¿ question of the day ?

[madasacutsnake]

Up until I was seventeen, it was easier to stay home and risk being beaten once in a while than face being a runaway. Then, when I was seventeen, I couldn't take it any more and hit back for the first time. I pushed my mother away from me so hard that she hit the wall with her head and was knocked out. I saw my chance and ran.

[brightpearl]

I did feel the need to be out of the house a lot for a time, when my parents' marriage was tanking rather spectacularly, but I never considered running away. That's where my cat was.

And the time I thought I was running away as an adult, it turned out I was just standing my ground.

[Anna]

ks

[brightpearl]

^That counts as running to. I'm really grateful to her for being there for you, and to you for being there for her.

If you ever write a memoir, you should let us know.

So here's the question of the day, for Sunday the 20th:

If you wrote a memoir of your life or some part of it, what would the title be?

[craig johnston]

a catalogue of disappointment

[Hyakujo's Fox]

"And you thought craig johnston had it bad..."

[lukkucairi]

boundary.

[topcat]

for lack of better words. " a charmed life" i really cant complain

[zero]

peas

[brightpearl]

^ooooh, so close. I had my money on "biscuits."

I'm having a hard time answering my own question....hmmm...

[Earthling]

"Growing past stupid, the unending journey."

[auntie aubrey]

"chicken is not a time bomb: a life of endless worrying"

[trisherina]

Sequelae

[brightpearl]

Got it:

La Sombrerona: The Bird with One Wing Doesn't Half Fly

[T.I.P.]

"A guide to adaptation, the hard way"

[Marcus Bales]

"I Disagree"

[xfox]

Diary of a Willful American Woman

[Stephi_B]

Dear Editors of Applied Madness A,

the preliminary title of the review article I'd like to publish in your journal is

Study on the periodic behaviour of unlucky chaos and chaotic luck
and the possibility of iterative cancelling-out of intermediate despair-peaks
by re-parametrization of the reality perception surface.

So far, I've only included the abstract (.txt and .pdf formats), as some
further data is needed to make sure that the present algorithm
is stable and despair converges, but these calculations will be finished
soon (20-25 y) so I will definitely meet the deadline for the next issue.


Yours faithfully,
S.B.

[Stephi_B]

New q for today:

¿What's the first thing which appears in your head upon hearing the word "freedom"?



me: night

[brightpearl]

Oh!
I'm so surprised by what popped into my head that I'm not going to post it.
:D

But the second thing was standing on a wide, flat plain on a sunny day.

[trisherina]

Aretha Franklin

[brightpearl]

^nice.

[12"razormix]

wings

[zero]

while you were writing that i was searching for a suitable image of a wandering albatross

here it is anyway

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lyvedon_way/Antarctica/Albatross.jpg

[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!!:D

[lukkucairi]

propaganda, and an american flag

that's disturbing. eurgh.

[auntie aubrey]

jingoism.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

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[zero]

¿ question of the day ? for tuesday january 22nd:

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html)

is this bare lady spinning clockwise or anticlockwise... or both and how could that even be possible?

(allegedly it's a left-brain v's right-brain thing - the way you first see her spinning indicates which side of yours brain is the dominant side)

tip: if yecannie get the bare lady to change direction, gaze like a daftie at a point a couple of inches below her feet.

note to self: stop staring at hers ponytail!

[Stephi_B]

clockwise

(are you a ponytail fetishist? ;))

[zero]

^good possible ¿ queston of the day ? for another day

[brightpearl]

clockwise

didn't get her to change direction after staring a bit...

[seebe]

clockwise

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

clockwise.

or maybe a spinning fetishist?
*spinning* weeeeeeeeee!

[auntie aubrey]

clockwise. if i rotate the laptop away from me and look from the edge i can see her going counter-clockwise. but as soon as i rotate it back and i cross the 45-degree angle threshold, she goes right back to clockwise.

staring at her foot or below her foot doesn't work for me.

[Jaime]

Clockwise. I am confused as to how she could be turning counter-clockwise. Weird.

[Bman]

I saw counter clockwise first, and now I can get it going both ways. (No, "that's what she said" jokes please -_-)

[trisherina]

Clockwise for the longest time, which astonished me given the interpretation. With effort I was able to make her go anticlockwise, but never for long.

[trisherina]

Stupid double post gremlins :mad:

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ no - just another stupid question of the day.

Some are good/clever/interesting/funny. Some are not.

[Brynn]

it was a definite counter-clockwise at first glance, which so surprised me that I immediately turned her around so I could tell myself that I'm "really" right-brained. Then I decided to stop kidding myself and turned her around again. So now I'm just confused.

[madasacutsnake]

Clockwise. Can't make her turn around.

[lukkucairi]

both ways

at 4am insomniac, apparently I see anticlockwise first, but next time I looked she was going the other way

[zero]

^^^ no - just another stupid question of the day.

Some are good/clever/interesting/funny. Some are not.


sor-RY!


i feel so ashamed

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Why are we put here to suffer and die?

[Stephi_B]

Most likely as part of some cosmic joke
(only thing one can do is try to reduce the suffering,
and maybe there's a neat afterlife / fancy rebirth in it,
P.S. @ Universe: I wanna be a tree next time ;))

[brightpearl]

Hmm.

I have more than one answer. Choose the one you like best. I like 3 and 4 equally well as they're essentially the same answer.

1. We're not put here.
2. We're not put here only to suffer and die.
3. No reason.
4. When you look up at the moon, whether it is full or half or cresent or new (and apparently absent entirely), you are always looking at the whole thing. When you imagine that you only see half, it's because you mistake the dark side for nothingness, emptiness, the negative. This is not so.

There is only one moon, and you are always looking at the whole thing.

Sometimes I think I like the full moon better -- so bright and open -- than the dark and empty new moon. This preference is the source of my discontent -- it has nothing whatever to do with the truth about the moon. If I gave away the new moon, I'd have to give away the full one, too.

That said, there's nothing wrong with wishing. It's compassionate.

[seebe]

sor-RY!


i feel so ashamed

No don't because everything's fine.

[craig johnston]

we are put here to apologise

[brightpearl]

Sorry. :(

[trisherina]

So that the universe could evolve sufficiently to begin to gaze into its own navel.

[T.I.P.]

so we can taste the deliciousness of a tornado dog at Crif Dogs

(AKH: please don't tell ;))

[Hyakujo's Fox]

http://www.ldps.ws/Mirror/Universe/nearsc.gif

[lukkucairi]

So that the universe could evolve sufficiently to begin to gaze into its own navel.

:D

plus, suffering and dying is at least not boring.

and it all comes around again - once you've kicked it you just get recycled - what's not to like?

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

You people make me smile.

[auntie aubrey]

and it all comes around again - once you've kicked it you just get recycled - what's not to like?

is this the new question of the day?


or is this one?

[lukkucairi]

is this the new question of the day?


or is this one?

OK, then let's make it official

¿ what's not to like ?

Basho said it pretty well:

what luck!
bitten by
this year's mosquitoes, too!

[brightpearl]

^Mmm, good one. This is my favorite of Basho's, also about what's not to like...


Even in Kyoto
When I hear the cuckoo's cry
I long for Kyoto.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

A man travelling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other.

How sweet it tasted!

[auntie aubrey]

i love this town
brutal, low gray buildings
architecture for the blind
beautiful dirt
and the numb zone excites me

everything simple
no cheap thrills, no frills
no flash distractions
low-fi lover, you make me shake
you make me grateful to be alive again

[brightpearl]

new Q for Friday...

How do you feel about poetry?

[Stephi_B]

Good, it's something beautiful, catching things often better than prose or the plain spoken word - similar to photography and cinematography.

[craig johnston]

it's alright.
better than maths.
can't stand poets though.

[12"razormix]

How do you feel about poetry?whose?

[zero]

it's alright.
better than maths.
can't stand poets though.
^weeoooo..bitchy:D


Poets vs. DJ's ................FIGHT!!!!!!!!

[brightpearl]

whose?


any's whose you like or don't like or...

[lukkucairi]

this one makes sense today:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi"
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

***

I like poetry, when executed well.

with a gun, preferably.

[trisherina]

My feelings about poetry are private.

[Marcus Bales]

DON’T WORRY, YOU’RE NOT IN THIS POEM

Big names draw little name clusters
Like wrecks draw insurance adjusters:
The image their raw hatred musters
Is Manson or Dahmer;
The meetings and greetings and seatings
Of poets at poetry readings
Remind me of sharks at their feedings --
Except sharks are calmer.

The women compete for attention
From powerful people whose mention
May get them promotion, a pension,
Or merely a raise;
Another year fatter and older
They flirt with old flames now grown colder
Then fall for a younger one’s bolder,
If less truthful, praise.

The men snort their picayune grouses
And act like low libertine louses
Betraying their principles, spouses,
And significant others,
Drinking to knock back the terror
That there’s been a terrible error
And history may yet prove a fairer
Judge than their mothers.

I watch the free-versers and rhymers,
Idealists and down-in-the-slimers,
Sweet hermits and sly social climbers
All chasing careers;
Their earnestness makes me despair of them --
Each likely recombinant pair of them;
You’d think I’d have learned to beware of them,
Shielded by sneers.

But now they have organized locally,
The urban-enraged and the yokelly,
Leaving the business side jokily
Under-explored;
Did I, when asked for my attitude,
Give it? Or give them wide latitude?
No, I accepted with gratitude
A seat on the Board.

[auntie aubrey]

when it's good, there's nothing better.

when it's bad, there's nothing worse.

[topcat]

auntie you sure you are taling about poetry?

[craig johnston]

a poet and a dj (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElWBsoyvUo)

;)

[T.I.P.]

i feel very strongly about poetry

so does the entire lower east side

even those who choose to ignore it

[craig johnston]

new question for saturday:

astrology - fascinating insight into the cosmic forces which influence our lives, or load of old bollocks?

[auntie aubrey]

auntie you sure you are taling about poetry?

i grant you permission to copy and paste my answer at will as it applies.

[auntie aubrey]

new question for saturday:

astrology - fascinating insight into the cosmic forces which influence our lives, or load of old bollocks?

fascinating insight. mercury goes into retrograde on monday and you'd better believe i'll pay attention to the details, dot my i's and cross my t's, until it's over.




scorpio born in the year of the dragon, if anyone's curious... ;)

[Stephi_B]

Both.

Am always getting totally crazy at the end of December to really read all the horoscopes for the new year I come across (I go even so far as to buy Bild! :eek:)

During the year I sometimes read the personalised horoscopes (where you have to enter birthplace and exact time of birth - that approximately every 12th person has exactly the same fate is bollocks, unless it says something positive for my sign ;)) at noeastro

Ah, yes, and sun in Pieces, moon in Scorpio rocks! :D Don't like my ascendent though, it's boring and I won't tell it!

[lukkucairi]

both

how could it be anything but both?!

http://www.artshopua.com/imageproduct/164/Labzov_Dmitry_Capricorn_1_fine_art_print_b.jpg

[trisherina]

Gah.

[brightpearl]

Yah, I think the sort in the newspaper is old, moldy bollocks, but there are some other sorts that I now confess to being slightly less skeptical about these days. Depends heavily on the astrologer, and I'm not sure whether even the really good ones are truly using the stars or are doing some other kind of reading that I don't understand well.

[l'azizza]

Generalized crock o' shit.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I'm with Bertam R. Forer.

[craig johnston]

is he behaving himself?

[brightpearl]

Yeah, foxy, watch out for that guy.
I shared an elevator with him once, and he tried to slip his subjective validation down the front of my blouse.

[12"razormix]

i'm with trish

[craig johnston]

i'm with trish

are you behaving yourself?

i think it's bollocks, but all my friends are like their starsigns.
probably just luck.

:rolleyes:

[12"razormix]

are you behaving yourself?of course

[12"razormix]

.. and thanks for asking :)

it means so much!

[Earthling]

oh good, i still get to answer before the new query.....
This question is right up my alley.
YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING RIGHT? lol
It's a trick question, huh?

[trisherina]

New ¿ question of the day ? for January 27th (ish):

What's the biggest risk you've ever taken?

[Marcus Bales]

I told an astrologer bigger than me that astrology was all a load of old bollocks.

[craig johnston]

i told a poet bigger than me that he was a pretentious wonker.
his name was macrus blaes and now he's stalking me on the internut!

:eek:

actually too many to say. taking pills bought from a slimy looking bloke with dreadlocks at 4am in a club in manchester would be up there. getting on a bike with no brakes and cycling downhill to get some water was another. coming to berlin, getting married, walking out, etc etc.

:)

[auntie aubrey]

packing up only what could fit into my car and moving sight-unseen to nashville in 1997.

[Bman]

Studying music in college as opposed to having a " un" real job. Still wondering how that's going to work out.

[madasacutsnake]

Moved to the Hills, to a house that was more expensive than we would have liked, on the side of a cliff and overgrown by waist high scrub.

As of Friday, valued at 50% more than we paid for it three years and several pick-axes ago.

Gratuitous pics.

Before (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/deck3.jpg)

After (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/deck3-1.jpg)

After (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/side.jpg)

[lukkucairi]

^beautiful

opening a small pottery business on a small island in the northern bahamas at the age of 24

[Brynn]

^^I have to say, that is one beauteous walkway - and I don't need an astrologer to tell me that.

Probably the biggest risk I ever took was riding a motorcycle throughout my twenties - until I finally got run off of the road by a car who was turning right from the left-hand lane and ended up taking an ambulance ride in a full back brace.

[T.I.P.]

Climbing up the face of a cliff in Ibiza in flip flops as a shortcut to regaining the main path (after having swum in the ocean). At one point one of the flip flops started bending and i realized my handholds were actually these very brittle sedimentary type rocks that basically were useless. I had to climb downwards when i realized this, which was very difficult, and was saved by a strand of wildgrass that was resistant enough to carry my weight as i eased myself back downwards.

That day i really thought i was going to die. I would have gone out in my bathing suit, probably with half a flip flop hanging off my foot. How embarrassing :rolleyes:

[brightpearl]

Risked eating something other than boiled white rice today.
Didn't work out too well.

Hmmm..biggest risk ever would probably be sitting down in the same spot where I'd been struck by lightning, in a metaphorical sense, a week earlier.

[Stephi_B]

Pretty much everything I did when 16-17, which was pretty much everything but drugs (tried them twice, with 14 and 19 - did not convince me)
Some other things later on I feel not like talking about.

[Jack Flanders]

Moved to the Hills, to a house that was more expensive than we would have liked, on the side of a cliff and overgrown by waist high scrub.

As of Friday, valued at 50% more than we paid for it three years and several pick-axes ago.

Gratuitous pics.

Before (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/deck3.jpg)

After (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/deck3-1.jpg)

After (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/madasacutsnake/side.jpg)

Holy shit!!!!!! Looks fantastic, Mad!!!! Beautiful plants!! Great profit!!

Oh, yah. The big ??? Moving to New Jersey. Still here!!

[Marcus Bales]

What's the best store in which to buy a "little black dress"?

[Jack Flanders]

emm? is that today's new question? :o

[madasacutsnake]

David Jones.

[l'azizza]

Um, the Big and Tall Transvestite store?

[Frieda]

H&M or Zara

[zero]

What's the best store in which to buy a "little black dress"?

is there something you want to tell us marcus?

[Stephi_B]

Marcus, actually I see you more as the "hot red dress" type. As a fashion-semi-illiterate, I'd say I'll arrange a meeting with my chica at Ku'damm for you - one shop might not be enough to find the right thing, but don't worry you'll be in expert hands.

[lukkucairi]

good fvckken question.

I need one by this friday night, and I hate shopping :mad:

grr!

[seebe]

Whatever little black number you find, before deciding to wear a thong with it..make sure you have the proper arse.

No > http://cache.gridskipper.com/travel/072005.8.jpg:rolleyes:

[lukkucairi]

¿ what happens when they find you ?

[zero]

i'll still be lost

[Stephi_B]

They ain't looking for me - I hope :eek:

[Frieda]

i'll be waiting for them.

[brightpearl]

Oh, I'm not hiding anymore.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I won't be there.

[Brynn]

I'll need to buy the perfect little black dress and hold a press conference. :)

[lukkucairi]

I think I'll give them a hug, and maybe some cake :)

[brightpearl]

^or death.
hee hee hee

[auntie aubrey]

¿ what happens when they find you ?

they'll bring me sug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGow3KEewGE)ar.

[T.I.P.]

they will scuttle over my face and eat the crumbs on my chin

[Stephi_B]

New q:
Where is it?

I have no clue, that's why I'm asking.

[lukkucairi]

I left it at home. I can't get back there til they plow the roads :(

[auntie aubrey]

beneath the trees where nobody sees.

[zero]

wait til jackie o'dokely flanders sees the last two questions of the day


i feel certain that they willnie meet her rigorous quality standards

[brightpearl]

It's with the two turntables and microphone.

[Frieda]

right there, on the table!

[lukkucairi]

It's with the two turntables and microphone.

damn that Trev, I knew he'd taken it!

it's probably behind his couch. with all the cat hair.

[Brynn]

in Austin, Texas

the other thing is in Ashland, Oregon

and one more thing is across the ocean in another world altogether

but the most important thing is close beside me for as long as possible

[Jack Flanders]

betweenie the shrubberies.

[Frieda]

question of the day for thursday 31 jan:

what's your favorite flower?

[lukkucairi]

http://www.vurv.cz/altercrop/images/amaranth4.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BZADSEXXL._AA280_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg

[madasacutsnake]

http://english.gov.cn/images/images/xin_3208021614481402371715.jpg

<img src=http://www.en-scape.com/images/perennials/redhotpoker.jpg>

[Stephi_B]

http://www.wisarts.com/dzis/photos/maki2.jpg

http://live.focus.de/imedia/811/77811_xQiPKZNgD50q3L0Dl7nvoy1OKdW3IZeS_CoS2MzXIPg= .jpg

[zero]

all those tiny wild ones. i have no names for them. they cling on to life half way up a mountain or in amongst the dunes. the smaller they are the more i like them. often they're shaped like stars.

[12"razormix]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/16/23158066_41852eb51e.jpg

[zero]

:mad: ^those cost me a fair few fvccken quid


you might have had the decency to put them in a vase with some water!!

[trisherina]

Sweet peas -- they remind me of my mother who always let me cut them out of her garden.

[auntie aubrey]

lady's slipper orchids
http://i31.tinypic.com/2aflhs2.jpg

and birds of paradise
http://i29.tinypic.com/jk7ext.jpg

[Earthling]

This is one of my favorites, probably because of its unusual nature;
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z291/littleme_hi/PLANT%20SWAP%20GROUP/1ef9scd.jpg
The blooms are the size and shape of a softball before they burst open.
I had this plant in a hanging basket, and it would often have 4-5 blooms at a time. Because its a desert plant, there are no bees for pollination, thus it is pollinated by flies. Because of this, it had to be kept outdoors most of the year.
Its called a Carrion Cactus~if you look up the word 'carrion', you'll know why its best kept outside and why the flies love it too.

[Bman]

http://natureworkshop.com/CDPics/Home/1/Baobab.jpg

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

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<a href="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ben_hoyt">[More videos from ben_hoyt]</a>


and I really like Fressia, Peonies & anything alpine.

[seebe]

There's so many beautiful flowers, I don't know if I could pick just one favorite.

[brightpearl]

sakura
http://www.shambhala.org/eventimages/cherry_branch250p.jpg
http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/ukiyoe/a.crow2.jpg

spring comes;
grass grows by itself...

[craig johnston]

no no, it's something to do with seeds and the german nation.

i like snapdragons!

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/define-snapdragon-1.jpg

they come in lots of different colours and you can
squeeze their necks and they open their mouths and
it's really funny when bees crawl in.

:)

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ "the german nation" snort!!!:D

too many to list but here's a few

http://www.critzfarms.com/images/calendar.jpg

http://www.break-fresh-ground.com/photos/692/585/17/33560.jpg

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/A%20to%20C3000/C6CT2018..jpg

[Frieda]

i like the hippeastrum (http://images.google.nl/images?um=1&hl=nl&q=hippeastrum) best for now-- one of mine just started to bloom in the wrong season-- a little bit of summer :)

[Stephi_B]

no no, it's something to do with seeds and the german nation.


Grass (or sakura?) -> seeds (most plants have such, or?) -> German nation :confused: (I only know about oaks being symbolic in that direction)

Anyway, snapdragons are cool :)

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ the germination of the seeds :o Craig was being "punny!" :)

I like snaps too!!

[Stephi_B]

^Aye :)

[Brynn]

http://byandlarge.net/scuttlebutt/images/neighbourhood/bird-of-paradise.jpg
bird of paradise


http://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/images/aqumckananflower1.jpghttp://
columbine



NEW question of the day...
what are you listening to?

[l'azizza]

grrr Brynn just beat me to asking the new question. Great question Freida, great answers as well.


sound: I'm itching to hear some PJ Harvey so will look for some next, but right now there's a male cat on the chair next to me (Needs a Name) grooming a foster kitten. It's pretty noisy and grunty.

[Frieda]

i am listening to myself chewing on my breakfast, my computer humming and the storm outside

[Stephi_B]

XFM London and the sudden stillness after my long-not-seen-friend-who-is-back-in-Berlin-now who visited me today in office is gone.

[brightpearl]

I am listening to myself, to see if I can pick out the melody, but it's rather faint today.

[Marcus Bales]

The freezer hums a low note
The refrigerator too;
The furnace rumbles and hot air sighs.
A failing neon bulb's delicate
and intermittent sizzle descants
over the thumps and tenors
of the playing cats.
The keyboard clicks.
And in my head the memory of
last night's sustained delicious moan.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Old Old CD :
Black - Wonderful Life

Just thought to youtube search for the video - and lo and behold...

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Gosh, I loved this Album.

[auntie aubrey]

the spouse. :)

[T.I.P.]

i'm listening to ventilation & heating noises, and some faint traffic noises emanating from Houston avenue.

[lukkucairi]

husband in the kitchen unloading the dishwasher, and car talk on NPR

a faint hum from the central heating, and the fan as it comes on

slight tinnitus in my right ear

thumpity thump noises of my fingers on the HP keyboard

tiny ticcing of the HD...

[zero]

¿ question of the day ? for sunday 3rd february


how good is your couch/settee/sofa?

[brightpearl]

It's got a nice beat, you can dance to it.

I'd give it a 7.

[trisherina]

I'm more attached to the one upstairs, because I have good memories of the two of us playing Sega Game Gear together, and sharing many a happy nap through hypothyroidism and pregnancy. Today it is mostly Katie's domain, where she retires as soon as the house is empty. It's a gooder.

[Bman]

I have a really stiff, uncomfortable, really snooty sofa. Maybe it's stiff because I haven't broken it in, and I haven't broken it in because it's too stiff, either way it really fails at its purpose in life.

[Frieda]

ohh it's so good, i give it a 9,5.

it's more comfortable to sleep on than my bed. it's big and soft and 2 meters wide, in a linen/cotton mix in beige.

it goes *poof* when you sit down on it, and then, you sink away in it, it hugs you. i'm very happy with it :):)

[lukkucairi]

The one in the basement is now a beater. I dragged it here from Chicago (where I bought it new), and it's so old and comfy and stained and gross...the dog sleeps on it, and I fall asleep in front of the TV on it. It should, however, be in someone's dorm room. 8 out of 10 for effort.

The one in the living room is a wicker 2-seater from pier 1 - far more comfy than it looks - and within headphone lead reach of my music library. 8.5 out of 10 for subtlety

There's one in our storage unit - it's covered in playa dust and has a sinister burn mark on one of the arms. We'll pull it out and deploy it again this year in our BRC living space. In its present location I give it a 3 out of 10. in its natural habitat, it's a definite 9.5.

[Frieda]

here it is, my couch/settee/sofa!

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/911/bank1ud0.jpg

i've changed my mind-- it's a 10 out of 10 :):)

[auntie aubrey]

^ i recognize at least one of those pillows.


my sofa is tired of trying and is just phoning it in. actually the frame is marvelous but we had to replace the foam cores of the cushions last year. and the upholstery has lost its chenilley goodness and has become something of a blah entity.

we're just biding our time until our next move. then it's sectional time. oh yes, i covet a sectional. YOU try sharing a sofa with a 6'3" man who likes to stretch out.

[l'azizza]

A few years back when I had an apartment and a student loan I ordered new furniture. I'm fond of napping on the couch and wanted an extra bed for visitors, so I bought a large sofa with a pull out bed.

When it was delivered, a wall was in the way- the couch wouldn't fit through. The delivery men offered to go up the back stairs, but still the fit would be diagonal and I didn't think think it would work. In addition, those sleeper- sofas are HEAVY. I picture one of the men losing their grip and falling of the stairway onto the driveway below, that heavy ass couch landing on top of them. I lost the delivery fee and got a love seat.

Of course any sofa would fit through the straight entryway of my house now. Getting a new one isn't a priority. I can sit on it just fine. I'm a bit of a minimalist and when I move, I'll likely abandon it.

[zero]

I'll likely abandon it.

lazizazza, i'm not sure if this settee is instigating fights with others or the others are ganging up on him?

look at setteefinder.com (http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=373286&postcount=3) for area rescue group as well as national ones. setteefinder has an area where owners looking for new homes for their settees can post them. maybe craigslist?

for a settee rescue group not to take in owner surrenders is ridiculous, even though you are not seriously looking for a good home for it and are the sort of person that wants to "get rid of their settee by the weekend". when you call up the settee rescue group, mention that it's a gorgeous love seat with cushions. you'd like to donate its loose covers, throws, etc. can you or ar relative swing a monetary donation? minimally, if they say they can't take it and post on setteefinder or their own website, would you post a courtesy photo and description of it? take a cutesy up close photo, write a great description.

good luck!




PS - anyone able to offer a good home to this, my "basement guy" settee? he's become too much for me lately - a real handful but nothing that can't be cured with some good oldfashioned tlc and a firm hand.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/150661807_c63a5a8ab9.jpg

pm me if you're interested thanks bye

[Stephi_B]

My two easy chairs get a 8.7 (the green one) and a 9.2 (unfortunately this one is covered with things atm) respectively.

My mattress (such a double-bed sized one) I use as couch, guest bed and whatnotall gets a 9.7.

[Stephi_B]

New q for Monday:

¿ Do you have a 'dark side', that is some inner abyss, something scary (for yourself or/and for others if they'd behold it) ? ¿ Or are you what a friend of mine calls a 'bright person' (lacking 'darkness') ? ¿ Or do you think one cannot divide a personality in such categories as 'dark' and 'bright' or that there's always some kind of balance/mix ?

(Well, no question about Brightpearl here :) ;))

[lukkucairi]

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/bele_and_lokai_star_trek.jpg

no comment

[Stephi_B]

^Cool, not such a boring single-split personality like everybody, but a real double-split one!! ;)


Actually, I've never thought about any 'dark side' until that discussion with my friend.
But yes, I got one. And imo everybody has one, some more, some less, some (can) live it more on the outward, some (have to) keep it more on the inside. Mine's more kept inside. No details about the contents though. (Btw that's not the intention of the q.)

[zero]

never ever ask me that question again

[Earthling]

New q for Monday:

¿ Do you have a 'dark side', that is some inner abyss, something scary (for yourself or/and for others if they'd behold it) ? ¿ Or are you what a friend of mine calls a 'bright person' (lacking 'darkness') ? ¿ Or do you think one cannot divide a personality in such categories as 'dark' and 'bright' or that there's always some kind of balance/mix ?

(Well, no question about Brightpearl here :) ;))
I use to have a dark side, but eventually we got divorced and she's now married to someone else.
But for the moment, I find myself more intrigued by YOUR dark side. Does it include handcuffs and a whip?:cool:

[Stephi_B]

(Handcuffs are interesting, gotta try, but that's not necessarily what I'd consider 'dark', particularly not if they're pink and fluffy http://www.kitsch.co.uk/acatalog/pink_handcuffs.jpg ;))

[β cyg]

.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/243476206_6ba57e8b3f_m.jpg

.

[michaelG]

YEah I got a dark side--my skin side.

GOTTA PROBLEM WITH THAT Whitey ?

[brightpearl]

(Well, no question about Brightpearl here :) ;))

That's not true...I absolutely have a dark side, like all else does.

[Frieda]

it's just me.. i used to hide my dark side but it's part of me.. so one day i just changed my mind and decided to be me. no matter how dark. i trust my gut, my heart and my mind to give me my boundaries. no matter how dark i get.

[Brynn]

YEah I got a dark side--my skin side.

GOTTA PROBLEM WITH THAT Whitey ?what a cranky-butt:)



Dark side? What are dark side?
The north side of my house is dark.
Happy happy happy all the time happy.
Every waking moment from dawn to dusk,
I reek tiny-princess petunias :eek:

[auntie aubrey]

ask me on a bad day.

http://www.deformation.de/images/come%20to%20daddy_019.JPG

[T.I.P.]

I have a dark side but i think it's not as dark as i'd like it to be. Sometimes I feel that if I had a more prevalent dark side I wouldn't get so spooked by other peoples' dark sides.

Mine feels more annoying than dark most of the time.

[Jack Flanders]

question #3

[madasacutsnake]

I don't have a light side.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

^don't let the jammies fool you.

[lukkucairi]

¿ insomnia ?

[Earthling]

Only when its dark out.

[Stephi_B]

Yes, I had severe insomnia (no more than 1-4h sleep/night, 5h made me happy back then) for over a year (~ the first year of my thesis; induced mostly by - selfmade - stress and burnout, worsened by what was spinning around in my head during these nights).

Today it sometimes happens that I'm insomniac for some days, but I'm no longer getting mad about it: I get up, put on some music or sit out on the balcony if weather allows watching my street, at ca. 5 am then I make coffee for then it's too late to go back to bed again.

[madasacutsnake]

Very rarely. Sleep is too precious.

[brightpearl]

Yup. All the time. S'the only way I get everything done, though.

[Marcus Bales]

I wouldn't live in Somnia if you paid me. I live in Cognito.

[β cyg]

seep! huhhh! good god, y'all! what is it good for? asolutely nothing, huhh! say it again!

[lukkucairi]

^ nightmares?



http://www.deformation.de/images/come%20to%20daddy_019.JPG

[Avalon]

I have no trouble falling asleep..staying asleep is another matter. By definition, I suffer from insomnia. I blame the cat.

[Brynn]

zzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
(flip over)
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzz, etc.

[auntie aubrey]

not these days.

but i've struggled on and off with sleep problems my whole life. so i have a whole set of rules i follow to avoid it and nip it in the bud if it rears its ugly head again. so far so good.

[Tunesmith]

Every once in a while, but it's not getting sleep isn't as much of a problem as it used to be. Apparently, one of the requirements for being a teen is being slightly bleary-eyed all the time. :rolleyes:

[Jack Flanders]

Let's let the sleep topic continue! Next question - have you ever walked while asleep and if yes - any interesting events?

[craig johnston]

yes, every day.

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ boring!!! so any weird things happened?

[l'azizza]

Insomnia- never before in my life but in the last two months. I'm hoping for a constant manic state.
Sleepwalk or anything weird- no.

Roze,

I paid money for that love seat, it's DESIGNER, so I have dominion over it's life. What I'll likely do with it, as my property, is pawn it off on one of my friends or a compassionate family member, without disclosing it's bad points. Or bring it to one of those humane settee organizations,they'll take good care of it. My conscious is appeased. It doesn't match my new carpet anyway.

[auntie aubrey]

i once sleepwalked from my dorm to the post office on the michigan state campus. which translated to about a half mile walk.

it was the middle of the day and i was dreaming about needing to get stuff done and i became convinced that a particular bill i had HAD to get into the mail that day. in my dream the only place to submit outgoing mail was at the post office in the student union.

i got up, put on my shoes (fortunately i was napping fully clothed), and left with the envelope in hand. i have vague watery memories of the experience, feeling like i was floating across campus, or like i was standing still and campus was moving past me. i do remember peering closely at people who passed me, who peered closely back. i have to wonder if i was walking with eyes nearly closed.

then as i was crossing the park opposite the student union, something clicked and i came up from that sleep state and suddenly as my foot came down i realized i could feel the concrete sidewalk under my feet. and in that same instant i became aware of the breeze blowing through my air and i could smell the scents of the park around me. all of my senses returned at once and i stopped with the horrified realization that i was ACTUALLY OUTSIDE.

i ended up deciding to go ahead and finish the journey and deliver the envelope to the post office. but the experience really shook me.

[lukkucairi]

^ excellent story

I don't have any sleepwalking adventures to match it, but I have been known to talk on the phone while sleeping before. I've woken up in the middle of a conversation and had to ask who I'm talking to and what we're talking about...

[l'azizza]

New query Feb 8th.

Tell about a regret, large or small, where there was a possibility that you could have changed the outcome of a situation for the better but chose not to act.

[Stephi_B]

There was this guy, that could have become a good, supergood, mayhap even precious mate (i.e. like my Vanya). I should neither have started flirting with him, or rather flirting back (online), nor should I have met him in this context (IRL). Why I haven't changed the direction of things before it was too late? Silly hopes.
Rather big regret, still.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

sleepwalked

sleptwalked?

[zero]

i regret trout in the night.

o no sorry must have been seepwalking, now i remember

and then i woke up (with insomniasms) and now i regret them too

what was the question again?

[zero]

i regret saying that

[zero]

woe is me

[zero]

i am woe

[lukkucairi]

I regret to say that I regret having witnessed zero's ostentatious regretfulness.

[auntie aubrey]

sleptwalked?

HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THIS ABOMINATION OF A WORD!!! :mad:






^ i regret losing my temper.

[l'azizza]

Just forget it.

[auntie aubrey]

oh pooh. don't be mad, i just can't think of an instance of regret that's notable enough to share. or not too private to share.

[Odbe]

I regret lots, but I convince myself that if I had a choice I wouldn't change a thing.

[T.I.P.]

i regret not taking more time for myself, just to be at home and do nothing, since I got here. I feel like I've been made into a pantomime by this city - swept away every day and left wondering why i can't get anything done.

Tonight i am experiencing self-inflicted boredom and it's blissful.

[Stephi_B]

Q for Monday, Feb 11:

¿ Something (or: some things) you don't regret at all ?



Me: Most spontaneous decisions
(decision time < 10 sec, for example the moving to Berlin thing)
- though more those I did in sober and stable psychic state.. ;)
The things I thought over too long, often turned out as a regretable mess,
a bit strange, or maybe not? :confused:

[Frieda]

hmm well one from jsut now--

buying a pair of shoes i plan to be able to walk on some time during the next decade.

it might just never happen at all of course but i do not regret buying them. it helped that they were only 29 euros.

[brightpearl]

Oddly, I'm having difficulty answering both this question and the one before it.

[craig johnston]

frieda, where's your shoe shop?

i don't regret coming to berlin one bit.

:)

[Brynn]

Things have a way of working out rather well when all is said and done, so it's hard to regret much of anything if I think it through.
I am especially glad that I became a mother instead of sticking to my original plans.
I'm happy about all the careful brainwashing I did to them when they were six, because now as teenagers, even though they don't appear to be listening to a word I say, they really are kind, generous, confident people who like themselves and have lots of friends who love them. I'm glad I stayed home 24/7 for a few years in order to figure out how to help them become that way, even though I was truly bored out of my skull at the time and couldn't wait for them to get older.

[Frieda]

frieda, where's your shoe shop?

i don't regret coming to berlin one bit.

:)


just a bit further down the street-- on the way to the supermarket. it's dangerous.. i go for groceries and sometimes i come back with shoes.. :rolleyes: :D

i'll get you a pair ;)

[Frieda]

question for dinsdag 12 februari

who's the next uri geller?

[brightpearl]

Frieda!

only you won't be a big faker, imho...

[Stephi_B]

No idea :confused:

[lukkucairi]

what did we do with the first one? have we misplaced him?

[brightpearl]

^I think he misplaced himself...

Either that, or the Amazing Randi ate him.

[lukkucairi]

damn spoonbenders. can't keep track of 'em. :mad:

[Brynn]

Not Uri Geller, but clever:
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[Frieda]

Frieda!

only you won't be a big faker, imho...

yea right-- if any of you place your spoons on your flatscreen-- i will make it fall off.

or maybe it's just gravity ;)


uri wants a replacement-- some weird tv show is going around europe. i thought you guys already found the next uri, stephi??

[Frieda]

^^ oh and derren brown clips always remind me of the ending of "the usual suspects"

it's pretty clever. i've never dared using it myself though.

[zero]

for today, wednesday 13th february the ¿ question of the day ? i ask you this:



besides eating it, what practical uses can you think of for 1 peanut?

answer-me-do!

[Stephi_B]

As essential tool for a game of table-peanut-flipping.

[zero]

^http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif good answer - keep 'em coming - funkytubah's going to wittily judge the answers



doorstop for the tiny front door of, say, a wee mouse!

[topcat]

a plug for a leaky nostril

[brightpearl]

growing many more peanuts

[zero]

passenger in paper aeroplane



incidentally boys and girls, have you ever seen the minuscule-but-perfect little rabbit, very like the playboy bunny symbol, that exists inside each and every peanut?

[zero]

hurry up everybody - get your answers in... funkytubahhh will be here to funnily judge your answers ANY MINUTE NOW!!

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Um, don't most of us that have them only have one?

What? Oh...you said "peanut", nevermind.

[Brynn]

that tiny rabbit inside of every peanut has a name, you know - it's "Mr. Peanut."
He wears a monocle, carries a cane, and politely answers our most obscure questions about George Washington Carver.

If the rim of your cereal bowl is wide enough, you can balance him on the edge so he can watch you eat your breakfast.

[zero]

here's the rabbit i'm talking about - a nice lady has written all about it:


http://www.andreadavies.com/rabbit.htm

try it at home - it works


NATURE IS SO AMAZING!!

[brightpearl]

^That is by far the coolest thing I've seen in weeks.

[Marcus Bales]

^You have to get out more.

[lukkucairi]

ammunition

[craig johnston]

new question, cos the last one was so carp.
what is the carpist question you have ever been aksed?

me: will you marry me?

[zero]

how dare you attempt to bring my ¿ question of the day ? about 1 peanut (to be very funnily judged by funktubaaaaah - it'll be hilarious, i kid you not) to a premature ending not even six hours after it was asked

[craig johnston]

how dare you attempt to bring my ¿ question of the day ? about 1 peanut (to be very funnily judged by funktubaaaaah - it'll be hilarious, i kid you not) to a premature ending not even six hours after it was asked

cos it was carp! (although i do agree that funkytuna is very witty or something)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Oh my, I just came up with the most hilarious use of a peanut.