Random randomness

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:53 pm

I got cast in the quartet for The Music Man. So, yay.

But I'm already having rehearsal remorse.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:22 pm

hentzau wrote:I got cast in the quartet for The Music Man. So, yay.

But I'm already having rehearsal remorse.

Congrats, I think!

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:12 pm

Holman wrote:
hentzau wrote:I got cast in the quartet for The Music Man. So, yay.

But I'm already having rehearsal remorse.
Congrats, I think!

+/- 1

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:24 pm

It'll be fine. I've always wanted to do Music Man, and specifically the barbershop. But they didn't cast me as the bass (which annoys me because I already know the bass part, and I'm a really good bass) and want me to try second tenor. I get why they did it...they had two decent basses, and nobody to sing second tenor, and the second tenor line is the melody, so you need a strong voice in there.

But still. I wanted to do bass.

(Oh, and I was worried about how tricky the quartets were going to be, until I found out we also had to do Rock Island as well. Now the quartet is the least of my worries.

)

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:34 pm

Man, I hope you don't get your musicals confused and show up in full La Cage aux Folles costume again.

Congrats, man!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:18 am

Great piloting skills.

This photo was taken by a soldier in Afghanistan of a helicopter rescue mission. The pilot is a PA National Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in civilian life. Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set the ass end of a chopper down on the roof top of a shack, on a steep mountain cliff, and hold it there while soldiers load wounded men in the rear. If this does not impress you... nothing ever will…...

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:17 am

Daehawk wrote:Great piloting skills.

This photo was taken by a soldier in Afghanistan of a helicopter rescue mission. The pilot is a PA National Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in civilian life. Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set the ass end of a chopper down on the roof top of a shack, on a steep mountain cliff, and hold it there while soldiers load wounded men in the rear. If this does not impress you... nothing ever will…...

The fact that it's a Chinook is what makes it amazing.

FYI:

In November 2003, a U.S.-led coalition launched Operation Mountain Resolve in the Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan in order to disrupt anti-coalition militia (ACM) operations and prevent militia members from seeking sanctuary in the rugged Afghan provinces. The above-displayed photograph of the precarious-looking rooftop landing by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter (which began circulating via e-mail in December 2003 and started making the rounds of the Internet again in August 2006) was taken during that operation by U.S. Army Sgt. Greg Heath of the 4th Public Affairs Detachment.

Although the text that accompanied copies of this image sent via e-mail in 2006 suggested the activity shown therein was part of an effort to evacuate wounded coalition soldiers, the photo actually captures the Chinook helicopter touching down to receive Afghan Persons Under Control (APUC) captured by members of the U.S. 10th Mountain Division.

So not a rescue but the most precarious perp walk ever.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:33 am

Not to diminish this piloting skill one bit, but it's amazing how frequently they can hover one of those beasts in a precise spot. I've seen similar photos, and I can hardly believe how close the helicopter is to a rooftop or cliff.

IIRC, the Vietnam novel Matterhorn has several scenes of precarious cliffside helicopter loading and unloading. I believe they're Chinooks, too, which tells you how long those things have been in service.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:46 am

Every once in a while we get a new member but they never post. Why join if you're never going to post?
Seems like the only ones who post are bots.
Are we that intimidating?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:17 am

A Detroit man who died early Sunday in a one-car crash was pantsless and masturbating while watching a pornographic movie on his cell phone, according to police who investigated the accident.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/car ... ash-639205

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:26 am

Rip wrote:
A Detroit man who died early Sunday in a one-car crash was pantsless and masturbating while watching a pornographic movie on his cell phone, according to police who investigated the accident.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/car ... ash-639205

So... we should keep our pants on right?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:36 am

Dont live in Detroit?

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:09 am

When was the last time Mortis posted?

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:25 pm

I need more sleep.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:29 pm

Zarathud wrote:When was the last time Mortis posted?

Hey! I have never masturbated pantsless in a car to porn the you know of.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:40 pm

I have to come to LordMortis's defense.

He would never ever do that......without his seatbelt on.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:42 pm

I'm so fed up with networks feeling compelled to randomly take "breaks" from showing new episodes of a show (well, okay, I know that they are trying to "stretch it out" into a standard Sep-May TV season, but it's an obsolete model that absolutely needs to GO). If your show just took a 6-week hiatus for the "mid-season break" over Christmas holidays - don't show 2 new episodes and then go on another 3-week break! Another show I watch, they showed their "winter finale" 1st week of December and won't show new episodes until February.

No wonder they are constantly trying to figure out why great shows start randomly losing ratings: people are busy, and watching TV shouldn't require a planning spreadsheet. If I have to wait 2 months to watch a continuation of a show, I'll probably forget about it.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:58 pm

gilraen wrote:I'm so fed up with networks feeling compelled to randomly take "breaks" from showing new episodes of a show (well, okay, I know that they are trying to "stretch it out" into a standard Sep-May TV season, but it's an obsolete model that absolutely needs to GO). If your show just took a 6-week hiatus for the "mid-season break" over Christmas holidays - don't show 2 new episodes and then go on another 3-week break! Another show I watch, they showed their "winter finale" 1st week of December and won't show new episodes until February.

No wonder they are constantly trying to figure out why great shows start randomly losing ratings: people are busy, and watching TV shouldn't require a planning spreadsheet. If I have to wait 2 months to watch a continuation of a show, I'll probably forget about it.

You can probably thank the Nielsen sweeps for a lot of that. IIRC, networks like to hold back new episodes for shows to air during the sweep weeks in order to pump up the ratings.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:00 pm

So fed up with my work network administrator.

A year ago, I (and others) asked to upgrade the remote desktop with our legacy applications so more than 1 user could log in at a time. It took 6 months to roll out the test environment and "phase out" the old environment. Buried in that "phase out" announcement were "instructions on how to create a shortcut on your desktop." I had a shortcut already, so continued to use it for the last 6 months. Apparently, I was supposed to know each end user was expected to create a NEW shortcut and there was a reference in the window indicating that I was still in the old environment.

I would have still been in the old environment if I hadn't found a 2016 patch for a legacy 2013 application and asked for it to be installed. Isn't the point of IT having network access to end user machines so that they can roll out upgrades without the end user's involvement? And it was only 8 end users whose machines needed to be fixed!!!

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:10 pm

gilraen wrote:I'm so fed up with networks feeling compelled to randomly take "breaks" from showing new episodes of a show (well, okay, I know that they are trying to "stretch it out" into a standard Sep-May TV season, but it's an obsolete model that absolutely needs to GO). If your show just took a 6-week hiatus for the "mid-season break" over Christmas holidays - don't show 2 new episodes and then go on another 3-week break! Another show I watch, they showed their "winter finale" 1st week of December and won't show new episodes until February.

No wonder they are constantly trying to figure out why great shows start randomly losing ratings: people are busy, and watching TV shouldn't require a planning spreadsheet. If I have to wait 2 months to watch a continuation of a show, I'll probably forget about it.

I have a robot that handles that. Shows come, shows go, there's always something on the DVR to watch and I don't pay any attention to what starts or stops when.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:15 pm

gilraen wrote:No wonder they are constantly trying to figure out why great shows start randomly losing ratings: people are busy, and watching TV shouldn't require a planning spreadsheet. If I have to wait 2 months to watch a continuation of a show, I'll probably forget about it.

We were happy to see iZombie return a few weeks ago (1/12) after having what we thought was a winter break (last episode aired 12/8). Well after the 1/12 episode the next new episode is 2/2. It defies logic.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:26 pm

gilraen wrote:I'm so fed up with networks feeling compelled to randomly take "breaks" from showing new episodes of a show (well, okay, I know that they are trying to "stretch it out" into a standard Sep-May TV season, but it's an obsolete model that absolutely needs to GO). If your show just took a 6-week hiatus for the "mid-season break" over Christmas holidays - don't show 2 new episodes and then go on another 3-week break! Another show I watch, they showed their "winter finale" 1st week of December and won't show new episodes until February.

No wonder they are constantly trying to figure out why great shows start randomly losing ratings: people are busy, and watching TV shouldn't require a planning spreadsheet. If I have to wait 2 months to watch a continuation of a show, I'll probably forget about it.

So you are upset that Gotham took such a long vacation as well I see......

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:19 am

Pringles Buffalo Ranch are much hotter than expected...got heartburn now...again.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:47 am

^ Dude... dude... Why would you ever consume these? So not good for you. These chips are not food.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:05 am

KKBlue wrote:^ Dude... dude... Why would you ever consume these? So not good for you. These chips are not food.

Pringles are not food, they're fun

(I buy them maybe once a year when some new fancy flavor catches my eye...I also accept the fact that I will eat the whole tube in 2 sittings max)

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:14 am

If you must eat not-chips, Popchips Crazy Hot are wicked good.

Default · Post by **Default** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:46 am

Can't sleep. Thinking about building some kind of wheelchair ramp at the M-I-L's. I could use railroad ties and composite decking, which would end up with me having to build only a small landing about sixteen inches off the ground, but that would end up with a long, somewhat steep run. Not a problem for me, but the ex might not be able to hack it. Why am I doing this? Because I have known her since I was sixteen, and Mom didn't cheat on me, Linda did. This end-of-life shit sucks.

Time for Four Roses and oj.

EzeKieL · Post by **EzeKieL** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:47 am

If any of you are interested in downtempo, chillout, lounge, dance music..

(and if you're into Hip-Hop, there's several mixtapes there as well ^^)

I just made another Chill Sessions mixtape:

https://www.mixcloud.com/LazyVibes/

Chill Sessions Volume 4 - Back To Chillin'

The art is by Fin Dac, check him out, what he makes is amazing ^^.

Enjoy!

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:05 am

gilraen wrote:I'm so fed up with networks feeling compelled to randomly take "breaks" from showing new episodes of a show (well, okay, I know that they are trying to "stretch it out" into a standard Sep-May TV season, but it's an obsolete model that absolutely needs to GO). If your show just took a 6-week hiatus for the "mid-season break" over Christmas holidays - don't show 2 new episodes and then go on another 3-week break! Another show I watch, they showed their "winter finale" 1st week of December and won't show new episodes until February.

No wonder they are constantly trying to figure out why great shows start randomly losing ratings: people are busy, and watching TV shouldn't require a planning spreadsheet. If I have to wait 2 months to watch a continuation of a show, I'll probably forget about it.

What did you do back in the 80s and 90s when there wasn't a DVR and networks did the exact same thing they do now?

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:15 am

pr0ner wrote: What did you do back in the 80s and 90s when there wasn't a DVR and networks did the exact same thing they do now?

I didn't grow up in the States in the 80s...

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:44 am

gilraen wrote:
pr0ner wrote: What did you do back in the 80s and 90s when there wasn't a DVR and networks did the exact same thing they do now?
I didn't grow up in the States in the 80s...

Well, this is how network TV has been done in the states for decades. They're trying to do things differently with the success of how cable TV formats things (see networks doing summer seasons or short run seasons of some shows like Agent Carter or the 24 reboot), but, otherwise, the status quo is long breaks during traditional TV seasons with a focus on the sweeps months.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:49 am

pr0ner wrote:
gilraen wrote:
pr0ner wrote: What did you do back in the 80s and 90s when there wasn't a DVR and networks did the exact same thing they do now?
I didn't grow up in the States in the 80s...
Well, this is how network TV has been done in the states for decades. They're trying to do things differently with the success of how cable TV formats things (see networks doing summer seasons or short run seasons of some shows like Agent Carter or the 24 reboot), but, otherwise, the status quo is long breaks during traditional TV seasons with a focus on the sweeps months.

That it's how it's been done before is not really much of an independent reason as to whether it makes sense now.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:40 am

I still remember the old TV seasons, where you would get a full half year of programming all in one shot, and then they would go into re-runs for the rest of the year, and then a new season would start up again in the fall. Seems to me that the shift to broken up seasons (by the major networks, at least) is around the same time that they had the writer's strike back in the late 80's. But I may be talking out of my butt.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:35 pm

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing" is not a reassuring or acceptable answer when a business problem is raised in a status meeting.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:45 pm

Zarathud wrote:"Trust me, I know what I'm doing" is not a reassuring or acceptable answer when a business problem is raised in a status meeting.

Seriously though, I have it covered!

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:55 pm

No worries, I'm "all in".

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:00 pm

Daehawk wrote:Pringles Buffalo Ranch are much hotter than expected...got heartburn now...again.

Upon first glance, doesn't that Pringle look like it's straining on a filthy crapper with the hat and a bottle of hot sauce in its lap? It's all suggested by the position of the boots. Before I read the post, I thought that was going to be the joke.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:36 pm

There is an article in the local paper saying a student at my school was arrested in December for bringing a gun to school and that parents were upset because they were not told about it. The principal is mentioned by name and quoted regarding the incident. Trouble is this never happened at our school or even in our district. It did happen in a neighboring district but they used our school's name and our principal's name - and, given that it never happened, he never gave a press conference regarding it to be quoted from!

Someone at the paper is going to be very very unhappy with this turn of events.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:51 pm

Remus West wrote:There is an article in the local paper saying a student at my school was arrested in December for bringing a gun to school and that parents were upset because they were not told about it. The principal is mentioned by name and quoted regarding the incident. Trouble is this never happened at our school or even in our district. It did happen in a neighboring district but they used our school's name and our principal's name - and, given that it never happened, he never gave a press conference regarding it to be quoted from!

Someone at the paper is going to be very very unhappy with this turn of events.

Bots aren't perfect yet.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:00 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/0 ... 81045.html

something ain't right there. When I worked at 7-Eleven at the closing of the 80s through the mid 90s we sold Vernor's Slurpee's. If you could get syrup in a tank, we'd hook it up to Slurpee machine. I loved me some Dr Pepper Slurpee and Vodka.

Also warm Vernor's is not rare, is it?

I miss that it's not as strong as it used to be, much like Coke. I want my freshly opened pop to make my eyes water like I'm plucking a nose hair.