Forum: The Lounge

My niece is graduating from NYU in May. Her parents, my mom, and I are going to the graduation. Her stepdad just called to tell me the keynote speaker: Hillary Clinton. Wow! I'm really looking forward to that! Until I realize that I'm...

...which will detect falling objects that contain nicotine and teleports them back to the approximate location from which they were dropped. Thus, a cigarette butt will be teleported onto the lap of the person who dropped it. OK, your turn. ...

For Monday, March 30th. Too friggin' perfect. I like the mouseover (as usual), too - I'd have been one of the cheering crowd, and no, I didn't see a goddamned thing. Any comics you'd like to share today?

So... I don't want to start a big to-do, and hope flaming is kept to a minimum here (I'm explicitly not posting this in the Thunderdome for a reason), but ... did Liberal actually disappear? He was involved in quite a bit of drama recently, but I...

I've found that people in my life with even a tiny understanding of technology are amazed by current technology a lot more than those with no real concept of what's possible. My mother will "ooh" and "ahh" about the various apps i can get for my...

Domebo.net has been listed on StumbleUpon for the past few weeks. I've also just submitted the site to Digg. It would be great if we could get the site listed on as many social bookmarking sites as possible, as well as "Digging" the site, to...

Happy Unnecessary Thread Opening, you Fools! (the only way this can fail is if I get a 0 - 1 in my "replies" and "views". not very likely! < chortles merrily >)

I just made a pretty sharp comment about Winston in another thread and now I'm really mixed up - is this an Apil Fools joke and did I just get punked?

I don't like my first name. I've always hated hearing people say it, even. I don't like the long form or the short. I have a middle name which is a family surname. That's kind of cool, but it would never work as a first name. I have a...

And Nazis! Oh my! Interesting blog about 12 vehicles never produced. Some of them exsisted as one-off prototypes, others of them, like the 2007 Edsel, are merely concepts.

I suppose I have to domain ban you from Outlook, since unsubscribing did nothing. Look, we have no babies here. Really. And if I did, I personally don't support Infant Off-Road 4-Wheel Driving, so why would I sign up for your "Babies"R"Us Try &...

I've traveled and lived throughout the country -- the United States, I'll make clear, to avoid the flames of EuroDomebites. Anyhow, I've been exposed to practically every accent one will find among English language speakers in North America, both...

...and how it worked out for you. Big things, little things, divorces or haircuts, whatever. I'm about to do a thing somewhat bigger than a haircut and much smaller than a divorce, and I'm both scared and exhilarated by it. I've mentioned it in...

I just thought of an idea for a business. I'm wondering if it already exists. What I plan to do is get people in the US who have an extra cable box (or Direct TV or Fios or whatever) and high speed internet to hook up a slingbox or similar device...

Counting everything you're wearing right now, how much did you pay? For me it's right around $570. Sounds like a lot to me, but nearly 80% of that is glasses. How about you?

Well, here I am on Saturday nithg. I'm druk. Drunk. As anyone on the grifaffe boards can see. I just want to know if we'll allow drunk posting here lik ethere. If not, I'll shut up. Love you! L :)

8:30-9:30 local time, tomorrow (Saturday) is Earth Hour, a movement which started in Australia two years ago, and now has pledges worldwide. The organizers are calling on people and business to him or shut off all non essential lights for one hour...

Okay my nalgene bottle is wearing out, and I'd like a new water bottle. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend something that: is sturdy; I like the sturdiness of this nalgene thing but the softer plastic lid is falling apart. So something that...

I don't understand WHY I get this way. And I don't have the energy to do anything about it. I know I should be living differently, making better choices. I just don't have the will. Instead it feels like nothing I do is ever going to be...

It's not a cigarette. It's a battery-powered vaporizer with a supply of nicotine, built into a case which just looks like a cigarette. Link: http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/600906 I loathe smoking. I hate the way it looks; I hate the...

Link Obama jets across the Atlantic on Tuesday on an eight-day, five-country trip that will be dizzying even by the usual peripatetic standards of presidential foreign travel. He will attend international summits on complex, urgent topics — the...

So, this week a woman from our office died. She was a great lady, not in my department, but we spoke often enough. I liked her. I think every one here did. It all went pretty fast. A couple of months ago we learned she had cancer. Shortly...

Now that lust4life has joined, we have 1066 members. I am choosing to take this as a sign that we should send an army into Great Britain, or at least the Isle of Man. Who's with me? :: works action on shotgun for no espeical reason::

I guess this is a weird question, but what do English language/literature university students do in their course? I'm a scientist, and all my friends were scientists and engineers, so we never really mixed with arts students. My idea is that they...

My girlfriend and I were watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations earlier this week. The episode was set in Colombia. Now, I am fully bilingual in Spanish, and she likes to try and impress me with how much she understands, thanks to her years...

Back to work tomorrow A.M. My vacation was good. I: went to six practices, 3 games(I think I'm deaf), worked the UNC-TV telethon, went to the DOG PARK! 4 times, tailgated with 200 Capitals fans(and raised a good chunk of cash for TSHA), and...

I've always been somewhat proud of my spelling and grammar, but I have to be honest and say that I never had to work at either one. I say that I "do it by ear," meaning that it just sounds right or it doesn't. And I pretty much see words correctly...

Some of us joined this party on Thursday, February 26th. Today is Thursday March 26th. Yay!

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Have you been able to stick to your committment? I've had no sweets or desserts. Not even on Sundays. Non-participants please do not respond.

There really aren't too many things more fun that that, are there? I try not to let a day go by without supremely fucking with The Littlest Briston in one way or another. Last night was one of my favorite types -- the kind where it was clearly my...

As I mentioned in a different thread, we collect limited edition prints of cougar paintings. We have five regular art-sized ones now (about 2x3' or 3x4' size) and a handful of smaller ones, which would be enough to have a couple in the living room...

Y'know the type. Like "If I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all." These are like guilty pleasures to me, jokes that are so bad I have to chuckle. I heard a new one tonight, "I had a car that hit everything except the lottery." So...

Hah-hah, that was a joke - if you don't know what it means to be a "Codependent", it refers (generally) to someone who is overly concerned with others' well-being, to the point of not having any "being" of their own. ::waving:: Over here, Hi, I'm...

Making fun of France runs the gamut from the lighthearted to the insane, but I don't understand the impulse to begin with. What makes France such an attractive target for mocking?

Instructions here (except now scroll to Freenode instead of IRCNET). Vox has been dying to play Assassins. Help him out and your reward will be in heaven. If you can't stick around for a game, pop in anyway and say hi!

I saw the Yahoobot in here, and now the Googlebot is in here. I feel so...exposed. :mrgreen:

A decade ago I bought a book called Women And Flight, a book profiling 36 contemporary female pilots. I read several chapters but never got around to finishing it. You know how it is; you get involved in something else, and time passes. I...

I noticed last night just as I was putting Tasha to bed that she had a giant lump on her face. This thing came up suddenly because she had been all over me earlier and I never saw it. First thing I thought was she got something lodged between her...

I was at a funeral. I don't know who he was, but he was a boy in his 20s with black hair. :( I was really sad. I kept crying even after I went home (which looked nothing like my home). For some reason I cut my right ear off, :eek: but...

The jacket in my (current) avatar was painted by a friend of mine. It's a reproduction of jackets actually worn during WWII worn by the crew of a B-17 in the 401st Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force based in England. The art was created by Earl...

So last night my ops warrant (from the army) called me to ask me to do side gate duty at the camp. At once I can feel my whole body shaking and my stomach twisted inside out. The current situation now is that I am posted to a civilian outfit...

I live in a duplex with a vacant lot (which I own). The lot is at the intersection of a street and an alley. The alley is basically for local use only, and there's a sign, almost on my property, that says "No Outlet". Earlier today, I heard some...

My husband and I were discussing which issue of a book to get, made a decision then started down the aisle. As we passed a man who was also standing in the aisle, he turned to me, made a snarly face and said, "SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Would you STOP...

The kidlet and I just spent some time putting mini rice cakes into little containers for her shelf in the pantry. I like the portion control, but the price of those individual packets of tasty little rice cakes is crazy! Of course, she asked me why...

Trucks hitting a bridge. I have to wonder, with that many trucks hitting that overpass, is there a fault in the signage? Are there really that many truck drivers who don't know how tall their truck is/don't read bridge height signs/are just plain...

I don't manipulate photos all that much. I'm happy with Picasa (but also use Paint and Paint.net for various things). One thing that's sweet about Picasa is that once I've finished doing what I like with the pictures, I can upload them directly to...

We should have radioactive money. It would solve two problems. First, we wouldn't have to worry about storing out spent nuclear fuel. Why bury it when you can turn it into cash! Second, it would help the economy. People will be very anxious...

A pretty amazing photo collection of really stupid ideas. Some of them aren't necessarily all that obvious, others of them are more cosmetic in nature, but a good deal of them look like they'd have potentially fatal consequences if something went...