The Bar

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:14 am

I wanna buy a drink for all my friends!

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:16 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
geekster wrote:Yeah, well, I keep ripping down the campaign posters and sports pennants as fast as people put them up.
If you ever need help burning that stuff, I'm your fish.

Whenever you like, Fishy. Whenever you like.

Think of all the freezing people we can heat with a fire like that...

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:17 am

Someone check the pickled egg jar again.

Good morning GE ... Here's hot coffee for anyone that wants some .. fresh pot! No need to hike all the way to Center Camp ... well, since Center Camp is all packed up someplace anyway ...

I thought the "tick" comment was gonna get me fired but it was taken as it was intended. Those guys just hit this little website with 1750 requests at 1 second intervals for pages the site admin specifically requested that bots not pull so he crawled up into my butt about it since my name was on the IP address assignment. Whenever you pull a website you not only use your bandwidth that you pay for, but the site operator has to pay for the bandwidth his servers use at his end too, so a spider bot can pull a lot of traffic in a short period of time. It just freaked him out a little and I had to point the owners of bot to some documents describing how bots are supposed to work.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:22 am

Zulegoona wrote:I kind of had the feeling you were heading for a melt down over there.

Oh I'm a INTP by the way

Ha! I got you beat with an F! Making me that ultra rare all inner directed sort!

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:25 am

Mmmm, baby. Geekie, yer talkin' a hole in my head. I'll just grin and nod, and assume that it's some massive computer jargon that I can't even BEGIN to comprehend. It's okay. I don't NEED to comprehend it. Seriously, I'm doing well if I can exist on this board and occaisionally post a picture or something. Honestly, all I really do on the computer is email and get directions from mapquest. Like I said before, I don't even have one at my house (though hopefully I'll remedy that soon enough... it's driving me CRAZY not to have access at my home... I think a little laptop is in order... something simple, but I need small, as I live in a tiny little studio).

I'm the same way with math. zero comprehension of numbers. My brain just can't seem to wrap itself around them. But, of course, everything balances out. I have nearly perfect pitch, I can sight read anything (both vocally, as well as on the piano (though it's been a little while since I've played), as well as the trombone). I'm just so much more right-brained than left-brained...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:28 am

GuinivereElise wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:
geekster wrote:Yeah, well, I keep ripping down the campaign posters and sports pennants as fast as people put them up.
If you ever need help burning that stuff, I'm your fish.
Whenever you like, Fishy. Whenever you like.

Think of all the freezing people we can heat with a fire like that...

Nope, not enough BTUs--gotta go for the furniture (not that the pool table getsa lot of use.) Paper doesn't actually burn well, alas.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:29 am

Coffee,... I need coffee..... Please..

Fishie
I would expect a fish that likes to go to the desert to be rather self contained.

Tiahaar · Post by **Tiahaar** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:32 am

hey, its a long shot...but picked up a bit in the paper about an electrical fireball accident at a Stanford accelerator http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn ... 527.htm?1c
and um, that's where you are Badger? All OK?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:34 am

tiahaar,

I remember the article about that accident making the rounds here... I think it was decided that it was NOT badger... though maybe my memory is faulty... geekster? You were in on that conversation, no?

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:36 am

GuinivereElise
Sorry I missed your birthday suit , I mean Birthday, I got here to late for all the festivities and it didn't look like you'd be back so we ate some of your cake without you.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:36 am

Tiahaar wrote:hey, its a long shot...but picked up a bit in the paper about an electrical fireball accident at a Stanford accelerator http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn ... 527.htm?1c
and um, that's where you are Badger? All OK?

Someone on the F*ck thread tracked it down. Now our Badger.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:37 am

noT noT noT our badger.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:39 am

Sorry, didn't mean to boggle. I live in kind of a little warped part of reality down here in Silicon Valley. Even the paperboy can code PHP.

Anyway, it would be SOOOOO nice to move someplace else where housing costs are sane and people have backyard barbeques and get to know their neighbors and people live in the same place for more than 5 years.

I grew up on the East coast and what really came as a bit of culture shock when I first moved to California were the FENCES. Eveyone has at least 6 feet of fence in their backyard, some are concrete block walls. When I was living in Virginia, NONE of the backyards had fences (except this one weird guy from California that built this big 6-foot fence around his yard and never talked to anyone). The center line between abutting backyards was a walking path. People would go for walks every evening through the backyards and stop to talk to whoever might be sitting out back drinking some iced tea or lazing in a hammock.

When I first moved to Southern California (LA) I discovered that if you want to completely disappear from your neighbors, all you would have to do is move around the corner. I lived in the same house down there for 5 years and when I said hello to my neighbors I got a glare like I had just scared the living piss out of them. It isn't so bad up here in the Bay Area but damn ... nobody lives here long. It is like the gold rush. People come up here to pan a little gold out of the tech industry and then they leave.

I was born and raised in the country. I like being NEAR a city and I actually like this area if I could move only 10 miles away or so (say ... Boulder Creek) but dayum ... Silicon Valley is a goofy place to live. I need TREES!

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:41 am

GuinivereElise wrote:tiahaar,

I remember the article about that accident making the rounds here... I think it was decided that it was NOT badger... though maybe my memory is faulty... geekster? You were in on that conversation, no?

Yeah, it wasn't Badger. He is okay. I thought the same thing when I first read the article. My thoughts instantly went to hoping it wasn't him and that whoever it is, I hope they get better soon.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:41 am

I couldn't tell I thought the idea was expressed that had it been Badger the fire ball would have taken out half the state. or something like that.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:45 am

Yeah, not sure all that booze from BM has been processed by his liver yet. It might take a week or two to put the fire out if it was him.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:56 am

Geekster,

it's okay... you didn't boggle... like I said, I just glaze over, then grin and nod...

Up until a year ago, I lived in a very small town in the midwest. VERY small. Population 2700.... and I think that included the cows. More trees than you could ever imagine. People born, lived, and died all in the same place. It was the kind of place that sucked you in and never let you go.

I haven't been back since I moved. and I have no plans to go back, either.

I guess it's all about perspective. I like the atmosphere in seattle better. there's still that same friendliness (though entirely too pc for my taste), but not the inbred qualities, like having your nose in everyone's business.

I think it's kind of a happy medium between my old world and your current world.

Zulegoona: I looked back and saw all the fun that I missed... did you save me any cake??

Last night, a friend made me dinner, and then we watched the film The Apple. OMG, some of the funniest shit I've ever seen. A terrible terrible musical from the 80's. I've not laughed so hard in YEARS.

Has anyone else heard of this?

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:07 am

Yeah, I like the area AROUND here, just not EXACTLY here. There are hills and trees right outside my window. Actually, I live in West San Jose, kindof where San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga all join so it is not as bad as San Jose proper which is pretty much concrete and blacktop. I will probably spend the rest of my days in this area or maybe more North. Eugene, Oregon seems to call to me but I am with you GE ... the Pacific Northwest seems just SOOOO PC to me. Oh, the women (in particular) might get a kick out of this woman's blog .... www.dooce.com some of the archives just get me laughing so hard my sides ache. She actually lost her job because of that blog. Anyway, if you get the time, check this out about Pacific Northwest Citizenship:

http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/11_27_2002.html

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:08 am

GuinivereElise,
Ok so you mentioned a small town in the Midwest I've got to ask What small town?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:09 am

why do you ask? are you from the midwest?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:10 am

*hits forehead with heel of hand*

Sorry.

I lived just a scant 1.5 hours southeast of you.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:10 am

Spring Valley, MN.

Just south of Rochester.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:11 am

Location: Saint Paul, MN

raised in Iowa

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:12 am

graduated from Luther College, Decorah, IA.

*cringe* Can't believe I just admitted that out loud.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:13 am

I drive through Spring Valley when I go to visit my family In Cedar Falls.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:16 am

Rian Jackson did some time at Luther.......

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:20 am

*sticks bucket in through food-service port*

Hello.

My name is Bucket.

Anybody want to join me in some

D R I N K I N G ?

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:21 am

buckethead alien wrote:*sticks bucket in through food-service port*

Hello.

My name is Bucket.

Anybody want to join me in some

D R I N K I N G ?

That is what I have been waiting to hear. I think we are in line for a few shots of Jaeger.

Jason

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:22 am

Really? Rian was at Luther?

Hmmmm....

you must go to Cedar Falls via hwy16?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:25 am

Geekster: that article was hilarious... and just as I was finishing it up, laughing out loud, a customer came into my store...

here I am, laughing, all by myself....

I'm sure everyone in the area here thinks I'm just insane...

The Bar

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