Random thoughts...

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:01 pm

Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, died yesterday.

Lets all have a moment of noise in rememberance.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:09 am

Clank clank, RRRRRRRRoarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, CrasHHHHHHHH, TWanGGGG, TEEAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR>>>>>>
RIP

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:45 am

Can't find the "What are you reading?" thread, so I will post this here:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technol ... ostpopular

I've been tired and headachey these last few days, so haven't been getting anything done.

Blah.

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BAS · Post by **BAS** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:51 pm

In trying to build practical fusion reactors, current science is attempting to substitute magnetics for gravity. Instead of the force of gravity fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms, instead, if I understand correctly, magnetics are used to accelerate the hydrogen atoms until they achieve enough mass to fuse into helium atoms. The problem seems to be that, in order to get the lightest particle massive enough to fuse into the second lightest particle, the most extreme of extreme velocities must be gained. This requires a LOT of energy. Thus lately I have been leaning towards the view that either we humans should be trying to fuse heavier particles, or finding another substitute for gravity. Unfortunately, no other substitute for gravity is as promising. (Weirdly, magnetics isn't too bad a substitute for gravity.)

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theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:32 am

Is it just me, or does it seem to others that the mentions of Burning Man in this article is basically pointless?

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:13 pm

I think that the author wanted to try to disprove Archigram's theory. (Of course, I doubt Burning Man really qualifies as a test of the theory of mobile, temporary villages. BM is a festival first, and a temporary village second.)

Or maybe the author thought mentioning Burning Man would draw more attention to the article...?

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OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:14 pm

I think it was the latter BAS.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:35 am

I found myself Saturday night, at a party, I guess I wasn't lost, just temporarily missplaced.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:02 pm

I got a job offer from the University of Wisconsin--Madison for maintenance on second shift. Not as high paying as I would like, but better than the temp jobs I have been doing. (Better benefits, for starts.) I told them I would start on October 14, so that I can give Adecco a week's notice (and, incidentally, so I can take the exam on the 10th for the job I lost in January.) Now I need to figure out what to do about living arrangements (I do have some friends in Sun Prairie, one of whom works at the U.W. who I might be able to live with, but I can't seem to sleep well when I am at their house [not just because their cats want to know what I am doing in their bed-- as they think of the spare bed!]). Maybe I should move into the steam tunnels...!

As for now, I should get to bed.

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The CO · Post by **The CO** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:00 am

Maybe just build yourself an apartment in a local malls parking garage...

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:23 pm

Now that might be an idea..., except the only shopping mall in Madison with a parking ramp is the least interesting of the lot! (Its anchor store is a super market...!)

To be honest, the job is a custodial one. I don't know why I called it maintenance. (Well, I think it is through the maintenance dept., maybe...

)

Ugh. I had trouble getting to sleep last night, so spent today really, really tired. I must have been really anxious to find permanent employment.

Maybe I will try getting in a nap.

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OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:16 am

Naps are good!

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:33 pm

Only three words?

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OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:50 pm

You know that a person is really your friend when they can spend an afternoon waxing the hair off your unmentionables and still ask if you want to go have breakfast sometime.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:22 pm

I can't say as I have had that exact experience, Oregon Red!

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Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:22 am

Well, since we're on the subject . . . Are waxed unmentionables now the norm? For females and males? My sexual circus left town upon marriage in 1973, when it definitely was not the norm. It was so not the norm that my artist cousin remarked about it when a model shaved for him. Doesn't a waxed unmentionable look, well, unripe or something?
Just wondering.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:16 pm

There are different schools of thought on that, Bin. But as far as I can tell waxed is the preferred for women and becoming more acceptable for me. I've only tried shaved, and then only once and yuck I ain't going there again. The woman who ran Hair to Stay magazinehas actually equated the preference for shaved pubes to an interest in child molestation, or maybe not quite that far, it's been a while since I read it. I'm lazy, so the whole idea of low maintenance is appealing, plus it just seems a little neurotic to me. But I feel like a dinosaur.

Post by **AntiM** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:34 pm

New porn is awful, nary a pubic hair to be see, save for the stray landing strip. Even the men have shiny cue-balls below their pricks. Bleh.

Looking for good vintage porn, like Debbie Does Dallas ... hey everyone, it's the Bush Twins!

EspressoDude · Post by **EspressoDude** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:55 pm

what, no nose tickling?

Nick Collide · Post by **Nick Collide** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:07 pm

No, but I'm told the mustache tickles...

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:42 pm

anti-M, the old sun-club and nudist colony sites have hair.

Barbecued in San Francisco;

The city of San Francisco, with an area of only seven square miles, has over 2,500 licensed cell phone antennas positioned at 530 locations throughout the city. In practical terms, this city, like thousands of others, is being wave-nuked 24 hours a day.

The identical damage resulting from both radioactive gamma waves and high frequency microwaves involves a pathological condition in which the nuclei of irradiated human cells splinter into fragments called micronuclei. Micronuclei are a definitive pre-cursor of cancer. During the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl in Russia, the ionizing radiation released was equivalent to 400 atomic bombs, with an estimated ultimate human toll of 10,000 deaths. Exposed Russians quickly developed blood cell micronuclei, leaving them at high risk for cancer.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:32 pm

Well, considering I could stand to lose 50 to 100 pounds of fat, I doubt shaving would make much difference in my attractiveness one way or the other! Besides, stubble, razor burn, and nicks on certain parts of me are, well, not exactly appealing. (Well, I did try shaving my legs at one time, since I was bicycling to work every day and seemed to have a problem with wiping out on the streets. I'd heard the theory that shaved legs got less road burn... Of course, once I had shaved 'em, I stopped wiping out, so I never tested the theory!)

I'm not up to commenting intelligently on the radiation posting. I have no idea what sort of effect the cell phone towers are having on the environment (other than looking ugly, that is!) We keep putting more waves into the air when it is for something like being able to telephone our friends to tell them that we are driving in heavy traffic at high speed, but orbiting solar power satellites were too controversial due to beaming down similar waves to receiving stations on Earth!

<sigh>

Maybe I will go take some more aspirin.....

B.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:23 pm

Everyone having the same hair style is really, really boring.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:03 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:There are different schools of thought on that, Bin. But as far as I can tell waxed is the preferred for women and becoming more acceptable for me. I've only tried shaved, and then only once and yuck I ain't going there again. The woman who ran Hair to Stay magazinehas actually equated the preference for shaved pubes to an interest in child molestation, or maybe not quite that far, it's been a while since I read it. I'm lazy, so the whole idea of low maintenance is appealing, plus it just seems a little neurotic to me. But I feel like a dinosaur.

I admit it. I'm a neurotic, insecure, fucked-up mess. The waxing is NOT a preference of The Co's it's my preference. I don't have it all taken off, just cleaned up a bit 'cause I don't like the way it feels.

I wasn't looking to start a debate, it was just a random thought I had while my waxer was waxing my naughty bit and he and I were discussing going out to breakfast on his next day off.

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:17 pm

I wasn't looking to start a debate

Not at all, OR, I was just randomly musing, too. Enough "debate" on this board already & I prefer not to add to it. Whatever you're comfy with is right.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:21 pm

OregonRed wrote:my naughty bit

You say that as though only one bit of you is naughty.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:27 pm

PurpleKoosh wrote: You say that as though only one bit of you is naughty.

Only one bit I will admit is naughty...
Nothing else can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:13 am

Buncha odd dreams last night. In one I showed up at a grocery store in my pajamas, looking for someone. No one noticed, and on the way out I witnessed a former supervisor of mine catching a shoplifter.

In a later dream I encountered the shoplifter again, who was happy that I was around when she was caught, and wanted to know what shift I worked at the supermarket. Being a dream, I had a hard time answering the question, since I couldn't recall where I was currently working!

In a later dream I spent about an hour trying to clean something which was supposed to be a child's laptop computer. (Lacking a monitor, and being about the same size and weight of an old IBM Selectric Typewriter, I would like to talk to the Props Department of my dreams!) For some reason it was smeared with petroleum jelly and dirt, and all I had to clean it with were paper towels and tissue paper. Finally, I figured out it had to be a dream and tried to fly home... and woke up instead.

Sure, some people have romantic encounters in their dream! I dream about cleaning stuff and wandering around public places dressed for bed! Sheesh!

Maybe I should fire my scriptwriters...!

B.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:10 pm

I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might be able to convince him that you didn't mean nothin' by it...

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:29 pm

The Man with No Name wrote:I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might be able to convince him that you didn't mean nothin' by it...

Random thoughts...

Just something I was thinking about on the way home.