tv
bp: star wars television series moving forward
bp: new star trek film cast completed
bp: battlestar galactica is back, bionic woman is back
bp: you know in 2020, they won't have anything to recycle on TV or film that wasn't already previously recycled 20 years prior
stynxno: battlestar : the prequel
Godbert: I Love Lucy: The Next Generation
stynxno: : bp: our brains will be mush at that point so we won't remember the stuff from 20 years ago
stynxno: Leave it to Beaver : The College Years
tehloki: degrassi retirement high
Godbert: Cheers 2.0
Godbert: Coach -> Manager
bp: I still think Simpsons could break new ground in TV by aging everyone 2-3 years
bp: It would be either a revolutionary new step -: or more likely a shark-jump
tehloki: or age everyone retroactively
tehloki: heh
tehloki: bart is now a 30-year-old alcoholic
stynxno: Old Man Meets World
bp: Imperfect Strangers
Godbert: Slightly Less Full house
bp: BIG Wonder
necKro: relocate the whole show to 17th-century puritan new england
stynxno: Love and Divorce
veronica: 'house' could combine with 'this old house'
tehloki: collective life pod guy
Godbert: and through it all, there'll still be Law and Order, making new stories by taking characters from one old episode and the plot from another
Godbert: This Old Dr. House
stynxno: LOST house on the Prarie
veronica: CSI: Survivor
tehloki: sesame street: the fall of man
Godbert: Survivor: Sesame Street
brick: i heard Sesame Street was pretty impermeable
tehloki: mashups would be better
stynxno: the ingals crash land on an island in the middle of Kansas hoping to survive.
necKro: Sesame 21 Jump Street
stynxno: The Altos
stynxno: (you know, like sopranos)
Godbert: Family Guy's "Homicide: Life on Sesame Street"
tehloki: all my circuits from futurama seems plausible
tehloki: even if it would be a show about robots, for people
tehloki: instead of... for robots
Godbert: Rocky: The Series
stynxno: Rocky would work since I'm sure he'll still be alive.
brick: somebody said the series was like the quantum mechanics 'many worlds theorom'
Godbert: when Stallone needs more money again
stynxno: T.J. Reno
bp: all my circuits is actually a good idea
bp: they could spin it off
stynxno: Family Anti-Mater -> urkel in Star Trek
Godbert: As the Planet of the Apes Turns
bp: TOTAL RECALL: FOURTH ROCK FROM THE SUN
bp: JOHN LITHGOW
bp: ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
bp: BIG GUNS
bp: THIS SUMMER
bp: DECOMPRESSION IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT WILL BE EXPLOSIVE
necKro: there was already a Total Recall series
stynxno: Reading Rainbows Galatica
tehloki: I think we just turned into something awful
Dec 14th
warren
bp: i haven't read warren ellis since he posted that aerial photo of a shuttle launch with the label "seen from the ISS" and never corrected it
bp: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3183 - see, he still hasn't
esch - Where is it from?
bp: it's from a chase plane
bp: http://www.snopes.com/photos/space/shuttlelaunch.asp
bp: a wb-57
esch - that makes more sense.
bp: someone posted it to the blue that day and brought warrenellis.com down
bp: digg may have been involved
DAQ - I still don't see why that matters so much, bp
bp: IT MAKES ME SO... ANGRY
cortex - heh
DAQ - so he is in error about a picture he found on the intarwebs and hasn't bothered to fix it
bp] turns green and rampages
bp] changes nick to bp]hulk
DAQ - considering how many things he posts daily to his various websites, mailing lists, journals, etc, you can't expect someone to be right all the fucking time
bp]hulk - HE NOT FIX PHOTO CAPTION
bp]hulk - SMASH
-> stynxno has joined mefi
bp]hulk PICKS UP STYNXNO
cortex pages Ang Lee
DAQ - I'm sure he'd appreciate a kindly worded e-mail to ask him to correct the caption
stynxno flails about
bp]hulk - RAAAWWWRRRR
DAQ - I'm sure he won't snarkily make great loads of fun of you for being anal about it
bp]hulk changes nick to bp]
bp: not angry anymore
DAQ - because, you know, he's a nice man
DAQ - though I'm actually curious as to what level of bile and hatred he would bestoy upon you
DAQ - you should email him and tell him you hate him just for that one thing
DAQ - it would be amusing to me
DAQ - it's like watching someone poke a bear cub
bp: i may seriously consider this just to see what he says
bp: it's like strong bad email
bp: "DEAR WARREN"
bp: "HOW DO YOU TYPE WITH BOXING GLOVES ON"
Dec 14th
firefly
brownpau: NAR HQ is near my apartment; I'm still waiting for the first Realtor to jump from the roof.
eddietor: schadenfreude is a wonderful thing.
eddietor: not terribly charitable though.
eddietor: ah well.
eddietor: [stab]
eddietor: I guess I'm just a good man.
eddietor: [stab]
eddietor: Well, I'm alright.
brownpau: hahaha
eddietor: that and kicking niska's man into the engine intake were the 2 Mal-defining moments for me.
brownpau: Yes, quite.
brownpau: There was also a clear Zoe-defining moment when Niska was about to make her choose between Wash and Mal in the torture chamber.
eddietor: "Him".
eddietor: without even letting Niska finish.
eddietor: later that ep was great too, when Zoe says, "This is something the captain needs to do himself"
eddietor: And Mal goes, "No, no it isn't!"
brownpau: Haha yes
eddietor: and they shoot the thug.
brownpau: Too bad Wash died in Serenity, it means a revival of the series won't be quite as funny
eddietor: Yeah... :'-(
brownpau: Unless they turn River into a total comedian now that she's sane again
eddietor: Well, there's still Jayne being a jackass.
eddietor: but yes, no Book and no Wash.
eddietor: that makes me sad.
brownpau: I keep forgetting Rev Book died.
brownpau: Well, they can have Serenity II: The Wrath of Book, then Serenity III: The Search for Wash.
eddietor: LOL
Dec 14th
cigs
bp: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/the_morning_news_guide_to_urban_etiquette_new_york_city.php
bp: i broke the cigarette rule once, although that was in DC
stynxno: what's the cigarette rule?
bp: "If a lady is holding a cigarette and you're a man, it's your job to light it without disturbing her or her conversation. For this, smoker or not, you should carry a lighter; otherwise you'll have to scramble for a pack of matches and, as soon as you try to light one, a wind will suddenly appear. Feel free to silently curse The Fates."
stynxno: ahh.
bp: actually it was a different situation
bp: pretty girl asked me for a light completely out of the blue
bp: this was at a club while i was there with friends thinking about how out-of-place i felt in a club
bp: and of course i don't smoke
bp: so i suffered the indignity of telling my female friend "hey this girl needs a light"
bp: <= blew it
bp: <= big time
bp: this was back when i was single
stynxno: yeah. when you're single, you need to carry a lighter.
stynxno: also, be aware of being cock blocked. be assertive or some guy next to you will try to move on the girl who is making a pass at you.
bp: it was rather embarassing
bp: i should have mentioned i work for smokefree dc or something
bp: i would have crashed still, but i would have gone down spectacularly, in flames
stynxno: and that's the only way to do it.
bp: instead of going, "uh hey nadra, she needs a light"
stynxno: having a girl go "um. i need to talk to someone else" is the greatest thing ever.
Dec 14th
lost
brownpau: btw, you watch the last Lost?
eddietor: not a Lostie, sorry.
eddietor: did the answers/question ratio improve?
brownpau: Yeah
brownpau: Plot's actually moving forward now, but I feel like it's too little, too late.
brownpau: Plus, the last episode had a Jack flashback to when he was on vacation in Thailand.
brownpau: Messing around with a local prostitute.
eddietor: are they trying to give his character a gritty edge now?
eddietor: I thought that was what Sawyer was for.
brownpau: And my first thought was, "Jack, if a sexy Thai woman in Phuket is expressing interest in you, here's a tip: SHE IS PROBABLY NOT A WOMAN."
eddietor: LOL
Dec 14th
bcbc
brownpau: If Obama and Gore were out of the picture and it came down to Clinton or Edwards I'd be torn.
brownpau: Edwards is strong on labor, but Clinton provides the irresistible prospect of a list of US Presidents which goes "Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton"
Dec 14th
iLOL
eddietor: it needs to be 200 dollars cheaper and have 3 times as much battery life.
eddietor: but they didn't ask me, so what are you gonna do?
brownpau: It also needs to have an SD card slot, and not be tied down to the crappiest GSM network on the planet.
eddietor: it also needs to allow for 3rd party development.
eddietor: and be unlocked
eddietor: yes
eddietor: right, you could jettison most of the builtin flash mem if you could stick an SD in there.
brownpau: Wait, we're talking about Enterprise NCC-1701-G, right?
eddietor: Right.
Dec 13th
pee suit
brownpau: btw i'm going to Orlando
brownpau: family trip
eddietor: neat.
brownpau: AND I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO DO THIS - http://www.wdwplanner.com/diving.htm
eddietor: sweet, is that the place where the non-diving folk get to see you in the tanks?
brownpau: yup
eddietor: I read about that somewhere.
brownpau: i'm reading reviews on scuba boards and apparently they tell guest divers to act like cast members
eddietor: sweeeeeeet
brownpau: that is, no rude gestures at the park guests, no scratching of crotches, no peeing in the suit
eddietor: you should take a camera and wave and point and take pictures of the tourists.
eddietor: you know, that's just being polite.
eddietor: although how could they tell if you peed in the suit?
brownpau: the telltale shimmer of a thermocline gradient
brownpau: even clear pee has body heat
brownpau: Umbriel: "Did it just get warmer?"
brownpau: </futurama>
Dec 11th
icr
jason: http://www.icr.org/
brownpau: ugh please
jason: their director of internet ministries emailed me to say he liked the Ajax Bible
brownpau: oh, wonderful
jason: i detect that you don't appreciate this org?
brownpau: Not really.
jason: i'm curious. why?
brownpau: Young Earth creationism treats the book of Genesis as though it were a post-Enlightement scientific-historical document specifically written to address questions of an empirical nature.
brownpau: The manner in which humans interacted with truth and reality was different back then, and it reflects in the nature of the God-given narrative.
brownpau: While I don't dispute that God did indeed create the heavens and the earth, it's ingenuous at the very best to force the six-day narrative structure into a scientific mold for the sake of faithfulness to literal exegesis.
jason: i see
brownpau: That said, I still do appreciate greatly that the Creationist/ID school of thought presents meaningful challenges to an increasingly complacent school of thought in evolutionary biology that we already know all the answers with regard to the origins of life -- especially that over-prominent branch of science which insists that a purely rational approach to the question necessarily means opposing religious faith in any form.
jason: so you differ on the length of the "day" in genesis
brownpau: Yeah.
jason: well... regardless of the specific ideologies of the org, its still nice to be noticed by the director of something big
jason: ;)
brownpau: Oh definitely. :)
brownpau: I mean, if Tim LaHaye emailed me to say he likes my design work, I'd still be flattered. ;)
Dec 10th
walmart
insomnyuk went away (11.24.14 PM)
Away Message: WALMART TO BUY A CHAIR - verge of madness, yes (11.24.15 PM)
11.25.20 PM brownpau: NO NOT WALMART
11.26.58 PM insomnyuk: OMG BROWNPAU
11.27.04 PM insomnyuk: ITS THE ONLY PLACE OPEN1!1
11.27.14 PM insomnyuk: oh wait, i forgot, wal-mart is teh evil
11.27.22 PM brownpau: Well, go if you must
11.27.30 PM insomnyuk: i guess i will have to find the other store that sells office supplies and TANG at 11:30 in the pm
11.27.46 PM brownpau: Fine fine sell your soul for chairs and Tang
11.28.38 PM insomnyuk: i have critics everywhere
11.28.40 PM brownpau: Have fun, SITTING ON THE BACKS OF MINIMUM WAGE INNOCENTS WHILE YOU SIP FROM THE SWEAT OF THEIR BROW
11.28.48 PM insomnyuk: LAROUCHE IN 08!!1
Dec 10th