¿ question of the day ?

[auntie aubrey]

i haven't spent substantial time on the regular zefrank.com server in quite a while. so i'd have to say this board, fast chat.

[trisherina]

I always loved the resolutions. Much sweet ness in them.

[Stephi_B]

Here: Fast Chat, Frieda's forum, Et Cetera.

[lukkucairi]

zeblog.

first time I ever got rickrolled :p

[brightpearl]

for the next 24 hours or so...

What might be good glued on a mailbox?

[auntie aubrey]

a rusty pike with a head mounted upon it, to strike fear in the hearts of your enemies and keep the mongrels of hell at bay.

[T.I.P.]

a dried cucumber

[Anna]

http://www.smallworks.com/images/houston.jpg

[seebe]

Dirty socks

[lukkucairi]

DEJA VU all over again

glitter. our mailbox needs glitter. too bad it's just a slot in our door...

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

MIL's photo when angry (or, for frightening the delivery even more, her bust)

[Frieda]

a nametag sounds useful to me

[Stephi_B]

A voodoo device keeping away them bloody bills! ;)

[madasacutsnake]

A sign which says, "THE LAND IS NOT FOR SALE".

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a magic spam-dissolver device

[Coffee]

Some kind of flotation device.

[Coffee]

.

[Stephi_B]

New Q (a two parter - don't ask me how that got connected in my brain now ;)):



¿ Your favourite cheese ?

¿ Your relationship to porn (*) ?



(*) Not talking about child porn, snuff etc - that's crime, no porn.



Me:

Fol Epi
If it's good one I see it as art (particularly in form of comics, photography), in general: like cooking recipes - possible inspiration, but no guideline, can't / don't want to cook after recipes.

[zero]

¿ Your favourite cheese ?
:mad: WAY too personal!!

¿ Your relationship to porn
:) a nice strong mature one, you know, that actually hurts the roof of your mouth because it's made with unpasteurized milk, danish blue for example

[12"razormix]

¿ Your favourite cheese ?
mozzarella di buffala

¿ Your relationship to porn ?
none

[lukkucairi]

cheese porn (http://www.cheeseontour.com/xxx/)

(from the masterminds behind cheese on tour, the web's number one site for pictures of cheese in famous places.)

personally:

I do not have a favorite cheese - I love almost all cheese - even the scary-smelling limburger-types

http://www.preston.gov.uk/Images/General/Parks/wallace_and_gromit.jpg
(^scary-smelling limburger-type)

as to pr0n, I get enough inadvertent exposure via odd unfiltered google searches of completely unrelated subjects to feel that I'd never have to go searching.

for example, when googling "wallace" to find a hotlink for the above image, I ran across no fewer than two naughty pictures on the very first page of returns. I mean, "candi", you'd expect, but "wallace (http://images.google.com/images?q=wallace&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi)"?!

[Frieda]

favorite cheese: belegen goudse

porn: i'm ok with porn in general.. for the times when there's pure earthly belly-aching lust involved. making love is a totally different thing to me, though.

[Veruki]

it's a tie between blue cheese and manchego.
As far as porn is concerned, I'm still on over our breakup.

[Brynn]

I never met a cheese I didn't like.
I find porn dehumanizing, but not erotica ("The Pillow Boy Of Lady Onogaro" for instance.)

Cheese and porn? Turn-off.

[auntie aubrey]

cheese: manchego
pr0n: my relationship with porn is strangely similar to my relationship with god: nonexistent. although there is one difference, i suppose. i know pr0n exists.

[auntie aubrey]

nonexistent god prevented this thread from updating with my answer. :mad:

[lukkucairi]

Cheese and porn? Turn-off.

come on Brynn, don't pretend this doesn't titillate you:

http://www.cheeseontour.com/xxx/images/hotaction.gif

[Frieda]

^it would've been really cheesy if they were wearing white socks :p

[T.I.P.]

¿ Your favourite cheese ?

my choice is somewhere between nice and drippy st félicien, a praticularly fondant fourme d'ambert, comté when it's a little on the piquant side or corsican fromage de brebis with a drop of olive oil

¿ Your relationship to porn (*) ?

the full multisensory 3D version is my favorite

[Jack Flanders]

Cheez-wiz
+
good porn=yummy!!!

[trisherina]

Same cheese as ramrox.

Do I have to have a relationship with porn? That seems so, I don't know, committed.

[Stephi_B]

^Nope, of course you can be non-committed, non-caring, or whatever; there just was no better English word/expression in my mind than 'relationship'.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I like both. Some kinds more, some kinds not at all.

[T.I.P.]

Pregunta del dia:

¿ What is a name you have given to your Computer / hard drive / USB key and why?

[Brynn]

come on Brynn, don't pretend this doesn't titillate you:

http://www.cheeseontour.com/xxx/images/hotaction.gif
HAHAHA:D

New name for computer - Bob Le Flambeau

[Veruki]

I lovingly refer to all my computers as puta (as in whore), it stems from my brothers inability to say computer in spanish as a young child. He'd stop before finishing and leave it at computa.

[T.I.P.]

One of my friends in France works at the RATP (french metro company). He was working with an old train technician one day, and needed to access some files on the hard drive of the office computer.

My friend was slightly befuddled when the technician told him that he would find the information he needed "in that suitcase." He ended up understanding when the guy pointed his finger at a folder on the desktop of the machine in front of them, and said - "Right there, in that suitcase".

This story really made me laugh, and ever since I name all of my disks "valise", "briefcase" etc...

[lukkucairi]

my old laptop is Euclid, as I bought it right after seeing Pi for the first time and I was unprepared for it to ask me to name it.

I don't tend to name my machines (computers or cars) - I don't see them as separate entities, but more as just extensions of myself.

this one is now simply "the PC", aka "goddamn stupid fukken windows"

the other one is simply "the mac", aka "perennial RAM shortage"

the third one is "the work machine", aka "don't you dare save that to my hard drive - are you trying to get me fired?!"

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

My PC is Mazsola, which means raisin and so much more. But I tend to give this name randomly to my nieces, friends, etc. My USB keys are the Black (office stuff) and the Orange (other), but I tend not to talk to them.

[Coffee]

Hal 4 is my current comp's name.

My old pentium-III based comp was named Hal 3.

[trisherina]

This is a function not available to me.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

THE COMPUTER
MY COMPUTER
COMPUTER

you know, wherever my whim takes me

[Stephi_B]

My current compie at work has the official name theo26 (this is so boring, decent workgroups name their compies after Greek gods/heros or stuff like that, at least our master nodes are named after chemical elements), but I call him "Babe" on good days and "blöder Pisser" if he behaves like one, let the KDE crash for example (he does that ON PURPOSE!!!). My old home compie (an antique thing from '98, my very first own compie), meanwhile passed from the processing :(, was named HAL, simply HAL, no number, no pet names, no cuss names, I miss him purring like big, happy tomcat...

[Odbe]

decent workgroups name their compies after Greek gods/heros or stuff like that, at least our master nodes are named after chemical elements),
My network has names from Egyptian mythology, but chemical elements are pretty cool!!
My own computer is Nephthys, Egyptian goddess of the underworld. The wireless is Nut, goddess of the sky. The computer with zillions of coloured LEDs in its case is Amunra because it's so bright, then there's a couple more Egyptian gods/goddesses.

I give names to most of my technology, I think it makes things easier, especially when you want to eject a USB something and you can't remember if it's E or F or G or whatever.
My mp3 player is called Sheep because it's black and is a black sheep, going against the trend of iPod brand mp3 players.
My first small thumb drive is called Thumbellina.
Then I got one with more space and called it Tomb Thumb, but it got appropriated by my mother and lost among my relatives.
So I got a third one and it says 'Soniq' on the side, so I called it Tails, after the cartoon character.

[auntie aubrey]

i name everything else, so it seems silly that i haven't named the computer(s). it's just desktop, laptop, and work laptop.

[zero]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2058/1809235879_31b660032f_o.jpg



wee bastard

[lukkucairi]

new question for May 8 or 9...

¿ what makes you itchy ?

[auntie aubrey]

all the usual stuff. pollen. wool. acrylic if it's a wooly texture. and dog hair, as it turns out.

[lukkucairi]

this would be a "no" for you then?

http://gentscaninesociety.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/knitting-with-dog-hair.jpg

[auntie aubrey]

i just vomited in my mouth a little bit.

[brightpearl]

mangy bastards

[Hyakujo's Fox]

anti-biotics

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

mosquito bites - they not only make me itchy, they make me go raving mad.

[T.I.P.]

too much pressure

[Odbe]

:eek: :eek: I OWN THAT BOOK!!
this would be a "no" for you then?

http://gentscaninesociety.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/knitting-with-dog-hair.jpg

[Stephi_B]

pollen (but not that bad *blinking with slightly irritated eyes*)
pseudo-hip people / dumb tussis
lately also most uni-folks

[zero]

.


★..............................★
ALL THAT
SCRATCHIN'
IS MAKIN' ME ITCH
★..............................★

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[Stephi_B]

New ¿ Frage des Tages ?:


The world is ... ?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

antwort a) an anagram for Dr Owl
antwort b) a tattoo on God's left shoulderblade
antwort c) The world is.

[Anna]

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[auntie aubrey]

terrifyingly small.

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note: i do not recommend clicking play on all four videos at once.

[lukkucairi]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/2482639241/" title="huichol_single by lukku cairi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/2482639241_8ce89f83a1.jpg" width="492" height="500" alt="huichol_single" /></a>

[Stephi_B]

^ dig that!! :)


In a different connection my friend just SMSed me "The world if full of idiots." which made me laugh and remember that I've asked this question today! :D

Well, that is true, also the world is crazy (which can be good or bad - depending on what sort of craziness it is), dangerous, BUT: very, very beautiful.

This wee world
http://www.kiezatlas.de/friedrichshain-kreuzberg/frkr-ge4.jpg
is mostly fine in any case - and I'll move my ass out of office and into this world: NOW :)

[zero]

as i am

[brightpearl]

There is another world, but it is in this one.
~Paul Eluard

and, from an old text called the Lankavatara Sutra,
"Things are not as they seem; nor are they otherwise."

So the world is yes and no, and it is also where yes and no overlap, and finally it is where even yes and no cannot penetrate.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

So the world is yes and no, and it is also where yes and no overlap, and finally it is where even yes and no cannot penetrate.

I love it! Everything and nothing.

[brightpearl]

^Good!
I absolutely did not think of it myself in any conventional sense.
:)

[Stephi_B]

There is another world, but it is in this one.
~Paul Eluard

and, from an old text called the Lankavatara Sutra,
"Things are not as they seem; nor are they otherwise."

So the world is yes and no, and it is also where yes and no overlap, and finally it is where even yes and no cannot penetrate.

That s e r i o u s l y rocks!! :)

(And then there are this one-dimensional assclowns who think the quanticity of stuff was not known till 100 years ago or so -- and that it applies only on the tiny scale; ya, well these folks also value themselves and others in #publications in high impact factor journals / age(finished PhD, Habil etc) x missed fun in life :rolleyes: -- yes I'm growing rather pissed off by 'some' colleagues ;))

[Brynn]

pretty awful, pretty wonderful, and fully engaged in various amusing activities

[T.I.P.]

...the world is!

[seebe]

Fraught with tension
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z105/photostore4/stop.gif

[zero]

¿?

what do you think it's like being a crab..if you could go now (your mind) into a crab, what would you see, where would you be, what would you be doing, what would you be thinking, what would you think of all the other things a crab would see.. the squids you'd see.. what's it like, do you think, being a crab?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I'm thinking: the water's temperature is rising unpleasantly. Yes, it's definitely getting hotter and hotter. And I'm swimming in circles... I can't get out of here! Help!

[brightpearl]

This is such an excellent question that I fear I'll never do it justice.

Well, I expect the crab has no idea it's a crab or that it lives in water, so I guess it wouldn't be thinking of that. Perhaps it would be thinking about how, even as it shreds and eats this lovely bit of decayed herring, it is hungry. It might spot a boy crab and fancy a bit of shell without understanding why. And it might be thinking of needing to find a place to hide, again for reasons it doesn't understand, except when it's actively being threatened.

Pretty much like being a person, actually, with the possible exception that Froot Loops are harder to come by.

[Marcus Bales]

Wow! a Froot Loop! (chomp) Whoooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaa! Augggh! I can't breathe!

[auntie aubrey]

scuttle.... scuttle..... scuttle.... ooh, meat detected. om-nom-nom-nom. scuttle.... scuttle.... squid! hide! be the sand... be the sand. raise one eye, raise other eye, coast is clear. scuttle scuttle scuttle...... ooh, meat detected. om-nom-nom-nom....

[zero]

^&^^&^^^&^^^^


ok answers i suppose but i don't think anyone's really feeling it yet

[seebe]

I see the tide is out and I crawl out of my hole in the sand. I know I have to be fast finding dinner before the tide comes back in. I watch for predators and hope today is another lucky day that I am not eaten while I feed..Tide's coming in..time to get back in my home and watch my favorite show, Deadliest Catch.

[auntie aubrey]

ok answers i suppose but i don't think anyone's really feeling it yet

WELL WHY DON'T YOU ANSWER THE ¿ QUESTION ? MISTER KNOW-IT-ALL-ABOUT-CRABS? :mad:

[zero]

i know nothing about what it's like being a crab and i'm trying to find out - that's precisely why i asked the fvckken question in the first place!!

[zero]

o good here comes terry



i bet he can think himself entirely into a crab's shoes and post a vivid account of the experience

[brightpearl]

OH, all right then, as Tippy's left you bereft for the moment. With apologies to the original author for the minor adjustments, hahaha.

What the Crab Thinks

I can't imagine how they all live up there.
On land I mean.

How could you ever sleep?
Crushed by the weight of your bones
and the whole of the heavens now I think on it.
The body needs oxygen but good lord
imagine being in a great dirty sea of it.
You couldn't get clean after all
things just floating around in the air
chemicals and crap.
There's no way you could avoid being coated in it
no way to wash it off really.

Must be cold.

There are tigers up there you know.
And bears.
Something could just swoop down out of the sky on you
come creeping out of the trees at you
rip you to shreds.

Could've been me.
There but for the grace of god I guess.

[seebe]

o good here comes terry



i bet he can think himself entirely into a crab's shoes and post a vivid account of the experience
I tried to find a pair of crab shoes once but couldn't find any in my size.:rolleyes:

[brightpearl]

Well, I'll be damned.
http://www.thepinkmonogram.com/uploads/2679_small.jpg
http://www.myspringy.com/Images/Baby%20Leather%20Shoes/Shoes%2020061005/crab.JPG

Google wanted to know if I meant "cream shoes." I thought it meant the dairy product rather than the color and was momentarily flummoxed.

[zero]

What the Crab Thinks

I can't imagine how they all live up there.
On land I mean.

How could you ever sleep?
Crushed by the weight of your bones
and the whole of the heavens now I think on it.
The body needs oxygen but good lord
imagine being in a great dirty sea of it.
You couldn't get clean after all
things just floating around in the air
chemicals and crap.
There's no way you could avoid being coated in it
no way to wash it off really.

Must be cold.

There are tigers up there you know.
And bears.
Something could just swoop down out of the sky on you
come creeping out of the trees at you
rip you to shreds.

Could've been me.
There but for the grace of god I guess.


good work beryl - a keenly observed ditty that gave me an insight into the crab condition without even mentioning pincers



guys this ¿ question of the day ? is going REALLY WELL - keep on with your thoughts about what it might be like to be a crab - if you like we could even do another one of the same kind tomorrow only instead of crab it could be biscuit

[auntie aubrey]

i know nothing about what it's like being a crab and i'm trying to find out - that's precisely why i asked the fvckken question in the first place!!

if you're on a game show somewhere and you're trying to cheat, i'm going to be very disappointed.

[brightpearl]

good work auntie - you've made a keen observation that gave me an insight into zero's condition without even mentioning pincers

[auntie aubrey]

the game show is probably called "wheel of crabs" or "crab bamboozle."

[Hyakujo's Fox]

"So You Think You Can Scuttle"

[auntie aubrey]

"are you smarter than a lobster?"

[Marcus Bales]

The Newlycrab Show
Whose Crab Is It, Anyway?
The Crab Is Right
Truth or Crabs
Hollywood Crabs

[Coffee]

The essence of being a crab is to know instinctively, uttery and completely that I am correct and perfect...certain that "I AM RIGHT...and all the rest of you all can take a flying &*$% for all I care, simpletons, morons, dumbasses...oh, food! nom nom mon nom".

And being crabby is to simply say all that out loud with conviction.

[Jack Flanders]

¿?

what do you think it's like being a crab..if you could go now (your mind) into a crab, what would you see, where would you be, what would you be doing, what would you be thinking, what would you think of all the other things a crab would see.. the squids you'd see.. what's it like, do you think, being a crab?

I think it would be very lonely.. My neighbor is a crab and sees all that the other neighbors do to be happy and survive. She ...."I I I I - damn those people. They are laughing and talking to other neighbors. I hate them. Damn them. Why don't they talk to me?" And she's a real bitch, too.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

if you like we could even do another one of the same kind tomorrow only instead of crab it could be biscuit

Oooh, and I was hoping it'd be 'What is it like to be a zero?'

[Frieda]

lobster schmobster


here's a new question of the day:

i had my wisdom tooth out last week and all i can eat is soft food--
i'm totally out of inspiration, what would you eat? any good ideas? please? :):)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

There are various kinds of soups to consider.

[Bman]

There are various kinds of soups to consider.

this is my answer to the crab question

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

this is my answer to the crab question

So was mine ;)

I'm thinking: the water's temperature is rising unpleasantly. Yes, it's definitely getting hotter and hotter. And I'm swimming in circles... I can't get out of here! Help!

[brightpearl]

Ah, the many splendors of mashed potatoes (http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?categ=potatoes&q=mashed).

[lukkucairi]

damn

ah...hot organic chicken broth with lemon juice and cayenne pepper in it

standard answer to every illness-related food question :)

[Coffee]

Oatmeal, ice cream, or hell...anything you can stuff in a food processor and mechanically "pre-chew". :D

[brightpearl]

that's the WHOLE bass
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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Erm... I wouldn't experiment with anything too hot or too cold. It might hurt like hell. As far as I remember, do did the sour and sweet stuff.

[lukkucairi]

OK, I'm a masochist from the Caribbean - I put hot pepper and lemon juice on EVERYTHING :p

even my throat after I had my tonsils out at age 31 - weirdly the pepper really helped a LOT - I think it reset the pain sensor nerves in my throat or something, or gave me a local endorphin rush, and wasn't that hurty to drink to begin with.

of course your Netherlands locals might frown on such a practice...

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Pain thresholds differ, I guess. When I had problems with my teeth, I ate just a little bit of chocolate and it hurt so much I wanted to scrape the plaster off the ceiling...

[auntie aubrey]

cottage cheese (if you don't have that, i hear quark is a good substitute)
yogurt or kiefer. mmmmmmmmm kiefer.... *drool*

and to make sure you're getting all of your vitamins and nutrients, i highly recommend the "green drink." it's really delicious and super good for you:

2 apples, cored
2 big handfuls of spinach
1/2 cup of chopped parsley
1 celery stick, chopped
1 thumbnail length of ginger root, peeled
1 lemon - juice only (use peel slice for zest)
1 medium cucumber

blend all of the ingredients together and enjoy. add some apple juice if it's not sweet enough for you.

[brightpearl]

Lulu, cayenne is a common folk remedy for sore throats (http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/sore_throat.html)...I use it all the time. :) The capsacin shorts out the pain receptors in short order, and then they need time to recover before they send you hurty messages again, hahaha. They even put it in some arthritis creams -- my granny used to use it.

And auntie, that sounds really yummy...I got a new blender for my birfday and will have to try it!!

AND...I am broke, so if anyone wants to kick into today's soft food ideas question with ways to dress up Ramen ideas, feel free.

[Frieda]

cottage cheese (if you don't have that, i hear quark is a good substitute)
yogurt or kiefer. mmmmmmmmm kiefer.... *drool*

and to make sure you're getting all of your vitamins and nutrients, i highly recommend the "green drink." it's really delicious and super good for you:

2 apples, cored
2 big handfuls of spinach
1/2 cup of chopped parsley
1 celery stick, chopped
1 thumbnail length of ginger root, peeled
1 lemon - juice only (use peel slice for zest)
1 medium cucumber

blend all of the ingredients together and enjoy. add some apple juice if it's not sweet enough for you.
oh this sounds nice-- i've been eating fruit from the blender mostly, apples, pears, bananas, pineapple and strawberries, never thought of tossing in some veggies-- don't you still have to chew on that? oh i'm going to try anyway :)


for ramen:
szechuan: soy sauce for the wok, garlic, sugar, chopped bell peppers (red & green), leek, spring onions, corn, corn starch to make sauce thicker, bean sprouts and something we call "sambal" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambal) which is very spicy. use sambal oelek for this sauce.

sweet & sour: soy sauce for the wok, garlic, some thick tomato sauce, corn starch, green pepper, white pepper, ginger and lemon juice-- also nice with bamboo sprouts, chopped cucumber, bell peppers and leek

[auntie aubrey]

you won't have to chew if you blend the shit out of it. the spinach blends down quite nicely, actually.

[T.I.P.]

o good here comes terry

i bet he can think himself entirely into a crab's shoes and post a vivid account of the experience

oh yes it's unfortunate that i was called away at this moment by a very important phone call from the prime minister of Botswana. I had a crab rendition of "Waiting for Godot" that would have brought tears to your eyes.


i had my wisdom tooth out last week and all i can eat is soft food--
i'm totally out of inspiration, what would you eat? any good ideas? please? :):)

soft shelled crab !

'tis the season

[zero]

.

¿..............................?
question of the thursday 15 may

out of all your stuff what's the oldest thing
¿..............................?

[brightpearl]

My real self.

My son has some fossilized dinosaur poop, though.
It shines up prettier than you might think.
http://www.bonitacreations.com/cat_images/coprolite%20ova.jpg

I'm going to cling to that metaphor for a few minutes. :D

[Frieda]

family trinkets from the 1800s. jewelry and newspaper clippings and photos, also perfume bottles and lipstick from the early 1900s.

and i'd also like to note that my tv dates from 1985. in fact, it looks more outdated than the last-century lipstick! :eek:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I think the oldest object I have is a small copper coin from 1858. It says: K.K.OESTERREICHISCHE SCHEIDEMÜNZE and it lives on my shelf. (I was quite taken aback when I first looked up the word I didn't understand. But of course, it has other meanings as well...)

[auntie aubrey]

depends on what you mean by stuff and thing. if it's a manmade thing i've got some pretty old books. but if you're using stuff and thing to mean anystuff and anything, i'd have to say my rock collection. they may have been dug up and polished recently but the minerals themselves have been in existence since long before you or i or any of our ancestors dreamed of digging that hole in the ground.

and actually, since everything we're made of originated in the heart of the big bang you could argue that everything is just as old as everything else. just maybe in different shapes.

[lukkucairi]

the oldest human-made would be a bit of flint debotage from an acheulean hand ax created by Homo spp. ca. 1 million to 100,000 years ago. it was lifted from its native sediments by one of my husband's ancestors sometime in the late 1800s without decent records being made, and as far as I know there's no way to tell exactly how old it is, but it's in the six figure range fer sure.

[Brynn]

A wooden barber's chair and stool that look like they're right out of Sweeney Todd.

[T.I.P.]

i didn't bring my rock collection, it's still in france.

most of the stuff i brought is either high tech or clothing

I think the oldest thing i have is in a folder called "gramp memorabilia". They are letters and photos that belonged to my great-grandfather, I got them from my Gramma after she cleaned out her garage this spring.

[madasacutsnake]

I'm liking the question and I'm going for a cruise around the house right now to check.

eta nothing as old as I thought. The oldest thing I seem to own is a georgian garnet necklace followed closely by a c 1850's wooden picture frame followed by a silver locket hallmarked 1889.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I thought you had bloomers older than that.

[Jack Flanders]

Speaking of bloomers - I'm growing an Amish Heirloom variety of tomatoes created in 1867. They are so yummy. I also have collected old cameras. My ancient one is from 1894. I've also kept my cell-phone from the early 80's which looks as ancient as some of the turn of the century cameras I have.

[Stephi_B]

That would be

the ring (red gold with rubies) my grandma got as gift (and given me later on) from the antique dealer she used to for for as housemaid when she was 14 (that is in 1950), he told it'd be ca. 200 years old, so now it's 250+ years old

a (popular science like) chemistry book from around 1860, that came via my father to me from his father who collected old books, particularly scientific ones (although being a gardener - this science thing's gotta be in our blood somehow ;))

the German-Russian dictionary (printed in the 60s or so) I found in the backyard when I moved here to Berlin (the house stood empty for several years till 2004, there were lots of interesting things in the backyard!)

the socialist (i.e. GDR-made) gas hearth in my kitchen (that dude who fixed my phone extension saw it, stood a while gaping in front of it and then said something like: "Wow, we used to have that on back in the 70s. It still works?!" - it does :))

the Czechoslovakian coins and bills (printed in the 1980s) from our first trip through the Iron Curtain to Prague when the borders opened

my first computer and mobile phone (both from ca. 1998/99) - not as monstrous than such thingies from the 80s but still impressive ;) (the phone is flashy yellow, one to clap open and it has a display like a hand-calculator - it was even weird in '99 :D);

my beloved red leather jacket (from 2000)

[Frieda]

^sony ericsson? i remember those :D

[Stephi_B]

^Yep :D
I still had it in the first one, two semesters at uni and everybody made fun of it (:mad:),
cos everybody had this (imo boring) standard Nokia model (which basically still looks the same today - OK it's half a ton lighter). But then my best mate got a new Sony Ericsson with blue display which I totally digged, so I got one with fancier than fancy (back then) orange display - ha, and then the Nokia losers had nothing more to say, them of the boring green displays :p

[Frieda]

hey, i had a nokia! :mad: i had the 2210 for ages, up to 2002 in fact. then i switched over to the ericsson side :eek:

[T.I.P.]

oh how i was jealous of the nokia people back when i had one of those square blue ericssons !

Then I got a Nokia and had to lug it around for like 8 years :(. It was basically indestructible. The only issue was the 1 conversation length battery life.

[T.I.P.]

.

[Stephi_B]

hey, i had a nokia! :mad: i had the 2210 for ages, up to 2002 in fact. then i switched over to the ericsson side :eek:

Er, ehm, :o now that you say it... my grandma is a Nokia person and she don't want no other brand (cos the buttons being large enough for her)... er, ehm, :o I invite you to an exquisite free drink consisting of two parts (http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=386812&postcount=2002) over in the bra :)

[12"razormix]

friday 1<s>5</s>6th may:

¿ what are some/all of your thoughts about this picture ?


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2496895235_ea7aca7757_o.png

[zero]

:rolleyes: you're such a dumbass!!!! today is the 16th. really.. :mad:

[12"razormix]

:D opps!


:mad: ok i'll fix it now can you stop nipticking & just answer the question!

[zero]

:D blaaarrrrrrrrrgh!

oops, who left the liquor cabinet open?! well, just a tiny sip won't hurt..... :o ooooo what's THAT, peach *schnaps*?? yeah right

[Stephi_B]

^the bloothered zone stretches also into the QotD thread-a-ding now? :)

friday 1<s>5</s>6th may:

¿ what are some/all of your thoughts about this picture ?


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2496895235_ea7aca7757_o.png

Is there a possibility to add this or a very similar diagramme to my thesis?
I gotta buy fruit tomorrow, all there is left are 3 limes...
That person who made the diagram will run into trouble with Perla cos of the lemons...
Bananas are sort of untasty? Since when and why? And why are the supposed to be less easy than apples and such? If then similar.

[12"razormix]

Is there a possibility to add this or a very similar diagramme to my thesis?i must insist that you use this one!

[Stephi_B]

^
Appendix G

The universal fruit diagramme

{ Razormix' figure here; gotta convert it to .eps format first!!!!}
{+some neat caption text I'll figure out Mon}

{Some blabla on how it works and how it helps to diagonalize the food Hamiltonian}

[zero]

*burp*

[12"razormix]

^ :mad: :mad:

[zero]

sorry


make light work of pineapples - get a mean mean pineapple machine!!

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/content/products/1/0/4/10478_normal.jpg

[12"razormix]

is that it? that's the entirety of your answer to my very interesting & challenging ¿ question of the day?


pathetic

[zero]

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[brightpearl]

That person who made the diagram will run into trouble with Perla cos of the lemons...

Not at all; it's their untastiness that makes them of use.

That diagram gives me heartburn because, though the points were labeled differently, it's an untasty flashback from my other life.

When graduate school doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.

[12"razormix]

how 'bout them mushrooms? :)

[brightpearl]

I know nothing of such matters. :D

[brightpearl]

As a resident of the southwestern US I take issue with the omitting of the magnificent avocado.

This oversight throws the author's entire thesis into doubt.

[12"razormix]

I know nothing of such matters. :Ddid you change your mind?

[Frieda]

i consider pears difficult because a djoozy peah is so liquidicious

[zero]

yeh and you often don't know it's djoozy until it's too late and the djooz is all down your front

[12"razormix]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/117784735_74a60827f2_m.jpg

[zero]

^i don't know what one of those is but i have a funny feeling it isnia kind of fruit

[Frieda]

oh noes, that's pork! :eek:

[auntie aubrey]

the inclusion of pomegranate and grapefruit on the "untasty" side of the graph makes me doubt the researcher's qualifications. while the pomegranate certainly qualifies as the most difficult fruit, the tactile sensation of eating pomegranate seeds is one of the best fruity experiences one can have. one could say, if one were a qualified fruit expert (as this person obviously is not) that the tactile nature of the pomegranate is far more important than any discussion of flavor.

the chart was obviously drawn by a fruit school dropout. or an undergraduate at a state fruitiversity at best.

[zero]

it may be that what's meant by "tasty" is the relative strength/powerful ness of each fruit's typical taste in comparison to the others

[auntie aubrey]

grapefruit is a pretty strong flavor.

dammit i'm going to have to make my own chart and erase that abomination. :mad:

[madasacutsnake]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/117784735_74a60827f2_m.jpg

I'm almost sure that it's a tissue box that sits on the rear ledge of a car so that people behind can say, "What a cute piggy!" whilst people in the car can have the convenience of a nanna-camouflage tissue box.

[T.I.P.]

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the inclusion of pomegranate and grapefruit on the "untasty" side of the graph makes me doubt the researcher's qualifications. while the pomegranate certainly qualifies as the most difficult fruit, the tactile sensation of eating pomegranate seeds is one of the best fruity experiences one can have. one could say, if one were a qualified fruit expert (as this person obviously is not) that the tactile nature of the pomegranate is far more important than any discussion of flavor.

the chart was obviously drawn by a fruit school dropout. or an undergraduate at a state fruitiversity at best.

au contraire, ma soeur, I beg to differ.

The observation of this graph makes me think that it could well be a multi-dimensional representation of study on fruit, where different subjects were asked to group/rate fruits according to their tastiness, difficulty, tartness, sugariness etc...

The fruitist collected the information and organized it into a space map reflecting distances between the said fruit according to two of the dimensions studied in the test, i.e. "difficulty" and "tastiness".

I am not surprised to see bananas on the untasty side. Though many people love bananas, myself included, I know at least two people who HAT bananas and cannot even stand to be in the same room as a banana. It only took a few people with very intense judgements to bring bananas down below average, even though a large majority of people like bananas.

In light of this it is my opinion that this fruitist is well on his way to becoming a Master of the fruit.

[auntie aubrey]

I know at least two people who HAT bananas and cannot even stand to be in the same room as a banana.

:mad: the spouse HATS bananas and won't enter the kitchen as long as one is out and visible on the countertop. it's unforgivable banana bigotry. :mad:

banagotry.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/117784735_74a60827f2_m.jpg
I'm almost sure that it's a tissue box that sits on the rear ledge of a car so that people behind can say, "What a cute piggy!" whilst people in the car can have the convenience of a nanna-camouflage tissue box.
What a double-devious plan! It's actually a pink kitten masquerading as a pig (note the whiskers) while secretly, it's a tissue box.

[T.I.P.]

banagotry.

the three poisons: bananaversion, bananattachment, bananignorance

[lukkucairi]

^^

http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/bananaman/bananaman18.jpg

don't forget bananaman :D

[Stephi_B]

Ba[na]nausen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banausos) you!! :mad: ;)

[Stephi_B]

New Q:

¿

Which 'element' you relate with / suits you best:

earth/solid

water/liquid

air/gas

fire/plasma

?


me: mostly water, with a bit of fire

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

anything, except for air

[zero]

water

[brightpearl]

Oh, I've got use for all of those.

[auntie aubrey]

water and fire, the natural consequence of being both scorpio and dragon.

[trisherina]

plasma

[Hyakujo's Fox]

funnily enough, earth.

[T.I.P.]

air, because I find breathing to be an essential part of my daily activity

[12"razormix]

water

[Brynn]

fire

[Bman]

Considering I lack self-discipline (oh WHY didn't I stay in karate as a child -_-) and I have an ongoing volume issue (aren't I playing too loud?), I'd say water and/or air. But I'm working on it.

[zero]

¿ question of the day ? for may 20th 2008:




¿ WHY didn't Bman stay in karate as a child ?

[auntie aubrey]

fashion sense. belts without shoes? puh-LEEZ.

[zero]

after two long evenings of the rigorous self-discipline and arduous training that is karate, Bman finally achieved the inner-strength, silent-power and supreme confidence to quit karate.

[Brynn]

Because it hurts when you get kicked! Not lack of discipline - just good sense, and an innate knowledge of the power of love over violence.

[Frieda]

because he wanted to do something with music instead

[brightpearl]

To get to the other side.
http://www.property-in-the-sun.com/images/Blog/apr_2005_blog/chicken.jpg

[T.I.P.]

bman liked to use the term "karatay" when he was talking about his sport, but his sensei wanted everyone to pronounce it "karatee"

so he turned in his membership card and started doing yoga instead

(all of this at age 6)

[Anna]

because it gave him hives

[zero]

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^turns out this is actually the young Bman (he quit karate but he used the karatespeak he'd picked up to get lucrative work tv advertising)

[auntie aubrey]

new ¿ question of the day ?

what's yer beef, hombre?

[Stephi_B]

That I've missed the previous QotD!
And that I've currently no other beef to answer this one!

[12"razormix]

i have no beef :)

[lukkucairi]

Manx beef tonight - no BSE :)

[Frieda]

wrong time of the month, gringo.

[zero]

i have no beef
:(
poor wee thing c'mere & i'll share mine with you

[12"razormix]

:o is it well done?

[zero]

if you want (i can do either - minute steak or casserole i.e. "should be done slowly for up to five hours for best results" though

[12"razormix]

now look what you've done! *angryface*

[zero]

^http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif
ME TOO!!:mad:

[auntie aubrey]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/210337492_91d2b0514c.jpg

ooh goodness! what did i just walk in on?

[T.I.P.]

a hippy

[brightpearl]

I have a beef with smug vegetarians.

[Coffee]

^http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif
ME TUNA!!

[lukkucairi]

^you can tuna piano but you can't tuna steak?

[brightpearl]

QotD for Thursdayish, May 22ish:

What do you suppose this thing is?

http://tinyrevolution.com/mt/mt-static/images/quiz.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a drawing






of a giant cocoon




of a horrible extraterrestrial

[Stephi_B]

That's a neutron with a quark (yes, they really look like popcorn! ;)) peeking outside
(and soon thinking better and getting inside again to his two mates).

OK, Perla where did you get that amazing photo from?!?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Don't have to suppose. Disturbing what's beautiful sometimes.

[Frieda]

a booger

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

An illustration from the sequel to James and the Giant Peach
(James and the Giant Orange)

[auntie aubrey]

why, it's a peony bud lying on its side.

[Brynn]

It's a giant lump of tapioca about to crush a helpless farmer's barn.
And the government "knows nothing" about it.

[Coffee]

a waste of energy.

[seebe]

It's a scene from the movie Attack of the Killer Blastocyst.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The Return of the Turd

[T.I.P.]

a braingerine

[brightpearl]

Stephi, I found it browsing somewhere and thought it so weirdly beautiful that I followed the links to the original site (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/visitorsguide/2005-04-15_nmoah/index_frames.htm?startat=1&indexFile=visitorsguide_2005-04-15_nmoah), which is a Washington Post slideshow of the historical photograph collection at the National Museum of American History. It's a great slideshow -- click on start slideshow and then click on the little "32" at the bottom if you want to go straight to this one and find out what it is.

A couple of you guessed it. I had thought it was a drawing, too, of the birth of a star, maybe, with an earthly horizon as setting. There were echoes of aliens and navel oranges for me, too.

I like that it seems sort of fun when you first look at it, if you don't know what it is. It's good to have an open mind when you first think about anything. Power is just power, after all, and it can either drive all life on our planet or destroy it. The devil is in the details.

I actually didn't mean to get all philosophical in the qotd thread...my thinking about it grew from seeing the responses. Thanks for playing...

[skip intro]

Friday 23.5.08

Are you a random shuffler or a pre-programmer?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a methodical postponer

[zero]

both. i preprogramme first and that's done strictly according to various mood-criteria i've developed over time. then, only after that's done will i sometimes randomly shuffle within this preprogammed ness i've made. but of course there are also frequent occasions when original running-order must be observed.

[auntie aubrey]

^ i couldn't have said it better.



never ever ever ever shuffle the beatles' "abbey road." or radiohead's "ok computer." never.

[Frieda]

i pre-program my shuffles.

[Brynn]

I agree that some things should never be shuffled. But having said that, I do shuffle constantly in order to hear as much as possible and not to get into a ditch. I like the surprises.

[12"razormix]

Are you a random shuffler or a pre-programmer?what the hell are you talking about?

[Odbe]

I'm a shuffler in Windows or on portable players, but a pre-programmer in Linux.

[lukkucairi]

on itunes: pre-programmer

in life: random shuffler

[brightpearl]

I get irritated at people who pre-program, so probably I lean toward that category.

Bit of a shock, really. I must re-double my efforts at learning to shuffle.

Auntie: So right about Abbey Road. SO. RIGHT.

[trisherina]

Neither. The thing is linear.

[T.I.P.]

i random shuffle until i find stuff that makes me want to preprogram then i get bored and i start random shuffling again

then i exchange mix tapes with people

[brightpearl]

^Don't forget to practice safe mixing.

You don't want to wake up one morning with amywinehouseorrhea.

[Stephi_B]

Neither shuffeling nor pre-programming -- since I've lost me mp3 player :(

Anyways I'm a lazy sod -- although I've inherited the magnificent mp3 collection (all of Pink Floyd and Bowie, and I mean ALL, Depeche Mode, Piknik, Zemfira - all the cool Russian thingies) on Vanya's compie, got some stuff collected myself and know where the folks with taste at work got theirs saved -- mostly listened radio with it (pre-shuffling kinda ;))
When listening music at home I don't shuffle songs, but hear through the whole albums; but I vary the combis (sometimes kinda weird things, Trentemöller followed by Ukrainian folkpunk followed by Nina Simone - my neighbours have not complained so far though :D).

[Brynn]

New Question For Today:

what's the best thing to do?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The best thing to do today is to go to the Botanical Garden and look at these beauties:

http://www.upjs.sk/images/10def7619e698aac4586c5c1f2feb78f

http://www.upjs.sk/images/90686913c81bac20f6c967c33e4aab79

http://www.upjs.sk/images/b7acfc79d3d60c9dd2e9fbfbe75987ad

[zero]

what's the best thing to do?

dhttp://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://wikilicious.org/index.php?page=TheNow) easy

[T.I.P.]

somewhere between laziness and discipline is the flow

just go with it

[brightpearl]

My friend frequently says you should do the next right thing.

[skip intro]

My friend frequently says you should do the next right thing.

have you punched him yet?

[Marcus Bales]

Whether it's the best thing to do or not, I think I'll stay here on the couch with three cats in various stages of repose on my lap, chest, and ankles.

[auntie aubrey]

slice up a fresh, sweet mango and devour it with your bare hands, letting the juice run down your chin and arms.

[trisherina]

have you punched him yet?

smile :D

[Coffee]

If you're not in a hurry, get out of the way.

[xfox]

Look at, or if you're lucky, ride a good horse.

[Stephi_B]

New Question For Today:

what's the best thing to do?

Take it like it comes.

[Brynn]

and don't forget to breathe

[Coffee]

New ¿ question of the day ?


¿ What is the next hurdle between you and your goal ?

[12"razormix]

aimless ness

[brightpearl]

oh lord
I don't even know which way to run

Hahahahahaha :D

[auntie aubrey]

getting this board to load.

[l'azizza]

Defining the goal.

[Frieda]

impatience

[Marcus Bales]

what hurdle?

[topcat]

the winning lottery ticket

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

what goal? :confused:

[trisherina]

biology

[Odbe]

Too many goals! Everything's happening at once! :eek:

eta: interesting you should ask this question because last night I sat down at my desk and made a list of the most prominent goals/projects in my life at the moment, the things stopping me from achieving them and some small actions I can take to move them along.
Turns out most of my craft projects are waiting on me to go second-hand shopping.

[Bman]

The second law of thermodynamics

Edit: Actually most of them are cramping my style.

[zero]

question of the day for wednesday 28th may 2008



¿what happened here ?

http://swelements.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/gregory_crewdson2_small.jpg

[Frieda]

there was a storm and his chimneypotts fell off

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a Mr Hyde-moment