The Longest Thread Ever!

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by Jetée

Man... that's out of this world big. (I've probably heard of larger images in size, but none that intrigue me as much as what you just spoke for.)

plus... even if/when you do download the thing, I'm not sure that Windows Picture Viewer is going to like opening up a 500+ MB file. Do you have a metric/ft/pixels converter handy? I'm sure it is easy enough to find with "pixel foot converter", but... I can't even comprehend how large in diameter it must be (say: wider than my village block?)

+ bonus:

[Jetée]

random referential: Baubauhaus.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I'd rather pretend
I don't understand some girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-VJnpRrgo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-VJnpRrgo

than understand boys.

(Well done, another palindrome!)

[Zooksport2]

I could go to the moon... It'd be cool.

Not like this fucking hot box down here. 23 day of +30 degrees, and averages of over 35 for the next week.
Today Min 26 Max 38
Monday Min 25 Max 35
Tuesday Min 23 Max 36
Wednesday Min 23 Max 36
Thursday Min 22 Max 35
Friday Min 23 Max 35
Saturday Min 23 Max 33

.................................................................................

[BadNick]

Zooks, how far is Antarctica? Isn't that right next door? It's not like it's the longest place from you, is it?

Talk about right, here's the sambo I just wolfed down. It's a corned beef & pastrami special (w/cole slaw, Russian dressing, on Richmond Bakery rye bread), pickle and onion rings:

[Jetée]

(after dinner, perhaps we can take a little tour outside? -- in space!)



A group of friends go for a stroll on the moon in Ryan Mauskopf’s “Spirit Quest Journey”.

[Zooksport2]

Perth to Antarctica: about 4000 k's

http://data.aad.gov.au/database/mapc..._distances.pdf

[Ourcrazymodern?]

2x4x(4/4)=8

How far you might be
away from sometimes landmarks
has its way with you.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Our presence has been tempered,
like we have the means to manage it
so far outside our sayings.

[Jetée]

Shrunken resolve?

What do we need, I wonder, in order to gain audience participation?


FANFICTION

(...if not also some credibility?)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

jewels heard, forgot,
try our intimate can hear
our fucking echoes

[BadNick]

From what I've noticed, I think sex still sells.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Thinking goes buying
like hound dogs chase the scent
as if they don't want.

(24/4)x.5=3

[BadNick]

woof woof woof ...just a few barks to add another post.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

If up the wrong tree,
here's my joining, where you're not:
Most intersections.

[Jetée]

Does anybody know how I can search for posts that have the [hide] tags within the content of the body? (-- pun-spotting)
(I secretly hid a dose of JJ loveliness within 'em. + bonus: she is the "perfect age", according to my biased algorithm.)

[Jetée]

Apparently, so is Eliza Dusku (although she is technically ripened by just three months or so.)

Illustrative example:

(it was already willing & waiting within my CelebShots WebNotes, by the by.)

[Jetée]

If you compare the above two names in which I've dropped, (they're highlighted) I can't believe I hadn't noticed it sooner: they are not all too dissimilar in fetchedness smiling, ancestry, and overall, to be frank, hotness. (they kinda could be sisters, too, in an alternate, God-loving dimension.)

Coincidence and contradictions are all that I live. Doppelgangers are the only sort of persons I come to meet anymore.

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

woof woof woof ...just a few barks to add another post.

F**k me.

Before my curse-free resolve kicks in within a few minutes, I just had to sneak in this last reply.

I had saved this scrolling web-links page way back sometime nearly after New Year's Day; only today did I have find any time to see if I could untie the red ribbon from my finger already.

THIS is what I came away with noticing: (and tying back in)

Javier Jaén.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Puzzling, if you hold it close,
gives no solutions to its problems:
Embrace is provocative.

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by ring

Oh yes. My 'out of sorts' & cranky moment, has passed over.
Brushing up on word & phrase origins, is therapeutic.

"Q From Ron Vaughn: Where does the expression out of sorts come from? What are sorts in this context? My wife accuses me of this malady and I know what she means, but I don’t know why I know.

A English idioms are often extremely puzzling and their origins are notoriously difficult to track down. So people invent all kinds of yarns to make sense of them.

The most common story about this phrase refers to the printer’s word sorts for the individual metal characters in his boxes of type, so called because they have been arranged, each into its own compartment, with all of one kind together. It would obviously be a substantial inconvenience if a printer were to run out of a sort during composition. The problem with this story is that the figurative expression out of sorts is recorded much earlier than the printers’ term; the first recorded use of it for printers’ type in the big Oxford English Dictionary is from as late as 1784, from Benjamin Franklin: “The founts, too, must be very scanty, or strangely out of sorts”. It would seem he was attaching an already well-known idiom to the printer’s trade, not the other way around.

A second idea is that it has something to do with playing cards. A pack that hasn’t been shuffled is said to be out of sort and not suitable for playing with. The problem with this is that the OED doesn’t give any example of its being used in this connection, which it surely would if the expression had been common.

The Latin original of our word sort was applied to a piece of wood that was used for drawing lots. Later, still in Latin, it developed into the idea of one’s fate, fortune or condition. This was the first meaning of sort in English, in the thirteenth century. It survived until shortly after Shakespeare’s time, until about the point that out of sorts is first found. But sort soon evolved another meaning in English that related to rank, order, or class. It was used to describe people, especially their qualities or standing. There were once phrases such as of sort that implied high quality or rank. Others that we still use today, such as of your own sort, the right sort, or of all sorts, evolved out of the same idea.

It would seem out of sorts developed from this idea of quality (lack of it in this case), perhaps influenced by the other meaning of fate or one’s lot in life, so implying that fortune wasn’t smiling on one, or that all wasn’t well."

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Originally Posted by ring

I'm trying to recall the instances you speak of.

Perhaps when you begin a reply with: "Not to be snippy here."
The next poster may well decide, "I'm on the defensive, cuz he's going to get snippy."
When in fact your intentions were exactly the opposite.

But, by mentioning that fact, up front, that your post could be offensive,
that puts the idea, 'offensive' at the forefront of the reader's mind.

I'm just brainstorming here...that's all.

I'm curious to what 'the lying down game' might entail.

I'm recalling quite a few actual GEMS of prior posts in this TLTE!, and the above, is merely just one (+ bonus) example.

To reply: it took almost a year to respond, and although I understood it the first time, but now I've finally got the perfect reply, by re-utilizing a Modern identifying example.

Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?

Elephants?

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(+ Bonus Track) Don't Think About Elephants

(+ Bonus Track) Don't Think About Elephants

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

carrot,
my kid told me he has to "turn on my mod" and then the game lets him put betty's underwater so he can better blow up unsuspecting passers-by.

Just from overhearing conversations from my den, I gather that these mods, of which there are many, are frowned upon by some serious players since it's basically cheating by use of some weird hack to the controller or game software. I think my kid has other mods that greatly increase his firing rate and other such useful war capabilities...though I think he's finally realizing that to gain respect of his fellow soldiers, he has to kill everybody within the rules.

Do you ever use a "glitch"? I think that lets you move through the landscape in "unnatural" ways...like getting from here to there without passing through the space between, or you can walk through walls and over roofs that are normally inaccessible...so I'm just learning this from hearing "our recon plane will find them wherever they hide" and other such banter.

I've been wondering for the longest time something of a triviality: did carrot glace go by any other name prior, or was that just an exceptionally-well-timed tangential discussion with a now-defunct newbie who seemed to have an affinity for the cookie monster, and ultimately, led to carrot glace adopting his current, very awesome avatar (of which I helped him shift to... now I'm wondering where exactly this discussion/thread/tet-a-tet took place...) Last wonder I'm pondering: what is a 'glace'?

BadNick:
I originally meant for this random-pertaining-to-you post, but fated-to-be-reply by me, to be as an additional commentary on "game hacks". I don't condone the use of them, as one of the main reasons I embark on a game is to experience it, learn from it, and then, if there's time, finish it (and gain fuzzy internal rewards by beating it).

However, there are some kind of very cool game mods that serve little to no purpose other than to provide some odd, glaced entertainment (I most assuredly mayhaps used the word wrong). Take for example: Geddan.

[Jetée]

It seems all I can do tonite is quote others while I am (still!) on the quest to unsheath those sweater puppets that I think I posted here some very now long-passed time ago.


[I'll update the quotable HERE if I come to finally finding it, but so far, it looks like it has become a victim of the sheer MASSIVE size that is TLTE!]

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by jewels

You're definitely not the waste. Just a bit wasted!



Sounds as though you could use a rest from all that work anyway. As long as it doesn't keep you from TFP.

Originally Posted by Jetée

it may be a page or two late, but... more "Infopornomagraphics!"

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions


if this works hotlinked, click here:

Digital Distractions   click to show 

It's actually about a year or two late now (might be going back into the future to a realization).

The thought: everything is inter-connected. (Is there a specific English word for this meaning/significance exactly?)


*semi-related: Trees.

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by Jetée

I used to play a PC game called "Chickens from Space", and it somehow was a religious-type game. Not bad, but weird... also enjoyable, though random in its message.

I'll try to find it for you while you compose your thesis on "chicken entropy".

This is not the same game I was talking about, but it does tie into to your previous post (not quoted) about our inevitable "chicken death".

Ah! I've found it. (after a half-year since I originally stated I would)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

24/4=6=6

He offered up his arm, so;
her resistance didn't melt well
& she felt queasy.

[BadNick]

Since I'm feeling uninspired at this moment I thought I'd just do a google image search on this post number, 24467, and see what comes up.

Well it didn't inspire me, but here's a few random pics that were at the top of the search results:

[Ourcrazymodern?]

It was tangerine,
I reckon, with no leisure
in the suit I whored.

Inspiration has its way
with you without your willing breathing
if your diaphragm's working.

[BadNick]

That reminds me of when my buddy Ziggy showed up on the corner wearing his new red silk Easter suit.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Such composition!
Like the pottery's looking
& likes what it sees...

...if only it could post a few.

[Jetée]

[BadNick]

I was nervous that it would disappear, but thankfully it doesn't. It can symbolize the cyclical expansion and collapse of our known universe if you believe that is what happens...as if anybody knows...well, I mean other than the Shadow.

[Jetée]

Preview

I'm thinking this should either be the first or second post in the still-not-as-of-yet actually created topic of participation: STARS & Space.

[BadNick]

We'd possibly get broader participation in STARS & Space by encouraging discussion of whatever object, comment, or question someone might have. I would try to post an intersting "image of the day" with a comment about it.

[Jetée]

To allow myself to talk about it: I've also been thinking about starting an NFL: Knowledge & Trivia sort-of-disccussion for some time now. (One of the only reasons I haven't started it yet is that it never seems to be the right time to start it. Plus: you know about my perfectionist's nature in compiling a nice OP.)

I'd post interesting bits about the NFL through the ages, and then, I'd also ask questions to which I think others more knowledgable than me would hvae a fit answer for... the give & take aspect becomes greater than just knowing whatever you happen to come across by your own methods.

[Zooksport2]

I've been googling the Voyager space craft.

Did you know that V1 is 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun. (wonder how accurate that is?)

and its casually speeding along at a mere 17 kilometers per second (38,000 mph)

Lets see that cops catch that!
.

[BadNick]

This also has some answers: http://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-71/71F.PDF

as does this graphic and source

[Ourcrazymodern?]

We need time & space
to think about it, honey.
I need my mommy.

[BadNick]

In a few more days I'm taking my mommy to the Philadelphia Flower Show. One of my dear sisters will join us this year. I'm sure we'll have a very nice day.

[Jetée]

Louis Armstrong & Max Greger - Hello Dolly (1965)

Louis Armstrong & Max Greger - Hello Dolly (1965)