Topic: Random thoughts (Read 627643 times)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3850 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 09:23 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 15 Jan 2014, 00:04

What part of NO are you having trouble with?

GM and I will be the last ones... standing?

DO IT, CARL.

cesium133 · « **Reply #3851 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 12:09 »

Currently looking at job listings for Physics Ph.D. graduates in my field...

...I am so fucked.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3852 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 12:58 »

Physics?

I'd suggest looking at something involving the management of fluid dynamics on ceramic and metal surfaces. A little better suited to engineering graduates but there's a lot of opportunities available and physicists are equally capable of it.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3853 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 14:31 »

I feel like a road accident. This is not a good sign. I really hope I don't have to call off work tomorrow.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3854 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 16:02 »

PANIC!

Wait, why am I posting in here?

Oh yeah, random.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3855 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 16:19 »

The best review for a movie I've ever heard was for Battle: Los Angeles. It was just a few short words long. Setting, I'm a year out of the Marines and I'm walking out of the theater with my fiancee and another couple she's friends with. As we extricate ourselves from the mob scene near the exit, she stops dead, grabs my arm and pulls me around to look me in the eyes. "You are not reenlisting". I hadn't even said a WORD about what I thought about the movie yet >.>;

Kugai · « **Reply #3856 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 16:22 »

She just wants you to miss out on the next alien invasion.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3857 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 17:15 »

Probably why we ended up breaking up come to think of it.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3858 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 20:07 »

Quote from: Gareth on 15 Jan 2014, 01:20

It's cool dudes just get one and we can totally send each photos of our dicks or something I mean whatever I'm not gay or anything but I just like dicks so go on sign up to Twitter I mean whatever

(Makes a note NOT to follow Gareth on his twitter account)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3859 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 20:51 »

Fair enough, but what's your excuse for not following me?

Edit: That's more like it!

Grognard · « **Reply #3860 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 21:32 »

Quote from: cesium133 on 14 Jan 2014, 20:06

The horror! Pigs try to fly and fall from the skies! Cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony! Hell, Michigan, freezes over!

I'll have you know I've played paintball in Hell, Michigan.

tis a lot of fun in the winter, so long as your balls don't freeze together.

Ba-dum! Tish!

http://hellsurvivors.com/hs/index.php

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3861 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 21:43 »

I wonder if there are any good restaurants in Hell, Michigan.

cesium133 · « **Reply #3862 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 21:46 »

I'd sell my soul for some good Chinese food. I wonder if I can do that in Hell, Michigan?

Grognard · « **Reply #3863 on:** 15 Jan 2014, 21:49 »

I was last there .. 17 years ago?
I don't recall much beyond the APC and the plane on the airstrip.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3864 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 07:38 »

I often forget I'm actually a published writer >.>;

cesium133 · « **Reply #3865 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 08:26 »

I've been published in science journals. Does that count?

Grognard · « **Reply #3866 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 08:45 »

post a link to your publications, darnit.

I've had one thing published: a poem/short story.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3867 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 08:50 »

I've just been paid to write for a few gaming blogs, nothing special. I also had some poems published in some magazines and I think a book.

cesium133 · « **Reply #3868 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 09:31 »

Quote from: Grognard on 16 Jan 2014, 08:45

post a link to your publications, darnit.

If I posted a link to my publications, I'd effectively be posting my name on the forum, and I'm a little bit paranoid about that...

Thrillho · « **Reply #3869 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 09:56 »

I can't post my paid work because it's all in magazine form, but flick to the Book Club section of SciFiNow. I'm in there pretty much every month.

As far as free writing, well I'm pretty much fucking everywhere. Blog links in my sig for one.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3870 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 14:53 »

I'm dreaming of my home
I'm waiting on my own
Sitting in these halls of chrome
while wind blows through my bones

and I am lonely.

Thrillho · « **Reply #3871 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 15:04 »

Did you make that up?

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3872 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 15:49 »

It's an idea for a song I had yesterday.

Drive through streets both cold and damp
in this sea of burnt streetlamps
I am working every day
and come home to hear you say

that you are lonely.

94ssd · « **Reply #3873 on:** 16 Jan 2014, 18:19 »

So I have a really poor sense of timing when it comes to showing up to events. I often leave 30 minutes early for a walk that take 10 minutes and show up awkwardly early, or I'll do the opposite and not leave enough time for a long trip. I also "lose track" of time very easily.

I don't know that if it's one of those DCD symptoms I never outgrew (much like my still-messy handwriting and occasional clumsiness) or if I'm just really bad at estimating things like travel time and distances.

The few times I've tried to adjust this timing, I've ended up late. And obviously at a university it's better to be early than late. But I can't seem to find that middle ground.

Loki · « **Reply #3874 on:** 17 Jan 2014, 00:08 »

Stop the time you need to get there so you will know?

Science!

Kugai · « **Reply #3875 on:** 17 Jan 2014, 13:53 »

This little piece of poetry is the opening to one of my unfinished Original Fictions.

MIDNIGHT SEA

I sail upon the Midnight Sea
I search for that lost to me
Each pin of light calls to me

But ever there surrounding me
Is only dark silence

I sail upon the Midnight Sea
Her voice I hear close to me
But every time I turn to see

I find only silence

Redball · « **Reply #3876 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 10:45 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 15 Jan 2014, 21:43

I wonder if there are any good restaurants in Hell, Michigan.

The Dam Site Inn. Haven't been there in 10 years or so. There really is a dam behind it, and I wonder how much of it's frozen over. It was a pizza and beer place when i first started going there to start our annual trip to Hell. It had an upscale menu for a few years, last I recall it's back to pizza.

The trip to Hell started there at 6 p.m. on the Saturday before Halloween. Participants went to the nearby state park, parked cars and walked two miles through woods on a path, lights discouraged. Some of us camped that night. All who went have bricks, gold, stamped with "Good Intentions Paving Co." My wife and I enjoyed it; we did it for 15 years or more, with as few as 2 others, as many as 15 or 20.

Loki · « **Reply #3877 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 11:02 »

arrows pointing the way. please follow the arrows to your reeducation facility. buying my right to be here, biding my time. when will i have to leave. sign says pretty late. keys dancing like fire on my fingertips. shoulda become a pyromaniac, shoulda burned everything down. catching fire. how can you see the second part without seeing the first. maybe you'd be better off with only the first part, they say that second and third parts are overrated anyway. which part are you playing? there are things, my friend horatio, that cannot be dreamt of in our love for wisdom, (because that is what he says.)
i am not hannelore. I wonder if she had thoughts like this when she was on her meds. what are you thinking boy? who are you typing your empty messages to? oh, nothing.

94ssd · « **Reply #3878 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 16:20 »

Quote from: cesium133 on 14 Jan 2014, 20:06

The horror! Pigs try to fly and fall from the skies! Cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony! Hell, Michigan, freezes over!

The news makes this joke every year. It's Central Michigan, it would be more surprising if it didn't freeze over. Think Dante's Inferno 9th Circle of Hell, and you get Michigan winters.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3879 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 16:49 »

Why
why
why
do I try
to get by
on as little
as humanly possible?

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3880 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 17:46 »

Random Thought: I consider "the clock stops to tick and now it's time for the end" the best line I've ever written.

94ssd · « **Reply #3881 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 19:02 »

Today the person I'm interested in got her hair cut short. And it reminded me of what has apparently become a rule in my life going back to like sophomore year of high school. Every woman I've dated either already had short hair, or during the course of our relationship decided (totally on their own) that it was short hair time. I've never had a problem with that, it's just an unusual trend.

Loki · « **Reply #3882 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 00:48 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 18 Jan 2014, 16:49

Why
why
why
do I try
to get by
on as little
as humanly possible?

Don't. What's up, Carl?

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3883 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 02:51 »

Just watched a star trek episode where Riker gets stung in the leg, infecting him with an alien microbe that attacks his nervous system, and it's so aggressive that it spreads to his brain so that they have to do some really weird mumbo jumbo to keep him going.

All I could think of was "why didn't you cut the fucking leg off you idiots?!" Some medical officer that is.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3884 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 03:35 »

Oh yeah ... isn't that the episode where they re-live every moment of significance for Riker, i.e a clips show which is just very cheap to make?

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3885 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 04:15 »

And to think that was a season finale... tsk tsk tsk.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3886 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 05:19 »

He must've been negotiating a new contract for the next season...

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3887 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 05:36 »

Quote from: TVTropes

Meanwhile, Star Trek: The Next Generation has one of the most abysmal clip shows ever in its second-season finale, "Shades of Grey" It was almost literally, "Riker's got a fever and the only prescription is A CLIP SHOW!"

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3888 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 08:10 »

That was before the Goatee moment right?

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3889 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 08:20 »

Kugai · « **Reply #3890 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 11:00 »

Quote from: Masterpiece on 19 Jan 2014, 02:51

Just watched a star trek episode where Riker gets stung in the leg, infecting him with an alien microbe that attacks his nervous system, and it's so aggressive that it spreads to his brain so that they have to do some really weird mumbo jumbo to keep him going.

All I could think of was "why didn't you cut the fucking leg off you idiots?!" Some medical officer that is.

It's called a 'Bottle Show'. One that mostly takes place on the Enterprise set(s) and has no outside filming or major or unreused Special Effects Shots.

If memory serves, it was made because they had blown a large chunk of the budget by that stage and simply had no extra finances to make a full episode.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #3891 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 11:21 »

It was spent on overtime recovering from the writer's strike if memory serves.

Thrillho · « **Reply #3892 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 11:42 »

Bottle episodes and clipshows are usually mutually exclusive, I thought? You can do a bottle episode without it being a clipshow.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #3893 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 11:52 »

yep. A well done bottle show can be great. Lots of room for character development/interaction. Clip shows on the other hand, well, they are rarely good.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3894 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 12:21 »

The Simpsons had some good clip shows.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3895 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 15:27 »

I crave hard pretzels all of a sudden.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3896 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 16:27 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Jan 2014, 12:21

The Simpsons had some good clip shows.

I enjoyed the Community clip shows where they talked about things that happened in universe that we've never seen.

cesium133 · « **Reply #3897 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 19:38 »

According to Wikipedia there's a town in Oklahoma whose motto is "Preserving the future of our past." That would be the perfect motto for a bureau of time cops.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3898 on:** 19 Jan 2014, 19:39 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 19 Jan 2014, 16:27

Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Jan 2014, 12:21
The Simpsons had some good clip shows.

I enjoyed the Community clip shows where they talked about things that happened in universe that we've never seen.

Don't forget the second episode (of six) of Clerks: the Animated Series.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3899 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 04:58 »

My roommate is in his room singing, and I'm so tempted to just barge in and say "are you alright? It sounded like you were crying!"

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