The Longest Thread Ever!

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

Home, home on the range

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(whoa! New page, man. Wasn't expecting it. Righteous. I should live my life that way, and rid myself of the negativity miasma, eh?)

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

I chopped up and removed all the ice on my walkways and driveway today.

Ocm? and Jet, I'm sure we would have had a great time if you guys were here helping me with that. I'm a bit sore but invigorated.

I don't really feel your pain, but I'm sympathetic towards it. Are you feeling chiller - hup bad pun - better?

How'd you like that game last night? Nice, eh?
(I'm still sore that the Cardinals lost to those three stars and night players, but I'm sure no one wants to hear my gripes any ol' way.)

I was pretty sure you might have stated 'game' there; must have imagined it. I'm back, however.

[Jetée]

Existential question for the day: Are we all as hopeless and lost and trapped as they say we are? Can we not escape from our own condition?

[BadNick]

I never saw The Messenger.

"The film currently holds a 90% 'Certified Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews" so that's a good sign.

Oren Moverman's debut film, "The Messenger," tells a war story in which not a single weapon is fired or bomb exploded.

---------- Post added at 09:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:57 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Jetée

I don't really feel your pain, but I'm sympathetic towards it. Are you feeling chiller - hup bad pun - better?

How'd you like that game last night? Nice, eh?
(I'm still sore that the Cardinals lost to those three stars and night players, but I'm sure no one wants to hear my gripes any ol' way.)

I was pretty sure you might have stated 'game' there; must have imagined it. I'm back, however.

I'm all better and the better for it, now more careful walking on ice.

I thought "the game" was quite good, even exciting. I didn't deeply care who won but I was sort of rooting for Green Bay so as the Steelers were coming back strong it was tense and if'y there for a while.

[Jetée]

And you kept me company - just in time.

Of the 50 or so films that I've added to my listing in the past several weeks...

The Listing   click to show 

RECENT FILMS (descending order: recency)

Monty Python's
The Meaning of Life
The Big House
Johnny Belinda
Miracle in the Rain
The Moon is Blue
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Limits of Control
Musica en Espera
Raising Victor Vargas
The Blind Side
Pirate Radio
Adopt a Soldier
Too Busy to Work
Inception
The Dark Knight
Watchmen
Little Caesar
Sin noticias de Dios
Five Minutes of Heaven
Bridge on the River Kwai
Duck Soup
Badlands
Sex and Breakfast
Indecent Proposal
Jennifer's Body
Where the Wild Things Are
The Busy Body
Leon
The Messenger
The Hurt Locker
Liberty Kid
Post Grad
How I Got into College
Full Grown Men
Fanboys
The Door in the Floor
Diary of the Dead
In The Loop
Monsters vs. Aliens
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Hangover
Memento
Dahmer
Day of the Jackal
District 9
9
Frozen
Pontypool
Zombieland
The Village Barbershop
Rosewood
Gran Torino
But I'm a Cheerleader
She's Out of My League
Rudo y Cursi
(500) Days of Summer
Jumpin' Jack Flash
North by Northwest
Pulp
Ladri di Biciclette
True Grit
Born Free
Gandhi
Meet John Doe
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Remember the Night
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
The Blob
Easy Rider
Roustabout
The Lady Eve
Meet Me in St. Louis
Finding Forrester
The Odd Couple
Of Mice and Men (both)
Killer McCoy
Limelight
Little Miss Sunshine

... I consider The Messenger to be in my "Ten Best", if I had to make one (I'm really averse/adoring to making Lists) listing a specific ten. Actually, Most of the films I watch all the way through, I consider enjoyable. There's only a few that left me wanting / scratchin' the noggin' (Full Grown Men, Inception, Frozen). I probably shouldn't have watched that last one, but I did. Gruesome.

[Jetée]

Holey Cajole! (that's not how you pronounce this word, right?)

I've watched that many films in these past few months (since Oct.-Nov., I think...)?
Counting by twos, it seems it was around ~75 films in total. or 0.72 films per waking day.

[Jetée]

My eyes deceived me there (or did so: my page that never refreshes itself).
I thought you had evaded the automerging doublepost conundrum, in kind, BadNick.

*semi-related: to the above/previous M.C. Escher take on revolving stairs...

Red light, Green light

Red light, Green light

[BadNick]

I still haven't figured out the automerge work-around but I decided I don't think I'd use it even if I did. Though it's always nice to know how and why something works. I wonder why as I was half way through this reply, there was a sudden power outage. I looked outside and it was neighborhood-wide, and then it suddenly came back on as it always has ever since they wired this world.

[Jetée]

I don't like when that happens. It always feels like it's my fault.

I need to take myself off the (electrical) grid.
I've seen these advertisements for solar-powered placemat hubs, (in hiking magazines, maybe?) but I haven't had the initiative to 1) figure out how they work 2) if they are feasible to utilize within my lifestyle {where they might sell them, how much?} 3) see if they are not just a figment of my imagination.

[BadNick]

This lake has been sealed below Antarctic ice for the longest time! ...15 million years

Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake



By Alissa de Carbonnel
MOSCOW | Tue Feb 8, 2011 8:26am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.

"There's only a bit left to go," Alexei Turkeyev, chief of the Russian polar Vostok Station, told Reuters by satellite phone. His team has drilled for weeks in a race to reach the lake, 3,750 meters (12,000 ft) beneath the polar ice cap, before the end of the brief Antarctic summer.

It was here that the coldest temperature ever found on Earth -- minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit) -- was recorded.

With the rapid onset of winter, scientists will be forced to leave on the last flight out for this season, on Feb 6.

"It's minus 40 (Celsius) outside," Turkeyev said. "But whatever, we're working. We're feeling good. There's only 5 meters left until we get to the lake so it'll all be very soon."

Scientists suspect the lake's depths will reveal new life forms, show how the planet was before the ice age and how life evolved. It could offer a glimpse at what conditions for life exist in the similar extremes of Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa.

"It's like exploring an alien planet where no one has been before. We don't know what we'll find," said Valery Lukin of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg, which oversees the expedition.

EXPLORATORY RUSH

A centenary since the first expeditions to the South Pole, the discovery of Antarctica's hidden network of subglacial lakes via satellite imagery in the late 1990s has sparked a new exploratory fervor among scientists the world over.

U.S. and British explorers are on the trail of Russia's scientists with missions to probe other buried lakes, some of the last unexplored reaches of the planet.

"It's an extreme environment but it is one that may be habitable. If it is, curiosity drives us to understand what's in it. How is it living? Is it flourishing?," said Martin Siegert, head of the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences, who is leading a British expedition to a smaller polar lake.

Experts say the ice sheet acts like a duvet, trapping in the Earth's geothermal heat and preventing the lakes from freezing.

Sediment from the lake could take scientists back millions of years to tropical prehistoric times, the AARI's Lukin said.

OASIS UNDER THE ICE

Lake Vostok, about the size of Lake Baikal in Siberia, is the largest, deepest and most isolated of Antarctica's 150 subglacial lakes. It is supersaturated with oxygen, resembling no other known environment on Earth.

"The Russians are leading the way with a torch," said John Priscu of Montana State University, a chief scientist with the U.S. program to explore another Antarctic lake.

Beneath the endless white landscape, Priscu suspects creatures may lurk, far from the sunlight, around thermal vents in the depths of Lake Vostok.

"I think Lake Vostok is an oasis under the ice sheet for life. It would be really wild to thoroughly sample... But until we learn how to get into the system cleanly that's an issue," he told Reuters.

The low-lying, snow-drift buildings and radio towers of Vostok Station sit above the eponymous lake. The borehole, pumped full of Kerosene and Freon to keep it from freezing shut, hangs poised over the pristine lake.

The explorers now face the question: How do we go where no one has gone before without spoiling it or bringing back some foreign virus?

"I feel very excited but once we do it there is no going back," Alexei Ekaikin, a scientist with the expedition said from Vostok Station. "Once you touch it, it will be touched forever."

(Editing by Janet Lawrence)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Kerosene/Freon?
Never meaning to spoil it,
no longer pristine.

+ + +

Pretending a need
where desire by itself is
exaggerates both.

[BadNick]

rightly focusing your astute observations on a possible chilling outcome

I do recall that kerosene does not taste good.

[Jetée]

It's a damn, dirty shame we pass for four hours, untouched.


Touche me, by The... (insert band name here).

[ring]

YouTube - Rocky Horror Picture Show - Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me

YouTube - Rocky Horror Picture Show - Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me

[Ourcrazymodern?]

((2+4)/3)+3=5

"Be just & fear not"
said the sign outside the church.
Little did she know...

[BadNick]

Court bans man with low IQ from having sex - Telegraph

[Jetée]

Moon Madness by Andrew Wyeth

[Zooksport2]

I hate summer....

I want some snow! Dammit!

[BadNick]

I hate snow....

I want some summer! Dammit!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

All down the drain, huh?
& in spite of the fact that
he picked a good nose.

24340...

[BadNick]

In spite of evolution, it seems in this world even having the best parts doesn't guarantee survival. But snowmen are a winter perennials so I bet he'll be back next year.

[Zooksport2]

that pic made me chuckle, Nick

[Jetée]

Correlation: this used to be my avatar, one time long ago, at a blog-hub I still would like to be a member of: for it has a purpose (or 43).

[Jetée]

Sorry I've been so delayed. At least I got my one-time favoritest childhood number pairings: seven-&-eleven

(we played steal the bacon in the gymnasium with orange cones, chalkboard erasers, a row of kids on two sides, and dead sprints, as well as some extraordinary chases at times. I was usually #7 or #11 on most days - the correlation.)

[Jetée]

Back-tracking: that blog bit, I shut down my account there after I realized I don't think normally, nor can I jot down what happens to me on a daily basis. I'm very goal-oriented, but that's only when I can actually name a goal to be strived for...

this was one of my only posts:

To Every Thing(or 43) There is a Time — 11(+ some seasons, too) months ago

I see time as something to be cherished, not coveted. The moment you lose hope is the moment you admit that tomorrow means nothing. If you can somehow find a way to hang on to the edge of tomorrow, only then can you realize there someone else is on the other side waiting to embrace you. So in this sense, time is no longer the enemy, but merely the guiding force in what we call LIFE.

... after I gave myself the query to write down the first thing you can think of, and spend exactly five minutes composing it. I probably went over.

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Zooksport2

that pic made me chuckle, Nick

I'm glad it did, plus you got the emordnilap!

[Jetée]

I've been waiting to say good-bye for the longest time.

I wonder what's the winding etymologist's history of the catch-all-be-all phrase: good-bye?

[BadNick]

Hi Jet. What's so good about good-bye? I've wondered that for the longest time. So while you're waiting and I'm wondering, who's watching the baby?

[Jetée]

Baby new year, I presume? (correlations)


Here's a cursory glance (and paste) of our combined ponderance to the where, how & why: in which we bid good-byes.

[Zooksport2]

YouTube - so long farewell - sound of music

YouTube - so long farewell - sound of music

[BadNick]

I'm heading into a staff meeting in a few minutes, which tend to be longest, long-winded, and leaving me longing for The Longest Thread Ever. So long.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Staff meeting's okay
as long as it's productive,
but often it's not.

re: "so long farewell" - such a well-behaved brood kinda gives me the creeps.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

(24/3)-5=3

(Maybe enough hours
have passed so this won't double;
if not, what the hell?)

Hey, ZookSport2! Is Australia's Dingo Fence the longest one ever?

[BadNick]

I never knew about the Dingo Fence but it sure seems to be the longest fence in the world!

I don't know what's worse, being overrun by rabbits, or dingos, kangaroos, or camels?

While the dingo fence was built to protect sheep, "...It has also been suggested that the larger kangaroo populations inside the fence have been caused by the lack of dingo predation, and competition for food leads to lower sheep stocking rates than would be possible without the fence...Today, the rate at which feral camel are smashing down sections of the fence are fast increasing in Southern Australia. Plans for restructuring the Dog fence to be taller and electric are under process..."

Strange, interesting place you got there, Zooks. I would like to check it out soon.

[Jetée]

(Feral) Camel X-ing

[BadNick]

I suggest trying to eat them all. Perhaps if one were to interest Ronald McDonald in serving camel burgers, soon they would be seriously depleted.


Chef Christian Falco of Perpignan, France, roasting a 1200 lbs. camel in Rabat, Morocco.
Chef Falco alludes to the ancient practice of the Moroccan kings throwing a feast of spit-roasted camel for their subjects.

[Jetée]

I bide my time too often.

(thinking you may have thought I had forgotten)

Legend has it that one day the gods ordered (or maybe the 1st Chinese Emperor; also: Amitabha!) that animals be designated as the signs of each year with the twelve who arrived first selected. At that time, the cat and mouse were good friends and neighbors. When they heard of this news, the cat said to mouse: 'We should arrive early to sign up, but I usually get up late.' The mouse then promised to awaken his friend and to go together. However, on the morning when he got up, he was too excited to recall his promise, and went directly to the gathering place. On the way, the mouse encountered the tiger, ox, horse, and other animals that ran much faster. In order not to fall behind them, he thought up a good idea. He made the straightforward ox carry him on condition that he sang for the ox. The ox and mouse arrived first. The ox was happy thinking that he would be the first sign of the years, but the mouse had already slid in front, and became the first lucky animal of the Chinese zodiac. Meanwhile his neighbor the cat was too late; when it finally arrived, the selections were over. That's why other animals appear behind the little mouse and why the cat hates mice so much that every time they meet, the cat will chase and kill the mouse.

[Zooksport2]

You want hot, come over Nov - March
Cooler: May to August

East coast, cooler than the West coast, on average
West coast, where all the cooler peeps live... like me f'rinstance...

I can probably lend ya my spare car: you have to fill the tank, but.

right now: hot... damn hot.

[BadNick]

That's very hospitable of you, Zooks.

We actually have some developing excellent potential business in Australia which could justify (or demand) my adventure there. I'll put out some feelers for a ~June'ish visit. Our two reps are in QLD but it seems some of the customers (mining, minerals) are over on the Perth side closer to you.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

The cooler peeps live
where they must withstand the heat:
So cold climates mean?

2 into 4x3=6+0