Useless Conversation

[Ironwood]

I had the same problem with my first Internet Alias :  Asswranglercockstab

Never understood the problem.

[Sky]

Never understood the problem.

You probably shouldn't use your given name online like that.

[FatuousTwat]

The original alias that I've been using since about 1994 has been taken a lot recently when I go to sign up for something/make a new character in a game.

I guess it's a rare last name. Sigh.

[apocrypha]

Imagine the problems that people living in Scunthorpe have with internets.

[Signe]

It's why they shortened Fuckingham to Effingham, isn't it? 

[Yegolev]

First, I know I said I would never go to the Tabernacle again, but I did last night to see Ben Folds.  It was still hot as hell even though it was like 40F outside.  Ben was like "I like the Tabernacle..." but what he meant was "I don't like how much the Fox wants..." or something.  Atlanta needs a good indoor venue, something between the various rotting wood structures and the Fox.

Secondly, I wondered if I would be OK wearing my work clothes.  Normally no, but this was Ben Folds.  Turns out wardrobe wasn't an issue because the people you see at a Ben Folds concert are the most random people you will ever see.  There was one moderately pudgy guy who we dubbed Freddie Mexican that was very obviously insane due to the shit he was yelling.  He had some sort of short Kid-n-Play/James-Dean hairdo, not quite a jew-fro, not quite a flattop and not quite a pomp.  He matched this with the moustache that hung down either side of his mouth and a pair of respectable burns.  He wasn't really mexican, probably jewish, but Freddie Mexican sounded better than Freddie Hebrew.  He was the guy you wanted to invite to all of your parties but otherwise did not want him to show up at your house.  There was a middle-aged guy near us wearing a farmer's cap, plaid shirt, work jeans, and camouflage coat who was really, really into Ben.  He started holding his lighter up while Miniature Tigers was playing.  He also had a very large red/grey moustache, the big bushy kind that's wider than your mouth but not quite "handlebar" sized.  These two were yelling with each other, "Wooo!"  "Yea, rock on!" and Freddie Mexican yells "Yeah, grizzly bears and shit!".  Hilarious.  This happened while my wife was in line at the bathroom.

Also appearing was a guy who looked like a sweaty Adrian Brodie or perhaps Emo Phillips but wearing a red windbreaker and white headband.  While in line at the pisser, I saw a guy who also came straight from work if his button-up shirt, khakis, shiny brown shoes and Blackberry holster was any indication.  At least my BB was in my pocket, and I was wearing a polo.

Show was great.  Ben made up a song about moustaches since they seemed to be literally everywhere.

[Selby]

...the most random people you will ever see.  There was one moderately pudgy guy who we dubbed Freddie Mexican that was very obviously insane due to the shit he was yelling.  He had some sort of short Kid-n-Play/James-Dean hairdo, not quite a jew-fro, not quite a flattop and not quite a pomp.  He matched this with the moustache that hung down either side of his mouth and a pair of respectable burns.

Imagine the same guy with almost the same hair, but coming back into a mullet with no shirt on saying random stuff like that.  That was my last Judas Priest concert.  I won't even get into the completely random people I saw in the audience chanting all sorts of strangeness when KMFDM came to town.  Some concerts are great for people watching almost as much as the artist themselves.

[Lantyssa]

The True Colors tour was great for that.

[rattran]

The Tabernacle is awful. Parking near the Tabernacle is more awful.

Everywhere else in Atlanta I've seen a show at is slightly less awful (except Masquerade, which is terribad)

[Yegolev]

I guess if anywhere is shittier than the Tabernacle, it's the Masquerade.  It masquerades as a decent venue... not really.  It masquerades as someplace where you might film a slasher movie.  However, it's not FUCKING HOT AS FUCK there, so that's a plus.  Didn't the Masquerade get condemned?  Maybe fall in on itself?

The Fox isn't bad, not at all, but that's where you see off-broadway shows and Jerry Seinfeld.

[Yegolev]

Oh, wait, I came here to report that most GameTap games do not work on a 64-bit version of Windows.  I'm putting it in Useless since I think most people do not use it, also you would have figured this out pretty fucking fast if this affected you.

[FatuousTwat]

So for Christmas my sister made a charcoal drawing of Data & Spot, about 2.5' by 3'. Finally framed it today.

Anyone else do something productive today?

[Strazos]

I helped my friend move a bigass desk into his house. Then they paid for lunch at Cheeburger.

That was at like 1-2pm. It's 11:30pm and I'm still not hungry.

[Yegolev]

Anyone else do something productive today?

I built some sofa-cushion forts with the boy.  I threw out quite a bit of candy and snacks.  Unloaded the dishwasher.  Downloaded a Radeon driver because I forgot I have an Nvidia card.  Ordered a USB-parallel port converter from newegg.com.

[rattran]

I guess if anywhere is shittier than the Tabernacle, it's the Masquerade.  It masquerades as a decent venue... not really.  It masquerades as someplace where you might film a slasher movie.  However, it's not FUCKING HOT AS FUCK there, so that's a plus.  Didn't the Masquerade get condemned?  Maybe fall in on itself?

The Fox isn't bad, not at all, but that's where you see off-broadway shows and Jerry Seinfeld.

Last I heard Masquerade had made some minor improvements and added a broken sprinkler system to stay open. I think they also limited the size of the crowd in Heaven so the floor wouldn't start to collapse (again). The Roxy isn't too bad for small shows, and there's a place in L5P for tiny shows that's decent for small shows. Dunno the name offhand, saw the Dresden Dolls there.

Tabernacle is always hot as fuck, has a mean, violent crowd, and shit sound. Last time I went my gf got crushed against the stage during the warm up for Social Distortion, my friend's gf got punched in the kidneys by some girl stealing her spot in the huge toilet line.

[Ironwood]

So for Christmas my sister made a charcoal drawing of Data & Spot, about 2.5' by 3'. Finally framed it today.

Anyone else do something productive today?

Curtains in the bedroom.

Only taken me 5 years.

[Sky]

Anyone else do something productive today?

Did my taxes. Please go to whitehouse.gov and tell Obammy to make the first time home buyer credit in the stimulus bill retroactive to 2008. 2008 credit is an interest-free loan, 2009 doesn't need to be repaid. I can't count how many times I came across "If you had done this in 2009...or even 2007" Goddamned congress.

Stopped by our local hardware store, they had a sale. Bought a sack of caulk. Went to fix this one thing on the tub and found out it was installed poorly (just a bit of drywall failure), now I've got to get the contractor back over here and see if he'll stand behind his work. Not huge but it's a good test to see if I use him again.

Today will be busy, my personal highlight is "cooking another massive chuck roast". This one is about three inches thick. I love a real butcher.

[MrHat]

Holy Fucking Jesus-Cleaned my bathroom. 

[Signe]

Holy Fucking Jesus-Cleaned my bathroom. 

Did you have to pay him?  I'm tired of cleaning my own bathrooms!

I did what I do every morning.  Lister got me up at almost 6 AM.  I am very zombie like in the morning, too.  I made a cup of tea.  Drank it.  Made another.  Tidied up the kitchen and living room, ignoring Lister's pleas for immediate food.  (I don't like to feed him before 6:45 or 7 AM)  Ran the dishwasher.  Cuddled with Magenta on the sofa.  Fed the kitties.  Cleaned the kitties bathroom and scooped poopy boxes (which I do about five or six times a day because I'm obsessive about it).  Had my morning herbal chill out.  No idea what I did until around 10-ish, when I made coffee so it would be fresh when Righ woke up, which didn't happen until around mid-day today.  Oh well.  The rest of my day will be equally as exciting, too!

I'm making baked cod with panko tonight and home-make steak cut potatoes.  Ok, ok - it's fish 'n chip night!

[Engels]

Cleaned the kitties bathroom and scooped poopy boxes (which I do about five or six times a day because I'm obsessive about it). 

How many cats do you have that they poop 5 times in a day?

I got up at 7 am, made coffee, did some dishes, fed the kitties, went back to bed for a bit. Got up, had coffee, checked the politics forum and read Numtini's linked playboy article on astroturfing, tried to Digg it, but playboy is banned from Digg, so I gave up and read the dount/bagel thread and lodged a complaint about the discrimination against egg bagels. Then I called my pregnant cousin to check if she's exploded yet (due in 2 days).

[Signe]

I have two cats but, like I said, I'm obsessive about keeping their bathroom and poopy box clean.  I scoop when they do anything in there.  I can even sense when they look in that general direction. 

[Lantyssa]

I am very zombie like in the morning, too.

As opposed to the rest of the day?

[Strazos]

before 10am, dozed in bed, fired the PC up to browse f13 and some other stuff, played eq2 for awhile, and now I just got done watching the Flyers play a painfully boring game in which they got shutout.

[NowhereMan]

I got back from a night out at about half 7 this morning (not crazy fun stuff, friend's birthday and we stayed up chatting and drinking). Got home and decided that smoking shisha was a great idea. Got up properly about 3 this afternoon and have been suffering while trying to write a paper. I am silly for going out.

[MrHat]

I got back from a night out at about half 7 this morning (not crazy fun stuff, friend's birthday and we stayed up chatting and drinking). Got home and decided that smoking shisha was a great idea. Got up properly about 3 this afternoon and have been suffering while trying to write a paper. I am silly for going out.

Who the fuck smokes shisha at 7:30 in the AM?  That sounds horrid.

[Signe]

We must really be bored today. 

[NowhereMan]

I got back from a night out at about half 7 this morning (not crazy fun stuff, friend's birthday and we stayed up chatting and drinking). Got home and decided that smoking shisha was a great idea. Got up properly about 3 this afternoon and have been suffering while trying to write a paper. I am silly for going out.

Who the fuck smokes shisha at 7:30 in the AM?  That sounds horrid.

It wasn't like I got up and did it. Also it wasn't like I was entirely sober.

And yes I am definitely bored, also some psychologists/neuroscientists seem to get entirely too excited about fMRI. Woo! Look this part of the brain lights up in moral situations only, finally we have shown that moral situations aren't the same as nonmoral ones. Fantastic, I was wondering why we had different words for them.

[Lantyssa]

I did laundry.

[Strazos]

There's around 8" of snow on the ground. I'm not even going to bother to attempt to move my car today. I'll be lucky if I even see a truck plow through here so I can try again tomorrow.

[Murgos]

There's around 8" of snow on the ground. I'm not even going to bother to attempt to move my car today. I'll be lucky if I even see a truck plow through here so I can try again tomorrow.

I dug my girlfriends car out and went home.  I'm debating taking public transit to work with just not going and making up the time some other day.  Stupid customers won't let me work remotely :(

[Yegolev]

The Roxy isn't too bad for small shows

I saw TMBG there and it was a good venue.

Curtains in the bedroom.

Only taken me 5 years.

That must be the proper timeframe since that's how long it took me.  I predict installing an awning over a much-needed place will take 7+ years.

[Signe]

There's around 8" of snow on the ground. I'm not even going to bother to attempt to move my car today. I'll be lucky if I even see a truck plow through here so I can try again tomorrow.

The first bout wasn't too bad around here.  A few inches and then it stopped.  It started up again a couple of hours ago and it's been taking turns snowing in all directions, sideways, slow, fast... I'm waiting for it to start snowing upside down.  A plow went through when there was about an inch on the ground and that's the last we saw of one.  It's days like today that I'm glad we actually park the car in the garage and not store old comics or cruddy furniture.

[schild]

It's beautiful down here.

[stray]

^ Hah, while just about every other Texan is getting pissed off.  Texas weather is a bitch.. changes too much, especially during this time of year. We want some consistency. If you really like this type of weather all the time though, go to Dallas or Denton. It's one of the only spots fairly consistent, and like this.

[Cheddar]

Hampton Roads + Snow + Ice = hilarity.  I REALLY should have taken the day off, though it was fun watching the spinouts on the way to work.