Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[Alex_de_Large]

This demonstration of modern robotics boggles the mind...

More here, here, here, here, and here.

spree: videos of robotics demonstrations from Japan.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Did anyone see Saturday's episode? Participants had to choose between eating: (1) rotten squid covered in flies; (2) cod egg sacs covered in ants; (3) worm sausage (various worms squirming around in a big fat sausage casing); and (4) dragonflies (alive and buzzing around in the cage).

I'm not easily grossed out but I swear I have had trouble eating since that show. What is the deal with this show? And did these people really eat this stuff?

And WTF is a cod egg sac????????

Serves you right for watching that shit.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Nor does it explain my ongoing abysmal failure in this arena, despite above-average height and stunning prettiness. I should be getting more play than Slave at a Paigow convention. <wink> Life ain't fair.

There, there little Flower. Love will come your way when you least expect it! Just keep a positive attitude, and a clean shirt on your back. Wimmins always fall for a guy with a clean shirt.

Cheers!

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by leagleaze

Is that your I make shit up confession?

If that's your way of saying my responses are more accurate than you'd like to admit.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Thanks for proving my point.

And mine (gratuitous reference to poster/post of yore).

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
penske_account: que sera sera
penske_account: to each her own
p_l_flower: This is true
penske_account: you reap what you sow
p_l_flower: Why judge?
penske_account: exactly
p_l_flower: A penny saved is a penny earned
penske_account: I am free of judgment
penske_account: I'm neutral
penske_account: like switzerland
p_l_flower: Like the Swiss
p_l_flower: jinx!!!
penske_account: jinx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
penske_account: lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
penske_account: hahahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
penske_account: G.O.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
p_l_flower: oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh
p_l_flower: hahahahahahahhaha
p_l_flower: Oh my!
p_l_flower: Hhhaaaaa
penske_account: yes
penske_account: smashing
p_l_flower: hhhhhhaaaa
penske_account: !
p_l_flower: Phew!
p_l_flower: Wow
p_l_flower: Boy
p_l_flower: That was something'
p_l_flower: Right there
p_l_flower: Really something
penske_account: how ironic
p_l_flower: Indeed
p_l_flower: Perhpas I will post a snippet of this exchange to make others jealous of the hilarity that ensues via private hush hush IM comunications
penske_account: i agree
penske_account: they should know what they are missing
penske_account: in their little lives

Is this what metrosexual cybersex is like?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
It appears there isn't a statistically significant correlation between height and penis legnth. Siminoski, Kerry. (1993). The relationship among height, penile length, and foot size. Annals of Sex Research, 6(3), 231-235.

or you could just have read The Tin Drum

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by robustpuppy

And mine (gratuitous reference to poster/post of yore).

Attributing blame between oneself and one's sources isn't gratuitous -- and it's better than management in many firms: giving a GA all the blame and none of the credit.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Originally posted by robustpuppy



Attributing blame between oneself and one's sources isn't gratuitous -- and it's better than management in many firms: giving a GA all the blame and none of the credit.

I give GAs credit for taking the blame.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Attributing blame between oneself and one's sources isn't gratuitous -- and it's better than management in many firms: giving a GA all the blame and none of the credit.

You need to get out more, if for no other reason than to establish different frames of reference.

Plus, you might even get laid.

[SlaveNoMore]

taxwonk
Come on. You've said dumber shit when you were sober and happy.

DISSENT!!!

You cannot offer proof that I have ever been either

[SlaveNoMore]

taxwonk
Is this what metrosexual cybersex is like?

No, that would be this conversation:

seventhyearslave: stop it with those socks
penske_account: what socks
seventhyearslave: you know what I mean
penske_account: namaste!!!!
seventhyearslave: NTTAWWT
penske_account: exactly
seventhyearslave: but I'm being serious
penske_account: what socks say I?
seventhyearslave: the socks you are wearing in that silly kilt photo you emailed around
seventhyearslave: God ugly. Like Bessete ugly. Nice boots though
penske_account: thank you. bought them at Nordstrom. Personal shopper.
seventhyearslave: never tried that. Oh, I cribbed your Ronald Reagan red white and blue jellybean idea. Put it in my office.
penske_account: Win won for the Gipper
penske_account: BTW, I invented that
seventhyearslave: what
penske_account: that saying
seventhyearslave: namaste

[pretermitted_child]

Origami motorcycles, as well as a menagerie of endangered species.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
The leafs are in first place. First time since 1963 this late in the season.

I know!!! I'm going to be at the (dry for 8 days) Air Canada Centre tomorrow night to see the streak continue. First time there; I'll hoist a diet coke in your honor.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Wasnt this movie hailed as most excellent?

I thought it was good for awhile, but the last twenty minutes was pure PAP. Pure dreck. I was waiting for Ben Affleck to crawl out of the swamp. Does anyone agree with me here on this?

Paigow, you're missing the point of the movie. Listen to Ebert explain (sorta): "And all the time, uncoiling beneath the surface of the film, is the audacious surprise of the last 20 minutes, in which--well, to say the movie's ending works on more than one level is not to imply it works on only two."

Adaptation stops being a quirky Charlie Kaufman film and starts being a formulaic Donald Kaufman movie because the screenplay has to follow its own loopy logic. Kaufman knows that the ending is hackneyed. He's announced what he thinks is hackneyed in the first third of the film So when you start to see cliches in the last third, you can either think, "Hey, this is getting cliched" or you can think, "Oh, I get it. It's supposed to be cliched."

I admired more than liked the ending, but the film is not pure dreck.

BTW, The Asian language channel in San Francisco KTSF has a show called Namaste-TV.


edited to add the part about Namaste-TV