Random randomness

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:40 pm

Just looked it up. She's been a Swiss citizen since 2013 and renounced her American citizenship. Been living there since 1994.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:49 pm

I don't understand the outrage, I think mayonnaise ice cream sounds good.
Probably tastes kind of like eggnog.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:13 pm

Mmm eggnog icecream would be soooo good. I could make shakes with it.

But mayo....no. Nope. I lOVE mayo. I get a spoon full on kitchen visits. But icecream..no.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:03 pm

Who else thinks of actors the way I do? Ive been watching old 90s eps of shows. Last night it was Stargate SG-1. It struck me that when I think on an actor like say Richard Dean Anderson I think of him from the 90s. I think of him in his Col O'Neill days. Not his older self. I do this with actors and actresses all the time. I just live in a different time.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:37 pm

Sounds similar to how some of my wife's aunts used to go on and on about how good looking Marlon Brando was. How attracted to Marlon Brando would you say you are?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:04 am

Funny. I always knew him as the old and fat kinda nutty old man my entire life. But saw A Streetcar Named Desire clip or pic the other day and showed the wife and thought he was pretty handsome. I could hardly believe it was the same guy. She agreed.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:32 am

I probably knew it at the time but stuff doesn't stick all that well in my mind so seeing that Peter O'Toole lived until Dec 14 2013 is a surprise to me. I didn't realize it was that recent. One of the greats.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:51 am

Just watched the Star Trek The Next Generation episode The Outrageous Okona. I always remembered this as a fun ep due to Billy Campbell's character of Okona. It came down to his acting of the part. Fun stuff.
It also has a young Teri Hatcher in it.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:57 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:40 pm Just looked it up. She's been a Swiss citizen since 2013 and renounced her American citizenship. Been living there since 1994.

There are likely some holes in your story.

Default · Post by **Default** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:17 pm

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:14 pm I started a new job as a delivery driver (not UPS, thank God) and I found out I need knee braces... or a ton of painkillers. For the past week, even with me doing only HALF the walking (I was partnered with a fellow driver, as we shared loads), I was walking 5000-8000 steps per day, which is way more than my usual walking (honestly, about 1000). I can feel my pounds are dropping (I already fit back into my size 42 pants, whereas I usually wear 44). I just ordered the knee braces off Amazon, but they won't get here until late Monday. *sigh*

For grins, I looked up my favorite painkiller... Naproxen sodium. I just switched to Amazon's house brand, which is 40% cheaper than its competitor. (Hmmm...) I used to get 100 caplets for $8. Now I get 200 caplets for $10. I looked at the label... "do not exceed 3 tablets a day". WTF? So I looked it on on Mayo Clinic. Turns out, your body can tolerate a lot more than 3 a day. Each caplet is 220 mg, and your body can take up to 1500 mg a day. That's almost 7 tablets PER DAY. I'd imagine you have to take it with food to make sure it doesn't hurt your stomach though. For gout and arthritis in acute attacks, take 3 and hope for quick relief.

Here's to hoping I won't have to walk TOO much on Monday...

Call me when you get to 27,000.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:21 pm

Freyland wrote: ↑Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:57 pm
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:40 pm Just looked it up. She's been a Swiss citizen since 2013 and renounced her American citizenship. Been living there since 1994.
There are likely some holes in your story.

It took me a minute.................

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:21 pm

Survived Monday. Fortunately I got a van that I didn't have TOO much problem getting into. Got my new knee braces in, will have to try them for a whole day to see if it really helps.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:22 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:13 pm Mmm eggnog icecream would be soooo good. I could make shakes with it.

But mayo....no. Nope. I lOVE mayo. I get a spoon full on kitchen visits. But icecream..no.

There's garlic ice cream down in Gilroy, CA...

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:07 pm

If birds descended from dinosaurs, can we surmise that T Rex tasted like chicken?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:11 pm

I'm just curious. If I pulled somoene's name and did this?

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:31 am @hepcat can you hear me now?

Does it behave like a social media @? and draw their attention to thread?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:16 pm

No, but quoting them generates a notification.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:25 pm

Say my name one more time into a mirror and I show up in a Bea Arthur mask and carrying a machete....

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:29 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:25 pm Say my name one more time into a mirror and I show up in a Bea Arthur mask and carrying a machete....

And nothing else. Beware!!

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:30 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:25 pm Say my name one more time into a mirror and I show up in a Bea Arthur mask and carrying a machete....

Did the notification point here or to wherever I pulled you name from?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:31 pm

It arrived in the talons of a raven and written in the blood of an innocent vir...

...yes. I saw the notification.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:57 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:07 pm If birds descended from dinosaurs, can we surmise that T Rex tasted like chicken?

I don't know but now they're saying he might have sounded like one.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:06 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:30 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 4:25 pm Say my name one more time into a mirror and I show up in a Bea Arthur mask and carrying a machete....
Did the notification point here or to wherever I pulled you name from?

The notification points you right here.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:49 pm

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:23 pm

hepcat wrote:It arrived in the talons of a raven and written in the blood of an innocent vir...

...yes. I saw the notification.

So you're all packed for GenCon?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:21 am

Spoiler:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:34 pm

Are they the new Sci-Fi SyFy?

Default · Post by **Default** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:56 pm

Achievement unlocked: Empty Nester

Helping the boys move into an apartment. Fortunately, it's only a couple blocks from my house, so we don't have to rent a truck. It does mean a lot of trips in the Forester and I am impatient to get it over with. Getting my house emptied of clutter is a side benefit.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:01 pm

It is important to get rid of the clutter for when they come back.

Default · Post by **Default** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:42 pm

No boomerangzees!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:48 am

Ive spent 2 days watching Lord of the Rings movie clips and studying maps the LotR world. Theres a LOT more detail than I thought to the maps but ill be damned if I can find a map to do the world justice. So many more places to find and see and the most fun i have is seeing a place's location on the map from the book or movies. Its really nice to see them in relation to other locations and what happens at them in different times of the world. How the place evolved. The heroes journeys. Places like Durin's Tower. Always wonder where it was related to Moria and the Endless Steps. Fun stuff. Maybe its just me.

Quick question. Where was the king and Aragorn camped when Elrond brings him the reforged sword? I wondered because it has a Pukel-Man statue on the path up to it and I thought that was way in the north yet I thought the camp was south down near the deadpaths.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:55 am

Default wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:42 pm No boomerangzees!

Need to immediately fill the space with aquariums, weight lifting equipment, a hobby bench, and other "essentials" so they don't feel like there's a space they can use waiting there. Bonus points: Enlist them to help paint and remodel the space they vacated.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:59 am

When you're old as hell you'll want them back in to do stuff

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:05 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:48 am Quick question. Where was the king and Aragorn camped when Elrond brings him the reforged sword? I wondered because it has a Pukel-Man statue on the path up to it and I thought that was way in the north yet I thought the camp was south down near the deadpaths.

My memory for the books is poor in the movie they were at the top of a ridge on the other side mountain on other side of the river upstream from Gondor. Just outside of a place known as "the paths of the dead"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paths_of_the_Dead

So look for the White Mountains and the river leading to Gondor. On the other side, see if the Paths of the Dead is marked.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:27 am

Yes thats it...thank you. It was at Dunharrow.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:55 am

Looking at a map it was Edoras but more detail than that I cannot find without taking time I can't give.

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:00 pm

I’ve gained a wonderful daughter. Unfortunately I had to lose a son in the process. I support her choice completely. Yet I also mourn the loss of more than 20 years of history. Shared memories that fade because, at best, it is awkward to talk about the person involved or to see their prior name and appearance.

New memories will be made of course; life is good that way. Nor do I want to live in the past. However I find it rather mystifying to see all of the online discussion focusing on the parent’s feeling of losing their child’s original gender future when that seems trivial to me. My child’s future is still in front of her and hopefully is made better by her choice.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:09 pm

Cogratudolences...?

May you both have the best of the revised relationship.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:17 pm

Probably balances out....a bit harder on you and easier on her. Not sure what else to say. Best to both of you though.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:39 pm

Linda Hamilton is still badass as Sarah Connor.

Default · Post by **Default** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:01 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:59 am When you're old as hell you'll want them back in to do stuff

No, I'm the doer in this family.