Untitled 1

arkizzle

“..and pizza is pie.”

* petty annoyance *

arkizzle

Back to Oz. For sure.

And there’s lots of space for you to unravel your tentacles. I’m sure there’s an interspecies act or something in Australia, granting haven to disenfranchised large cephalopods.

They line snacks up on the beach especially, glistening and slow-roasting in the sun. Eat your fill.

hokano

Julian Barbour gives us a bit of the mind flip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKsNraFxPwk

I stared at this and I felt a change; time meant nothing, never would again.

anthony

Children of Men?

buddy66

Rats! Snowing in Michigan. God, I miss Oregon!

sammich

Anyhow, Mr Kizzle. (or any of you old gamers) I did write you a clue, (since you’d inaugurated me into my first game), but as it was on the metal detectorists thread, which had gone all poemy by then, i wrote it in verse…
I’ll spare you the (frankly embarrassing) preamble and launch right into the clue – ( I even learned how to do itallics for it )

i hope that you’ll find here a bit of a thriller

The Staff Samovar, Feast after the fast
this Being my first clue, may yet be my last

wolfiesma

I just have time for a quickie lullaby. Although Wolfie sez, “No mom i not like that music on the con-too-ter.” Well, to heck him him. I think its lovely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQP9QjNjeR4

Takuan

hiccup!

hackwater

Lucky Agent 86. I’m still only on 956 on the *other* post.

joshhaglund

Takuan

what?… jeez man, did I miss something?… I was just having a little puff………

Takuan

binary,hex and octal nada

Takuan

‘parently they’re coming back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9AE8QQfx_E&feature=related

Takuan

noper

Takuan

all is full of love… to think I missed it for three years

eustace

Soichiro Honda died in 1991. In 2005 Honda had a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_1gPRCLCo”>commercial made more-or-less in his honor. If it doesn’t send a chill down your spine have your spinal fluid level checked. When Andy Williams gets to “…to reach the unreachable star” you get to see a rider tuck into a 1960 Honda racebike and gun it.
Most of my bikes have been Hondas. I think of them fondly when my Buell’s ECU throws a code. Like now.

Takuan

ah good ole Bificus! She can sing and that body is the ultimate testament to clean living.

nehpetsE

what are you still doing over here?

it like untitled 2 is the new untitled 1.

ROSSINDETROIT

Today’s fix hack: a nonrepairable obsolete volume control from a Headroom headphone amp. This belongs to my friend Lawrence. It fell and the volume knob got hit, knocking the shaft loose. No repair stock of replacement pots. Pot is 13mm X 20mm, stereo PCB mount. It’s riveted together with 4 through shafts.
Grind off the shaft ends with Dremel. Separate and lay out the 8 layers of the pot. Remove shaft. Straighten bent shaft in vise. Find stop piece that popped off shaft. Press back on shaft and swage with a punch for good measure. Clean out old pot lube and crud. re-lube pot. Re-stack parts in correct order. Replace 4 through-rivets with 4 #2 X .75″ threaded hardware. re-solder onto circuit board. Test. Voila, good as new. Too bad once it’s back together nobody will see this slick piece of work.

eustace

Past the mighty river rapids,
past the falls of Oooma Gooma,
paddled noble Hairy Larry,
in his kayak made of toothpicks.

Strong of heart was Hairy Larry,
Strong of stomach, strong in other ways,
Like the smell that followed after,
See the bugs that follow after.

Wielding paddle made of birchbark,
paddle stolen from his high school,
Where the principal still favors,
wrist that used to wield the paddle.

Proud of face is Hairy Larry,
proud of face that breaks through drywall,
face that humbles snotty bouncer,
when Hairy Larry uses headbutt.

Takuan

http://www.meatymeat.com/booze_death/

minTphresh

(sung in the style of Fred McFeely Rogers) “Oooohhh, let’s all go to Glauchester / Where the men all dress like men / Where wild women whip across / The pre-stressed wet cement / Where footfalls tell / of forests tall / Polluted streams and shopping malls / We laugh and watch the buildings fall … and they ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

FoetusNail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaFUS4HVpGg

arkizzle / Moderator

p r e t t y

EdT.

- …. . -.– – — — -.- — -.– -… ..- -.-. -.- . –

Takuan

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Astin

This is the most recent comment posted at this time.

Takuan

too late, I’ve been running one for two years -but no one knows about it

zikzak

I agree. Thank god BoingBoing is bringing this topic to light, it’s outrageous that the liberal media is burying stories like this!

Agent 86

Taken from digg, but I can’t say it better

“you’ve called him inexperienced, elitist, unamerican, terrorist, socialist, communist, a celebrity, unpatriotic, leftist, and dangerous, but now you get to call him mister president.”

pm

Top 10 quotes of untitled 1 in the movies:
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give an untitled 1.
I’m going to make him an untitled 1 he can’t refuse.
I coulda been an untitled 1.
Go ahead, make my untitled 1.
I love the smell of untitled 1 in the morning.
Show me the untitled 1!
You can’t handle the untitled 1!
We’ll always have untitled 1.
Houston, we have an untitled 1.
Here’s untitled 1!

Takuan

verra nicea! I really want to score a cheap stereomicroscope.

eustace

Oops, link should be like this.

sammich

fire eh?

eustace

meh… where’s the fun in that?

eustace

More Skull-bell!!!

sammich

Yay! Go Antinous!

ridl

you know there’s something about it all that no one talks about, or at least I haven’t spent that much time mulling over, and that is

that

even if we fail
even if the species dies
and the planet is set back hundreds of millions of generations
and all the languages are lost
we can’t fail
we can’t be lost
and it’s just not true
because
our timeline is one of
infinite
and somewhere
we make it
somewhere
some iteration
of me
and you
and everyone
every decision
I make
somewhere I make
the decision that I would make
if I made
every
decision
perfectly
like I’m living
my life
like I am
my own
perfect
beloved
loving
loving
loved
I love

and so
do

perfectly

you

I

love

you
but
the graveyard wind
screams
the horror of the hero
your grandfather
contronting the end
the smokestack trains
what
if
this
is
all
there

never before
and never again
what
do

you
?
$10 million dollars
and your children are surgeons.
There
go
the

lynx.

arkizzle

Ok, I was looking for the song in the background of this vid, to counter MinT’s strokin, but..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZE_jfyIZA

Dubbelyew Tee Eff Question-Mark

The song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8

Takuan

ammonia has its virtues

lamarlowe

I would like to ammend my earlier suggestion that the classic 2.jpg be considered as cover art. This photo of a Robert Ryman collection would be much more appropriate: http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424933280/826/robert-ryman-no-title-required.html

I also found a quote from this page concerning minimalism quite appropriate, http://artnetweb.com/abstraction/chrome.html
The author states that Frank Stella’s quote ‘What you see is what you see.’ “encapsulates Minimalism’s adoption of a pure abstraction devoid of any spiritual or metaphysical connotations. Minimalism emphasizes the materiality and shape of the object and denies any sense of personal touch in the work’s execution.”

I thought that quite appropriate as well when the terms ‘materiality and shape’ are viewed in the context of the internet.

For a description of how this works as translated to the theatre, see this on “Sweet FA” (the play, not the British rockers) though the article describes the effort as nihilistic rather than merely minimalist. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030805/asp/foreign/story_2234442.asp

Great thread. Thank you, Mark, for getting things rolling.

imipak

http://www.metrolyrics.com/here-comes-the-flood-lyrics-divine-comedy.html

Takuan

that could be an idea…. electron porn…

Takuan

this will make you smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

Jake0748

Everyone who works at the UN spends all their time reading BB. That’s why we don’t have world peace.

Takuan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062700956.html?nav=rss_email/components

arkizzle

“though, I do confess I am a little unsure as to what they will do with an entire tanker’s worth of high grade silicone…..”

Refurbish RealDolls?

*shudder*

arkizzle

This was my first Japanese connection, when I was about 5 years old:

Battle of the Planets! (Gatchaman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfujTF_C6o

minTphresh

wolfiesma, you made me all nosalgic. this tour effin rocked! she’s frum here(tampa) and we got to have (several) drinks with them b4 the show. it was either excene’s or billy’s birthday, i forget which, for some strange reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtq3-rAmTw&feature=related

FoetusNail

Another lesson on being careful what you write, not that I am shrinking from my rant, just a interesting observation on the ways of the net: one never knows where their words will resurface. The same post, by Valerie Tarico, appears in four places. Thanks Valerie!

http://awaypoint.spaces.live.com/

http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2009/04/open-season-on-christians.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-tarico/open-season-on-christians_b_184104.html

http://www.tacomaatheists.com/archives/1310

I highly recommend a search every once in a while, it can be enlightening. Some time back, one innocuous comment of congratulations, on the birth of Cory’s child Fibonacci, became the focal point of a rather twisted rant about fundamentalist misogynists.

Antinous

Herpes is just as cheap and it lasts longer.

minTphresh

has anyone out there chedcked out the abc series “Pushing Daises”? i’ve seen 3-4 of them so far, and they are kickin my ass! like tim burton does a residents video with the coen bros. but then david lynch and peter greenaway steal the raw footage and edit it themselves. it’s no ‘Metalocalypse’, but it’ll do, pig. it’ll do.

RabeKriegerin

Entschuldigung Sie? Tut mir leid, ich verstehen Sie nicht.

arkizzle

Hah! I just got back from central London and it was E M P T Y.

I succeeded, marvelously, at shopping in 2 afternoons :)

It’s really kinda eerie though, there were so few people around the last few days.. no christmas atmosphere to be had at all.

How’s Wales for “busy”?

musicpsych

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Matt McKnight

No matter how hard they try, this crew can’t make a mistake. Silly and the Boingers.

Takuan

that one’s a year ago minT?

Takuan

why, why do they hates the little lizards!?

Takuan

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Seed-Bomb/

minTphresh

alas, the papaya has enzymes that make digestion a ‘breeze’, er, so to speak. sorry, i know u were looking forward to my writhing in agony, wishing i were just a little less ‘full’. and yogurt does pretty well in that regard. just to be safe, i think i will have some of my ‘special’ meds, can’t be too careful. mmmmm, meds. purrrrrrrr.

Takuan

gnite minT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymh1o09vRWE

minTphresh

foet, love the funky-jam stuff! try this on for size: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOfn44r7Ts

Takuan

though he’s frequently punny…

FoetusNail

Haven’t heard that in a long time.

IMIPAK, wasn’t pointing out the duplicate link, just the obit. I heard Martyn in the early 70′s when he opened for Pink Floyd. He walked out on stage, sat down in front of a bunch of peddles with an acoustic guitar, and announced, I’m John Martyn, I’m the warm-up band.

There was some booing from a very impatient crowd, waiting to hear Dark Side of the Moon. When he finished the place was on its feet calling for more. PF was using a surround sound system and Martyn sounded great. The show was in a stadium and that system put a envelope of sound around and over the place.

sammich

Phikus… enigmatic :)

I had to spend a lot of time sticking up for the elderly and demented a while back, guess it’s a habit…

I shall continue to visit Untitled 1, I’ll bring it toffees and brush its hair. We’ll sit quietly and smile at each other. We’ll try not to disturb you ;)

Kieran O’Neill

Reading The Watchmen is something everyone should do at least once in their lives.

And yes, as for the movie, I foresee another V for Vendetta. It will probably lose about 90% or more of Moore’s subtlety, but will at least prod the masses and get them thinking.

Takuan

http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Researcher+pressured+discuss+Conficker+origins/1842395/story.html

Phikus

Arkie: This schism is creating this. (Take your pick.)
_______

Golly, Tom. No one thought to do that before.

imipak

“They find it difficult to interact with people, they don’t pick up on social cues, they lack empathy, they make bad judgments”… is that wrong?

Takuan

http://www.lotus.org/images/religions/lg/Lotus420W.jpg

iainh

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Itsumishi

Comment Number #446.

Takuan

another old lesson of budo justified.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17744-eyes-see-trouble-coming-before-brain-notices.html

Takuan

ask yer bruvver about
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/09/17/0314205.shtml

Tenn

I just made contact.

He’s my cousin. He… he is my cousin.

He is 6’2 and he wants to be a paramedic and he’s sixteen years old and he doesn’t remember me and he remembers bits of his first life and he likes talking to me and his brother raises hell and he has a beautiful girlfriend of two years and…

His name’s Joel, and he’s my little cousin.

I- wow.

minTphresh

tom, u keep fighting it! let it flow…the artist in u wants out, and it’s kicking and screaming inside u. allow it time in the world! u may amaze yourself! remember: there is a ‘trick’ to everything. and buddy, i knew u were a kindred spirit! i was the same way in school, but never stopped. ended up getting my BFA in fine art. was able to make a fairly decent living at it up until a few months ago. fortunately, i kept all my construction tools.

zuzu

“But what did the Dormouse say?’ one of the jury asked.”

“That I can’t remember,’ said the Hatter.”

minTphresh

perhaps this will help the wee lycanthrope to snuggly-bye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7iv0Rg1LU

Jake0748

@1107 Talia – best joke I’ve heard in weeks, mind if I borrows it?

@1111 (cool), MDH – I think you may be correct sir.

Has any one of we, the above 1100+ commenters stopped to thank Mark Frauenfelder for his gift of Untitled 1?

I think not.

I salute you sir, for providing us this venue open to all and sundry madcap foolishness. Live long and prosper, and keep up the good work.

imipak

Multipass!

eustace

And now we have something the whole world can celebrate.

Antinous

In other news, it looks like Obama and McCain took almost 99% of the vote. Not much of a showing for third party candidates.

Takuan

We Also Walk Dogs

arkizzle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC1zYEyUlCU

eustace

(for those keeping score:
Antinous’ original clue at #980)

sammich

and Arkie – sorry for laughing at Preston – I was cider-poisoned. again. :$

FoetusNail

What is life?
Am I alive?
Is this a dream,
Within a dream?
There is this.
This is what?
Just stay busy.

Ugly Canuck

Let us all savor the silence.

ROSSINDETROIT

Abus is a lock, I am now talking tube parts and my mind is long gone.

Actually, 730V is only 33% above its plate rating of 550V. If the screen voltage is kept low enough, as it is in this regulated design, it’s a pretty efficient way to get 32 W out of a couple of dirt cheap, rugged TV sweep tubes. Cheap, but not very elegant.

I’ll photo and Flickr these amps before they go back to the owner.

arkizzle

..at a stretch..

Memoirs of an Invisible Man ?

ROSSINDETROIT

A ghost with a harmonica dithering around the zero crossing?

minTphresh

my lullaby for the evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aE0v7QBUac

wolfiesma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCx-1afCgM

minTphresh

foetusnail, this is for u: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmL3Skap0r8

FoetusNail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-NBZ_pKNOc

the_boy

so, ummm, I’m looking for a crayon

eustace

am i detecting sarcasm, imipak?
;)

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Takuan

I love Al
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjBChRG-nok&feature=related

Takuan

like this maybe, only cheaper
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Binocular-Stereo-Microscope-20x-40x-80x-with-Boom-Stand_W0QQitemZ120369252918QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_2?hash=item120369252918&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

arkizzle

(“Olympic Rings”)

-and-

Write “Welcome” on it.

Classic! I’m cracking up..

nosehat

Hokano, That’s sad.

Booooo indeed!

Come back, Tak! Unless you’re off globe trotting. If that’s the case, trot your heart out!

–Nosehat

Takuan

we’ll always have Paris.

sammich

i want to say point break (but only because i haven’t come across a —– shot, or a —– chance that i fancy)

eustace

There’s a storm rising.
People are posting comments in another untitled thread, and I’m frightened. Untitled 1 is under threat, and now I have to choose between my faith and my compulsive need to type.
(paid for by the Committee to Get Everyone Worked Up Over Nothing)

Jake0748

Now that I think about it, I’m not really surprised that this post has gotten such a huge reaction. It’s like when a kid gets a really big, fancy present, he/she usually most enjoys playing with the empty box.

kfbest

I love that in less than 24 hours there are close to 300 comments to a blank post. This is an amazing experiment/mistake/whatever Mark! Bravo! =)

ridl

good crap I’ve been last for days! last last last! AH HAHAHAHAHAHA

wow… I’m kind of sad, aren’t I?

LAST!

Takuan

happy future Tenn!

Takuan

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yBjFPg1cmlE

g’nite to you too minT

minTphresh

or we could program a day or two on itunes, but where to send/upload it? hell, i’d even sneak some of my stuff on there to torture u with!

Takuan

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,–
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

minTphresh

hey tom, just curious, were you out teabagging today?

Antinous / Moderator

I never get invited to any teabagging parties.

markfrei

Always leave them wanting less.
— Warhol

FoetusNail

In Jerusalem, a journalist heard about an old Jewish man who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long time. Having a slow news day, she decided to check it out. She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was! She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, she approached him for an interview. “Hello, I’m Rebecca Smith from CNN. Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall to pray?”

“For about 60 years.”

“60 years! That’s amazing! What do you pray for?”

“I pray for peace between Christians, Jews and Muslims. I pray for all the hatred to stop and I pray for all our children to grow up in safety and friendship.”

“How do you feel after 60 years of praying for peace?”

“Like I’m talking to a fucking wall.â€

eustace

Oh goodness. This thread has been hiding in plain sight for months now, I should turn in my mouse. There is much to read – so much for posting tonight.

Joel Johnson

STRONG

Wareq

Untitled and unwritten?

philos

pics or it never happened!

Stefan Jones

What’s all this brouhaha?

eustace

Anything smaller than her fist disappeared in her presence; I noticed this and exploited it. Soon she had pockets, and plenty of things to keep in them. It was challenging – designing tools for her small enough that she would steal them.

Takuan

gawds, the cleaning nightmare/trip… I’m finding ALL this shit! Intermingled with the gold of memories. How do you throw out memories?

anthony

O Untitled One,
you who share your non-name with so many other great works of art, won’t you offer some encouragement to those of us who seek to express the inexpressible, and to change the unchangeable
(this is not a prayer).

The traveler hastens in the evening. He wishes to reach his destination before the sun goes down.

eustace

PJF? Damn. Is it a short story title?

eustace

…and pizza is pie (in a weak, almost meaningless sense).”

k?

arkizzle

Yeah, I self medicated too, in response to your heinous mental battery.

mmmm..

arkizzle

Johnny Cash’s Rusty Cage fucken rocks!

ridl

A facebook sentiment from my buddy and bizzaro fiction author Cameron C. Pierce that I think you fine intelligences will appreciate:

If you absolutely must write about squid organs at six in the morning, please accompany your urge with a strong dose of Throbbing Gristle.

eustace

my favorite Dead Milkmen track is the Guitar Song, but alas, no utube…

Takuan

consarned, varmitty, no good, rackenfracken…..
I’ll get you for this.

imipak

Hey, I recognise that voice…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0myiJPLPaQ

FN: John Martyn, *and* Yes on the “Tales” tour, *and* Floyd (DSotM tour, I guess, from the timing?) I’m just gree-heeeen… You didn’t see King Crimson as well, didja? Didja? *Didja*??/?

eustace

999 is also the Number of the Australian Beast.

arkizzle

Takuan, we’re live:

http://www.ShockingTruth.info

Spread the word, lest any more Shocking Truths go unpunctuated.

Dillenger69

Untitled 1?

Generic reply.

Anonymous

Pictures, or it didn’t happen.

Takuan

nope,I’m last

Takuan

http://www.instructables.com/id/30-minute-USB-microscope/

FoetusNail

Tak, that video is the one that finally tipped my 5 yr old on the idea of different languages.

arkizzle

And this!

Ulysses31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlvpF2e6ck&feature=related

minTphresh

more music to digest by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2f_0FWsI5U

rodbod

How many more comments do we need to break the record for mosr comments?

sammich

(Foul Ole Hag right now, may regenerate into a wench by the end of this cup of tea)

Antinous

80s film: Accessory-defined expert

Takuan

no bootlegs?

minTphresh

im all about teh special : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TbrgIdm0E

arkizzle

Multipass!

arkizzle

. . .

HeartlessMachine

OBNOXIOUS CRITICISM

FOLLOWED BY

ELITIST COMMENT

elevenwatt

Ceci n’est pas une post

Agent 86

Was I the only one hoping Antinous’s comment was a “404 – Not Found” joke?

Phikus

YES WE DID!

And yes, that was probably the most moving speech I have ever heard in the moment as it happened. (I was going to say live, but I didn’t want to give the impression I was in Chicago.) =D

arkizzle

‘Release’, huh?

Yeah, I used art like that for a long time. It can really ‘let it out’.

I didn’t see any connections when I originally did it, but years later, when I looked back at the various pieces I had produced, over a hard time in my life, it all really tallied. For a long time I had felt my work was derivitive and uninspired, but when I stepped back and looked at it from the safe distance of time, it was obvious that I was speaking very clearly and coherently about what was going on in my life and my head..

Just don’t get caught doing it in school :)

arkizzle

Check the bad-ass theme tunes on both of those links.. :)

FoetusNail

One of my favorite people, Bo Lozoff, channeling Johnny Cash. Bo is the one I mentioned in the 30 Whacks thread who started the Prison Ashram Project.

arkizzle

The temptatioins rock 4ever and Bif is just scary.

Takuan

good question, I’d guess hundreds of thousands.

Takuan

aye (good cut!)

or:
Through the land of Elis ran the river Alpheus, that same Alpheus which had told Ceres what had become of Proserpine. Hercules carefully studied the country; and having laid his plans, dug a channel from near the source of the river to one of the entrances of the stable. Then, damming up the old channel, he let the stream run into the new. The new course was purposely made narrow, so that the current might be exceedingly strong. When all was ready, he opened the sluice at one entrance of the stable, so that the water poured in a flood through the whole building, and out at a gate on the other side. And it had all been so managed that when the river had poured through, and was shut off again, all the filth and litter had been carried away by the Alpheus underground, and the stable had been washed clean, without a scrap of refuse to be found [235] anywhere. For the Alpheus you must know, did not run into the sea, like other rivers. It disappeared down a deep chasm, then ran through a natural tunnel under the sea, and rose again, far away, in the island of Sicily, where it had brought to Ceres the news from underground. Thus everything thrown into it in Elis came up again in Sicilyâ€”and the Sicilians must have been considerably astonished at that exÂtraordinary eruption of stable litter. Perhaps it is that which, acting as manure, has helped to make Sicily so fertile.

Takuan

Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today – Ya

Father, father
We don’t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what’s going on
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Ah, what’s going on

In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we’re wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh

Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Tell me what’s going on
I’ll tell you what’s going on – Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby

fennel

I think 160 and 163 are on to something… the post has some essence that evades attention, I keep refreshing it, trying to catch it unawares, trying to trick it into revealing its true, hidden content…

help…

Takuan

I could collect them!

Antinous

Do Great Untitleds cope well with warming?

Takuan

nope

minTphresh

sorry, didn’t mean to tweak that pie-nerve. but it’s true. ‘specially the chicago deep dish variety. not that i’m advocating one style of pizza pie over another. that’s just not me, man.

Takuan

tweet!

Takuan

wayddaminute… howdajaknow “bo”?

Antinous

bojutsu

eustace

Guy driving a truck north through the S.F. Bay area stops for a beer. Bartender asks him, suspicion all over his face, what he does for a living. He answers, “I drive a truck.” The barkeep relaxes and gets him a beer.
He asks, “What’s with the question?”
The bartender says, “Well, we got an awful geek infestation up here. Gotten so bad it’s Open Season on geeks year round, now.”
Driver finishes his beer and gets back on the road. An accident up ahead makes him put on the brakes, and his rig rocks a little sideways and comes down hard enough to pop the door open.
Boxes of computers tumble out the back of the truck, and brakes squeal madly as geek after geek jumps out of their cars and goes for the loot.
The driver remembers what the bartender said. He gets the shotgun out from behind the seat and starts shooting geeks. Boom! Boom! A CHP on a bike pulls up and yells at him to stop.
“But it’s Open Season on geeks, officer!” he protests.
“Yeah, but you can’t bait ‘em!”

minTphresh

oh, thank the wily SFM for allowing me to live in paradise ( or at least a reasonable facsimile!). this one goes out to me crafty welsians:
I’ve been a wild rover for many’s the year
and I’ve spent all my money on whiskey and beer.
But now I’m returning with gold in great store
and I never will play the wild rover no more

Chorus:
And it’s no, nay, never,
no, nay, never, no more
will I play the wild rover
no, never, no more

I went into an ale-house I used to frequent
and I told the landlady my money was spent.
I asked her for credit, she answered me nay,
Such “a custom like yours I can have any day

Chorus

I took from my pocket ten sovereigns bright
and the landlady’s eyes opened wide with delight.
She said I’d have whiskey and wines of the best
and the words that she told me were only in jest.

Chorus

I’ll go home to my parents, confess what I’ve done,
and I’ll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.
And when they’ve caressed me as oft’ times before
then I never will play the wild rover no more

Chorus X2

brcguy

You’re Doing it Wrong!!!!

arkizzle

Well this is nearly the whole gang!

Nice to see so many of you here, at this great moment!

(tenn, sis, agent: long time, no see)

W00T!

Alpinwolf

Wow. Holy Spaghetti Sauce. How the hell did I miss the existence of Untitled-1 for so long??? Ah, well. Here to officially stamp my BoingBoing passport:

k-Thunk!

“Enjoy your trip, sir.”

mdhatter

Who is this mystery woman?

Was she obsessed with cloning dogs and false horse legs?

eustace

damn, tak, that didnt last long

Antinous

Obviously, Scarface was correct.

Takuan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jul/23/readers-recommend-surveillance-songs

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzPA-FrVu3I

thegonzalez

Succinct, and yet jejune.

Mindpowered

Followings 115′s template.

Ahem.

A post about nothing.

90′s redux.

God it’s great to be part of something really meaniningful.

Anonymous

yay!

minTphresh

hey takuan (or anyone else interested in the scientology ‘phenom’) if you have 8 minutes of your life that you don’t need too badly, check out the 4-11 on xenu. from the mouth of the debbil hisownseff!

arkizzle

D’oh!

I just did mine in the MO thread.

Night!

minTphresh

colorful dreams, takusan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkX8IafsnBM

Takuan

ever notice how some old people make you feel young, and some young people make you feel old?

grimc

Being accused of being an asshole is hardly the sort of thing that would scare Takuan off. No doubt he/she/them is off gathering more non-sequitur-yet-surprisingly-related links.

Agent 86

Is there any chance of issuing a ban on only those who complain (not simply taking away their commenting abilities for every article, but only taking away their commenting abilities for a specific article)? I’m not sure if that option is availible within our commenting framework, but it would have the added benefit of allowing otherwise sensible commenters to stay away from the comment section of an article they obviously do not want to be in, but by some sick sense of self-perversion can not seem to stay away from.

[I'm placing this here because I can't place it in the lovely hand-bound LB thread, thanks to ignoramuses who don't know when to leave well enough alone.]

PS: Sister is back, I see. Someone point her this way, and tell her we are in need of some more Game action.

sammich

Antinous – AVP (Alien versus Predator) was a guess at yours btw – a wildy off-target guess perhaps, but a guess nonetheless…

sammich

xopher @ 2273 – well said! but Tenn is a gem, and as such will not corrode and degenerate as quickly as the rest of us…

Happy Birthday Tenn :)

Takuan

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/conyers-calls-for-criminal-investigation-into-bush-administration/

Chad

Snarky note 0.

Talia

#216: that’s what makes this so great, and likely why it’s been allowed to stand.

People are seizing the opportunity to goof off and be silly in the extreme, while harming no one. I would certainly say that qualifies as a “wonderful thing.” ;)

Tenn

It’s immaterial. They don’t care whether the great tits cope with warming or not, because they are enlightened. They might individually cope well with warming, but as a race, they’ve transcended.

Takuan

yes, I listen to enka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsWRRhxL838

arkizzle

ok, here’s an OWy suggestion..

Chronicles of (Rid)(Dick)

hokano

Untitled 1. Making life better since April 24, 2008 2:16 PM.

Phikus

Happy future to the world!

scottfree

Vader: The power to destroy a planet is nothing compared to untitled 1.

Motti: Untitled 1 has not helped you conjure up the lost data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the rebel’s hidden fortress!

Vader: I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Mantari

This story never died?

eustace

How sad, not to know your cousins! I always enjoy seeing mine; we had a reunion about four years ago. Or hearing news of them (and their kids, and now grandkids) through Mom, Keeper of the Family Flame.
Whatever separated you?

Takuan

this looks promising
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/johnny-depp-as-mad-hatter_n_218747.html

Takuan

thanks! That is a cool site, could spend a lot of time there. I’ve been thinking about the stereo microscope and realized that a USB microscope (webcam mod to laptop say) would also work for a fine work display. With practice.

Takuan

first class mash up Arkie! (now, where did I put my Duran Duran costume….)

ROSSINDETROIT

It’s all changed and different! It can’t change. It has to be just the way I expect it to be. So unfair!

sammich

you’ve got a boxful of these then antinous?

Antinous

I have a system.

eustace

(_8-(|)

twig

** Way too late to get read but commenting anyway

Takuan

I love the little youtubes, I love them lots!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wd8lnA8PE0&feature=related

ROSSINDETROIT

Probably not much meat on one. I’d stick with the pork.

Takuan

welcome, Citizen.

Takuan

well done Tenn, well done.

Takuan

now this deserves traction:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/debtors-revolt-woman-refu_n_285394.html

minTphresh

allman-esque blues from one of my favorite bar bands growing up: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uN5tf1Rntuc&feature=related

Agent 86

Almost 3 weeks… anyone know her IRL? A comment saying she still lives would be lovely.

Takuan

boil the water in the usual way. Add the usual amount of coffee to the filter. Pour HALF the usual amount of hot water through. Top up the volume to full with plain, boiled water added directly to the double-strength coffee in the carafe.

minTphresh

start your mornin ‘groove crawlin with some friends from new haven! mighty purple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkzjSnxVv9Q&feature=related

sammich

AVP?

sammich

yay! =D

Takuan

that doesn’t make it right

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN7G2Dpo2qQ

Takuan

The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end — drank his ale too light.
Death’s head belt buckle — yesterday’s dreams —
the transport caf’ prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.

Now he’s too old to Rock’n'Roll but he’s too young to die.

He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he’s the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do’s.
For drinks on a Sunday — work on Monday.
They’ve thrown away their blue suede shoes.

Now they’re too old to Rock’n'Roll and they’re too young to die.

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies — tears in his eyes —
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.

And he was too old to Rock’n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you’re never too old to Rock’n'Roll if you’re too young to die.

Anonymous

witty, meta-comment

Jake0748

Um… hello. (sound of crickets chirping). Sad echo fading away…

FoetusNail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDiUqywgHrA

http://www.wtv-zone.com/ruexperienced/LastPhotos/LastPhotos.html

Takuan

gimmegimmegimme

Takuan

re: Asus eee; got teeny little fingers? Also,USB drives only of course. Apparently Dell Mini Inspiron is around the corner too.

minTphresh

i meant to do this yesterday…oh well. this one’s for lux! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_hV-CE2s-4&feature=related

minTphresh

nitey, nite to all my buzzin barflies! a lil lullaby for the settle-in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sQIX1NTkcQ

sammich

(nope – it’s gonna take at least two cuppas)

Phikus

Wolfiesma: Comments #2580, 2596 and here. =D Long live the Untitleditudinousness!

eustace

TOO dark! I RECOGNIZE this darkness!
…we are in danger of being eaten by a grue.

Takuan

http://www.horrorstew.com/images/HotPatootie002.jpg

Anonymous

this fire is out of control!

minTphresh

bad ’80′s sci-fi? Dune? (great book, horrible flik)

Agent 86

So, it turns out Untitled 1 is filled with Styrofoam. Damn guerrilla-marketing.

Agent 86

I attempted to befriend myself… and that is when I learned that BoingBoing secretly does endorse the hive mind!

“Error: Cannot follow oneself“

arkizzle

Ross, what kind of table is that? Rigid arms?

Phikus

Sammich: Can we have some of your delicious toffees too?

Takuan

Until the pebbles
Grow into boulders
Lush with moss

clockwork

m s sck f hrng bt nttld… hnstly, whn wll t nd?

Jake0748

If a blog post is empty in a forest and no one is around to hear it… oh nevermind.

Orky

Isn’t this a dupe? I’d swear I’ve read this before…

wolfiesma

I’d never really heard him before, but man, he’s deep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FlWsGgzfww

ridl

Um… not sure Stephenson has cc’d Cryptonomicon, and it’s a little long for Fair Use. Untitled 1 has now entered the holy realm of infringement! Champagne for everyone!

Jake0748

Mr. Free, give your thumb a good rest, don’t do any hitchhiking for a while.

I’ve made that same note to self numerous times.

Takuan

looks promising
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/09/04/FranceFragmenting/

Kingstead

Oh man. Crazy.

Phikus

I suppose you’re wondering while I gathered you all here…

(*gets clobbered by everyone’s shoes*)

eustace

Thank you, your Freshness.

Takuan

the most accessibility would come from a standing thread, hmmmmmm how to pry the precious, precious bandwidth out of the rightful boingers hands…..

minTphresh

allow me to be the first to wish “untitled 1″ a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! that’s right, untitled one is now one year old. still poopin green, as my uncle used to say.

sammich

!

anthony

Snap.

Tenn

happy solstice minT!

death to the Liver, Taku-san!

TroofSeeker

Some rediculous story that has little to do with the subject,
jibe a fellow poster,
kind words so I don’t seem like a dick,
a question with an obvious answer.

Takuan

did it awake wanting to understand?

zuzu

Evan Chan was murdered. Jeanine is the key.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFj0RfZb6iM

eustace

Hmmm… it’s been thirty hours since Antinous has posted to BB, we may have to wait for an answer.

arkizzle

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sammich

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail :
And ‘mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ‘twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

eustace

(in low tones)

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
a stately pleasure dome decree
where Alph the sacred river ran
through caverns measureless to man
down to a sunless sea
so twice five miles of fertile ground
with walls and towers were girdled round
and there were gardens, bright with sinuous rills
where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree
and here were forests ancient as the hills
enfolding sunny spots of greenery

but oh, that deep romantic chasm that slanted
down the green hill, athwart a cedarn cover
a savage place, as holy and enchanted
as ere beneath a waning moon was haunted
by woman wailing for her demon lover

and from this chasm with ceaseless turmoil seething
as if this earth in fast, thick pants were breathing
a mighty fountain momently is forced
amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail
or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail

and ‘mid these dancing rocks, at once and ever
it flung up momently the sacred river
five miles meandering in a mazy motion
through wood and dale the sacred river ran
then reached the caverns measureless to man
and sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean
and ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
ancestral voices, prophesying war

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
floated midway on the waves
where was heard the mingled measure
from the fountains and the caves
it was a miracle of rare device
a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice

A damsel with a dulcimer
in a vision once I saw
it was an Abyssinian maid
and on her dulcimer she played
singing of Mount Abora

could I revive within me
this symphony and song
to such a deep delight ‘twould win me
that with music loud and long
I would raise that dome in air
That sunny dome! Those caves of ice!
and all who heard should see it there
and all should cry, Beware! Beware!
his flashing eyes, his floating hair
weave a circle round him twice
and close your eyes in holy dread
for he on honeydew hath fed
and drunk the milk of paradise

Xanadu by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as best I remember it.

imipak

Need to make it special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9_l-u7qho

Phikus

Arkie: I wasn’t saying Control is a bad film. I just wish they had used JD’s actual performances, instead of bad covers. (And every other band member but Ian is totally 2-dimensional.)
___

Tak: Make Me Wanna Holler!

Plurr

great article, leaves it open for a sequel

realisateur

my anxiety is through the roof because of this post. i can’t grapple with existential nothingness.

Donal

phd research Proposal;

Title: “Mark Frauenfelder’s semininal “Untitled 1″ and the zeitgeist of the early 21st century”.

Abstract: Like a stone dropped into a pool, the ripples from Frauenfelder’s mid-career explosive work spread in a 360 degree field, coming finally to be recognised as the definitive modern post-post-modern socio-political commentary, and as the cultural impacts widened the increasing amplitude of the shocks both deepened the ennui of many populations while simultaneously heightening the exuberance of certain other cross-cultural neo-tribes.

Discuss.

C White

I like cake!

FoetusNail

A boy from Texass, on scholarship to Harvard, was lost on campus. He stopped some upperclassmen and asked directions.

“Can one of you fellas tell me were the library is?”

“Gentlemen at Harvard do not end their sentences in prepositions.” replied one of the stuffed shirts.

“Excuse me, can you tell me where the library is, asshole.”

eustace

Tak, you’re not the only one humming Stan Rogers tunes to himself.

minTphresh

radio phresh, signing off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vunqB9jarzo

Takuan

nae, ‘er dammit!

Agent 86

I’m reading Slan Hunter, and it is a slap in the face to Van’s first book. Am I the only one who feels this way?

Takuan

that virus can’t live on me. I’ve got chronic ich though.

eustace

As he slowly paced the sidewalk he noticed the slight hunch in the shoulders of the other pedestrians. As if they were carrying a burden. Something singular. Something… without a title.

minTphresh

i know! TOTAL RECALL!

FoetusNail

I’ve got no clue why you were all so happy about March 25th, but I finally figured it out. Hope all you Tolkien fans had a good day.

Along the way I discovered something, first of all some amazing and terrible stuff has happened on Mar. 25th.

On March 25th in the year 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with his friend and accomplice Thomas Jefferson Hogg, was expelled from the University of Oxford for having the temerity to distribute to the university dons the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

Being the uneducated lout that I am, I found this, what I assume to be common knowledge, quite interesting. But, I pass it on for what it’s worth to my fellows at bb, who also may have led a life sheltered from schools and universities.

What an amazing, yet tragically short life, Mr. Shelley lived.

From The Necessity of Atheism

There Is No God

This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

A close examination of the validity of the proofs adduced to support any proposition is the only secure way of attaining truth, on the advantages of which it is unnecessary to descant: our knowledge of the existence, of a Deity is a subject of such importance that it cannot be too minutely investigated; in consequence of this conviction we proceed briefly and impartially to examine the proofs which have been adduced. It is necessary first to consider the nature of belief.

When a proposition is offered to the mind, It perceives the agreement or disagreement of the ideas of which it is composed. A perception of their agreement is termed belief. Many obstacles frequently prevent this perception from being immediate; these the mind attempts to remove in order that the perception may be distinct. The mind is active in the investigation in order to perfect the state of perception of the relation which the component ideas of the proposition bear to each, which is passive; the investigation being confused with the perception has induced many falsely to imagine that the mind is active in belief. — that belief is an act of volition, — in consequence of which it may be regulated by the mind. Pursuing, continuing this mistake, they have attached a degree of criminality to disbelief; of which, in its nature, it is incapable: it is equally incapable of merit.

Belief, then, is a passion, the strength of which, like every other passion, is in precise proportion to the degrees of excitement.

The degrees of excitement are three.

The senses are the sources of all knowledge to the mind; consequently their evidence claims the strongest assent.

The decision of the mind, founded upon our own experience, derived from these sources, claims the next degree.

The experience of others, which addresses itself to the former one, occupies the lowest degree.

Takuan

chaser!
someone pose

Jake0748

Eustace, sorry to interrupt the game (I’m no good at it anyway). :)

Ark, give it up, no one will ever quit referring to pizza as “pie” in our lifetimes. Don’t let it raise your BP. Join a group or something.

double :)

arkizzle

Lick it. Then they won’t want it.

eustace

Hagbard – in the only topicless thread, no one can mod you off-topic. That sounds a lot less like the Alien quote than I thought it would.
I’m still looking fruitlessly at island names.

minTphresh

i was looking for a different tune by him, but this will ahfta do for now: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NSNuqX3EY70&feature=related

Tenn

I’m not giving him enough credit.

He had a nice ass for -any- age, but especially because they’re all old. Everyone was old. I ended up dancing next to someone around the age of my grand-dad and screaming in joy when we heard the opening of- well, several songs. It was surreal.

I think I failed at ‘like four encores’, Ross. Seriously, like, uh, oh my GOD – like!

wolfiesma

Dudes, the church agreed to my crazy reforestation plan. Apparently, we are on the same page about planting rows of trees on the fallow field. I was so excited they said okay after obsessing about this so many months, I made the comment to the pastor that there might be something to the power of prayer after all.

“Yes prayer works,” he said, “Trees are one of God’s earliest gifts to Man, and we are blessed to tend His garden.” I told him that I have renewed faith in humanity… and my husband asked me if we needed any lube, as in me and the pastor. Get it? Oh, nevermind…

Talia

#729: let me guess the color â€“ violet blue?

john weeks

s lng s t’s nt pst by xn…..

minTphresh

“Â Your majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss.” ” Uhh, what i meant to say was …that your majesty shines like a shaft of gold, when all around is darkness.”

Anonymous

Yep…err no, err….

The FaiL

Takuan

for today’s Misheard Lyrics Contest:

Red Rider’s White Hot

I’ll get you started:

Waiting by the shoreline;

FoetusNail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxOUPWnv1ko

arkizzle

Antinous, got a camera?
No moon in the UK.. :(

wolfiesma

Dominique Swain…. swoon. I saw The Ballad of Jack and Rose last night and kept thinking how good she would have been in it. Daniel Day was smashing as always.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_of_Jack_and_Rose

Takuan

thriller movie… staff, rod, company…samovar..urn, pot, heater,Yom Kippur. Eid, Palm Sunday….ummmmmmmm gimme a hint, this millennium? or last?

Takuan

http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/images/Miscellaneous/big/dance-of-death_CCLXIIIIv.jpg

Agent 86

so what’s the new puzzle

Antinous

Mid-century film:

Hey, Wales
- Antinous
  
  80s film:
  
  Solid philosopher up and running

arkizzle

H A P P Y – B I R T H D A Y – T E N N ! ! !

http://blogs.courant.com/colin_mcenroe_to_wit/cake-oh-1727433-x.jpg

http://www.3dscreensavers.us/prev/balloons3d.jpg

http://selectroclash.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/booze.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj215/meathookcook/Misc/male_strippers.jpg

http://www.bachelorpartyhq.com/images/boston_strippers_5.jpg

Let’s do this thing!!

RabeKriegerin

-applaudes-

MadDuck

This post fills me with ennui.

pwr

strcpy(blog, “\0″)

FoetusNail

I play a lawyer on the internet, dibs on the divorces.

Takuan

need a clue?

minTphresh

now, where’s my cake?

ridl

I also love pizza.

Oh no, I sequitured! Do I still get a slice? Hawaiian, please.

Thank you.

Takuan

drat! no O.J.! My Greek Tiger must now make do with Mixed Berry. I shall call it: The Macedonian Ocelot.

Takuan

Evangeline?

Takuan

well, I AM trying to get it up to previous levels , but these things take time. And Happy bELATEDbOINGbOING to you!

arkizzle

..they privatized it years ago, now you need a license.

Takuan

so it was founded on a century of horseshit? Oh them poets!

Takuan

http://api.ning.com/files/zfv231qsInxKdghJITV7h*ps8fHwYGmxqfdALmtYqzwpr5kamjueZz*NxWni2irkW9yFHYlNxINNMgfoZmADP0OzOGNPjn50/Durer_Revelation_Four_Riders.jpg

eustace

She was waiting just behind the door, dressed like a stormtrooper in boots that sent a clear, two-word message straight to his gut. He followed her deeper into the trashed building, avoiding debris without ever letting his eyes wander from the smooth, white, PVC curves of her costume. No electricity – but in addition to the shafts of dusty light that made it through the cracks in the boarded-up windows, there was a kind of radiance that came from her.
Probably some kind of electroluminescence built into the costume shell, he thought. Not that that took anything away from her – there was only one like her, and a title would add nothing to the reality.

Takuan

The Persistence of Vision

MasterSauce

There’s a subtle hint of Sarcasm that strikes just the right cord. Nice post!

tallpat

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion”. -Democritus

umgrego2

Hey, nice marmot!

Renwaldonews

817

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9v7U_pkSO4

for the Zizzle!!

eustace

2+2=5 for unusually large values of 2

dougrogers

This thread is wandering off topic.

sammich

an evil, kafka-esque system…

Antinous

Don’t try to control it. Reach out with your feelings.

eustace

On a rock amid the river,
kayak broke in many pieces,
kayak sank just like an anchor,
Hairy Larry, him not carin’

Bugs have landed on his levis,
smelly levis, worn through seasons,
Landed on his leather jacket,
Grimy, stinky, leather jacket.

Wings of bugs are flying Larry,
Hairy Larry, to safe landing,
Bugs know its in their best interests,
to keep Larry out of water.

Takuan

http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1023717.ece

jojobababi

You need to respect the post. Cause life is precious. And God. And the Bible.

Sister Y

#230 Agent 86 my brother, we’re still on Sci Fi movies 1900-2008.

And my first thought on seeing this was, “this here must be one a’ them ‘open threads’ I been hearin’ so much about.” Ah, a little taste of freedom.

Tenn

The cake is a lie!

Tenn

I was just considering a post here, Jake. Say, any books you’re interested in lately?

Antinous; telepathic aptitude increasing in subject ten or subject zero-seven-four-eight?

Wait- I didn’t say that! You didn’t hear anything! I know nothing, I swear!

Takuan

If on every ocean the ship is a throne
And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown
Then I could believe that I’m bound to find
A better life than I left behind

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread
For the colors bled as they overflowed
Red, white and blue
Green, white and gold

So I had to leave from my country of birth
As for each child grown tall
Another lies in the earth
And for every rail we laid in the loam
There’s a thousand miles of the long journey home

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread
For the colors bled as they overflowed
Red, white and blue
Green, white and gold

ROSSINDETROIT

Funny you should mention cap lifespan. While the Bogen awaits new tubes I have on the bench a nice Sansui 1000A tube receiver. That’s right, Sansui goes back to the tube era. These are great little receivers but are handicapped by the most unreliable signal capacitor ever made, the infamous Suzuki Oil Cap. There are more than a dozen in there and they all have to come out. I’ll replace them with modern Mylar caps. These Suzukis have a tremendously high failure rate and the failure of a single signal cap usually means the whole unit goes down. I shudder to think how many thousands of otherwise good pieces of japanese tube audio went to the landfill because of one of these Suzuki capacitors.

Tom Hale

Takuan – no, my wife would be pissed – you silly, silly person.

Antinous / Moderator

Jeez, Tom, I never would have pegged you as a manwhore. Next you’ll be borrowing your son’s furry costumes.

Jake0748

It was brain-dead for 17 minutes, rigor mortis set in. Then, IT CAME BACK TO LIFE!

eustace

Unless she is something of a Cagliostro, I think not her! But the woman you refer to seems less a mystery and more a spectacle.

Takuan

planktons too thick again

Antinous

planktons too thick again

Ink incontinence again? Didn’t I warn you about Botox and sphincters?

ridl

Bastards!

FoetusNail

For we have thought the longer thoughts,
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils’ tunes,
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.

EMH 1921

sammich

for those scarred by the ugly battle – an easy, recuperative clue (i hope)

Scarf Ace one word, 7 letters

year here, if you like

minTphresh

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didnt you?
Peopled call, say, beware doll, youre bound to fall
You thought they were all kiddin you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin out
Now you dont talk so loud
Now you dont seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Youve gone to the finest school all right, miss lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out youre gonna have to get used to it
You said youd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
Hes not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it aint no good
You shouldnt let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat
Aint it hard when you discover that
He really wasnt where its at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
Theyre drinkin, thinkin that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But youd better lift your diamond ring, youd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you cant refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
Youre invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

riverrunsred

Ceci n’est pas une post.

pm

Welcome to Web 4.0.

arkizzle

HOO HAA!

OW!

minTphresh

1:30 a.m. and i’m still tearing up. wow. peace everyone. i feel like im five and i just found the stocking x-mas morn. the presents in their shiny wrappings poking out the top, all full of amazing awesomeness. iknow, iknow. but let me have my moment.

Jake0748

Oops, I meant 17 hours.

minTphresh

could it have been….oh, i don’t know….SATAN!?!

minTphresh

what be thy game, oh High Costello of OW! SHIT! ?

minTphresh

here it is: this goes out to all the tremendous brunettes out there! wish i could a found the studio version, but for a u-tuber live this ain’t too shabb: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uHJP-KaqIs0&feature=related

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pawgzVGC9-4

Takuan

http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/~litlgirlblue/SoundClass/Bosch.gif

Agent 86

Did I miss a minor uprising in the last week or so?

Agent 86

nm, just saw the violet blue post.

1500+ posts to read…
I fear I shall never be current.

Takuan

wow! 205! I know what 110 feels like bareheaded, but yeah, wow again.

Vorpaltongue

If you read every single comment in under two one minute and thirty seconds it leaves an after image in your head that allows you to view the original post as it was intended which is a simple but detailed explication of the meaning of life the universe and everything, no not not the book by Douglas Adams (though it does make several references to it), but the real meaning of life the universe and everything but if it takes you two minutes and thirty one seconds, hello.jpg will be permanently seared into your retina and that’s the only thing you’ll ever be able to see forever until you die.

Antinous

I ran into a woman who got Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (like total permanent disability) because she spent all her waking hours at the computer and it didn’t occur to her to take her hands off the keyboard or mouse occasionally. Of course, as men, our hands are naturally drawn to our laps.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4gQpG2-MUI

eustace

I had suggested Tubthumping because it could be seen as a cry of defiance against gravity – “I get knocked down, but I get up again…”

Takuan

pose then ye scunner!

Antinous

It’s ‘Plato’ ‘on’, Platoon.

And Takuan,

There’s something horribly wrong with you, but you’re going to have to figure out what it is.

Agent 86

Of course we don’t miss Untitled 1, for it shall always be with us.

Agent 86

Heh, I’m watching the first season of FotC, and low and behold out pops JOHN HODGMAN. My day is subtly brighter.

FoetusNail

Told you so_0

MarlboroTestMonkey7

So this is what a Black Hole is like… all info coalescencing into nothingness. Fun!

searconflex

transport is arranged

Scuba SM

Arkizzle:

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Takuan

tell me that ain’t Pete Postlewaite on bass fiddle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNCyddtqZEU&feature=related

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ZiixkruCY&feature=related

buddy66

Street Rule #6: Never give them your real name.

scottfree

I tried to subtly point out by linking to a wikipedia article that the oldest known copy of the book of revelation cites 616 as the number of the beast.

The oldest known copy of The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden sticks with 666 tho.

arkizzle

Thanks for understanding, you guys. I almost didn’t want to tell you about my little problem. It’s a tough cross to bear, and it’s certainly made a little easier by having such understanding, and accommodating commentiers as yourselves.. :D

Takuan

sounds lovely! do they saute in coca butter?

eustace

Now this is spooky – if you google themery, MinT’s comment shows up on the second page.

Takuan

http://www.monkeyquailadventures.com/photo/albums/singapore-and-malaysia-2007/HawPar.JPG

sammich

why wooden i?

sammich

Phikus –
You must know the difference between dissent from Untitled 1 and undermining it. And any Happy Mutant that undermines that post, with our Boingers in the field, or undermines the underthread, with 2,586 comments on 4/29, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you’re a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at Untitled 2, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please, Teresa? Send over the mods and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they’re undermining everything and they don’t care, couldn’t care less.â€

Takuan

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/25/military/

Gary61

Back on post #25 (sometime last year?), I wrote:

“I’m not sure how to respond to this ….

I could say:
“WTF??”
or I could say:
“Genius!”
or I could say:
“This page intentionally left blank.”
or I could say:
“I couldn’t have said it better myself.”

But I’m not going to say any of those things.”

And my point is STILL valid. I haven’t said ANY of those things.
NYAH!

Anonymous

hell YES untitled! WOOOOOOO

Takuan

there’s a concept; if we have mail order divinity degrees, why not internet lawyer diplomas?

ROSSINDETROIT

So the story of the Steampunk Thermionic Transconductance Amplifier or whatever I was going to call it.

Back in June or July I planned to make an audio amplifier in the Steampunk style using vacuum tubes. The project proceeded through the phases of electrical design, chassis design, parts procurement and layout.
There was a significant setback in the prototype stage when I was testing the B+ power supply. I had the parts set up on the bench and all haywired together with clip leads to test voltage and current. With the supply turned up to 1,500 volts and 200 ma running (300 watts dissipation) the main power supply capacitor, a metal can the size of a half gallon of milk abruptly blew up. It distributed its guts through the shop and my hair and clothes. The report from the explosion left my ears ringing for the rest of the day. I seriously expected cops at the door investigating firearms use.
This kind of scared me, as a moment before the explosion I had been leaning right over the cap turning up the Variac voltage. If that blast had caught me in the chest there’s a small but finite chance that it could have stopped my heart.
All of the parts in the circuit were running well below their rated capacities. The capacitor that blew out at 1500 volts was brand new and rated for 2,000v. It failed like it was overdriven but it must have just been defective.
Now, everyone’s going to die but nobody wants to die stupid. Heart failure from a defective capacitor is a really dumb death.
As long as I’m working alone here I’ve decided to discontinue development work on high voltage electronics. I’ll continue my main work refurbishing vintage tube and solid state audio gear. With a piece of production gear someone has already worked out the myriad details of how not to get killed while servicing it. I’ll still do development on new solid state audio gear because the voltages involved tend to be much less hazardous.
It would suck for Mrs inD. to come home and find me all sprawled out and floor temperature because I made a silly error working on something nonessential.
The parts for the amp I designed, less the defective capacitors, will be passed along to an audio hobby buddy. He’ll work it up into something exotic and cool with me helping him on the design. He’s an excellent welder and former chopper builder so I expect the resulting amp to be distinctive and wacky looking. We’ll document the build on AudioKarma.ORG and I’ll forward a link to the project to BBGadgets when it’s done. I’d have loved to do my own Steampunk thing but as I approach the half century mark I’m becoming a little more concerned about personal safety.

Takuan

no. Caek.

Phikus

Glad we could all celebrate a bit together, albeit briefly. Now I must away to bed. G’nite and noodley visage bless!

Takuan

summer’s over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jRDVStzOY&feature=related

FoetusNail

What do you think of this Min T?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZKMxpacZJM&NR=1

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZ4SxNDPg4&feature=related

sammich

I have paddled in Coleridge’s Alph.

If not sacred, it is indeed very lovely. :P

Antinous / Moderator

I lived in a drag queen owned mansion called the Pleasure Dome back in the 70s.

sammich

i wanna say withnail and i – but i’m not sure why
(i’d like whoever is piecing my psyche back together over the next few months to have access to this thread, there may be insights here as to where it all went so terribly, terribly wrog. k?)

minTphresh

Well, I wish I was a catfish,
Swimmin in a oh, deep, blue sea.
I would have all you good lookin women,
Fishin, fishin after me.
Sure ‘nough, a-after me.
Sure ‘nough, a-after me.
Oh ‘nough, oh ‘nough, sure ‘nough.

I went to my baby’s house,
And I sit down oh, on her steps.
She said, Now, come on in now, Muddy.
You know, my husband just now left.
Sure ‘nough, he just now left.
Sure ‘nough, he just now left.
Sure ‘nough, oh well, oh well.

Well, my mother told my father,
Just before hmmm, I was born,
I got a boy child’s comin,
He’s gonna be, he’s gonna be a rollin stone,
Sure ‘nough, he’s a rollin stone,
Sure ‘nough, he’s a rollin stone,
Oh well he’s a, oh well he’s a, oh well he’s a.

Well, I feel, yes I feel,
Feel that I could lay down oh, time ain’t long.
I’m gonna catch the first thing smokin,
Back, back down the road I’m goin.
Back down the road I’m goin.
Back down the road I’m goin.
Sure ‘nough back, sure ‘nough back.

rayven

i heart Untitled1.

Mark Espiner

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425495803/545/louise-bourgeois-untitled.html

Takuan

EORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Right. Your Majesty is like a dose of clap.

(gasps)
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
What?!?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
Before you arrive is pleasure, but after is a pain in the dong.
THE PRINCE OF WALES:
I beg your pardon?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:
It was one of Wilde’s.

Tenn

—– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– —– .—- .—- .—- —– .—- —– —– —– .—- .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —– —– .—- .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —–

Takuan

combine it? “The First Church of Unreformed Internet Lawyers”?

ROSSINDETROIT

I feel SO safe now.

Antinous / Moderator

But it advocates violating the doctrine of ‘never mix, never worry’.

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink

arkizzle

I take it all back.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrw6J7DoPzs

arkizzle

Tak.. so it’s really happening, huh?

I’ve long expected it.. but from the pigs? I’m shocked.

The birds I never trusted; they long to stomp the land once more, swinging along on the big dino-feet they once possessed; still dream of the teeth and claws they lost aeons ago. They once ruled the Earth, and they want it all back.

But the pigs? I am wounded. I thought we were on some kind level. Did they not see our bacon pedestals?

arkizzle

Oops, forgot these:

http://blog.blacknight.com/images/juggling-presents.jpg

http://blog.aarp.org/shaarpsession/presents.jpg

sammich

my belief system now hinges upon all experts being called ‘andi’

Antinous

Perhaps you should start a cargo cult.

Takuan

Teresa’s Rosetta’ed at Making for Ecksmus. Tres cool, go look.

Inverse Square

Maybe it’s symbolic…

searconflex

Maybe the post date/time has significance?

-also-

This should actually be called “Magic Window”

(boc forever)

Scuba SM

Actually, that’s just some cookie dough. Put in Notepad on fixed character width to bake it.

Anonymous

There may be trouble ahead
But while there’s moonlight
and music
and love
and romance
Let’s face the music and dance

Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill
and while we still have the chance
Let’s face the music and dance

Soon
we’ll be without the moon,
humming a different tune
and then
There may be teardrops to shed
So while there’s moonlight
and music
and love
and romance
Let’s face the music and dance

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dMuKRbJa3O8

Takuan

easier to follow than
http://www.hongwanjihi.org/Web2003/links/compHist/Pict_Comp_Hist/integrated_circuit_now.jpg

Takuan

there must be someone hand building transistors.

minTphresh

also afor i forget, a shout to the boingers for keeping this multi-purpose thread open so we could have an outlet for this , what i can only describe as unbridled joy. i would vibrate uncontrollably at odd frequencies without some outlet for it. maybe do something unlawful like dance nekkid thru the streets of tampa. so…thanks. and the citizens of tampa thank you as well. whether they know it or not.

Tenn

Oh, I know most of my cousins, I have a lot. But these two are very very close cousins; or were. I am a month older than the eldest, and we’re a year older than his little brother.

It’s a sad tale of parental abuse (not my aunt, but her husband) and CPS and adoption agencies. It was good that they were taken away, in a way- good for them. They at least grew up in a stable home. Not a perfect home, but he seems alright.

-Hugs Taku-san and everyone else here-

Though I do worry about the eldest. According to his little brother, who I spoke to for an hour, he raises all kinds of hell and gets in a lot of trouble. I hope I get to talk to him soon.

This is CRAZY you guys! I am the happiest Tenn in the whole wide world!

You’re welcome to share my polyps with me, Eustace. Thank you -very- much Tak. I always know I’m being thought of when I’m away from the Boing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntVF3OJmX6I

eustace

…let us turn back the clock, and peer past the decades, back to 1977…

Joyce: My life is a beautiful dream. How could things possibly get better…

Satan (appearing in a cloud of brimstone-scented smoke): My dear, allow me to make a few suggestions…

But perhaps you meant Elron’s Mystery Girlfriend…

minTphresh

ark, im just happy you felt you could ‘open up’ with us! im gettin warm fuzzies. i gottsta go.

Takuan

they shall have their revenge yet for an infinity of breakfasts.

arkizzle / Moderator

Liquidator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmLDf9XKMfk

buddy66

One of the six days a year that I mix myself the driest Martini this side of Harry’s Bar. Sweet Solstice to you, children:…

The Unusual Suspect

This post is useless without pictures.

thegiantsnail

1st post of the day!

Come and knock on our door…..
We’ve been waiting for you……
Where the kisses are hers and hers and his,
Three’s company too.

Come and dance on on our floor……
Take a step that is new…..
We’ve a loveable space that needs your face,
Three’s company too.

You’ll see that life is a frolic and laughter is calling for you……
Down at our rendez-vous,
Three’s company, too!!!!!!

eustace

Howard Crane! By Eris, reveal yourself!

Takuan

c’mon, whatcha got?

Takuan

film, book or what have you, you need only declare it (no porn stars though, I get all flustered – you know, like Benny Hill in The Italian Job)

hagbard

Is it The Mists of Avalon?

Takuan

alas Freddie, ye were too fine for this world..
http://www.alephbet.com/pictures/6111.jpg

eustace

“…don’t need to be a Weatherman to change which way the wind blows…”
Here’s a thought from the Residents (appropriately enough, in code!)

#define x is_simple

void main{
we(x);
you(x);
life(x)too;
}

ridl

Woops, little late on the bastards riff… untitled things move so quickly these days!… a shot of milkmen always make me want a little of this as a back.

arkizzle

Shhh.. pop yourself in front of this, and lets get started.

Hope you had a great day, and didn’t do a single jot of homework (I’ll be very disappointed if you did any homework).. :)

More drinks over here!

Takuan

this idiot needs a kicking
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/23/obamas-drug-czar-marijuana-has-no-medical-benefit/

jimh

No comment.

chikurt

This makes me think of fromage.

Thank You Mark.

Tom Hale

Hey – if, over several conversations a woman gives me her full name and city/state where she lives – Would it worry/bother her if I told her that I googled her and found out her home address and phone number?

Takuan

I’M silly?

Takuan

want to feel younger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFHxnwMV0E

Takuan

at least the important thing is that you still have to shuffle through the airport in your socks.

History

[edit] 1918 epidemic
Main article: Spanish Flu

In the spring of 1918, swine influenza mutated into a severe human form in just a few months. Some of the victims became severely ill and died, while the rest suffered from mild symptoms. In the US, the first deaths were recorded among sailors in Boston in August 1918, and the epidemic quickly spread to all parts of the country. Between the autumn of 1918 and the spring of 1919, 548,452 people died of this flu in the US. In the UK, France and Germany, around 600,000 people died. Worldwide, the number of casualties was between 20 and 50 million, or maybe more. The puzzling fact is that the epidemic erupted almost simultaneously at distant locations, therefore it is likely that the virus was incubated in people with only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Other anomalous facts are that the disease attacked people in their twenties and thirties, thought to have strong immune systems, and most of the infections were lethal. At the military prison at Deer Island (Massachusetts) in Boston Harbor there was an attempt to develop a vaccine during the 1918 outbreak.[13]

[edit] 1976 U.S. outbreak

On February 5, 1976, an army recruit at Fort Dix said he felt tired and weak. He died the next day and four of his fellow soldiers were later hospitalized. Two weeks after his death, health officials announced that swine flu was the cause of death and that this strain of flu appeared to be closely related to the strain involved in the 1918 flu pandemic. Alarmed public-health officials decided that action must be taken to head off another major pandemic, and they urged that every person in the U.S. be vaccinated for the disease. President Gerald Ford was confronted with a potential swine flu pandemic. The vaccination program was plagued by delays and public relations problems, but about 24% of the population had been vaccinated by the time the program was canceled.[14]

There is “enough evidence to suggest that” about 500 cases of Guillain-BarrÃ© syndrome, resulting in death from severe pulmonary complications for 25 people, were caused by an immunopathological reaction to the vaccine in some people.[14] Other influenza vaccines have not been linked to Guillain-BarrÃ© syndrome.[15]

[edit] 2007 Philippine outbreak

On August 20, 2007, Department of Agriculture officers investigated the outbreak of swine flu in Nueva Ecija and Central Luzon, Philippines. The mortality rate is less than 10% for swine flu, if there are no complications like hog cholera. Earlier, or on July 27, 2007, the Philippine National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) raised a hog cholera “red alert” warning over Metro Manila and 5 regions of Luzon after the disease spread to backyard pig farms in Bulacan and Pampanga, even if these tested negative for the swine flu virus.[16][17]

[edit] 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak
This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.
Main article: 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak

In March and April 2009, over 1,000 cases of swine flu in humans were detected in Mexico and the southwestern United States, causing more than 60 deaths in Mexico.[18] Following a series of reports of isolated cases of swine flu,[19][20] the first announcement of the outbreak in Mexico was documented on April 23. Some of the cases have been confirmed by the World Health Organization to be due to a new genetic strain of H1N1.[21][22] The new strain has been confirmed in 16 of the deaths and 44 others are being tested as of 24 April 2009.[23] The Mexican fatalities are mainly young adults, a hallmark of pandemic flu.[24]

The current vaccine against the seasonal influenza strain H1N1 is thought to be unlikely to provide protection.[25] Anne Schuchat, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said that the United States cases were found to be made up of genetic elements from four different flu virusesâ€”North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza A virus subtype H1N1, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe. For two cases a complete genome sequence had been obtained. She said that the virus was resistant to amantadine and rimantadine, but susceptible to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza).[26][27][28]

The new strain appears to be a recombinant between two older strains. Preliminary genetic characterization found that the hemagglutinin (HA) gene was similar to that of swine flu viruses present in U.S. pigs since 1999, but the neuraminidase (NA) and matrix protein (M) genes resembled versions present in European swine flu isolates. Viruses with this genetic makeup had not previously been found to be circulating in humans or pigs, but there is no formal national surveillance system to determine what viruses are circulating in pigs in the U.S.[29]

[edit] See also

sammich

half man, half biscuit

arkizzle / Moderator

Undercover Pigs Can’t Dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-R5GQ0V-Z4

Lynn

Wow! Was this some sort of cyber experiment to see what would happen? Apparently we’ll comment about anything, or nothing at all.

pm

there is no spoon

sammich

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wOxE6gxwz7o&feature=related

Antinous

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zuRaMNf5vF0

Cuando tenga la tierra
SembrarÃ© las palabras
Que mi padre MartÃn Fierro
Puso al viento.

Cuando tenga la tierra
La tendrÃ¡n los que luchan
Los maestros, los hacheros,
Los obreros.

Cuando tenga la tierra
Te lo juro semilla
Que la vida
SerÃ¡ un dulce racimo
Y en el mar de las uvas
Nuestro vino
CantarÃ©, CantarÃ©.

Cuando tenga la tierra
Le darÃ© a las estrellas
Astronautas de trigales
Luna nueva.

Cuando tenga la tierra
FormarÃ© con los grillos
Una orquesta donde canten
los que piensan.

Campesino, cuando tenga la tierra
SucederÃ¡ en el mundo
El corazÃ³n de mi mundo
Desde atrÃ¡s, de todo el olvido
SecarÃ© con mis lÃ¡grimas
Todo el horror de la lÃ¡stima
Y por fin te verÃ©, campesino
Campesino, campesino, campesino
DueÃ±o de mirar la noche
En quÃ© nos acostamos
Para hacer los hijos

Campesino
Cuando tenga la tierra
Le pondrÃ© la luna en el bolsillo
Y saldrÃ© a pasear con los Ã¡rboles
Y el silencio
Y los hombres y las mujeres conmigo

CantarÃ©, CantarÃ©.

arkizzle / Moderator

Forsooth, the virtuoso dallies -unbeknownst- upon the epagomenic cairn.

Hark! Tropology.

minTphresh

gimme example of opening question, please?

Antinous

gimme example of opening question, please?

Hey sailor, new in town?

kaelsleeps

i’ve a thousand of these in different folders.

Takuan

now who was asking about this again?
http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html

arkizzle

30 hours? god help us!

Takuan

Good to see`you Sammich!

Takuan

be warned
http://wilsonfu.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-cat-eyes-basement-dark.jpg

sammich

easy if you’re british, and remember Russ Abbott, anyhow…

Takuan

good day, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8V8S_REhk

FoetusNail

My five year old just came in with his shirt on backwards. I asked him if he wanted to turn it around.

“No, I’ll just walk backwards.”

FoetusNail

Same here minTphresh, same here.

I wish my children were old enough to know this moment.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H69o9m3Mu6I

minTphresh

(sexy rhino!)you’re a monster, baby.(sexy rhino!)you’re a super killa!(sexy rhino!)I wanna get witcha, i luv ya!(sexy rhino!)you’re boo-ful, ungh!(sexy rhino!)you’re a super monster killer!( clap, clap, clap, clap) SHOW ME YOUR RHINO THANG!

sammich

you’ve been to somerset Ant, know anything of Coleridge’s history there?

Antinous / Moderator

I was too busy dowsing for ley lines and trying to channel Dion Fortune.

eustace

He slipped out of the house just past sunup. From the bluffs he could see no surf at all; when he reached the cove and walked into the water with his board the wavelets were about four inches high.
He paddled out past the rocks, turned up the coast and headed into the kelp forest. When he reached the offshore side, where the dropoff began and the kelp ended, he tied the board’s leash to a clump of kelp and slipped into the water.
With snorkel, mask, and fins in place, he started arcing through the kelp, taking long, measured breaths at the surface and spending them in swift gliding passes, down where the kelp was rooted in rock, about forty feet at the deepest. He was disappointed to see almost no fish at all.
The water was cold enough to make a break in the sun pleasant, lying on his back on the surfboard he could enjoy the sky in detail. Under the water, there was only the dazzle of the sun when he looked up, gaging the distance to breath.
When he swam again, he swam straight for the dropoff.

eustace

im washing my hands and thinking im tired of being just human, ive been human a long damn time the limitations are appalling and something better is past due in my opinion but the thought came back just how human have i been really

minTphresh

tak, definately “the ledge” by the replacements! or adrian belew’s “twang bar king”. or “detachable penis” by king missile.

zuzu

But the next time the laser darts into his face, it scatters off a million tiny, ashy particulates and reveals itself as a pure geometric line in space, pointing straight back to its source.

It’s a gargoyle, standing in the dimness next to a shanty. Just in case he’s not already conspicuous enough, he’s wearing a suit. Hiro starts walking toward him. Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider, these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.

The CIC brass can’t stand these guys because they upload staggering quantities of useless information to the database, on the off chance that some of it will eventually be useful. It’s like writing down the license number of every car you see on your way to work each morning, just in case one of them will be involved in a hit-and-run accident. Even the CIC database can only hold so much garbage. So, usually, these habitual gargoyles get kicked out of CIC before too long.

This guy hasn’t been kicked out yet. And to judge from the quality of his equipment — which is very expensive — he’s been at it for a while. So he must be pretty good.

If so, what’s he doing hanging around this place?

minTphresh

oh, yeah. the link. duh. http://gawker.com/5037013/the-history-of-xenu-as-explained-by-l-ron-hubbard-himself-in-8-minutes

eustace

I’ve seen it flicker in and out before, depending on the competition in the Don’t Miss column. But I try to refrain from panic; those of us who have posted here can always return via our profiles.

buddy66

Antinous don’t come ’round here no more. I answered it three days ago.

X-Men

#980 posted by Antinous:

The UK island, example given. SF book/movie

The Isle of Man

No comma, no order and you have to think a little loosely on both parts, but in different directions.

Man – Men. Manx – XMan – X-Men.

Here’s a clue:
I went out for some tail, but all I found was the pussy.

A Manx cat.

The person most likely to understand that clue is Takuan.

No. Me. I have a Manx cat named Karl.

Takuan is a tentacled mutant?

arkizzle

The time-dilations are starting to go.. forward!

minTphresh

this one goes out to arkizzle and rossindetroit! stax of wax guarenteed to make you flex, it’s radiophresh, scourge of the ( virtual ) airwaves! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2EE511FWsQ

Takuan

OK time to rack the guns and take the brains out of the drawer:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/25/flu-mexico-090425.html

arkizzle

Looks like all the old timers have gone to bed already, pah!

Tenn, glass.. http://crystalheadvodka.com/

And I just picked up a crate of 1990 methuselahs.. http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4809643

eustace

He had read that summer about a man with a wrench. The man had spent three months of an Okinawa stay removing a cylinder head from an aircraft radial engine, in eighty feet of water. Freediving, no air, taking one quarter turn of the wrench on each dive.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-psrfMEMbhg&feature=related

Takuan

damn straight Sammich!

Takuan

ahh Jimmi…

eustace

you’ll hear the plaintext message in the last of these one-minute videos, which include, btw, another Act of Being Polite…
(Ellipsis – three times as good as a period – do the math)

sammich

Cripes Antinous! 2 in 6 minutes!

Antinous

I have a system.

Takuan

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Hutterites+leave+Alberta+after+losing+fight/1827311/story.html

jphilby

Form is emptiness.
Emptiness is form.

Best Web Zen ever!

Takuan

ummm, see 944 Eustace above? RAH (Robert Anson Heinlein, author so books/story titles)
then punning/anagrammatic/puzzle type clue for title of work)

this all started with Arkkie and the Game from Galactic Pot Healer

minTphresh

oooh, buttpalm it! but make sure u do it AFTER licking it!

0xdeadbeef

How did I get here? What is this place?

I’m scared!

minTphresh

hagbard, me stumpified.

sammich

perhaps i should – i’ll leaflet my neighbours a.s.a.p.

eustace

On the trail beside the river,
Harry Larry sees a maiden,
Little girl in cape of crimson,
“Where ya goin?” hollers Larry.

“Going to Grandma’s.” says the maiden,
eyeing routes for quick escapin’
“Shift yer ass then,” mutters Larry,
He sees which way wind is blowin’

Hairy Larry slowly follows.
He thinks wolf not just for breakfast.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-psrfMEMbhg&feature=related

giantnegro

tl;dr

glugenwog

The most popular post ever is blank.

eustace

Happy (hic) St. Paddy’s!

FoetusNail

Takuan, many years ago, IIRC, there was some info about how some of our reactions were faster than the amount of time it would take for our brains to detect, process, and respond to information. The example given was our response to touching something hot.

Please take this comment with a tablespoon of salt.

Takuan

yeah?
All eyes look up to me
High above the filthy streets
Heed no bullhorn when it calls
Watch me fly and die, watch me fall

I’m the boy they can’t ignore,
For the first time in my life, I’m sure
All the love sent up high to pledge
Won’t reach the ledge

Wind blows cold from the west
I smell coffee, I smell doughnuts for the press (on their breath?)
A girl that I knew once years ago
Is tryin’ to be reached on the phone

I’m the boy she can’t ignore,
for the first time in my life, I’m sure
All the love sent up high to pledge…

(Repeat)

Priest kneels silent, all is still
Policeman reaches from the sill
Watch him, watch him try his best
There’ll be no medal pinned to his chest

I’m the boy they couldn’t ignore,
for the first time in my life, I’m sure

(Repeat)

I’m the boy for the last time in my life

All the love that they pledge
For the last time will not reach the ledge

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGLjzFHa40

eustace

(knock on door, Elron answers)
Elron: Hello?
Satan: Let me in. Had to disguise myself as a woman to get past that nosy manager. Got the script right here…

Takuan

your profile loads?

minTphresh

yes, but it’s sposed to be a secret.

Tom Hale

Slow night on BB – So Takuan – what do you, Arkie, and Xopher do to monitor comments – do you take shifts on slow nights?

Takuan

giant radish

pm

I feel sorry for other posts.

Agent 86

you’re saying you want your position to be filled?

sammich

Damn straight Billy you mean :)

arkizzle

Jake, even though the word pizza means ‘pie’ in Italian, I’ve actually only ever heard pizza refered to as ‘pie’ by Americans. I’ve lived in 3.5* english speaking countries, including Australia (where pizza is BIG), and pizza wasn’t ‘pie’ in any of them.. so it’s definitely not as ubiquitous a moniker as many would assume.

Also, refering to it as a “pizza pie” is just silly, pie-pie? :D

* 0.5 = Holland, english as second language.

Takuan

Isle of Man
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Isle of Man (Manx: Ellan Vannin[1], pronounced [ËˆÉ›lÊ²É™n ËˆvanÉªn]), or Mann (Manx: Mannin, [ËˆmanÉªn]), is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Crown is represented by a Lieutenant Governor. The island is not part of the United Kingdom, but foreign relations, defence, and ultimate good-governance of the Isle of Man are the responsibility of the government of the United Kingdom.”

NB: “THE ISLE IS NOT PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM”

buddy66

OH, MAN! I dropped over here to get away from the vaccination brawl and now I gotta hit the fridge, breaking my vow not to nosh after 9 p.m. Damn, Min-T, you got a cruel streak!

Why did it have to be ribs?! I loooove ribs.

minTphresh

start the day with the end of the world! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnV191MQLyo

eustace

By the time you were over the dropoff you were in fifty feet of water, well into scuba territory. But he had a secret weapon, “borrowed” from his dad’s scuba bag. A small cylinder of compressed air with a plastic regulator at one end. About two breaths worth of air at fifty feet. He took one breath from it as he passed the edge of the rocks.
Nothing stupid, just one look into the deep blue. He stopped descending, and started another breath as he looked at the wall, and he choked. The involuntary spasm emptied his lungs and loosened his grip, the cylinder fell out of his hands. He jerked himself around and started after the empty cylinder, then wrenched himself back toward the surface. His empty lungs ached, then his whole body flamed, his arms and legs burned and slowed. His attention was all on the surface, the dazzle, but something else was claiming it. The roar in his ears that was loud became louder still, and he couldn’t attend to anything else as it’s intensity grew. There were voices and words, patterns, and the glare of the sun on the water and the overwhelming roar became one thing.

DougO

unable to form an opinion, but I thought I’d share it anyway…

Tenn

I can’t believe it! I just figured it out. Mark, you bastard! You’re condoning Evidence and Iva Biggrudge, aren’t you?

See, guys, look at his subtle ‘creo’ commentary. “In the beginning, there was nothing.” And then mutants said, let there be commentary, and so there was.

I’m ashamed of you, Mister Frauenfelder. Ashamed.

eustace

sweet dreams, all.

minTphresh

oh, god. please, nobody look at this: http://dlisted.com/node/27815

anthony

maybe this will work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT6KsgbwE3g&feature=related

Takuan

it’s my oil glands, isn’t it? I try and try, but nothing works.

sammich

and i still haven’t set out for wales! it’ll be tea-time before i get there at this rate :(

sammich

also, it may not be ~strictly~ a ~christmas~ novelty record, but it was no.1 in the uk for 4 weeks over christmas 1968 – lily the pink

TomasFoolery

This has been our weekly dose of web zen.

FoetusNail

Further congrats, you’re doomed.

We have your back, probably.

zuzu

First Bernie Mac, now Isaac Hayes.

He was a Scientologist, but also a bad mother…(shut-your-mouth)

I’m just talkin’ ’bout Chef.

minTphresh

tenn, bigtime congrats! it’s great to reconnect! plus~free polyps! yumm! here’s some seventies RAWK! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIIef0miyI8&feature=related

minTphresh

Tom Hale! For Shame, Young Man! for shame, shame, shame. Takuan’s correct, if you dont check yo feet, u gonna fall far and hard!

minTphresh

another of my fave bar bands growing up , these guys actually made it medium! warning: prog-rock! http://youtube.com/watch?v=sSZepYc219Y&feature=related

Takuan

we turn on the AI and then play cards in the back room.

Think I’ll make it to 3D Coraline tonight.

Takuan

a-yup.

valaria23

Toast is highly underrated.

minTphresh

pickled, yes?

markfrei

Uh, what’s happening CC?
They still call it the White House
But that’s a temporary condition, too.
Can you dig it, CC?

To each his reach
And if I don’t cop, it ain’t mine to have
But I’ll be reachin’ for ya
‘Cause I love ya, CC.
Right on.

FoetusNail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82G6UxbLH0Q

It lay buried here. it lay deep inside me.
Its so deep I dont think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to

Tell you what Im feeling,
But I dont know if Im ready yet.
You come walking into this room
Like youre walking into my arms.
What would I do without you?

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment thatll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope wont hold it together.

If you cant tell your sister,
If you cant tell a priest,
cause its so deep you dont think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart

To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy…
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy.

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment thatll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope wont hold it together.

Were building a house of the future together.
(what would we do without you? )

Well, if its so deep you dont think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if its so deep you dont think you can speak about it,
Dont ever think that you cant change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see–someone will come to help you.

****************************
Skating away, on the thin ice of the new day.

hokano

Takuan, I think you meant “ahh Jimi…”, unless I’ve enormously misjudged you…

eustace

There’s good news, then there’s good family news. Congrats, Tenn.
One of my aunts (my favorite, she sent us birthday cards with as many sticks of gum as we were years old) just remarried last month. After being a widow for over forty years. Imagining her married just blows my mind. Her daughter is married with three children; so up till now it’s been a fairly small family – the immediate family of the man she married (his children and grandchildren) number over twenty!
Mom went back to Illinois for the wedding of course. My sister recently started a promising relationship, so my widowed mother had to point out to me that these things come in threes. I explained to her that it’s up to her to find a beau, then – I’ve done my time…

Xopher

But only the Book of Untitled 1 matters here, Scott.

Is the Game still afoot?

arkizzle

MinT: Sweet Creepy Jesus..!

hagbard

Phikus

And you call yourself a Discordian Pope.

*sniff*

minTphresh

hard to argue with the res’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhNZ_MEqDyI&feature=related

hokano

We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.

– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

BorealisMeme

Bloody minimalists!

polossatik

Screen. Mind. Both are blank …

ROSSINDETROIT

Oops! I ‘sploded one. Melted the anode right down. Luckily they’re cheap and plentiful. Makes an interesting sight with the contrast of the red hot steel plate and the blue death-glow of photons knocked off the glass by stray electrons.

Takuan

and to put the finish on the day,I’ll now curl up with Nation. Goodnight warriors all.

minTphresh

and remember, it wasn’t the bullets that laid him to rest… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E–gZEe0dOQ&feature=related

minTphresh

takuan, does this sound familiar? http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=97459941905&h=wznKL&u=7ajVX&ref=nf

Agent 86

The game is afoot!

Pitch Black?

minTphresh

ah loves me some pkd. alright here u go: author: d.o.b., wrote s.f.book which became a movie, which was directed and starred him. or is that too easy?

minTphresh

we could call it “radio phresh”! me likee!

Tenn

In Sector “G” for gastritis, Agent.

Sorry, guys, was the last days of school and I had exams. Also, this week I’m going to be scarce- I’m helping run a camp for the kiddies (cadets on their way to leadership), and I’ve gotten my position as dual-BC / XO set up, which means I will become more closely acquainted with the desk I’ve jockeyed all year.

Takuan

anyone still up?
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/02/video-starfish-hitler/

buddy66

Ah, great pic! Thanks for posting it.

Takuan

http://www.anime.com/Akira_Kurosawa/images/03-mo-yojimbo.jpg

eustace

The end.

I kan haz cheezburger now.

Takuan

http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/07/24/FirstNationSolarPower/

ablestmage

just glad it’s not another TED post

minTphresh

plenty of doom to go around! enough for all, trust me! as spiritual advisor from the stars i say that the doom can free you. FEEL THE DOOM! BE THE DOOM!

minTphresh

here be some friends what helped wit the invasion of bone island, years go. fun lads (and lass) to drink wit~! yo, ho! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lutQKxc1ypQ&feature=related

SamSam

Here is a comment
which may or may not appear,
so Untitled 1 seemed like the best place to post it.

buddy66

X-Men

hagbard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Fives

Kibble

I demand that you not pay attention to me!

arkizzle

#141 Kawika

“Untitled = No breasts going forward.”

While I laud your fine word-snoopery, I fear you have been caught up in the politics of your own time, and missed the political mire of the moment. I shall now reveal why I am more the semantic detective than you.

Mark was making a very clear statement, to all the agents of media and product dissemination worldwide, to the effect that advertising relying on scantilly clad women, will no longer have an effect on him. In his own cryptic way, he has named himself:

the Un-Tit-Led One //cue: Inspirational ‘making a point’ muisic//

If only more of us, hetero men and lesbian women alike, could throw off the shackles of ages, and not be unduly influenced by these friendly, jelly appendages. Herded into unnecessary purchasing decisions, blindly Led by Tit, as it where, into relinquishing our hard earned sheckles for some un-tit-related chicanery.

Of course this position, doesn’t infringe upon the love-of-bosoms itself, quite the opposite, it states that boob-love is unconditional, and will not be cheapened nor appropriated by the likes of one product or another. That we will not be coerced any longer, that boobs will not compromise our good sense of value, and judgement.

Now let us go, and all be Un-Tit-Led Ones, that tits can return to where they should be, cupped in the loving palm of one who truly worships their ever-loving power.

Who’s with me!

FoetusNail

Not to worry, I’m still a stoopid-poopy-headed-daddy, and many of the tales are of the boys.

arkizzle

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That is absolutely shit! I hope BB will do a post, to give some proper comments on his passing.

God dammit! D:

I’m gonna hafta burn something.. in a not-arson way. As a small tribute to a great man.
__

Isaac
RIP wit yo’ hot buttered soul..
*i’m very bummed out about this*

Antinous

I suggest that you rent Truck Turner in memoriam.

minTphresh

may you rest slak-ishly, nestled in the sweet arms of BoB.

ROSSINDETROIT

Now single up all lines!”
“Cheerily now…handsomely…very well! Prepare to cast her off!”
“Windy City, here we come!”
“Hurrah! Up we go!”
It was amid such lively exclamation that the hydrogen skyship Inconvenience, its gondola draped with patriotic bunting, carrying a five-lad crew belonging to that celebrated aeronautics club known as the Chums of Chance, ascended briskly into the morning, and soon caught the southerly wind.
When the ship reached cruising altitude, those features left behind on the ground having now dwindled to all but microscopic size, Randolph St. Cosmo, the ship commander, announced, “Now secure the Special Sky Detail,” and the boys, each dressed neatly in the summer uniform of red-and-white-striped blazer and trousers of sky blue, spiritedly complied.
They were bound this day for the city of Chicago, and the World’s Columbian Exposition recently opened there. Since their orders had come through, the “scuttlebutt” among the excited and curious crew had been of little besides the fabled “White City,” its great Ferris Wheel, alabaster temples of commerce and industry, sparkling lagoons, and the thousand more such wonders, of both a scientific and an artistic nature, which awaited them there.
“Oh, boy!” cried Darby Suckling, as he leaned over the lifelines to watch the national heartland deeply swung in a whirling blur of green far below, his tow-colored locks streaming in the wind past the gondola like a banner to leeward. (Darby, as my faithful readers will remember, was the “baby” of the crew, and served as both factotum and mascotte, singing as well the difficult treble parts whenever these adolescent aeronauts found it impossible to contain song of some kind.) “I can’t hardly wait!” he exclaimed.

eustace

PIE-PIE!
“It’s pie.” “What sort?”
Pie=flavored!
The concentrated essence of goodness in one self=referential loop.

eustace

Another video leaks through from an alternate universe just a bit different from our own…

Takuan

humour in Japan is more…”robust” at times…. forgive me if you can.
http://news.3yen.com/2009-01-19/extra-power-rangers/

arkizzle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9l3qAqzpPI

buddy66

Takuan is, like, Gone ?

You mean he’s not just off globe trotting again? And he took offense because Xeni missed the Master Of Nuance’s nuane? Jesus H. Christ.

BB’s stormy petrel, a subversive and civilizing presence, has flown the coop? Where will we get our Takuan fix?

The true Lord of The Links has shut down?

Booooo…

anthony

I have it now, I have it now. Those who read these words may be astonished, enlightened when the truth is revealed. What could be stranger than the truth? Could it be that after longsome pondering the pilgrim discovers the puzzle’s answer is but that it remains a mystery intrinsically? The answer exists in the surrounding mystery. It is like a planet that exists wholly of atmosphere, or a momentary image created from smoke. All that is to be discovered is the desire of the riddle maker for the riddle itself to maintain itself as a question. That is the real riddle nestled inside the greater ambiguity Untitled 1, which is of course a model for all that is Mystery in the world outside, greater still. The answer is not that there is no answer, only that the question continue.

sammich

shame… maybe next time :)

Antinous / Moderator

The trouble with Somerset is that nobody tells you not to drink the cider until after you’ve spent two days huddled over the toilet. Presumably one develops immunity with repeated exposure to dead rat.

Takuan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127116/

Antinous

I almost gave the clue that it was the prequel to thirtysomething, but I figured that nobody would get it.

minTphresh

ya know, there just isn’t enough cheese here on this thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jj9ozl4EA8

Takuan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/26/climate-change-obama-administration

sammich

re: Lily the Pink – PLEASE curtail it when the ‘A’ side finishes… i’m sorry :(

Antinous / Moderator

Wikipedia’s Featured Picture for today should be nostalgic for many of us.

minTphresh

Whatever happened to Saturday night
When you dressed up sharp and you felt alright?
It don’t seem the same since cosmic light
Came into my life, I thought I was divine…

I used to go for a ride with a chick who’d go
And listen to the music on the radio
A saxophone was blowin’ on a rock & roll show.
You climbed in the back seat, you really had a good time.

Hot patootie, bless my soul, I really love that rock ‘n’ roll.

My head used to swim from the perfume I smelled
My hands kind of fumbled with her white plastic belt
I’d taste her baby pink lipstick and that’s when I’d melt
She’d whisper in my ear tonight she really was mine

Get back in front, put some hair oil on
Buddy Holly was singing his very last song.
With your arms around your girl you’d try to sing along.
It felt pretty good, oh, you really had a good time.

Hot patootie, bless my soul, I really love that rock ‘n’ roll.

wafna

Tuscan Milk.

pkarpenko

This post is blank.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgnVaolzxmM

minTphresh

damn you!!! yes.

arkizzle

*** COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED ON THIS THREAD ***

minTphresh

sorry, co-wrote and starred in.

minTphresh

does that mean buddy did not win the tasty cake?

arkizzle

Heya Sam! Glad you could join the party, here’s a glass of toxic purple stuff, a silly hat and a scoop of chocolatey goodness..

Dance?

I’m currently bopping to this on a constant loop.. Its pretty partyfied.

ulor

Wuthering Heights Chapter 1:

1801.â€”I have just returned from a visit to my landlordâ€”the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropistâ€™s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

Anonymous

boing…..

mdhatter

[generic comment]

Takuan

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/arizona.immigrant.advocate/index.html

janai

Ommmmm.

Takuan

what? is that another year already? L’Chaim!

scottfree

Why not? I wonder if Mark will jump in and take the honour.

Takuan

nope, we lost our memory.

minTphresh

u can make butter from COCA? yumm…or should i say…numbbbb! and, TACOS RULE!

minTphresh

you dont say…

buddy66

Yeah, all he said was [paraphrased]“You think this act of vandalism is bad”â€” and then linked to a powerful story of murder and rape. He was merely adjusting the perspective.

Whatever, A few days ago I did come across a couple of lurker comments that were definitely takuanesque in attitude; but he’s fluent with so many goddamn idioms and dialects, not to mention languages, that I did not say “Hey.”

FoetusNail

A string walks into a bar and orders a drink, the bartender says, “I’m sorry, but we don’t serve strings here.”

The string goes outside, ties a knot on one end then frays the top.

Returning into the bar, the bartender asks, “Aren’t you that string I sent out of here a few minutes ago?”

“No, I’m a frayed knot.”, replies the string.

And BTW, where the hell is RossInDetroit?

Antinous / Moderator

Ross has been working a lot.

sammich

Ha! ha ha ha ha! ha ha ha ha ha ha! found it!!!! lordy takuan – your “recent” comments must be even longer than *untitled 1* !

Jimbo Wales – that is some bottom-of-the-barrel geek wisdom!

but at least i can take my boots off now…

eustace

…unless of course it turns out that untitled 1 is a sinister plot, in which case neener-neener, Evil Mark.

hokano

“It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor – as long as you’ve got money.” — Joe E. Lewis

mightymouse1584

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Takuan

lost penis diaries

sammich

yeah – night night Eustace, night night Tak, night night all :)
i’m gonna pack it in myself now, it’s 7.30am and on top of it all it’s bonfire night tonight! what with the bonfires and the fireworks and Obama getting in, i’m afraid my face will split from all the grinning and the tears =D

minTphresh

viva untitled 1!

minTphresh

peace out, homeschool! #9, #9, #9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eds1_rmxIpw&feature=PlayList&p=070B3ACE398FAC5C&playnext=1&index=1

Anonymous

the very generic and blankness of this page reminds me that of my own life and soul.

This page has made me realize how worthless i am. I am now going to kill myself.

anthony

I refer you to # 1072 for arcane ceremony footage.

eustace

man, I already got a webpage I don’t know what to do with…

sammich

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zdu7xoHU9DA

Antinous

Just what I needed. An acid flashback right before bedtime.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-6Ej2lnwg

David Stein

Anonymous

Fake! The post is clearly titled!

minTphresh

happy saturday, boingish! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5y6BbOjYqg

Takuan

nice! I should have gone down that road.

The Nordmende has some of those wax paper caps as well. Just swapped a cracked 6BQ5 for a new Rooski EL-84 to wake it up, I’ll run the others through a tester before meddling with settings.
sigh.. when I think of how many vacuum tubes we hurled at each other as “grenades”…

Takuan

an insomniacal paragory;
Once was a farm. Favoured by nature and fortune, it prospered and put forth the gifts of the earth and passed from steward to steward, when their times came. Seasons turned, corn was sewn, ripened and harvested and put by in the crib to see the beasts through winter. So it had been and ever was.

One fall day a new dawn brought a new farmer to take the tiller. He rose and walked out on the land to see her needs. He found the fields bare, the stubble unplowed and the orchards plundered. Far away, across the fence outside the last field a curl of greasy smoke arose together with raucous song, emanating from where the last farmer had made camp.

Turning to the barn, he made his way to the great door and pushed it open. A sour stink of unmucked stable and spoiled silage rolled forth and in the dimness a vague bulk stirred with a rattle of iron. Eyes adjusting to the murk he made out a vast beast within. So covered with chains and shackles he could hardly see the shape beneath, it lowed in soft menace as he drew near. Looking closer he saw countless marks of whip and steel in the torn hide amid the chains, that and gaunt ribs.

To either side, huge cribs for the corn stood empty and a thin trickle of dirty water barely stained the bottom of the trough. In one corner, a broken pot-still on its side stood mute testimony to the missing corn. The beast lowed again, louder and with real threat now as its rheum encrusted eyes fell upon the new farmer.
It surged in its shackles in vain charge and fell to its knees, murderous but too weak.

The farmer left the barn and stood overlooking the empty fields his eyes now filled with thought. No stores of corn, a beast so abused and emaciated as to be useless and menace both.
Nothing to give it and winter hard on the way, as a now leaden sky made clear.

Abruptly he turned and went back into the barn. Scraping what few kernels there were on the floor, he offered a palmful to the beast. While it munched he gently eased off a single wrapping of the cruel chain. Just one.

minTphresh

mmmmm, steam-punky.

minTphresh

anti, zat work for u?

Takuan

any of you lousy kibbitzers out there smirking at our obvious distress are welcome to chime in – you think you’re so smart! (lousy NSA-deathlister bastards…)

Tom Hale

Wow, where are all the commenters at this hour? I made a comment, made and ate fried baloney sandwich, drank 2 cups of coffee, and there were only 2 comments made on BB since mine. Its 4:45 am here. I’m at work – we made a call to some crazy woman’s house. She thought she smelled smoke. She lives right behind the lady that has an invisible cat.

minTphresh

hagbard, if i told you once, i’ve told you 23 times…wait a sec…23: 2+3=5 hmmm, OW! SHIT! now you gots me doin it!

arkizzle

didj i evaar tell yooz gies, yer tha besht?

hic!

i meen ish. i luv yoo gies..

*breuaawk*

‘scujz me..

*mouth wipe*

kemeer, lesh all hav a big hug..

wooo-ooo!

*breuaawk*

sorry abou’ tha’sh..

ok, now i.. i hav two fingersh..

ive four fingersh..

is this real life?

minTphresh

fred astair hacked! with math! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c6ngfrLgNw

FoetusNail

Holy crap, my brain is mush or cottage cheese or something equally runny. Martyn opened for Yes on the Tales From Topographic Oceans tour in the same period and venue. I saw PF six months before.

zuzu

Dreaming, dreaming of you, thinking of me
My pounding heart, you are going to be my lover
Bound together, frustrated, forever
Wide eyed, losing control, drag me down, touch me
Make me tremble, make me want you
You’re so filthy aren’t you baby

Dreaming of you, do I scare you?
I want you, I always have
Anything you want I’ll be, give it me
I’m a sex junky, so are you, baby

Nothing to fear, nobody here, just us
No-one to fear but ourselves
Let me guide you, do I scare you, yes
Anything you want from me, I’ll be

mujadaddy

Love it. We all pay attention :)

Anonymous

is this the ‘cake’ I’ve heard so much about?

-or-

‘untitled 1′ is still a title

minTphresh

kids can be so cruel.

arkizzle

I totally forgot about bonfire night..!

Night night all, it was real.

Bon futur!

Takuan

naw,it still tastes like Ouzo.

Antinous / Moderator

One of ouzo’s worst qualities is that it tastes the same coming up as it did going down.

Takuan

ummm, Terry Pratchett , Interesting Times, Teach to Truckle the UnCivil in Latation or Ephebean?

buddy66

Who cares? It’s a beautiful answer. Karl gave it to me.

sammich

in evolutionary terms, yes, your family will develop an immunity…

Antinous / Moderator

I still don’t understand why I couldn’t buy an I Threw Up At Stonehenge tee-shirt.

arkizzle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PoitÃn

Kieran O’Neill

Lol – it’s back.

I was on the EEE for the day yesterday, though, and had to Google to get back here.

ulor

Mr. Heathcliff?â€™ I said.

A nod was the answer.

â€˜Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughtsâ€”â€™

â€˜Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir,â€™ he interrupted, wincing. â€˜I should not allow any one to inconvenience me, if I could hinder itâ€”walk in!â€™

The â€˜walk inâ€™ was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, â€˜Go to the Deuce:â€™ even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathising movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.

When he saw my horseâ€™s breast fairly pushing the barrier, he did put out his hand to unchain it, and then sullenly preceded me up the causeway, calling, as we entered the court,â€”â€˜Joseph, take Mr. Lockwoodâ€™s horse; and bring up some wine.â€™

â€˜Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,â€™ was the reflection suggested by this compound order. â€˜No wonder the grass grows up between the flags, and cattle are the only hedge-cutters.â€™

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMEavgm7vo&feature=related

VICTOR JIMENEZ

I had a teacher that told us than in the field of marketing and information “Less is More”.

But this is way too much less… or more? or maybe…

Well, I should say that “Less is more confusing”.

eustace

She made nothing but weapons. First a sling to hunt vermin with, then something bowlike that I never really got a good look at. By now I couldn’t guess at what she might be wielding. She became expert at hiding her toys from me long before she left. I kept a close accounting of any energy sources I gave her though; and learned by this that if there was any machine in her at all it must be small and heat parasitic. Oddly for anyone, let alone any human, she seemed to have no personal need for power at all.
Somewhere in her memories there must be a time when she wasn’t alone. But she left without saying a word, literally. I would wish you good luck finding her, but you’re going to start hurting me now, aren’t you?

minTphresh

any bit of justice would be nice, mon frere!

Tom Hale

On a side note, I hate that you’re not supposed to end sentences with a preposition. I suppose a good writer could find a way around a sentence sounding awkward and still be grammatically correct.

Agent 86

Is Untitled 1 retro yet?

Josh Parris

Have there been recent developments in this story?

eustace

Antinous – LOL!
Did you read the Book of the Religion of the Ancient Zorkians? “Cursed is he who sayeth Hello Sailor…”

Takuan

how shall we petition our masters?

minTphresh

lol, and that reminded me of a british beavis and butthead! but u may have started something…. http://youtube.com/watch?v=OPg37T8g6rM

eustace

It is the realization of one of his dreams, but too late for him to appreciate!

wolfiesma

This is not cheese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl2ff0yEqcE

ulor

Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy. â€˜The Lord help us!â€™ he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliffâ€™s dwelling. â€˜Wutheringâ€™ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.

Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date â€˜1500,â€™ and the name â€˜Hareton Earnshaw.â€™ I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.

Jake0748

oops… is this REALLY the end of the internets?

hokano

“Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work – not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.

– Mark Twain, The New York Times, November 26, 1905

ROSSINDETROIT

Microscope: I use a student model stereo microscope. A crude fitting on the eyepiece aligns the lens of an ordinary digital camera. The photos are not perfect but are 99% less costly than any other digital photomicrography solution I could come up with. I shoot 10 photos for every one I keep. Edit them with Paint Shop Pro if necessary.
This works great for inspecting teeny things like phonograph styli, and for delicate soldering jobs like splicing the lead wires in burned out tweeters. This microscope has saved me so much money in replacement parts.

minTphresh

…stole it off some german guy. yer gonna love it!

Takuan

(traveling, haven’t my library with me)

arkizzle

Ready for the connection?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAvVRgHzl8

Takuan

from Pindar to Coleridge to Milton to Brunner and home again
“Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw,
The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, [ 125 ]
But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,
Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:
Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw
Daily devours apace, and nothing sed,
But that two-handed engine at the door, [ 130 ]
Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past,
That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse,
And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast
Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [ 135 ]
Ye valleys low where the milde whispers use,
Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,
On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks,
Throw hither all your quaint enameld eyes,
That on the green terf suck the honied showres, [ 140 ]
And purple all the ground with vernal flowres.

arkizzle

No joke, it’s been on for about an hour..
Bahh ba ba ba-dahm.. Dahh da ba ba-dahm

zuzu

Open heart healers and penthouse dealers
with parts capricious the world keeps turning
the pleasure seekers and beautiful skimmers
we’re part-time dreamers still the world keeps turning
the last chance chasers with blood-stained workers
and high-heeled learners still the world keeps turning

The black-eyed sinners and downtown teachers
with homegrown features but the world keeps turning
we are blind believers and weekend lovers
like the money changers the world keeps turning
like fortune losers who had bright desires
with small time readers still the world keeps turning
the world keeps turning, the world keeps turning, the world keeps turning

Broken car stealers watch dead city cleaners
fight uptown leaders as the world keeps turning
the red book readers and the long time wasters
we look at creatures as the world keeps turning
The late night hunters and the handheld filmers
watch sleazy clovers as the world keeps turning

Takuan

I am distressed by how this post has been hijacked by people with private agendas

eustace

wings on a high wind
hooves fast on turf
the spray and the smell and the
rhythm of surf

Takuan

good one Sammich, a real gem!

scottfree

Untitled 1 to rule them all. Untitled 1 to find them.
Untitled 1 to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Takuan

re-post and I don’t care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXNApZ2ALiQ

Takuan

gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimkmegimmegimme!

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ExpNQrDns

Takuan

when’s the last time anyone here scored a googlethump?

hokano

grimc, I do hope that you’re right and I have misperceived things. If so, my apologies all around for the distraction.

arkizzle

I though we knew where Sis teaches, no?
Can we get in contact with her admin, see if she’s ok?

Maybe she accidently Geek-Raptured, and is GodHeading her way past the Singularity as we speak.. I mean, did you see the level of her puzzles? She prob’ly only had to add one or two extra lines of thought (on top of her standard heap) and she accidentally hit critical-mass.. zaa-aap! Oops! GodHead!

Do ya think she’ll be waiting for us? I want more puzzles.

arkizzle

..Botox and sphincters

Thanks Antinous, now I need brain bleach. Not that I’m saying you don’t have a nice sphincter Tak. Perhaps the issue is with your own sphincter self-image.

I blame the Sphincter-Job piggybanks.

Antinous

I’m really, really sorry.

eustace

Now two sets of footprints led through the dust of the hall to the large room, formerly a library, where she stopped. Empty shelves, covered in dust, and a dim light filtering through a skylight that hadn’t been cleaned in decades.
In the improved light, he could notice bits of color where he wasn’t expecting it – on closer inspection, worm-eaten sections of the woodwork had been replaced by Lego bricks, carefully fitted and bonded in place with what his nose informed him was cyanoacrylate adhesive.
And upon closer inspection, the shelves were not quite empty. A single book rested just above reach, the title ripped from it’s spine.

minTphresh

a wise man once said,”similar minds float in similar sewers”. or something like that.

David Stein

minTphresh

co-written and directed by ‘a guy what builds stuff’.

arkizzle

Lick it.

Tom Hale

Another odd thing I discovered, Takuan talks different really late. Take a look at his last post – he almost sounds like a normal person here. I wonder if he pays people to make posts for him while he takes catnaps. Or, he could be posting in his sleep.

minTphresh

spoiler alert: THIS CARTOON WILL BREAK YOUR HEART. http://youtube.com/watch?v=D3Blm2qWduY&feature=related and it’s a fine piece of music as well.

sammich

good! so that’s number two out of the way…

sammich

serves you right Antinous. serves you right.
bedtime? what’s bedtime?

Antinous

Bedtime is now.

minTphresh

wolfiesma, now that’s some bon frommage!

eustace

Past the meadow, past the alders,
Hairy Larry sees the Bad Wolf.
Wolfie’s grinning, he’s been chatting,
with a cute and tasty morsel.

Breakfast, is what Wolf is thinking,
Breakfast, thinks bold Hairy Larry,
drawing pistol made of stainless,
taking stance against the tree trunk.

Pan is watching Hairy Larry.
sees him fucking up a story,
summons Deus Ex Machina,
That’s the end of Hairy Larry!

lamarlowe

Very refreshing, after reading some of the long-winded, or would that be long-fingered?, BBGadgets posts. I think 2.jpg would make great cover art.

Tits McGee

I like ponies.

Also, bacon.

azmanon

BLACK HOLE FORMING… KEEEEP COMMENTING

Takuan

ah, the benefits of a classical education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcn_TPu4qQ

Takuan

save the valve-punk!

arkizzle

Owww! Yeh, mutha fucka!

Truck Turner

Damn Right ! !

FoetusNail

Goodnight all.

hagbard

Well then, to answer your question, the author’s initials are RAM.

Antinous

Actually, it’s not X-Men, although that fits quite well. You got one part correct. Now, you must work on example given.

As to the Isle of Man being a UK island – if it quacks like a duck…you have to think a little loosely on both parts.

As to The Mists of Avalon – no, but I spent three weeks once with Marion Zimmer Bradley climbing Glastonbury Tor, drinking from the Chalice Well, dowsing for ley lines at Avebury and otherwise exploring Avalon.

arkizzle

Ray-Deee-Ohhhh *Phresh!*

/Jingle

Tenn

-Sidles in, more than fashionably late- Helloooo!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Where’s the booze? How’re ya’ll doing?

I, er, had homework.

You guys make me feel so loved.

ulor

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliffâ€™s dwelling. â€˜Wutheringâ€™ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.

Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date â€˜1500,â€™ and the name â€˜Hareton Earnshaw.â€™ I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.

Takuan

marinated, certainly

Cowicide

#88 posted by Gemma , April 24, 2008 4:02 PM

.

elevenwatt

Last

minTphresh

( focusing on takuan)….SSSSNNNEEEEEEEEEER. ther u go! i dont know if that was mean spirited enough, tho.

ROSSINDETROIT

The first page of Pynchon’s most recent book Against the Day. I copied it out as typing practice.
The idea of dirigibles is so adorable.

Takuan

test

Takuan

a little help here?

hagbard

I saw you post X-Men, but never saw confirmation.

I withdraw, utterly confounded.

Tom Hale

#1958 POSTED BY TAKUAN “I have resolved to clean house.”

You live in a house? I pictured you living in a stone walled room deep inside of an ancient Tibetanesque temple. Just you, on a stack of pillows and a laptop. Or maybe in an all white padded walled room with one wall a one way mirror, scientists and doctors in lab coats watching and recording everything you do -with you straight jacketed except for one arm loose to type on a laptop.

Tom Hale

My first post – JANUARY 17, 2008 11:02AM – I just noticed my very first post was DV’d – Though I’m pretty sure it was not DV’d for months after it was posted. Strange.

I’m sure I made posts before that day, what happened to them?

Antinous / Moderator

I’m sure I made posts before that day, what happened to them?

One of the possible consequences of sock puppetry is to have your name stricken from every pylon and obelisk. Since that doesn’t seem to be the case, if you were posting under another identity, it wouldn’t show up in your profile.

sammich

sphincter-job goatsybanks surely?

vamidus

Looks photoshopped to me.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53mpCOAfS4

Jake0748

Maybe this should be a violet blue-free zone.

Takuan

..” medicinal compound…..” , fun!, what IS on Side B? (something dirty?)

eigengrau

One way or another I’m sure we will still get a creationism debate out of this.

Agent 86

@58 Sister Y
You gave the clue, but you forgot the topic… or am I reading too much into the fact that it was both cryptic and italicized?

Should we consider this the “open post” Teresa mentioned for The Game?

Takuan

wooah! I’ve blown up some electrolytics, but nothing that big for fun. I know how big that bang must have been, I was next to a large lighting ballast unit once that blew a hole through the case. Lottsa joules. Glad you weren’t hurt! Where was that capacitor made? I wonder if a perforated steel shroud wouldn’t be a bad idea? Cut stray RF too? Should definitely put the word out on that defective cap anyways, if they made a bunch of them someone else might not be so lucky.

Glad you’re OK!

Tenn

Penises, much less lost ones, are capable of diary-keeping?

minTphresh

need mo?

sammich

I imagine there were similar hazards for strangers in San Francisco in the 70′s….

Takuan

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=KnH19yT-bE4

eustace

It has no choice.

genericvox

Wait… we’re still doing this?

Lazlo Panaflex

Will an empty post break the record for number of comments? So much from nothing, I love the implications of this. . . Maybe we can solve the energy crisis by applying this philosophy to the laws of physics.

Maybe not.

afo

see what happens when you leave the faucet running?

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ6CSOLxbeM&feature=related

Takuan

I could feel the mucous. Thanks!

ROSSINDETROIT

My typing was backwards. Restarting Firefox fixed it.
Strange.

The PhonoBOt4004 Remote Control Turntable started life as a Bang & Olufsen 4004 from 1979. Two of them, actually. The table that I have was scrounged together from teh remains of 2 dead 4004 tables. I always have a lot of turntables around. Nine B&O units at the moment. A couple of years ago I tore down 2 dead 4004s and made one working one.
Looking over the control circuitry I got the big idea to install a remote control so I could pause the music when the phone rang and the project slowly, imperceptibly snowballed from there.

Takuan

that last line carries to Chaucer
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5 Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

arp

It IS a unicorn chaser. Only the virgins can see it tho….

Takuan

rest in peace, Patrick McGoohan, a free man.

Antinous / Moderator

And Ricardo Montalban.

KHAAANNNN!

SamSam

There was an amazing video that was posted on BB maybe a month or so ago.

It showed a wall of a building (an art museum in Germany or something?), which suddently started to disassemble itself, rearranging blocks, protruding, intruding, getting all jumbled up.

The wall was clearly lit by a projector, but it really looked like the wall itself was doing all that.

Does anyone know where I can find that? All my google searches come up blank.

Halp please!

arkizzle

MinT, here’s a guide to the rules of the game.

We are currently following rule2.. (without the cryptic, hiding-your-message-in-a-post bit) :)

Basically, you take a phrase or title, and run each word, individually, through a thesaurus (or similar), and present the encrypted phrase along with a topic.

arkizzle

*vomit*

ulor

One stop brought us into the family sitting-room, without any introductory lobby or passage: they call it here â€˜the houseâ€™ pre-eminently. It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls. One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof. The latter had never been under-drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it. Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge. The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade. In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses.

arkizzle

Foet’ / Phike’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y52UHWQRQ0 (GOTO 3:11, listen close)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey3OjjTI9hk (GOTO 2:05)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XdBLXddD3E (GOTO 1:12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJbvaZQMWA (GOTO 3:04, not exactly, and it’s credited (wrongly) as such)

I need to get out more..

fennel

Content is overrated.

Spider

I’m late with jumping on the bandwagon, and I’ve been a reader of BB for what seems to be years now. Never before have I posted, or even had a login here, But now. I feel compelled.
This posting spoke volumes to me, it evokes emotions suppressed since childhood, rattles long forgotten memories, and brings out the pet lover inside me. How can I not post, to applaud such elegance, such sheer evocative power of symbolism?

My hat off to you, Sir. This post, changed my life.

FoetusNail

Not to appear ungrateful, but you might have waited more than 16 minutes to post a response of such poignancy and perfection. Jerome is inconsolable.

Gary61

Wait! What was that … I saw …. I THOUGHT I saw …. something …. but it’s gone now …..
where did it go? why was it here? what is it’s purpose?

why am I feeling … so …. strange …..

arkizzle

Re: Un-Tit-Led One

Or, maybe he was outting himself, and doesn’t like boobs at all ! ! !

*gasp*

minTphresh

your wish is my command, Oh High One.

Antinous / Moderator

minT,

Maybe you could be the BB chaplain.

ridl

little disappointed I still haven’t gotten any cake OR pizza.

just saying.

Takuan

ahh! I did think 1177 said 2893.

Takuan

another temporal anomaly

Takuan

sad…
try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRH2iKFMlb8&NR=1

arkizzle

Yep, I’m just about to go in and hand in a deadline.. that vulture thing.

I’ve been awake for days :(

Tom Hale

I remember wondering way back then, “Who the hell is this Antinous person and who the hell died and made him god?” Later, “OMG! what the hell is happening to my posts!? All the freakin vowels have been removed!” I thought BB had some sort of glitch lol.

Antinous / Moderator

“Who the hell is this Antinous person and who the hell died and made him god?”

Heh.

ROSSINDETROIT

The arm is short and rigid because it is linear tracking. The arm on the left is a photosensor. The arm on the right has the cartridge. Both are on a common sub assembly that is driven by a motor and a worm gear.
This is what makes the cueing possible. There are buttons for left and right arm motion. They control the worm gear motor driving the arm.

Takuan

Prepare ye for the Dark Summoning:

Children! Do Ye Believe? Do ye Believe? Then clap your hands! Clap your hands!

Takuan

where’s the rest of the army dammit?

FoetusNail

or this…

ulor

The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in knee-breeches and gaiters. Such an individual seated in his arm-chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at the right time after dinner. But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose. Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feelingâ€”to manifestations of mutual kindliness. Heâ€™ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again. No, Iâ€™m running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him. Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me. Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one.

buddy66

bodhisattva

elchucko

I find this to be a very cromulent blog, which embiggins me.

Jay Seven

I got 3 an they for WHY?
Not the loresmuph
You must think before that!
Don’t just eat.

Josh Parris

I haven’t read all the comments, but what’s going on?

ROSSINDETROIT

Good job getting that old Nordmende running. Those are special, and were built to last for generations.

Fiddling the alignment requires specialized gear. Think 12 cylinder Lamborghini with 12 one-barrel carbs. Adjusting one arbitrarily might fix a rough idle, but probably not.

It might just be a weak tube or 2. Tubes for that should be cheap. Testing them means finding a hobbyist who has a half hour to plug things into his tube tester, and trying to stay awake while he describes his collection in numbing detail. I am that guy, but 2500 miles away.
If you get the tubes tested and they’re all OK but it’s still stinky sounding it needs to go on the bench of a radio specialist.
I’d go the tube test route initially if possible unless you like it enough ($$) to put it in the hands of a specialist for a ‘rebuild’ (tube testing and alignment) at $50/hour plus parts and unexplained other charges.

ROSSINDETROIT

I read somewhere that in the year 2002 over 20,000,000 transistors in all forms were produced for every person on Earth. I certainly got my share, but how come no matter how many I buy I don’t have the one that I need on hand to complete a project?
It wasn’t the Sansui’s balance knob after all. The volume control’s sections don’t track and it forces the channels to be out of balance. Not gonna fix that. That’s a ‘feature’ now.

Takuan

lick it good
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg

minTphresh

doood. i think the “itis” is hittin. i believe there are 5 ribs leftover…

minTphresh

c’mon kids! our bodies are full of sphincters! you’ll have to be more specific. first, tell me why beyonce’ is so intent on upgrading me. after that, inform me as to exactly why i am seriously considering letting her. it is perhaps the only thing that will make her whole again. i’m sorry, what were we talking about? oh, yeah. takuan’s spincter….

sammich

thank you(s) :)

ulor

While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea-coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me. I â€˜never told my loveâ€™ vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a returnâ€”the sweetest of all imaginable looks. And what did I do? I confess it with shameâ€”shrunk icily into myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and, overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mamma to decamp. By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

eustace

Why wouldn’t she let him out of the box? After all, he had built it for her. Ingratitude, he thought, that’s what it is.

hieronymoose

So I was walking around the internet today, and I saw this fantastic piece of art someone had scribbled on the wall. Perfectly subtle, yet strangely compelling.

It was odd though: only about 4% of my fellow web-destrians were inclined to stop and wonder at this beauty.

Takuan

the freedom-loving, peacable, easy-going Government of the People’s Republic of China vehemently objects to the hurtful lies and false sayings of this post and hereby announce our intention to sue for billion, jillion, zillion dollar – ah, Euros in fair compensation for our hurt feelings and to buy ponies for all the people of the Voluntary Chinese Province Formerly Known as Tibet.

Handfish

You smell purdy. Can I touch your hair…?

VagabondAstronomer

So, how’s are favorite Internet Rorshach test today? Oh? Over 378 posts?
Nice, healthy Rorshach, indeed…

Sister Y

Josh Parris my brother, anything you want.

Takuan

search the darkness

minTphresh

ahh, gone is the high costello of OW!SHIT, this is sad. hi tom! didn’t want u to think i didn’t see u there. i still visit BB from time to time, but just now ran across the link to U1 and thought i’d see what was what. peace and love to alla u bingers out there. u know who u r.

Takuan

I’m just counting down to another 103 posts.

Takuan

not necessarily

Xopher

In high-visibility diurnal conditions, eternal vision is possible.

eustace

Sailing around on his yacht, surrounded by sycophants; did he think the deal was worth it?

eustace

…followed up in Zork II with an Ancient Mariner puzzle that no one could solve who hadn’t read the Book in Zork I…

…hey, did our comments get out of order?

Takuan

go and be careful then, and get some sleep!

minTphresh

alright, check this out: i’ve been soaking a large rack of st.louis style ribs in blush-wine, fresh squeezed tangerine juice, and salt/pepper/garlic, etc… all day. i just set them on the gril where i have some hot coals on which i set a dried maple log. man, the smoke and rib scent is making my tummy go nutty! must go back out and check on them. nom. nom.

Takuan

whaddya think of laser stylus?

ROSSINDETROIT

There’s signal processing to eliminate the noise. It’s mostly effective but like any filtering it’s a trade off between noise and music.
The PhonoBOt4004 continues to work like a champ. I never realized how many interruptions there were in a typical quiet day until I had this remote control to stop the record for the phone, the door, the dog, etc. A friend came over this afternoon to pick up a repaired Mac receiver. He has a couple of these B&O turntables that need repair. He’s thinking about the remote hack conversion for one for his office. Like me, he would listen to more records if it wasn’t for the requirement of manual intervention.

PhonoBOt4004: The Lazy Man’s Turntable.

Takuan

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=abimoWemAjs

sammich

Foetusnail – I’m ethnically more Irish and Scottish than English too…
but try getting it past Arkizzle…

sammich

something embarrassingly 60′s-up-their-own-arses crappy, i’m afraid

minTphresh

all this talk of radio had me thinkin of this chunk of greatitude. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7JFP6ZOCI

Village Idiot

It’s a Big Bang of a blog.

jdoe9898

Why does mark have to put 1 down like that?…last i heard his/her full title was Number 1.

Agent 86

I think we’re going about figuring out the question of life, the universe, and everything (avec cat-speak).

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arkizzle / Moderator

Hey Foet :)

ROSSINDETROIT

The point, my old pickled radish, was to keep me alive. It’s amazing how many videos there are on YouTube of capacitors exploding. FYI, since you’ve blown one up you know what the inside of a defective Ampzilla amplifier smells like.
My DIY efforts have turned toward speaker building, where the greatest hazard is dropping something on my foot. I’ve updated the build notes from the Large Advent EconoWaveguide conversion at the end of this thread:

AudioKarma Large Advent Speaker Waveguide Conversion Thread

minTphresh

no one wins the tasty cake! more for me! num.

arkizzle

Hah! that Starfish Hitler link is AMAZING :)

sammich

arkizzle just lost control of his cardiac sphincter… (sorry)

Gary61

I’m not sure how to respond to this ….

I could say:
“WTF??”
or I could say:
“Genius!”
or I could say:
“This page intentionally left blank.”
or I could say:
“I couldn’t have said it better myself.”

But I’m not going to say any of those things.

Anonymous

Your untitled post makes me very angry! I do not like it when people abuse me by not giving me a title! I don’t care that it’s blank, I just don’t like that it’s untitled!

hokano

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Takuan

do as you wish and lie if challenged.

arkizzle

Right, I’m off!

Ahhhhhhhhh!

strider_mt2k

-it goes on like this…

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siMTdlcK80&feature=related

sammich

p.s. – Arkizzle – do ~you~ have an acceptable name for the little archipelago we share?

Agent 86

Merry Christmas All, and To All A Good Night!

PS:I wore shorts and a tee today, in honor of our snow-bound brethren.

TabulaRasa

I strongly disagree with Mr. Frauenfelder.

eustace

Sunday
Morning
Cartoons

Agent 86

I wish we could port dr_robot into the comment system.

Takuan

which for some inexplicable reason always reminded me of

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dzhL-0_pC3E

eustace

I nominate the Butthole Surfer video referenced in #1941 above for official Happy Mutant Theme Video. Nice pick, MinT! Do I hear a second?

Takuan

me too, g’nite

Takuan

aha! have at you sir!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLcSl2nmqA

ROSSINDETROIT

I’m not aware of a laser stylus in production although they have been prototyped at various times. Is there a working one?

sammich

“I still don’t understand why I couldn’t buy an I Threw Up At Stonehenge tee-shirt.” – you probably could now, but Stonehenge is in Wiltshire…

Antinous / Moderator

Somerset’s off the hook then. Although that was the source of the cider.

sammich

=)

Takuan

more conditioning for perma-war
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/24/dhs-plans-five-day-multi-national-terrorism-prevention-exercise/

Moon

OGC

Anonymous

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/24/untitled-1.html

arkizzle

I hope that’s a reference to my incredible (tired) EnigmaBrain, and not an assumption of age, kÅhai.. We may be closer than you think.

And where’s my bloody cookie!!

I think I need some sugar.

FoetusNail

Hey Ark :)

arkizzle

Anitious’ time slips are becoming more and more apparent to the people of Earth. Soon, we will know why.. and wish we didn’t.

buddy66

I just dropped in to look around . . .

”What a dumP.”

hagbard

Oh ye of too much faith! Did you notice the number of your post? 3+3-0-1 = 5!

FoetusNail

Ribs – chk, cornbread – chk, King Crimson – chk and double chk

Takuan

riposte! parry! thrust!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXNApZ2ALiQ

twiny

:-O

FoetusNail

A long time ago I had the same thought, turns out I was late, as usual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

Anonymous

more fun here – obviously this is where the cool kids hang.

ulor

I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch. My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl.

â€˜Youâ€™d better let the dog alone,â€™ growled Mr. Heathcliff in unison, checking fiercer demonstrations with a punch of his foot. â€˜Sheâ€™s not accustomed to be spoiledâ€”not kept for a pet.â€™ Then, striding to a side door, he shouted again, â€˜Joseph!â€™

buddy66

Have a good one, all you cats and kittehs!

evildoug

t lst! n ntllgnt pst.

rocklifter

I am on the edge of my seat, waiting for Untitled 2.

jdoe9898

ls myb t ws rlly sppsd t b pst bt ths chck

http://www.flckr.cm/phts/mrtbsrn/2409278379/

minTphresh

tom! i thought it was that you weren’t supposed to proposition with a sentence. or was that sentenced for propositioning. oh, i remember, one should proposition at the end of her sentence! you are right, that was awkward.

arkizzle

Foetus’

Looks like he coulda been huge in the nineties.. Can he rap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VGeSOBQWg8

And everything is to the back with a little slack,
Coz inside-out is wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy wack!

eustace

Even the caps made today have short lifespans. It is inherent in their nature (just what I want to be quoted saying when tomorrow’s EE news headline turns out to be New Capacitor Technology Promises Unlimited Life).

Antinous / Moderator

And so it begins. Can you find the one true story?

arkizzle

Ouch! Thats tha groove yo!

buddy66

You’re still a young man, Arky. Doing the Tolstoy Trip comes with age. Tak’s starting to show his…

or his Buddha nature.

danlalan

hmmm, I appear to have stumbled into some kind of alternative blog universe. I come in peace.

ulor

Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-Ã -vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements. Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees. I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us. This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half-a-dozen four-footed fiends, of various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common centre. I felt my heels and coat-laps peculiar subjects of assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the household in re-establishing peace.

minTphresh

step right up, my pie and cake lovin friend, behold ! it’s the show that never ends. got a need to bitch or have a great recipe ? have i got a thread for thee! with rainbows, unicorns and fairies on a string, ‘untitled one’ has just about everything. here, ideals can be bought or sold. just step softly, ’round the trolls. oh and if in ignorance, to walk, you choose. try not to piss off antinous. cuz we all know to whom the intarwebz belong. yeah, that’d probably be Takuan. OW, SHIT!

Davin

@22,

We won’t get a creationism debate out of this unless it has already been deemed appropriate by the intelligent designer. Don’t dream to be at HIS level.

hagbard

Come not in that form!

eustace

…but even those shiny new mylar caps will need replacement in about ten/twenty years!

Takuan

game on. Philip Jose Farmer titles

eustace

Nice photos, RossInDetroit.
I have no plans to make my own semiconductor devices; there’s such a wonderful selection available (and growing all the time).

Takuan

another temporal anomaly

ulor

Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I donâ€™t think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping. Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked-up gown, bare arms, and fire-flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying-pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.

sammich

Live streaming coverage of the
Newgrange Winter Solstice 2008 will be available here between 08:30 and 09:30 UTC on Sunday 21st December 2008

happy solstice!

Takuan

c’est bon, c’est belle

TomasFoolery

This has been our moment of Web Zen.

sammich

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHFS7qPtzA&feature=related

Takuan

….just can’t stand listening…no matter how goofy Elron Cupboard sounds….

minTphresh

after quaffing down a handful of bennies, dexies, ‘ludes, and d’s with a glass of Dom Perignon ’58, huffing a vial of locker room and a line of the finest peruvian flake, he would stroll the ship’s walkways, stroking the backs of bikini clad, nubile teenage girls, smoking his meersham pipe, pondering that very question. in international waters.

FoetusNail

R.I.P. John Martyn

Small Hours Live 1978

arkizzle

Ha! I haven’t seen that Primus video in T I M E.

Takuan

you bastard

arkizzle

That Mary Hopkins version is sweet.

And Zorba? Zorba’s my old pal :)

sammich

something platoon? tank platoon?

Takuan

what zone you in Buddy?

funeralpudding

I look forward to the rest of this series.

Agent 86

Tenn, don’t say their names! We’ve almost made it to 400 without them showing up to crash the party, and we wouldn’t want to accidentally conjure them up.

sammich

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrEZH7j1bQ&feature=related

arkizzle / Moderator

Jesus, I haven’t been down here in months..

*spill*

/one for the lost homies

mdh

ayuh. nothing to see here.

hagbard

You can call me Harry Coin

Oren Beck

.

Takuan

heh!
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3298

Takuan

another temporal anomaly

Takuan

good Zizzle, do you mean not to sleep?

ulor

What the devil is the matter?â€™ he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure, after this inhospitable treatment.

â€˜What the devil, indeed!â€™ I muttered. â€˜The herd of possessed swine could have had no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir. You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!â€™

â€˜They wonâ€™t meddle with persons who touch nothing,â€™ he remarked, putting the bottle before me, and restoring the displaced table. â€˜The dogs do right to be vigilant. Take a glass of wine?â€™

â€˜No, thank you.â€™

â€˜Not bitten, are you?â€™

Takuan

you still owe me a head, sir. Please do take care of it.

Antinous / Moderator

Have you picked out a baby carriage yet?

insektgod

Most comments ever. I’m with the spider (#232) on this one.

Chasqui

The preview post feature is now enabled… Untitled2 will be released as a summer blockbuster

Takuan

(hissstt! the secret sign is the ” marks)

arkizzle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9fqm6rUPY

TouchÃ©

anthony

Or this (mining the same directorial theme)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c_fm7oNUi4

Takuan

aye Mary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-jTlWGwWyg

ulor

â€˜If I had been, I would have set my signet on the biter.â€™ Heathcliffâ€™s countenance relaxed into a grin.

â€˜Come, come,â€™ he said, â€˜you are flurried, Mr. Lockwood. Here, take a little wine. Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them. Your health, sir?â€™

gATO

kawika

Don’t think for a minute Mark didn’t know exactly what he was doing here. This post is a blatant attempt change the sex of Boing Boing’s mascot. Start with the first word “Untitled.” “Un” meaning “not.” “Tit,” a vulgar term for breast. “Led,” invoking Mark’s intent to draw women away from their womanhood — as if we didn’t already understand his real intent. Seriously people, can’t you see what Boing Boing is trying to do? “Untitled = No breasts going forward.” And it’s just the first step, otherwise why include “1″ after “Untitled.” God only knows where this will end. Sick.

davidkasdan

this post cleansed the palette nicely

hagbard

Overall, a smell of fried onions.

arkizzle

Tak, are you a PKD fan?
If you’ve read “The Galactic Pot Healer” you may remember..

Takuan

ahh balls!

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/06/all-purpose-tanuki-testicles-prints-by-kuniyoshi/

arkizzle

*Brrr – Brrr* *Brrr – Brrr*

- Hello?

Hello. Is that RadioPhresh?

- Yep, what can I do for you?

I’d like to make a request..

- Ok sure, what is it?

I want you to play “If I Fell”.

- Oh, the Beatles Track?

Yes, but the Henry Mancini version..

- Oh, that’s pretty specific.. OK, I got it. Have you got a message or a dedication?

Yes, it goes out to Paul. I just want to tell him I’m sorry that I called him John, I was flustered and just got mixed up. And everyone laughed. I didn’t even realize what had happened at first, and then on the drive home after the show it occured to me. I felt like an ass.. So I’m sorry. OK? Got that?

- Yeah, it’s kinda long, but.. yeah, I got it. And who will I say it’s from?

Oh.. Henry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXa1SaYTXU

If you play the music while reading the text, It seems like an ad for FriendsReunited or InterFlora or something.. I’m gonna go pitch this at someone. Anyone remember the JR Hartley YellowPages ads?

sammich

Chaucer Tak? Well clearly you were there, so how can i argue?

ulor

I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn. Heâ€”probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenantâ€”relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me,â€”a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.

Frank_in_Virginia

Aren’t we all?

minTphresh

in booze?

Decio

That’s no moon. It’s a Untitled 1.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Like John Cage’s silence, it’s been done before (one, two), but it’s never the same.

Dean

Does it work?

Takuan

mwahahaha! someone else up?

minTphresh

and owen is rendered speechless!

ridl

titles
(things to think about)

zeppelins
mutual aid
live webcams as peacekeeping tools in warzones
free clinics
free schools
national teacher strikes
general strikes
tax resistance
the Venezuelan Constitution
unofficial “shadow” city councils (regional councils, national councils…)
home fermentation and brewing and pickling
the many possibilities of the Rainbow Family
urban farming
alternative currencies
asteroid mining
acupuncture and the eventual theoretical results of its acceptance by Biomedicine
can insurance companies ever not be evil? how?
using psychological metaphors to understand history and politics (ie war as sociopathic behaviour, Israel’s crimes against Palestine in terms of national PTSD, much of current history as humanity stuck in early stages of mourning over said history (denial, anger, we seem to finally be moving into bargaining on a larger scale))
the new circuses
the new hobos
hitchhiking revival as a rational response to petrol prices
self-powered enclosed and insulated recumbent electric bike campers
have you ever tried nutritional yeast? so good.
Calvin and Hobbes
free massage workshops
international “men apologize to women” day
enabling and promoting widespread and eventually ubiquitous e-barter

um

did I miss anything?

eustace

Arkizzle – the BF track possesses a virtue dear to my heart – ambiguity. Even the look on her face…

Takuan

things come, things go.

FoetusNail

Thanks for the tech info Kieran, I made the same connection, same party. Both incidents make a great deal more sense when advertisers are brought into the mix. Why would a progressive site, which seemingly doesn’t care about popular opinion and wants to make a real difference…

We are heavily outnumbered in this world, both numerically and more importantly monetarily. My fear is this site is caving in to market pressure, god I hope this isn’t true.

Takuan

Rest in peace, Bettie. I’ll honour your passing by being better to other people.

ulor

I found him very intelligent on the topics we touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to-morrow. He evidently wished no repetition of my intrusion. I shall go, notwithstanding. It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Takuan

cool!

arkizzle

Hey, HAPPY NEW YEAR! to all you guys. Sorry I missed it, I was out getting fuckin’ mashed.

Thanks for the endlessly interesting chat and for charitably tolerating to my ramblings. I wish you all a fabulous year to come and plenty of good fortune as well.

May you always have:
walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.

You all rock. Lots of teh luv.

Tom Hale

Today, my wife and I are celebrating our 21st wedding anniversary. I have to work tomorrow, so everyone drink a glass of wine for me – I’m limited to two glasses tonight.

Jay Seven

@ #380
you don’t say.
very interesting.

minTphresh

spiritual guidance is usually by appointment only, but how could i refuse a fellow dr. of divinity? i would be honored, sir! now, an appropriate prayer…

Takuan

I guess you don’t want to build a capacitor cannon then.

Got that old Nordmende tabletop going, sounds like crap though.

Takuan

no! surely not time!
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QbN0g8-zbdY

Takuan

engarde!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8thNodJpLc&feature=related

Jake0748

Wow… this untitled thing is still here? I feel like I’ve come home. :)

Takuan

http://www.elpj.com/

Takuan

just one lobe

Phikus

Oh, come on. Please? ;D

minTphresh

R.I.P. Bettie Page!

Antinous

I apologize in advance.

Kieran O’Neill

Lol – I completely missed this lot. I blame the beer. Anyway, Xeni’s gone and opened Pandora’s box by creating a thread just for discussing the election, so I guess it’s all moving there.

Anyway, congrats to the citizens of the United States from a citizen of other countries. From the figures I’ve seen, I can say that the rest of the world, for the most part, approves. (I can tell you the Iranians in my research group will be happy!)

Well, my (hopefully) more insightful comments are in the election thread.

Still holding thumbs on Prop 8. 52% in favour with 69% counted this time :(

arkizzle

Here ya go kids ..and just to be extra tricky, one of the words is twice-convoluted:

Action/War film 1980-2008

“faux 68 grenade article relay”

Takuan

an excellent list Granny keeps, copy, mirror, spread:

http://boards.cannabis.com/medicinal-cannabis-health/161539-granny-storm-crows-list.html

minTphresh

try: atrocious heroine (scifi,film/book)

arkizzle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRz-M30PcEU

TouchÃ© encore!

arkizzle

If the arm(s) are on a worm gear, how does the stylus draw the arm laterally across the record?

ulor

END Chapter 1

Thats just a taste of this exciting novel…this is just a teaser to get you to buy this book …well ok this book is so old you can find anywhere…so download from your favorite public domain e-book site.

minTphresh

oh, damn(ed) it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8n99BUO-A

Grenville24

The rest is silence.

lamarlowe

I feel like a dumb ass for misspelling ‘amend’ But that’s okay. I feel like a dumb ass most days as soon as I wake up, which requires a pot or two of good coffee and sufficient nicotine to both start and endanger my heart muscle.

A totally blank Rorshach?? Wow! I think I deserve proper papers for failing that particular test.

“t lks lk my mm’s wd pn pssy.” “t lks lk hll, sn frm th dpst dpths, blw. Gd thng sh’s s ht!”

“No, it’s a stupid blank sheet of white fucking paper, unlined.” Oh, dear God, if there is one, when will I ever adjust?

“Snork. “

Tenn

@Agent 86 393,
Oh no! Forgive my transgression. I must immediately retire to the Good Book of Darwin to repent my sins.

buddy66

Also true: I was ordained a minister in the Universal Life Church of Modesto, CA in 1969 by its founder, the illiterate Dr. Kirby Hensley. The good doctor was busy ordaining young men of draft age in those years. I volunteered to assist him in his efforts, especially among the students at my school, and was rewarded by being appointed the Acting Bishop of San Francisco, ULC, Inc. It is a distinction I fondly recall and treasure.

Damned if the damned things didn’t hold up in court, the First Amendment being what it is.

Takuan

strange what I stumble across;
“All green technology depends on rare-earth metals and all global trade in rare earth depends on China.”

sammich

‘Tinous – while you know me, there’ll always be a source of cider :)

Phikus

Untitled 2 is about to die from neglect and many of you have not even commented there. For shame! Won’t you help to save a dying thread? Please give generously to Untitled 2. The words you save may be your own! Also: Think of the children!

Antinous / Moderator

You missed the alien pole dancer.

minTphresh

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to THE END OF THE INTERNETS!

arkizzle

Control is a great film. Moody :)
And so is Kontroll!

sammich

if you just want ‘medicinal’ songs – check out reefer songs – includes Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine by Harry The Hipster Gibson (1946) ,amongst other classics…

Antinous

You mean the one that asks who put the nembutals in Mr. Murphy’s overalls?

Teapunk

Pure Nihilism. No ferrets involved.

Takuan

whatever available

genericvox

Crap. Everyone beat me to the Nihilist and Minimalist comments. Well…

Like Mr. Frauenfelder here, I guess I don’t have much to say.

dculberson

It’s a schooner!

Dean

No it doesn’t.

Does this?

ROSSINDETROIT

Regarding capacitors, I’m elbows deep into the first of these Bogen amps. The signal capacitors coupling audio signals between stages in these are the most pathetic things you ever saw. Made of paper, a little aluminum foil and paper, with paper on the outside. They’re ‘sealed’ by dipping in beeswax. Beeswax. Did anyone ever think ‘Hey, I wonder what will happen when the inside of this tube amp reaches the expected 200 degree operating temperature and the only thing keeping moisture out of the high voltage signal path is wax’. I’m replacing them with Mylar film/foil or metalized Mylar caps with either epoxy dip casings or molded plastic packages. I don’t know how much money they saved by using the paper/wax caps instead of molded plastic which was available in the ’60s, but the cost savings cost them their reputation when all of these amps went haywire from capacitor leakage.

Bogen did have some sweet styling. Here’s a PA amp that I restored. Mr Jalopy liked it enough to put it on Dinosaurs & Robots

Anonymous

For Foetusnail (and for the rest of us)

Jethro Tull: Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day

Agent 86

What’s wrong with mixing cider and lager? It’s how I spent the part of last night I can remember. Heck, it even has a name!

Jake0748

Yesterday was Untitled 1′s one month birthday. Did anybody bake a cake?

Also if you Google “Untitled 1″ Mark’s oh so eloquent post here comes in at number 3.

Antinous

The UK island, example given

SF book/movie

minTphresh

ark, loverly! i hadn’t seen that one b-4. tres bitchin. tak, when i do that, i make a table by the curb outta an old door and the rercycle bins, and put a sign on it that says: “take”, or “free”, it rarely lasts more than a day. no matter what it is, old electronics, books, vhs tapes, clothes, tchochkes, whatever, people just like free stuff!

buddy66

Welcome, traveler. This is a peaceful universe and a good spot for music links, or anything else you might like. Today’s concern seems to be the disappearance of a venerable, prolific, and respected commenter. He went off in either a snit or a huff, depending upon which Groucho Marxism you prefer.

eustace

Multipass?
…or Multipass; unless, perhaps, Multipass.

mrmule

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arnettb

Link does not work

wolfiesma

How about a little cello?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vld2cLpznAE

sammich

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZf-ekaC8U&feature=related

eustace

Reminds me of Moopsball, from Orbit 18. Reading it as a kid made me want to play it – alas, no Moopsball league to join…

imipak

It’s getting socio-politically interesting here in the Uck, too, with that oh-so-special xenophobic edge we do so well. I have a sick feeling we’re about the reap the whirlwind the tabloid-courting pols have been sowing for the last couple of decades. “Prejudice burns brighter when it’s all we have to burn”, and all that. And Tanqueray Friday calls for a chaser!

arkizzle

You ain’t seen me, right?

Agent 86

Side note, anyone here have one of those “sub-$500″ laptops that seem to be all the rage lately? I’m not sure what I am going to buy, only that it will be cheap.

minTphresh

takuan! do you kiss your mama cephalopod with that proboscis?

Takuan

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/patriots-guide-legalization

Takuan

now, why is it exactly, that not one of your earthly representations shows your third nipple?

Antinous / Moderator

Actually, we’ve sort of come to the conclusion that I have five. Seriously. It’s hard to distinguish supernumerary nipples from moles, but they’re raised and on the nipple line. And I have this overwhelming urge to suckle Romulus.

eustace

…that’s passin’ throoooo…

arkizzle

BB: entertaining and educational. I love you guys.

Antinous

You only love us for our anal bleaching.

Takuan

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Governments_on_alert_as_swine_flu_0426.html

arkizzle

Imipak & Takuan

http://datadatas.com/ukcredit/?c=people%20willing%20to%20sell%20their%20grandmother%20into%20slavery%20to%20try%20and%20claw%20their%20way%20out%20of%20bad%20debt%20and%20back%20into%20the%20green%20and%20who,%20before%20the%20credit%20crunch,%20were%20home-owning

eustace

As beautifully as Anthony Hopkins portrays him, there is much to be said for the original…

arkizzle

Also, thank you :)

Sarah Neptune

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
eggs
bread
milk

scottfree

jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus, I think i just got carpal tunnel. ow ow ow ow ow.

scottfree

Untitled 1 is here to kick ass and chew bubble gum; and it’s all out of bubble gum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number)

minTphresh

i’ve recently been turned on to these cats via myspace. polish prog-metal! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1lymWy2ls4

Takuan

I have a mental image of you, Buddy
http://www.ull.ac.uk/exhibitions/pratchett/cohen.jpg

arkizzle

Muscle Sauce !!

sammich

kewl! – re “80s film: Accessory-defined expert”
1 – is it an english-language film?
2 – is it on this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_film ?

Antinous

It would be defined as an English-language film.

You can’t seriously imagine that I would answer the second question.

Here’s a clue to the accessory: If you receive it as a gift from Isis, give it back immediately.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHriDR8F8o

Antinous

Gluing a couple of gears onto a title doesn’t make it “Untitled”. This is an insult to real untitled posts. Pathetic!

Takuan

optimal nuclear bombardment unit raider O. Diggs’es country…

we’ll start easy

Kieran O’Neill

And, addressed at Dubyah:

wake up son of mine
momma got somethin’ to tell you
change is come
life will have its way
with your pride, son
take it like a man

hang on son of mine
storm’s blowin’ up your horizon

change is come
keep your dignity
take the high road
take it like a man

listen up son of mine
momma got something to tell you
all about growin’ pains
life will pound away
where the light don’t shine, son
take it like a man

suck it up son of mine
father blowin’ up your horizon

change is come
keep your dignity
take the high road
take it like a man

mamma said life awaits
like a kidney stone
its just a broken heart son
this pain will pass away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3ccmWmLhk

minTphresh

and yes, i am new in town.

eustace

You can pimp that band all you want, MinT. Every track you’ve pointed us to has gone straight in to rotation, man.

Takuan

know someone looking at the Asus eee, I’ll check with them

arkizzle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibd5K68kp5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOqP3wj2x14

Takuan

buy you a drink, sailor?

Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head 20

Of some fierce MÃ¦nad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith’s height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, 25
Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail, will burst: O hear!

Vorpaltongue

Mr. Freunfelder, listen to me, and listen good. I am a research scientist in the field of memetics. 10 years ago I wrote a paper called, “Memes that could destroy the Internet, and possibly the whole of modern civilization.” It was this paper that led to the successful quarantine and subsequent eradication of the Numa Numa meme.

In the aforementioned paper, The No-post Blog Post was on the top of a list of the 4 most dangerous memes which if released to the net could eradicate the intarwebs as we know it.

Just imagine, boing boing, youtube, slashdot, salon, all inundated with contentless content.

And it won’t just stop with the internet; Movies, television shows, music, even your MIND — all left in a Zen-like tabula Rasa. And it gets worse, there will be… There will be… I… I can’t think…. mind… going…. blank…My god, it’s already begun!

For the love of god, Fraunfelder, delete this post while you still have the chance! While we still have an Internet!

eustace

I hadn’t thought of that before – but as the ice caps melt and the coasts recede things just get better and better for Takuan…

Takuan

you just email me some ribs!

arkizzle

Topkapi WIN!

Phikus

-Plus, Untitled 2 takes about 10% of the time to load, and it remembers your place! Untitled 2 loves you! Untitled 1 could care less. It’s where all the cool kids are commenting. Why have you forsaken it? PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD, DO SOMETHING!!! (-before it’s too late.)

Paid for by the committee to preserve Untitled 2.

minTphresh

man! gotta dig that caaraaaazy beat, daddio!

Takuan

Arkie yew compleat bahhstard! Do you have ANY idea how long the pumps have to run when I piss meself??

Miss Cellania

Comment 32.

Scuba SM

arkizzle

Foetus, Brilliant!

minTphresh

it’s like a buscrash, you don’t wanna look, but….Lord Xenu would want us to hear His Clear Surrogate’s Vernacular, so we wouldn’t make The Heinous Mistake of “Floofing the Goof”. Elron be praised!

minTphresh

mayhaps try again in the morgan. ta!

buddy66

I’ve sent the following message to my far-flung friends and family, and now I send it to my far-flung fellow happy mutants:

Apparently self-congratulations are in order, ta-da.

As of Friday’s enactment of Canada’s revised citizenship laws I am, upon formal application, a … Canadian.

I have new country!

My Canadian-born mother became a naturalized American citizen in 1950, thus renouncing her Canadian citizenship as required by American law. All of her children born before her enforced renunciation (which is all of them) are now regarded as Canadiansâ€”if they so desire. And I so desire.

I must now learn the words of “Canada, My Canada.”

Takuan

some stations to boycott
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/california-stations-rejec_n_227442.html

hey Jake! welcome home!

sammich

Antinous @ 1597 – elves will be elves…

Wingo

Very Dada.

Kurt McAllister

( )

Frank_in_Virginia

Film at 11:00.

Takuan

change hands

scottfree

A man walks into a bar, orders a beer and there’s a pianist in the corner. The pianist has this monkey, and the monkey is sort of dancing around the bar, collecting money for the pianist. But when the monkey gets to the man, instead of holding its hand out for money, the monkey just pisses in the man’s drink and dances off. The pianist is in the middle of a song, so the man decides to hold off, and he orders another drink, but when the monkey comes round, he pisses in the new drink as well. Now the man is really getting ticked off. He orders another drink, the monkey comes over and pisses it again. So the man gets up and starts walking over to the pianist, who’s stopped playing.

He says to the pianist: ‘Do you know Untitled 1?’
And the pianist says, ‘No, but maybe if you hum a few bars.’

arkizzle

http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/25655/seven-days-in-may-trailer

Jake0748

Ok, now I can rant. What the heck is the deal with the page that shows your “profile”, friends, recent comments, etc.?? Why do they have an option to put in a profile picture, when it will probably never, ever, ever work? Let me be the 4,737th person to ask, WTF?

arkizzle

Laser Turntables would be skippy bastards.

Worse than CDs; at least CDs are all the same shape.

Takuan

nanobot stylus? A groove crawler?

Takuan

o0ooh, looks good!

minTphresh

gonna have to borrow and burn, lookie like.

macisaguy

Wow, these secret decoder glasses from a 1987 Happy Meal really DO work. And here I was about to give up hope…

Antinous / Moderator

The only way to link to an image is via URL.

EdT.

Antinuous wrote:

I ran into a woman who got Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (like total permanent disability) because she spent all her waking hours at the computer and it didn’t occur to her to take her hands off the keyboard or mouse occasionally. Of course, as men, our hands are naturally drawn to our laps.

Isn’t that why laptops were invented? :-)

Takuan

…yeahhhh…..

sammich

alph?

minTphresh

ark! got a wee bit mashed myownself. payin the price today. that’ll teach me to get older! grrrrr8 newyear, muthafukkrz!

minTphresh

they tour here in t-pa every year. oh, most highest Costello. though i find them fairly potent. they also remind me a bit of these guys and gals(?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXOpQxL5f0

minTphresh

really? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkTqOf8SeLE&feature=related definately NSFW.

Frank_in_Virginia

All right folks, move along. Nothing to see here.

Takuan

a noble cause:
http://antiwar.com/

Takuan

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MMYTwE3O2ok

hagbard

Disqualified! Incomplete title.

Takuan

yeah, I put out twenty years of books once, took all summer but they eventually went away.

Takuan

Brazzillll….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRuLFR91e4

Tenn

I don’t think anyone does. Googling “Sister Y” shows she’s only used the handle here. Is there any way one of the bOINGers or Mom could e-mail her through the address she signed up with in the database?

Tom Hale

I just found something really cool.
http://www.tinychat.com/
I found it on Download Squad
“TinyChat is about as simple as a build your own web chat page could be. You just click a button to create a room and then enter the room or copy the link to share with others. That’s pretty much all there is to it.”

sammich

caio pais…?

Agent 86

eieio

wolfiesma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90

Clemoh

tough to argue with that sort of thinking.

The Celestial Monochord

My cat’s breath smells like cat food.

willibro

Dude. Wow. Wait. What?

pm

Back in the early 21st century, roughly between World War II and the advent of instant teleportation, the social scientist Mark Frauenfelder had his breakthrough with the now famous “Untitled 1″ experiment, which subsequently led to the events that ultimately brought us here today, gentlepersons. From this Danger Room we must now make a firm statement that’ll show the remaining nations that [transmission interrupted]

ROSSINDETROIT

Diodes, certainly. Doped semiconductor materials, probably not. Too much tricky chemistry and epitaxial shenanigans.

I’ll be delighted to be proven wrong about this.

I’ve taken apart a few dead power transistors. It’s amazing just how tiny the silicon chip or ‘die’ inside is, and how fine the wires are which are rated to carry tens of amps of current.

Right now I’ve got an unhappy Accuphase P-300 power amp on the bench. No, that earlier one’s fixed, this is a different one. One of its transistors develops a small chaotic noise voltage that sends the output signal swinging all over the place with no warning. Luckily the P-300 has an excellent protection circuit that senses the fault behavior and disconnects the speakers, flashing all of the amp’s lights in warning. Thank you Accuphase engineers.
I’ll be darned if I can figure out which of the dozens of devices has this tiny noise. To make matters worse, all of these transistors are obsolete so I can’t just swap in new ones wholesale like I would if they were ten cent 2n5551s or something. I tried the usual subtle debugging techniques:
1) bang on everything with a pencil and see wha thappens.
2) heat everything up with a soldering iron and see what happens
3) wiggle everything and see what happens.
Our little noise appears unrelated to bang, heat and wiggle. I hope this doesn’t get too involved.

Tenn

Nip on over to BBGadgets if you haven’t already, Agent.

ROSSINDETROIT

I read the Wikipedia article. That was pretty cool. $10,000 is actually not all that much for a turntable. I know several people who have much more invested in a table, motor, arm, cartridge, cabling and phono preamp. In fact, taken all together $10K is about the minimum buy-in for hi fi phono. There are systems that cost far more. I wonder how it sounds.

sammich

if it would make you feel better, and if you’re awake enough, i owe you a clue… i wrote one before i was summoned away by my elders…

eustace

If four maniacs are good, how much better might ten thousand be?

arkizzle

Ha! Foetus’, you do have a certain level of quotable noteriety :)

And Good Job Wolfiesma!

sammich

that’s the one

Antinous

I haven’t heard that in years, but it sticks with one. Back when this was just a dusty retirement community, the one and only radio station played nothing but hits from the 20s to the 50s. Sadly gone.

scottfree

At least my wrist is making a very funny noise when i rotate it. Was playing Isaac Albeniz on guitar while absent mindedly perusing BB. Not cool.

ROSSINDETROIT

Hard to know what will need to be replaced, but we can draw some conclusions from failure rates in vintage gear. Mylar caps from 50 years ago usually test as good as new when I find them in gear. It was the high end material then and outperformed other materials at tube amp voltages. It’s also highly stable at elevated temperatures. Mylar was the expensive solution then. Today it’s the standard material used in even the cheapest high voltage caps. In this age of ISO900X it would be impossible to mass produce capacitors of the abysmal quality of the paper/beeswax variety discussed above.
Capacitors are like any other commodity, they’re made to a price point. Making good ones requires high consistency in the materials and controllable fabrication processes. The difference between 50 years ago and now is that what were then the best available materials and processes for making caps are now standard for even the cheapest parts.

Anonymous

SamSam – I think you want this – http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/24/trompe-loeil-video-p.html

arkizzle

Especially the look on her face :)

minTphresh

yo tak, did you see? nasa has a photo of the flying spagetti monster! : http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14573-galactic-spaghetti-monster-powered-by-magnetic-fields.html?DCMP=ILC-tabViewArt&nsref=dn14573

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBHtk8Lj2Y

Takuan

does this mean maple syrup is the new approved lubricant?

Antinous / Moderator

If it isn’t spit, it isn’t love.

arkizzle / Moderator

You think Tak was assassinated?

Takuan

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/britain-to-put-cctv-cameras-inside-private-homes/

arkizzle

*chuckle*

skramble

you guys are all nuts

Antinous

I realized that afterward. Oddly, #399 is a 403 joke.

arkizzle

Bravo Takuan! I want to hear more..

Really.

But! …set it in space, so the beast is some sort of not-a-cow, and introduce it subtly, like when the farmer restarts the old cold-fusion reactor :)

Phikus

Sorry, there was no math in my coronation exam… Thanks for the reminder of what the heck you were referring to. Holy 23. Get it now. Next time give me the secret handshake first. =D

Takuan

from 5:30
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6c_fm7oNUi4

Takuan

the ultimate torture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFBdQM7Eq4&feature=related

FoetusNail

Speaking of which, one of his favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXNApZ2ALiQ

Takuan

Well, as we marched down
As we marched down
Well, as we marched down to Fennario
Well, our captain fell in love
With a lady like a dove
Her name that she had was Pretty Peggy-O

Agent 86

Happy Birthday (kinda), America! Now lets blow things up.

Takuan

this could prove useful
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gs7pisYOVSybMpOXqK3CaW7KoXgA

ulor

Now I have something else to do at work…What do you mean the stations been off the air for 2 hrs

Cefeida

Number 9…number 9.

Takuan

http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/O/X/2/800px-Genuine_danae.jpg

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W1LVnFrDZQ

hagbard

“Maria had been reading a chryselephantinely overwritten book called Moll Flanders in the coach, and very definitely she thought the somber, passionate, tragicomic, and picaresque story was most absorbing, and certainly presented the dark, sinister, underground side of English life in a vivacious and veridical manner that carried conviction, but she wished Mr. Defoe were not so in love with ornamentally excessive adjectives and long, stentorian, and somewhat inchoate sentences that, even by the standards of the time, seemed to twist and turn through curlicues and arabesques and wind on and on through ever-increasing clauses and sub-clauses, including abrupt change of subject and total non sequiturs, even if he did seem to be making a unique effort to understand a woman’s perspective on the world, which was all to the good, of course, and it was less monochromatically monotonous (she had to admit) than the other one he wrote with virtually nobody in it but that one ingenious mechanic on the island, living in total isolation until he found that mute but ineluctable footprint; and yet it could all be told as well and be more pleasant to read if those sentence did not get so totally out of control and sprawl all over the page so often in positive apotheosis of the lugubrious style, and then she wondered if reading so much of such labyrinthine and arabesque prose for so long in the hot carriage had affected her own mind and she were starting to think like that herself, instead of just enjoying the shade of the oak trees and resting from thought in the dense cool quiet of the mid-afternoon English summer.”

zuzu

Untitled 1 is covered in bees!

ROSSINDETROIT

Cheers, kids. Been off making speakers & writing. And painting 113 doors pine green. All true. Sleep time. Back soon.

Takuan

need a BB audiopodcast/post/channel to run in background with guest commenter DJs (and their huge collections)

Takuan

ha!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAUm6l_t6k

FoetusNail

Thanks, I was completely unaware of Nash.

tacokills

this is not a post.

TheButterThief

Google…?

Takuan

hey, I was there.

minTphresh

one mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvQX3KNpRM8&feature=related

Craigle

Gets phone call from Teej…

“Dude seriously Teej, I can’t believe it! This isn’t real…”

::Looks out at Post::

“My God, it’s full of stars!”

ROSSINDETROIT

Radio probably needs alignment. Old stuff gets drifty and out of sync. Used to be a radio/TV guy on every block who could do an alignment on those with one hand while talking on the phone. Now they’re all retired or charging boutique prices.

Gotta go tackle a pair of tubed Bogen DB20s. When will someone bring me something interesting/worthwhile to rebuild?

Collectors.

Takuan

* Tinel’s Sign
Tinel’s test is performed by tapping the median nerve along its course in the wrist. A positive test is found when this causes worsening of the tingling in the fingers when the nerve is tapped.

* Phalen’s Sign
Phalen’s test is done by pushing the back of your hands together for one minute. This compresses the carpal tunnel and is also positive when it causes the same symptoms you have been experiencing with your carpal tunnel syndrome.

minTphresh

takuan, my friend pat and i came up with a chicken fight game we like to call ” draq chicken-jousting”. two person teams, one on the other’s shoulders( hence the chicken), each team dressed as the opposite gender to the team’s actual gender(hence the drag), then the top or ‘rider’ takes a toilet plunger that has a small infalted ball duct taped into the ‘plunger’ end as a jousting pole and a trashcan lid as shield( hence the jousting), and two teams square off. then they joust! the team left standing wins! yay! drag chicken jousting, the next big thing!

Dean

The holy grail of blog posts. I come to pay my respects.

minTphresh

buddy, you can has my tasty cake, when you pry it from my cold dead fingees! now THAT’S pretty! Lizz-OL, bitches!

eustace

…so now I’ve read every one, and what a story they tell. Thanks, Foetusnail. Current fave – “Sometimes life leaves a hundred dollar bill on your dresser, and you don’t realize until later that it’s because it fucked you.”
When I read the Binky one I could hear the voice…

Agent 86

Woot’s having a Woot-off tonight, so I may just not sleep. Anyone on? Ant, break out your system and start some another round of The Game!

FoetusNail

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Takuan

as I said
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124225891527617397.html

arkizzle

Once again (this is becoming somewhat the tradition) I went away and missed the whole conversation!

“The Grand Nation of Ireland, and suburbs” FTW! If only for the slanted imperialism of it all.

Sam, we really should have a collective (equal opportunity) way of referring to the 4 states (3 if I’m being an uber-Fenian), even though there’s been some ups and down (understatement?) we are all undeniably entangled through blood and sweat.

Something Celtic perhaps? There is a thread of Celt running through Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Not England (apart from Cornwall) though, and that also includes parts of France and the Iberian peninsula.. So that won’t do.

Wow, this is tough, maybe that’s what all those wars were about..

Here’s an interesting point for the Welsh folk in the room.. the Union Jack is made up of StGeorge’s cross, StAndrew’s cross and StPatrick’s cross- where is poor old Wales? The Irish don’t even want in, and we have a 1/3 input. (actually, I just read Wales was annexed, so is represented by England – still though, boo!).

Right I can’t think of a good collective term, maybe something random, like Kevin.

And Sam, you will always be Irish to me :)

Cowicide

Don’t think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They’re only cheques I’ve left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one’s jamming their transmission
‘Cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

nabru

YAY!

Tenn

@Skramble 396,
Au contraire, we women are too. However, Mister Frauenfelder’s diatribe bleeds sanity.

Takuan

isn’t this just special
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/us/2009/08/24/D9A9E2FG1_us_meth_s_new_method/index.html

sammich

also then Oliver Postgate 12.04.25 – 08.12.08

hokano

FoetusNail, that must have been a wondrous moment!

Puts me in mind of a story that Charles Berlitz would tell of his own childhood.

From Wikipedia’s entry about him:

Berlitz was born in New York City. He was the grandson of Maximilien (Maximilian) Berlitz, who founded the Berlitz Language Schools. As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by his father’s orders) every relative and servant spoke to Charles in a different language: he reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently. In adulthood, he recalled having the childhood delusion that every human being spoke a different language, and wondering why he did not have his own language like everyone else in his household.

arkizzle

:p

minTphresh

did i mention the ascot and captain’s hat? oh, how he loved to wear them! ( and sometimes nothing else!)

FoetusNail

Grim, while I certainly agree the old curmudgeon would ordinarily not be bothered by such a rebuke, but that was not just anyone who called him an asshole and then followed it up with a threat.

Takuan has stood by her innumerable times, so her not so gentle admonition seems blunt and heavy-handed and was no doubt taken quite seriously as intended.

Takuan

a shoreline, but a river?

minTphresh

u r correct, wolfiesma, tat is more like a processed cheez-fud. this here is made with grade a homogenized moo-juice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGMVKaLLOI

eustace

And so the tension builds. When he does say, WHAT WILL HE SAY!?!

eustace

Let’s all sing along!

sammich

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA&feature=related

Adam San

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
etc.

Antinous

Arkizzle you are my creampie.

ROSSINDETROIT

It was a Cornell Dubilier paper/oil cap made for power factor correction. AFAIK they were new old stock. I bought them years ago and I’ve since discarded the rest. Too bad. High voltage caps are tough to find and expensive.

We’re working on a simple and safe version for Dennis’s version of the amp. It won’t have violet glowing mercury vapor rectifiers and foot high condenser banks but with his design chops it will definitely have style. When Dennis decided to make a tube phono preamp he started whittling a chassis out of a 12″ X 12″ X 1″ slab of blue marble. It’s freaky and exotic.

Takuan

ooooh!
http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800463300_1800007_NT_fe889575.HTM

noen

Agent 86 — It’s that one… thing, that …. movie thing where this guy does this thing like that ya know? I’m pretty sure it is anyway.

Takuan

“house” is metaphorical. And they have eye movement sensors for that now.

minTphresh

most things, brother. my pkd and artist/fine art print books, those stay. and my medieval weapons collection, that stays too.

minTphresh

double check it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjTxM1FiTzU now with dubs disease!

Kieran O’Neill

So, District 9: I don’t know how I missed this, but it looks awesome. Aliens + deep engagement with South African socio-political issues = win.

Takuan

“The Grand Nation of Ireland, and suburbs”

sammich

re: your Welsh Wyxiness Antinous – perhaps it’s not ironic or karmic, perhaps you have a culturally deep-rooted need for re-envowellment, which you sate with the vowels of the unsuspecting?

Antinous

So…vampirism?

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FxSM88H-G4

Takuan

have a dart board
http://mtblog.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/12/30/BushGraphic12-30.html

coveralls

poo! ass!

Rider

+1

eustace

Seen this one? She’s so cute!

minTphresh

at least not the good ones.

minTphresh

just put the first ‘coat’ of sauce on those buggers! 15 mins, and they get another and a flip. do that twice more, kick up the coals a lil just to carmelize the sauce,and…oh, would u like me to email u some mashed taters n gravy, and ho-made cornbread too?

Antinous

At the risk of gloating, I’d just like to mention that it was 84Âº and sunny here today.

minTphresh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrIfaNvxhio&feature=related

ROSSINDETROIT

The B&O table’s arm drive has a variable speed servo drive system. An optical position sensor attached to the tonearm provides feedback to the motor speed controller. The drive motor speeds up or slows down to keep the arm tangent to the record. There is a slight amount of variation but in a correctly adjusted system it is always less than the error in a pivoted arm.
These tables are horrendously complex and you’d think they’d be a bear to keep in adjustment but they’re actually straightforward to set up and once aligned will stay in tune for hundreds of hours of use – typically the rubber belts fail before anything needs adjusting.

Takuan

http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/25/swine_flu_twitters_power_to_misinform

Takuan

that new address is a bit naff, dontcha think?

sammich

ah – platonic solids i spose. oh well.

Takuan

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/attempted-robbery-ends-with-torn-genitals-viagra-hangover/story-e6freuyi-1225753122900

Takuan

I miss`Teresa.

misshallelujah

I, for one, welcome our new

Tenn

Of course, as men, our hands are naturally drawn to our laps.

Keyboard pants

Takuan

dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
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dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky
dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky dorky

Tom Hale

He has risen! – So Takuan, you must practice that poly-something sleep. Where you get the required amount of sleep, but do it in few hour increments.

” marks huh – I’ll try to remember. and its a secret – I’ll only tell dear diary.

minTphresh

ark, would you play with those ‘dolls’?

Antinous / Moderator

I believe the Third Man theme is mentioned in the Geneva Convention.

sammich

how about ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’ for the other?

Takuan

I, Takuan, hereby resign Moderatorial responsibilites, dated this 21st year of the Perfected Peace, Thirteenth Day of Fast Month in the Hour of the Dragon.

sammich

I could live with the Irish Isles – please don’t consign me to the suburbs…

sammich

also – if it’s welsh – does Wyx rhyme with… i dunno… ducks?

Takuan

soon…soon…the fools!

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/gundam/index.html

Irma

Absolutely Beautiful
*reloads

Maurik

Looking forward to Unitiled 2

arkizzle

Ross, I was just wondering about that project the other day, for some reason.. Sad it won’t happen, but glad you’re still here :)

arkizzle

Shit, I just spent the last 28 minutes looking for the track that I was expecting when you posted your “time” link..

It’s electro from back in the day and the vocal is a vocoder voice saying “it’s Tiiiiiimmmme!” and lots of Orchestra Hit and 808‘s.. It was pretty big.

Anyone?

minTphresh

i will make a beast of myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scl_MMLEOzk gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Takuan

don’t forget the ravening coyotes, solfugids and zombie mormon hordes.

Antinous

It’s vampire Mormon hordes this week and we’re out of arachnid season. The coyotes are eternal, but desert coyotes are rather tiny and cute, more Pekingese than German Shepherd.

FoetusNail

Thanks, Ant!

Anonymous

skippy

Anonymous

This is old. Posted like three months ago on Neatorama, Muchosucko, Cute Overload and even Fark!

AirPillo

It’s slightly amusing that this is the most attention I’ve ever paid to a blog posts’ comments.

Pablissimo

Really – still going?

Sister Y

Senpai is not about age my brother. Tenn, for instance, is also my senpai, and she’s, what, 12?

Agent 86

“I know I called you an incubator honey, but you didn’t hear that I called you a Pretty! incubator”

sammich

i’m guessing my Oliver Postgate obit got stuck in the trap ‘cos it had too many links… praps you could fish it out Ant?

Antinous / Moderator

I can’t believe that you got six links into a 24 word comment.

Takuan

enjoy!

(this suckers a four band, I take it the trim pots nestled among these inductors is where I twiddle?)

Takuan

Enemy At The Gates?

arkizzle

Tenn, that’s great news! Do they live far away?

Agent 86

Can we get a page view for our comment history? It is impossible to load a few of our more prestigious patron’s pages.

minTphresh

holy shit takuan! only $15000.00 ? i should get one for every room! and, speakin of ‘worm’ gear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KLKtCp8Pw

sammich

the stream(river is an exagguration), tumbles out of the woods, over the cliff, into the Bristol Channel

minTphresh

u go wolfie’sma! hey phikus, foetus, and ark! sorry i couldn’t resist! rock on, people!

eustace

Bzzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzz bzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Bzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bzz.

(a fair use excerpt from Bzzzzzzzzz: A Story for Bees)

Takuan

a splendid version Sammich, and while we’re all drunk:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ivTCYSpVa9g

sammich

Also, no congrats yet for Sir Terry Pratchett… (he was pleased…)

Takuan

Happy Solstice All!

minTphresh

haha! be it “lens of the world” there, haggy-bard?

sammich

antinous – why why why would anyone want to do that anyway – surely all the most ~interesting~ bits of a pale-skinned body are highlighted with darker pigment…

Takuan

shall we dance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aUuei4WOHw

minTphresh

hells yeah, taky-san! also diggin this cat lately : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPZwivhERY

eustace

man, that raphael saddiq video was so clean it swept the cobwebs out of my shop just watching it…

FoetusNail

Mul-ti-pass

Tom Hale

What happened to Reverend minTphresh?

iamnivek

OMFG, Another Apple fanboi post.

Takuan

the monkey waiters

mdhatter

Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the
house, ‘Let us
both go to law:
I will prosecute
you.– Come, I’ll
take no denial;
We must have
a trial: For
really this
morning I’ve
nothing to do.’
Said the mouse
to the cur,
‘Such a trial,
dear Sir, With
no jury or
judge, would
be wasting
our breath.’
‘I’ll be
judge, I’ll
be jury,’
Said cunning
old Fury:
‘I’ll try
the whole
cause, and
condemn
you
to
death.’

– Lewis Carroll

minTphresh

hagbard wins again! (hmm, i gotta come up with something harder next time!)

Takuan

thanks Nail, I’ll watch it in a moment of concentration.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jHq4kXvH4&feature=related

Phikus

I refuse to post a comment in Untitled 1 (even this one.) =P Don’t believe the lack of hype!

Takuan

a fun tune, but why with karate-do kata Kusankusho?

Jake0748

STRIDER MT2K – “-it goes on like this…”

Wheeew, I’m relieved.

TAKUAN – “I miss`Teresa.”

Me too.

meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Takuan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8181209.stm

eustace

Toasters can be converted, with very little effort, into functional ordnance.
Wielded by initiates of the t’Host, and loaded with razor-edged biscuits of death, these lethal devices proved their value in the Intercult Wars of the seventies.

aeflash

The blogging equivalent to 4:33.

Donal

At last.

Proof that Open Source is better.

Dugg!!!!!

AGF

doo be doobee doo bee do! Happy! you people make me Happy!

sammich

k

pm

Ender’s Untitled 1 Game
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Untitled 1 Galaxy
Stranger in an Untitled 1 Land
I, Untitled 1
Untitled 1: A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Untitled 1?
The Untitled 1 Chronicles
The Man in the High Untitled 1 Castle
An Untitled 1 Orange
The Untitled 1 Man

Takuan

well, at least this is covered: (NSFSA; not suitable for Saudi Arabia or large parts of America)
http://www.sextoyrecycling.com/

I feel so green!!

Takuan

drift with me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ANKxsSZRs

arkizzle

Fail-Safe is heavy!!!

FoetusNail

Also, why such a public rebuke? His address is on file.

Agent 86

Not a bad book by itself, really, just seems more like a sequel wrote by someone who never read the first book, based solely off of verbal notes and hazy secondhand recollections of the first book. The discontinuities are jarring.

…out of the 26 times it has been tagged on Amazon, 3 say travesty, 2 dreadful, 2 horrid, and 2 pathetic.

Takuan

well, if you’re Welsh I suppose.

Antinous

Oh, if you could only see what I see.

FoetusNail

minTpfresh and gang, happy solstice to you all and many thanks. You people are a very inspiring and provocative bunch.

Sammich, thanks, a beautiful place even in the mist.

Now, my name is Jock Stewart
I’m a canny gaun man,
And a roving young fellow, I’ve been.

So be easy and free
When you’re drinkin wi’ me.
I’m a man you don’t meet every day.

I have acres of land;
I have men at command;
I have always a shilling to spare.

Now, I took out my gun,
With my dog I did shoot,
All down by the River Kildare

I’m a piper by trade
And a roving young blade
And many a tune I do play

Let us catch well the hours
And the minutes that fly
And we’ll share them together this day

So, come fill up your glasses
Of brandy and wine,
And whatever the cost, I will pay.

Takuan

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0lUXnAs-U&feature=related

FoetusNail

If I only had one chance to show someone one piece of video of Jimi this would be it, few pieces of film capture the man’s exuberance, his smile, his sexiness, his playfulness, his soul such as this clip from Rainbow Bridge.

Antinous

Ark,

You’re living in the 1950s semantically. Thanks to the advent of the bench press and anabolic steroids, men have tits too. I, for one, welcome our new massively over-endowed pectoral overlords. In short, I am titled.

Antinous

Tenn’s 17 and could, by the way, kick any of our asses.

Jake0748

Good call, Tenn. That’s what I love about this place, for every problem, question – someone around here comes up with the answer. :)

Takuan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27naan

Tenn

Guess who is playing at the American Airlines Center tonight, guyz!?!?

The Cure. And I has tickets.

Mm, Untitled1- the perfect thread for concert gloating.

minTphresh

sunspots are fading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So0OwM_84qE

Takuan

ahhh

minTphresh

if we could only just get along! then, THEN we could have just the merriest of christmasses. sigh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niB1IXVVwdI&feature=related

minTphresh

happy new year everybody! oh, that chilled yager goes down way to damn easily! sammich, the last time i got to sing with my brother gibby, that was one of the last songs we will ever have sung together. we sang it for our harp player who had recently been killed. man, im gettin all teary eyed. peace everyone-the rev.

wrybread

I heard “Untitled 2″ is going to be about a steampunk diy Disney Ride made out of really interesting couches released under the creative commons…

ZehnKatzen

FTW: Just have James Cameron direct the sequel: Untitled 2 â€“ This time, it’s not Untitled 1.

If not him, then Michael Bay. Man, that guy needs something to balance out that shambolic Pearl Harbor.

Don’t thank me until you get the bill.

arkizzle

Weird, I put one up and it didn’t post.. here it is again:
Just to be extra tricky, one of the words is twice-convoluted:

Action/War film 1980-2008

“faux 68 grenade article relay”

minTphresh

eustace, glad u dig ‘em! here is the rest of the cd which i believe the tunes are downloadable: http://www.freewillastrology.com/cds/mp3s.html and here are the lyrics, which i really wish that i had written! : http://www.freewillastrology.com/cds/lyrics.html and if you would like to purchase their c.d. ( note, im just a big fan and recieve no $ compensation for pimping this awesome band) :http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YA7O/o/qid%3D978122617/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Daps_sr_pm_1_3/002-1610227-9030400%3CBR%3E

eustace

There’s been swordplay – without me! Take this…

Antinous

I disemvoweled mothers with their babies. I’ve disemvoweled great philosophers, proud young warriors, and revolutionaries. I’ve disemvoweled the evil, the good, the intelligent, the weak, and the beautiful. I have done this in the service of Her Divine Shadow, and apparently the fun never ends!

Tenn

TAKUAN – “I miss`Teresa.”

Me too.

Me three.

Talia

42.

strider_mt2k

What’s goin’ on on this side?

ridl

tak – you ever see the illustrated children’s version? It gave me the creeps when I was a kid.

Davin

Cowicide,

Rule 34, word rape. (Clippy!?)

sasquatch

Best

Post

Ever

Hyoscine

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/24/untitled-1.html#comments

Takuan

..I suppose you could MAKE one….

Vanderath

We shouldn’t be sad that chef has left us…

Takuan

bring ‘er around then matey!

minTphresh

tenn! i believe this song says it all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47UplyBQK4Y

Agent 86

Had me stumped for a while.

Godzilla against Mechagodzilla?

Takuan

he smooth

arkizzle

Forget Christmas, we have Tiffany covers:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mluCZBGtjW8&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-50DSi3M0

Takuan

damn! you still upright!?

minTphresh

wolfie’sma, no butterflies, but yeah, he is rather dreeeammyyy… taku-san, (or is it ‘takky’ now?) all i can say is “wow” thanks for the turn on. musical turn on, that is, get yer mind out of the sewer! speaking of sewer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMVmPgWB-Y may not be completely SFW!

buddy66

Be quiet. EVIDENCE or IVA BIGGRUDGE will hear you.

Anonymous

Bacon IS a Vegetable! Dammnit!!

Tom Hale

Hi all – yeah, that’s it – just stopped by to say hi

Antinous / Moderator

Let me guess; you’ve become a furry and you’re too busy making costumes to visit BB.

eustace

Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H69o9m3Mu6I

eustace

…but that was just to get you to lower your guard, for lightning fast there comes this…

Takuan

arr, cute and tiny they be, till that night camped out on the desert when ye awaken under a quarter moon and find thirty o them sitting silently around the tent….watching …waiting…snickering amongst themselves and passing remarks…

Antinous

Small animals generally do my bidding.

arkizzle

B&O are belt drive? Wow, I’m amazed. WOuld’ve guessed direct.

Also, I get the arm thing, clever, if a bit of a baroque solution :)

Takuan

“I ain’nt dead.”

Talia

You people need help :p

RabeKriegerin

Um. Um. Um. Um.

Hi? My friend Tenn lead me to this spiffy little site. She also said if I joined she would take me under her wings and give me pets. [I want cookies too, fyi] So.. umm.. hi!

/waves shyly.

Takuan

do-overs? A once-and-for-all war? Everyone drunk, naked and in a well-used cow pasture, armed with cushions and funny hats?

sammich

you mean … Count Duckula ??

Takuan

happy new year John
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

Takuan

Boingboing already posted this 1987 March

Takuan

I’m getting nowhere with this Abus No.85/50. Using a simple Southord PKS-17 set… are they split pins?

mdhatter

First!

arkizzle

MinT

You are veering very close to Permanent Life Ban.

And I don’t mean from BoingBoing

IOW: *drool*

Takuan

Yay Eustace!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10fR31jC1w

Takuan

Happy Birthday Tenn!

wolfiesma

Okay, this is a little cheezy.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QGYkFJj9M

Jake0748

RabeKriegerin – Welcome, grasshopper. Snatch the pebble from Antinous’ hand.

FoetusNail

A rolling stone gathers no moss,
But becomes polished and reflective
Of god’s beauty.

arkizzle

Wait, you can ‘pronounce’ Welsh.. whoa!

minTphresh

Ah ah ah
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Ah ah ah
I live my life for you
Think all my thoughts with you and only you
Anything you ask I do for you
I touch your lips with mine
But in the end I leave it to the lords
Leave it in the lap of the gods
What more can I do?
Leave it in the lap of the gods
I leave it to you
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Leave it in the lap of the gods
I want you to
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Lap of the gods
Lap of the gods

MaximusNYC

Steampunk!

Anonymous

IAWTP

zuzu

Doug Engelbart‘s Mother of All Untitled 1 1968 video

minTphresh

ark, this was my first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ11y7pYl-8 i stole it from my sister!

Takuan

though, I do confess I am a little unsure as to what they will do with an entire tanker’s worth of high grade silicone…..

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co&feature=fvw

minTphresh

free shepard fairey! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/07/shepard-fairey-arrested-i_n_164872.html

buddy66

I love pancakes and I’ll take maple syrup, thank you very much.

Takuan

ever noticed how no one can tell a joke that doesn’t involve unpleasantness for someone, somewhere, somehow? Try it.

FoetusNail

Arkizzle, I like that blessing one a great deal. Hope your recovery and MinTphresh’s are coming along nicely.

Takuan

aye, guid tae see tha auld ways kept oop.

Takuan

hey Nail!
http://www.automotto.org/entry/bumblebee-costume-does-actually-transform/

imipak

Awww. Tenn, I can’t imagine how that must feel, but – good, I guess :)

arkizzle

And she really knows how to wear a top :)

Takuan

looking for the lyrics to “Waving Flag”
http://knaanmusic.ning.com/

arkizzle

Nope Antionous, it’s the anal belching I appreciate.

minTphresh

why the hell not? just because it’s not “kung fu” doesn’t mean it’s not kungfuesque! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxniCvshwK4

minTphresh

teresa is o.k. is’nt she ? please tell me that she is. i was under the assumption that she was feeling better and just recouping for a bit. someone please

arkizzle

Antinous @ #1597

Accepted, but I’ll need some time.

sammich

happy new year minT :)
happy new year all!

Haldor

I call for unrestrained panic.

eustace

Looks like a good place to avoid if you’re tooling around in your flycycle…

Dean

I figured this would be the best place to find out.

Takuan

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/hv/hvcap/hvcap.html

eustace

It’s a very good guess, Hagbard. But not it, I think.

(apologies, my internets are become diffuse and momentary, with no known time of regulation)

Does no one else see the Gary Wolf/Gary Gygax link? Or why Mark might want to refer to it only tangentially?

It took place in Burkina Faso, at a synthetic fuel conference, in 1978. Of the twelve adepts who called the hell in upon themselves, three survived. Gygax was one. Do the ones that powerful ever really die?

I have a name, one of the other survivors; but Gary Wolf knows both names and their histories. It might seem as if nothing could stop him from telling the story he patiently waited years to tell. But if the same rumors are reaching him that I’ve heard; he’ll wait.

And what does Mark know? But my signal is fading.

anthony

O Untitled one, I grow wearily accustomed to your long stretches of silence.

Tenn

It’s a thing of beauty, isn’t it? The far-reaching community, not the pants.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFEw6uA0D70&feature=related

Takuan

ahh republicans!
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/nixon-supported-abortion-for-interracial-babies/

hagbard

Correct!

Takuan

nice Arkie! always wished someone would do an animated Varley’s Titan trilogy.

arkizzle

Curses! Manchurian Candidate was my move!

Ipcress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHtYuHCso4

Experiment in Terror:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJ0SSHlarc

Takuan

want
http://www.toxel.com/tech/2009/07/09/dolphin-inspired-personal-submarines/

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY

Tenn

-Wings over Rabekriegerin-

So, no one’s enacted Godwin’s Law on this thing yet? I thought it’d peter out and die on it’s own…

Kriegerin just did it. I mean, -sure-, you can -argue- just woman warrior, but it’s in German, so there. G’job Kira.

Thar’s Antinous, and Taku-san, and Jake, and MinT over there. Say hi, creepy internet personages.

I’m digging the pirate-wheel joke. Let’s see, dead baby jokes are probably not in best taste here…

eustace

watching miles et john is just aggravating though; I wanna yell “JOHN – when you’re done FOOLING AROUND over there maybe we could get some MUSIC – don’t you even NOTICE when Miles plays actual NOTES so well that he FORCES you to pay attention to each one?” Coltrane and his imitators make jazz unlisten-to-able for me…

Phikus

He’s avoiding you. Perhaps it’s your hygiene.

Avram

Aw, Jim Henley was all over this topic two years ago.

Bobby Galaxy

4’33″

Takuan

James Cameron? nahh. On the set of the last Dark Angel episode he was ducking imaginary bats.

Antinous / Moderator

A newspaper discovers that pay-per-view porn is amongst a number of unusual things being purchased by British MPs on their claimed expenses.

minTphresh

nouvelle vague rox! we used to cove ‘bela’ and i was blown back by her version. we also did ‘sex bomb’ ( flipper) and ‘transmission’(joy division). alright foetus, u axed for it, her are 6 of our tunes: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=73328370 remember, we suffered for our music. now, i suppose, it’s your turn.

eustace

…and just when you were expecting Princess Bride, instead this slips past your parry…

Takuan

Sheila: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won’t obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It’s Canada’s fault!
Sharon: Don’t blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the damn cartoon
And now he’s off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: It seems that everything’s gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Copy Guy: They’re not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
For…
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!

SABAZZ!

Takuan

watching

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/25/swine-flu-mexico

minTphresh

dammit! iwas gonna say: someone please let me know whats up. dang innernets. and hoy, hoy! rabekreigerin! say that 3 x fast!

imipak

*significant pause*

http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1345

ninnyfriedcheez

blank is the new black, so chic

Xopher

Correction to erudite yet utterly pointless comment.

arkizzle / Moderator

So, I just wanted to try out my new badge, give it a whirl before unleashing it on the general public, this seemed the obvious place.

Lemme see.. Not too bad.

Ok. Now I’m officially taking names.. I should probably find a pencil or something. Maybe I can dip this stick in that muddy puddle over there.. and there’s a nice clean wall over here..

Itym: finde a better ryting implyment

Itym: finde owt wear to rekwezishun sum armer

Itym: finde owt wear the baracks arr and clame a bunk

Itym: ryte to muther, an tell her she’s not aloud in the city limitz any moar

Itym: promiss the captin there wil b no moar trouble wit muther

Right-o, let’s go..

arkizzle

Pics or it didn’t happen.

nehpetsE

I was going to say something rather important but i am afraid it might be off topic.

Now i fear that i have mixed my tenses and my intentions.

Takuan

http://biae.clemson.edu/bpc/bp/Lab/110/reaction.htm

minTphresh

that was a bit happier, but even better with plutonium nyborg…whetever the hell that is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Yh_RRDMjI&feature=related

arkizzle

“I put out twenty years of books once..”

I would have great difficulty with that. I don’t own a lot of stuff, so the stuff like books and records that I do have, would probably be too hard to get rid of.

minTphresh

stand and deliver, rogue bumpkins! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

ROSSINDETROIT

Belt drive has advantages for suspension and isolation. Also it usually yields a lower deck height, which is important in terms of style.
I had a B&O 8002. I think that was direct drive. Nice table, but when the transparent slotted plastic disk that senses the motor speed fell apart I had to buy a custom made replacement that a dude in Copenhagen had laser cut from stainless steel. That wasn’t cheap.

Takuan

so who gets to be the Arch-Traitor?

Agent 86

I attended a very disappointing (but still awesome) steampunk-inspired-sculpture gallery showing tonight, and all I could think about was how none of my real-life friends would appreciate the pieces. Heathens.

searconflex

i just pooped

Takuan

nahh;772

Takuan

we need a pleasant diversion; would someone please pose? Tenn?

Agent 86

Happy New Years to my friends
to continued joys
and days bereft of endings

Mamarati

I love that 20 people have already favorited this.

Dizbuster

I like cats.

eustace

There’s a seal in Alaska, and he’s feeling blue,
his love’s off to Washington, to support the McCain campaign.
It’s not worth it, leaving the one you love.
Although, it does make the children laugh.

Sister Y

Antinous I am actually sure that is true no matter if the contest were kickboxing, chess, NES, or comparative humility.

Takuan might beat her at competitive spawning though.

Tenn

How does a question about a date named Neville lead into discussion of the British political system’s failings?

This could be an internet rule. All things British lead to Parliament. (Or… Tories… you know, I’m checking out a book on the Britgov (Minitruth?) on soonest occasion. Be warned, I’ll be asking a lot of questions of you folk.

The date was not named Neville. His sister rented a limo. He was about as socially able as Neville. I opened my own doors, got my own drink and his, etc. (Which I fully and totally support, and which would not bother me if I hadn’t been in difficult shoes. I usually split tasks with my date at dances, I hardly believe chivalry -need- be, but seriously. Jamie was lacking.)

At Project Celebration (post event to deter getting drunk high or laid,) they had a mock casino set up with funny money. I made 10,000 off 1,000 in blackjack.

thegiantsnail

I quit Untitled 1 before it was cool to quit Untitled 1.

Anonymous

It’s a Hap-hap-happy day! http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJN8d6dwwgc&feature=related

eustace

Thanks for the tune, MinT. Very catchy.

Tom Hale

This is weird, it’s like a ghost town here. It’s really quiet, too quiet.

eustace

well, i’d feel pretty worthless too if my name were anonymous…

Takuan

evil mind..evil sword
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObuvfQKPCsA

minTphresh

before they wanted to rule the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeHJzwwlJHE

minTphresh

u guys are kiddin me, right? u must be from the valley! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULo0oyCIqUU

Tenn

teresa is o.k. is’nt she ? please tell me that she is. i was under the assumption that she was feeling better and just recouping for a bit. someone please

I was under the impression that she was in recoup too.

arkizzle

Me @ 1606

Addition (it was a blasphemous Tiffany-Covers post without it, actually):

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-FuH6eGo0e0

Atomische

Oh! At first I thought it said Untilted.

Takuan

Jacqui “Porn Queen”?

Anonymous

Oi! Takuan @2448 – show some respeck! that’s our Porn Secretary you’re talkin’ bout!

- aggrieved UK

minTphresh

s-f novel, authors inits: s.l. da clu: ‘washout’ …go!

Takuan

to rise one must first fall. I’ll keep going sideways, thank you.

arkizzle

Touch of Evil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm0mG2Tb6EM&feature=related

FoetusNail

minT, welcome home! The world has turned.

arkizzle

#2181
Excellent link MinT.

I wonder, how is Chris Cornell not the king of the world?

He is an amazing vocalist and lyricist; a vivid poet. He has power in his voice as well as Jeff-Buckley-tenderness. He is also clearly a very good lookin’ chap, on the Brad Pitt level..

So, WTF? How does CC not pwn all r base?

/Not that I wanna have his babies or anything (anatomical/chromosomatic restrictions not withstanding).

Takuan

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/13/national/main5154550.shtml

Agent 86

I’m back, probably. I just finished setting up my *shinny* new laptop, and will now have internet where-ever I am! Woooo.

Is the game afoot? I have some back-reading in this thread!

Takuan

http://www.blogher.com/jimmy-carter-leaves-southern-baptist-church-protest-treatment-women

Takuan

orca kami opposes bot mirror

FoetusNail

I’ve seen KC, one of my biggest favorites, 3 times, 74, 95, and 01. We were into prog rock, so I saw a few of the few who came to our area. I have vague memories of the 74 show having bad acoustics and equipment problems, but we had a great time anyway.

The dgmlive site is great for tracking down KC and associates tour dates. They have shows available for sale as FLAC files.

eustace

Where the brownstone steps met the sidewalk he turned and climbed. Knocked on the door, and waited. A muffled voice came from behind the door. “Untitled?”
“One,” he replied, and the door swung quickly open.

hackwater

I can’t believe I signed up for an account just so I could commit Untitled 1

Sister Y

lakh ^ -1, the province of the greatest kind

berskeleyman

Dude!?

Tomas

” “

jcwiseesq

first post!!!

Takuan

Niven would be proud
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/17/austin-texas-gets-an-electric-sunflower-garden/

Takuan

purely instrumental

Takuan

good lyrics

APATHY AND IGNORANCE
(listen to the mp3)

In the land where nothing’s sacred
Where the doctors make people sick
If you stand on your head
you might see things more clearly
But then again you might become
addicted to conflict

I…I have a problem
I know that lawyers cause all the crime
And the banks make the drugs flow
The priests make the porno
And you might be responsible
for poisoning the sunshine

Names have been changed
to protect the guilty
Names have been changed
What is the difference
between apathy and ignorance
I don’t know and I don’t care

In the land where nothing is free
Where the homeless are the brave
Where the females are equal
as long as they’re macho
And all the shopping malls
are built on Indian graves

You have the right to remain silent
You have the right to refuse to vote
Can you tell me the difference
between the two parties
Believe it or not Believe it or else
Hope leads to dope

What is the difference
between apathy and ignorance
I don’t know and I don’t care

I agree with everybody
Football is sex and soup is good food
And new cars are religion
and beer is emotion
And everyone’s a nobody
and nobody’s perfect

arkizzle

Yeh, where the hell is SisterY?

I thought Agent’s game was answered too.. Ah well, game on!

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z0C_ETmTUM&feature=related

Takuan

WTF!!!! BURN BOSTON TO THE GROUND!!!

Takuan

honto ni, Buddy-sama,omeditogozaimasu!

minTphresh

whew! then me four, and hopefully she’ll be kickin troll ass soon!

Antinous

She’s fine. She’s just at a workshop or something.

berskeleyman

Dude?!

Anonymous

This probably the most comments they’ve gotten so far.

eustace

I’ve found a wonderful flash game where you get to pretend you are a giant cephalopod beneath the waves – no, I’m not kidding, Tak. The name of the game is The Majesty of Colors.

slida

Holy flurking shnitt, you guys are out of control over here.:)

sammich

I can’t believe boingboing didn’t aknowledge Oliver Postgate…

hagbard

The ipsum is a lie.

eustace

…and to continue the agricultural theme…

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0CFXSh_iY

Tom Hale

Takuan, Doing great

Anti, no Furryness for me – though I have nothing against Furries or Furrishness in general. – I tend to get completely absorbed in a forum or blog for a while – then fade away. I’ll be back – I love BB

Antinous / Moderator

Okay, there have been three comments this week linking to reptilian overlord sites, all completely serious. Are the drugs in the contrails starting to lose their effectiveness? Is the Queen’s holo-emitter on the fritz?

hokano

Wow. Thought I was late to the thread when I chimed in at #249.

Now I’m happy to have been present at the creation.

Where does the time come from?

Takuan

http://independentbloggersalliance.blogspot.com/2008/11/political-corruption-in-boston-chuck.html

hokano

ever notice how some old people make you feel young, and some young people make you feel old?

Oh, aye.

But Sun Myung people fill me with trepidation.

buddy66

Yeah, I think there’s a subtext here. And I think it’s political. Or, dare I say, ideological?

Ahh … maybe just my nascent paranoia.

hackwater

Also, harking back to the movie quotes: the first rule of Untitled 1 is you don’t talk about Untitled 1

eustace

is this the end of untitled 1?
(gasp, choke)

Ari B.

Snrky cmmnt tht gts cnsrd by th mds at Bng Bng.

Hw vry mt.

kabory

The post is obviously photoshoped.

tallpat

Wow… Trippy… I just now got around to reading all of the previous comments, only to find my earlier comment was a duplicate of valaria23′s.

Takuan

that’s ripe for a loonnng chicken fight mash-up with the right sound track

arkizzle

Curses !

arkizzle

Oh, Noen. I’ve seen that one, I think..

minTphresh

u mean him? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMwpVF58c2c

Takuan

http://www.boston.com/news/specials/wilkerson/

Takuan

I thought the laser styus also picked up the crap, but they filtered it?

sammich

oops – “Ciao, pais…” i mean
?

minTphresh

cheers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4

Tenn

Oh! Thanks, that’s reassuring. Hey, do you have a larger pebble? I still can’t snatch it

sammich

Don’t make me cry Arkizzle – i remember them at their peak – i was there at the trumpton riots

Tom Hale

Takuan banned – no Fing way – He, along with several others here, changed my point of view on many subjects that I hadn’t considered changeable – until I actually listened and Takuan wrote in a way that made you listen and think. Debate and discussion was turned into art by Tak and I’m sure that whatever he said that got him banned was trivial compared to the changes he made in so many wrong thinker’s minds.

A huge loss for BB

arkizzle

WHOA!

Steady on there Mark, we’re all friends here.

There are opinions, and then there’s just base slander, and you sir, are veering very close to the line indeed.

I shall away, and bid you good day sir!

thegiantsnail

That’s an awesome Interpol song.

scottfree

O Great Untitled One, we comment on thy thread.

Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5SSilhN-8

wolfiesma

Ooooh, the Bastard Fairies really are a revelation. Me likee. Oh, and MinT, nine is fine, but three is the magic number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnJ5uoyptY

eustace

…and as you throw a hasty defence against the inevitable Luke vs. Vader or Obiwan vs. Vader or (fill in blank) instead there’s this…

minTphresh

u want groove? u get groove! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0wZEb02XU

danlalan

nice t’meetcha, minT.

Thanks foetus, I LOVE Zorba the Greek, one of my all time faves

ROSSINDETROIT

These turntables sold in significant quantities for around $1200 30 years ago. You can – or could – get a lot of fancy engineering for tha tkind of money. The fact that it’s still running well after all these years speaks well of the robustness of this complex design. Three decades is a long time for anything with moving parts.

FoetusNail

IMIPAK, thanks for the 808 link. My son has woken us up twice tonight, so I’m sitting here listening to 808 videos.

Try 801.

arkizzle

Wow, there does seem to be alot of Joy Division covers about.
Nice mash in the one you linked though :)

Anonymous

That’s what she said.

Takuan

rossindetroit: where are you?

Agent 86

Ireland and East-Ireland?

Thanks for the well wishes, I’m sure I could feel them crossing the aether (…it was either that, or a mild case of alcohol)

Antinous

Let’s just go with Hibernia, Caledonia and Other.

caffeineslinger

Straight to the point. I love it.

Tenn

I’ll be eighteen by spring break next year. Let’s do it, Ark. That’s plenty of time to learn to count four decks at once.

Is that YOU wearing them Ant, or doing ‘things’ wearing them? I had issues with my four inch stilettos. Though they came in handy as a threat (I want to make a pair with real stilettos embedded in the heels.)

scottfree

Still not as many posts as Ben Stein’s evolving lizards.

Agent 86

I like hearing from actual people. I’ve found that the plural of anecdote IS fact when it comes to electronics.

Takuan

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/08/19/boston_police_corruption_case_detailed/

minTphresh

since ya’ll need a bloody ‘theme’ : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1my-jllkGn8 now with culture!

eustace

…only cream and bastards rise…

sammich

i meant http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYOQOn-NPU

minTphresh

If you get lonely on your daddy’s farm
Just remember I don’t live too far.
And there’s a red bridge that arcs the bay, yeah
You’ll be at my place in less that a day.

So get on your bad motor scooter and ride
Up over to my place and stay all night.
First thing in the morning we’ll be feeling all right
So get on your bad motor scooter and ride.

Ooh, the last I seen your face
I swore that no one would take your place.
Now since you’ve been gone I’ve been feelin’ bad, yeah
I’d come out to your place (but)
I’m afraid of your dad. So you…

Ride, ride, ride.
Come on baby, ooh yeah.
Crank it on up!

Takuan

236 more to go

arkizzle / Moderator

Doomed eh?

Curses. Well, let’s just pray for no more .. uh!

I nearly went and typed it, right on the internet! What an idiot.

Everything will be fine. At ease. Carry on. Nothing to see here.. I’m doomed.

Takuan

merely an involuntary tremor, good Hokano.

Takuan

something about them, reminds me of the Mouldy Peaches.

Takuan

http://internet128.com/index.php/2006/07/22/the-good-news-in-the-boston-police-corruption-scandal/

Takuan

http://tarahsmith.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/mooning16991.jpg

Agent 86

Takuan, I know you have some arcane ceremony you could perform to summon Antinous, so that he may sit in judgment of our humble guesses.

Agent 86

I’ve got the itis

Antinous

Is that anything like the lurgy?

sammich

Agent 86 + Antinous – we need a name for the ~whole~ archipelago!
(or I do, at least)
- and Agent 86 – what the hell is the use of a ~mild~ case of alcohol?

arkizzle

Yeah, punky christmas!

iracecars

this post has a liberal bias

typical

Antinous

Dating is a great way to build self-confidence because you get to see how much more functional you are than the rest of the local gene pool. And I find it easier to do things in fourteen inch stilettos.

Takuan

http://wbztv.com/local/marijuana.federal.penalty.2.1052437.html

minTphresh

and dig those crazy hats!

Takuan

ah too much like yesterday!

minTphresh

a varient, sans culture. spoiler alert! mountainbike endoes!

arkizzle

Did I just make up the word ‘chromosomatic’?

..oh. No I didn’t. It is entirely correct.

Thought it sounded kinda like colours-make-me-sick, Ã¡ la psychosomatic.

FoetusNail

@2575 – How typical, politics as usual without regard for consequences. That asshole makes me sick. Too bad there isn’t a vaccination for stupidity. I know I could have used a few doses over the years!

arkizzle

Ok.. this is getting messy. Time for:

Divorce court!

And I too, will be remaining with Untitled 1 while there is life still left in it. Even if that means having to make a photo book with all our names and faces in, so U1 doesn’t get too anxious as the memories slip away into the aether and s/he can’t quite recall who s/he is talking to.. And I may steal a toffee or two as well. S/he won’t even notice!

And Sam’, funnily enough, I was whisky’d to bejaysus when I made that Preston comment, as well. Maybe it’s a Preston thing :)

sammich

antinous – if you really want to diss England, at least mention Cambria…

Sister Y

oops my notation got screwed up, I mean

lakh * 10^-1, the province of the greatest kind

minTphresh

or a british-isles bong-a-thon! first to giggle loses all. last to munch out, wins!

Antinous

Good call, sammich.

arkizzle

Oh yeh? Mad one. That’s some heavy shit. And it certainly takes away from their Tiffany credibility.

Did you ever hear of the Battle of the Beanfield? That was heavy handed shit. There’s a documentary if you can find it.. here’s a link to some of the footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JCkUZAwvEA

NOTE: Its NOT a happy link.

Seg

Why do I sense this as a ploy for BoingBoing readership to create the content of BoingBoing?

* claps *

Well played Frauenfelder… well played…

Tenn

-reads above posts, calibrates monitor, rereads disbelievingly-

Clearly, my internet persona is much more affable than my in-life persona.

Takuan’s also far more eccentric than me and more of a cosmopolite than I’ll ever be. The eccentricity may come when I reach that advanced, advanced age.

-rereads-

Humility? I’m sorry, someone must have stolen my handle and used it behind my back to create such an impression. My apologies for the confusion.

Tenn

Which makes sense, being as you said not I am getting married but she is, but as it was late my neuro processes were slowing. Don’t question yourself- my first boyfriend is bisexual now, but we get along quite well discussing various male assets. I broke up with him after he insulted my friend with a sweatshop joke, I insulted him multiple times, and he accused me of being mean. My parting line (which disproves the other thread which calls me humble and otherwise makes me sound like a nice person) was “I’m not mean, you’re just a *****, and I’m not a lesbian.” Now, though, he’s cut the racism jokes and he’s a much nicer person (as am I, doubtless, but only from sheer luck and some sort of intervention.)

I am looking forward to the Megababe Metamorphosis.

Antinous

Tenn,

Can you get over to Fake Babies and tell us if we got invisible tsunami right, PLEASE!

Takuan

you were right

Takuan

echo..echo….echoechoecho,…..

Takuan

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgyccBOpEc

anthony

Being as this is the most occult spot on the blog, I propose it be used to counter-curse Bush’s midnight regulations.
All together, now….Wish.

Takuan

(don’t you just love the warm afterglow from knowing you just crapped in someone’s prefrontal lobes?)

Agent 86

Wow, The Cure is still touring? I thought they had a breakup/last tour ~8 years ago?

minTphresh

takuan, YES!! but first, ze duel… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nri054ZsIPM

sammich

Hey Wales… Hey Wales… Hey Wales…

Antinous

I’m part Welsh. One of my family surnames has no vowels. How ironic is that?

sammich

tnanks ant :)

vwchick88

I love that “nothing” can cause so much of a reaction. We are the 4% who stop to look at the painting.

elevenwatt

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