The Longest Thread Ever!

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

thanks, Grace. It seems you have a wonderful memory.

Now that you guys reminded me of it, I'll have to rent Red Balloon and force my kids to watch it....I'll pretend I'm not really forcing them so they don't resist.

I'll see if I can find a working web version of it, and if so, then update my Short Subjects topic with this feature very shortly thereafter (the details).

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

Anybody else want to go on a balloon ride around the world? Since I'm the captain, I can assure you that we're only floating in nice weather, day and night, and there will be no bandits shooting at our balloon.

I also found a context for your "Mr. Irrelevant" post:

Livermead House Webcam

and while I don't venture to, and uniquely shy away from, facebook links, most oftentimes, I did happen to find they use the exact same picture you did for this group, or notice, page, whatever it may be called.

Torquay's Big Moon (Balloon) | Facebook

[BadNick]

Jet,
I appreciate your highly developed internet fact finding talents. I checked your Short Subjects thread but I see you didn't yet find Red Balloon on the web. But now that I see other cool shorts in there, I'll check those out over time. Thanks.

[Jetée]

Oy, now that you mention it, I have found it...

Albert Lamorisse «Le Ballon Rouge» (1956) on Vimeo

Might update it this late nite now that the hardest part (finding a streaming, clickable, playable version) has thus been conquered.

Next in my queue after sharing is:
a Chaplin featurette (if I can find one)
a Lloyd short (also, if I am fortunate)
a Laurel and Hardy short comedy (dig one up)

I don't know why it is so hard to maintain my Cartoon thread, but until I become a moderator, which I fear is never going to happen, I might as well just stop trying to meticulously curate my themes, because no one else cares much about them, and without a sovereign hand over what is being contributed, I'm left to feel like schlemiel when I ask for the tiniest things in order to ensure contuinity and expectant quality.

[BadNick]

Jet, you do seem to me to be the prime candidate for Quality Assurance President of the Internet.

Thanks for the Red Balloon Vimeo. Since I have an account there now, I "liked" it to my collection. My "collection" is still quite sparse and included only two videos of my car at the dyno tuning session, which was the reason I joined Vimeo so I can share those with other semi-interested motorheads. Now I have come to like Vimeo a lot ...and I mean like, not just like.
why they call it blow off valve on Vimeo

[Jetée]

I've liked vimeo for quite a while now as well, but I'm not there often enough to favorite or find the real treasures in videos.
I do post the ones I have found to like vey shortly after finding them, however, so all you may need to do is search "Jet's posts + vimeo" to get a good taste of what I like, and have seen, thus far.

It's not like youtube too similarly, as vimeo seems much more professional, much more geared toward quality "film" content (also HD content), and overall, has a much more mature feeling of community, which I haven't seen displayed by youtube since 2006.

And I do like my quality; I may be the only one thinks so, but when quality content is pursued and uncovered, then naturally, so should the quality discussion of the content's aim and meaning, in essence, comes to follow.

I haven't been able to capture that << "discussion after the content" bit with much success, but still, that is my oerall aim here, with all that I do, and all that I intend.


(by the way, I think I need send off a quarter-dozen pms about such and such things on my mind... and maybe, finally, get my processes in order to do all that I have set forth I was gonna, as previously stated here, in TLTE!)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

To get a good taste,
I have at it with my tongue,
await reactions.

[BadNick]

My nose also knows what to do. Sometimes I'm surprised how smart it is.

[Jetée]

Shaun Tan’s The Arrival is a wonderful story of immigration, strangeness,
and assimilation. It’s always disappointing when a comic has a cover much
cooler than the actual art inside; this is not the case with The Arrival at all.
This wordless fantasy invites endless re-reading, and it will probably
captivate kids as much as adults.

I couldn’t recommend it any more.

[BadNick]

So little time, so much to know.

John: Hey, Jeremy, must you always talk in rhyme?
Jeremy: Ha-ha!
If I spoke prose, you'd all find out
I don't know what I talk about!
Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!

George: Hey! There's a Cyclops!
Paul: Can't be. It's got two eyes.
John: Must be a "bicycle-ops" then.
Ringo: There's another one.
John: A whole "cyclopedia"!

[ring]

It wasn't all that long ago we had mentioned helicopters.
The EAA will be in full-swing come Monday.

The small planes come from all corners. They fall in line to land,
right over my abode, every summer.

This fellow flew his helicopter from France to attend the happening.
Frenchman Crosses the Atlantic in a Homebuilt Helicopter

[BadNick]

That's a brave man, and confident in his mechanical abilities, to fly that little thing across the Atlantic.

I love airshows. Your reminder reminds me to see when a local one is scheduled.

[Jetée]

I want to become a helicopter pilot.

[ring]

I recall this post:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...ml#post2363630

He posted in this thread a few times.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Such disappointment.
You must need fear nothing worse
can still sustain you.

[ring]

Jetty, that book, The Arrival:
I'm going to see if its available at the library.

[BadNick]

When I grow up I want to be a sky pilot or a rocket man. Or a fireman.

[Zooksport2]

I know none of yous blokes care but I just got back from a weekend away up north.
Went to Newman and back some 2664 kilometers travelled.
Left Friday night and back home this morning (Monday)
Some of you may recall my mum passed away a while back.
We took her ashes up to put them alongside my sister who is buried there.

We got to talking to some tourist in Newman, and he asked me where were headed to, so I says, "just going out to the station to bury my Mum, she in the bus..." The look on his face!

.

[BadNick]

Sorry to hear about your mum, Zook. I hope you had a nice memorial for her, and your sister.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

My mom wants my attention...
a transglobal kick in the head works.
Peace & joy, 1Zooksport2.

[ring]

We care.

Good to see you here & about, Zooks.

[BadNick]

Zooks story about his mum reminded me of my own ashes, which some day my wife, children, or whoever may have to decide what to do with. Maybe I should give them some ideas that appeal to me now. A handful in a couple different rivers, some in the ocean surf. Sprinkle some on the grave of my dad, and perhaps my own mum will be there next to him by that time. She's still kicking pretty good now, though not kicking me in the head like Ocm?'s mom. He probably deserves it.

[Jetée]

Histoire de l’Oeil

(time never stops for us, does it?)

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+ bonus



(I can never deal with goodbyes - I never know what to say. And that leaves me speechless; if not feeling cold, as well.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Something's to be said
for remaining speechless, but,
I never heard it.

What do you read into ink-blots?

[Jetée]

Thinking: "I know I've seen this one before."

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I'll quote you on that,
but without attribution -
you know how I am.

Just leaving the light on...

[BadNick]

I like it when she leaves her hat on, too.

[Jetée]

I'll just say I found this a few months ago, and it reminded me enough of a previous venture I featured here, in which I wonder if both of these mini-blogs are authored by one and the same.


Girls with Stubbed Toes Making Faces (18 pics)
(I still don't get this prevalent use of the file format ".PNG")

Previously:

Originally Posted by Jetée

I'm too young to have ever have enjoyed playing, or watching, baseball. It's so slow.
Maybe if I attended games on the regular, or if my team wasn't formed just a decade ago, and if I cared, or if I knew the fundamental rules, or if I didn't absolutely hate every single night listening to the radio where people keep, keep griping that the officiating is horrible, then yeah, maybe I'd like the old spinning stitches.

But for the moment, I'm trying to get into hockey and F1, two very fast sports. I can't go backwards now.

We're finally at the turn of the longest century ever.

I'll say it again. I follow some weird people.





both via Hot Chicks with Dogs with Boners

[BadNick]

I recommend steel toe shoes to prevent toe stubbing. I just got a pair of DeWalt's last weekend since they wouldn't let me work at the plant I needed to go do something unless I had them.

Go ahead, jump all over my toes, but careful not to sprain your ankle.

[Jetée]

I also remembered: I stubbed my toe way early this morning as I was hopping into bed.

Eerie. (I wonder if I influence my own coincidences at this point?)

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aside:

I always say I'm too busy and I never have time to even accomplish a quarter of the things I start, think about, or even come across and never remember to research even once more (in essence: I write reminders to myself to forget about things), but then again, I think I always find at least several hours a day to just stare off into the nothingness that is my inverted cloud of sentience, and I, again, wonder, "what am I doing here?".

It sucks kinectly moving in place. You get tired from going absolutely nowhere.

[BadNick]

I'm hesitating to say something trite, but ...it's nice to take your body someplace once in a while, but I think letting your mind wander around the universe is also very interesting and stimulating.

[Jetée]

You can’t get there from here: Path to Happiness

It seems all I do lately is is swim around in serendipity's pool
(though, I'll admit, I can't swim, ride a bike, and after numerous years, I still cannot hold a conversation in Japanese).

I believe it to be courtesy of me being on the cutting edge, yet also a lazy enough, free-wheeling kind-of-guy that waits around long enough for that "new" piece of news I've discovered to not be so new anymore, but somehow, transmogrophies into being uncannily relevant to whatever on hand is being discussed (as illustrated above).

What makes you happy, on a Thursday?

[BadNick]

I was hoping for 72F and clear, but tomorrow around here seems like it will be 90F with scattered thunderstorms. I do like thunder, though, so I'll make the best of it...as if I could do anything else about it.

[Jetée]

YouTube- Wasted Guy vs Flip Flop

YouTube- Wasted Guy vs Flip Flop

(man, I saved this months ago, and still haven't shared it - filmed during the week of Coachella festival.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Once his ass went down,
he could have used gravity
more productively.

-reminds me of myself.

[BadNick]

everything reminds me of my dog

YouTube - Everything Reminds Me of my Dog by Jane Siberry Tribute to Tundra RIP

YouTube - Everything Reminds Me of my Dog by Jane Siberry Tribute to Tundra RIP

[Jetée]

quick note:

can one help me recall a quotable along the lines of:
' ... all life is bitter, miserable, short ...'

It really surprised me that i could not even pinpoint or recall one definite word or phrasing from such an everlasting quote (in my mind) but I have. Only other thing is that I believe the quote is attributed to one of the founding fathers, or someone of the ilk...

notables include John Locke, Thomas Paine, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Douglas Adams... names and personages from that era stated something along the lines of "life sucks... and then you die", but i can't figure which one of them said it.

Been trying and trying, but all of the aforementioned seem generally upbeat about their lives, so it's conundrum as to where I plucked this memory from, and who it serves.

[BadNick]

Probably not what you have in mind, Jet. But since I like Harriet, here's a shot:

"Yes Eliza, it's all misery, misery, misery! My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. I'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. What's the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything? What's the use of living? I wish I was dead!"
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 2

I also like Emily Dickenson but she probably didn't say that.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Life might be bitter,
& surely not long enough,
beating its ending.

[ring]

Sylvia Plath?