and someone got jealous and went nuts and chased them out
[2:37 PM]   
On 28 January, one of the members, Yuri Yudin, who suffered from several health ailments (including  rheumatism  and a  congenital heart defect) turned back due to knee and joint pain that made him unable to continue the hike
"Well...my congenital heart defect is acting up..."
"And your rheumatism?"
"Oh!   Uh...that too.   Anyway.   Enjoy the candy the government asked me to give you all as gifts.   Just wait a few days first."
Really though...first I've read about Yuri Prime.
Why exactly did he go at all?   
[2:41 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I got to beat this heart problem.  Oh crap, its not working.  bye guys!
[2:41 PM]
"Hiker and not-insane-killer Yuri Yuden, pictured here, says he quit on day one, and who could doubt such a face?"   

[2:46 PM]

Mr. Brown:   
that guy is so sick
Look at all that rheumatoid
lol
[2:48 PM]   
Too weak to continue...yet walked back home all day by himself.
[2:48 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
Went around the corner, continued to follow the group
I'm gonna kill Yuri
No not that one the other one
No the other one
Ah Hell, I'll kill them all
[2:49 PM]   
In 1967, Sverdlovsk writer and journalist Yuri Yarovoi (Russian:  Юрий Яровой) published the novel  Of the Highest Degree of Complexity,[23]  inspired by the incident.
ah HAH!!!!
Another Yuri!
[2:49 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Great excuse for when I make plans with someone but then want to break them at the last minute
"hey uhh, I'd love to come bowling but i just realized i have rheumatism and a congenital heart defect."
[2:51 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
what if Yuri was the first Jason?
Shows back up with hockey mask and machete
lol
or he donned a bear pelt and came back with an axe
The night Yuri took Yuri's vodka
[2:58 PM]   
Based on the unexplained massive blunt trauma cases, I'm guessing he usually had a hard time explaining his favorite "Hiking Club"
"That thing must weigh 10 pounds, Yuri.   Why not get a regular stick with a strap and a spike on the end like us?"
Yuri - later in life - shows off his favorite old walking stick, preserved in memory of his friends. 

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7mGnWF9oaq_DUf8NpXHgSzd_k3-GQ4KJ3ZQLRLypPBEaVH8iR

[3:05 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
“Why do they call you 'Cudgel Killer', anyway?”
[3:06 PM]   Mr. Brown:   
I wonder if the other Yuris had cool nicknames
[3:07 PM]   
"One solid hit and this thing can knock the eyes clean out of a wom-   ...wolf."   



[11:37 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Damn, someone scrubbed the MIB wiki
[11:39 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Stuff missing?
[11:40 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
I remember it gave examples of how they looked and acted weird
Like one studied an object like it was the first time he'd seen it... it was just a regular pen or something
[11:46 AM]   
Awww
The MiBs scrubbed the MiB page?
[11:47 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
Heh
Maybe the MiBs have MiBs
[black Cadillac pulls away, another black Cadillac pulls up]
"You know most supposed visits of the purported men in black are never corroborated!   Many turn out to be nothing but hoaxes!"
"How do you know we're not just some guys from your town here pulling a prank?"
"Or we could just be regular Jims going about our business, right?”
“Oh, and if you talk, something might happen to you."
[he picks up the cat and inspects it, even sniffing it]
"YOUR planet earth is filled with hoaxers and pranksters."
[11:48 AM]   
Maybe the MIBs have a BiB
Boss in Black
[11:48 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Boss calls them in to the office "uh so i see on wiki here that we have some descriptions (taps pen) Well it looks like you're going to have to go through concealment training again."
"Idiots! I showed you and explained pens last week"
"Damnit Jerry, you didn't wear your official sunglasses"
[11:52 AM]   
"Hi!   United States of America Government Water Company.   Is the female of the species home?"
[11:53 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[11:54 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
"Hi!  This is the USA uh um Fish Inspection.  Yes fish.  May I talk to the bipedal hunter of the den?"
(MIB looking around the room) "So anyway, you saw nothing because it was swamp gas and Venus. I notice you have a lot of hostages, eh I mean plants around your house. Do they get fed well?"
[11:56 AM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[11:59 AM]   Mr. Brown:   
Somebody should to a skit where MIBs show up but the alien did not leave yet
They keep trying to distract the home owners so they don't see the alien while telling the alien to get out of there
lol
[12:05 PM]   
"Him?   He's not there."
(one leans over and whispers) "She's not there...sorry.   Males aren't blue.   And don't exist."
"I don't appreciate ... her ... stunning my husband and doing whatever she's doing to him with whatever that is."   
"He's suffering from mass hysteria."
(other) "Does this household have a history of swamp gas or St. Elmo's Fire?"
[12:21 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh



[1:25 PM]   
Right
Unthinkable

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47084374

"In short, we wish to pretend that "China" didn't happen before the revolution.   And this so-called Imperial period promotes commercialism and consumerism."
(advisor leans in, whispers)
"Oh that's right, we're an economic superpower now...uh...it promotes...uh...not-socialist core values."
Honestly I never understand what this brand of twerp thinks is gonna happen.
Almost on par with the Christian terrified that a drawing of The Devil will corrupt them.
(government meeting) "There's a problem with "Yanxi Palace".   Our studies show a distinct possibility that 100s of millions of our people will suddenly want to go back to an imperial lifestyle where 98% of the people are miserable commoners, and 99% of the remaining live in aristocratic servitude to people that can just have them impoverished or killed if they serve the tea wrong."   
"Goodness!   Can we see the stats?"   
"Yes!   (hands over McDonald's napkin) We thought it out over lunch."
[1:57 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
Yeah, just tell the producers to add in a story arc about some commoner people and make them be constantly covered in animal feces and dying of various diseases
[2:16 PM]   
"New hilarious spin-off: 'Yanki Peasants'!"
"What we really need is an experienced rice planter."   (audience laughs)
"Look!   There's a little old lady bent double.   She'll know."   (audience giggles)   
"Hey, old woman.   We need to know what kind of rice this is.   Hello?   Old lady?"
(beat)
"I'm 22."   (audience laughs)   "But I've been planting out in the sun since I've been 4."   (audiences roars...players must wait before next line.)
[2:20 PM]   Mr. Blue:   
heh
[2:21 PM]   
"Do you know what kind of rice this is...um...young lady?"   (laughter)
"Mmmm...no.   Something new.   Ask one of my 7 children."   (audience loses it)
"Wow!   7 children!"   (giggles)
"It used to be 10 but three of them died…so I’m doing pretty good!"  (audience loses it)