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beaten by autechre's own title generating ai

The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link

1. "frane casual"
2. "mirrage"
3. "column thirteen"
4. "shimripl casual"
5. "all end"

6. mosques "a thousand" ,"a hundred seven" ,"a ninety three" ,"a three thirty one "
7. mosques "three eight four six"
8. mosques "three nine nine seven"
9. mosques "fourteen eight seventeen "
10. mosques "five thirteen ten six"
11. mosques "fourteenth and two ten three"
12. mosques "two twenty eight eight nine"
13. mosques "fourteen and a hundred seven"
14. mosques "nine seventy seven nine a five"
15. mosques "eight forty thirteen and sixty"
16. mosques "eight forty fifteen seven fifteen"
17. mosques "seven twenty five ninety ten"
18. mosques "seven nineteen twenty seven eight five"
19. mosques "eight thirty seven fifteen six"
20. mosques "nine twenty five eight four nine"

If we use the above code then if we create a text file named "c:\magnetec\migrates.txt" and save it as "C:\magnet

silverfish, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link

Incunabula (1993)
Amber (1994)
Tri Repetae (1995)
Chiastic Slide (1997)
LP5 (1998)
Confield (2001)
Draft 7.30 (2003)
Untilted (2005)
Quaristice (2008)
Oversteps (2010)
Exai (2013)
elseq 1–5 (2016)
NTS Sessions 1–4 (2018)

Praxeolus 1–5 (2018)
Suspicious Diversion (2015)
Other:
Bubbles of Fire (1931) 1-Punisher (1932) 2-Shark Attack (1937) 3-Chomp 3-Slaughterhouse (1934) 4-Mushroom Explosion (1939) 5-Stomp 3-Tongue Tied (1941) 6-Hollow Crown (1943) 7-Gangster (1948) 9-Munchies (1950) Rumblecrusher (1957) 10-Grim Hunt (1960) 12-Finger Pushing 7-Rage (1961) 13-Blowskin (1965) 14-Black Plague (1965) Crisis in Berlin (1971) Vanguard of Freedom (1972) 12-Junk-

The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link


7. NERD (ABBREV. NERVOUS)

A person who is in need of therapy. They may be in pain, angry, depressed, or anything else negative. "Sensing something that should be in the realm of rational thought but really isn't."

Makes sense to me.

MarkoP, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link

Looking forward to hearing Munchies by Autechre

frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link

Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
On down through the Middle Ages
When the earth kept going through changes
Then the renaissance came, times continued to change

We know that before we come here, we will stop time
On down into the dark ages when we got our last breath
The end of the Renaissance
A time of great upheaval we've just passed
We have forgotten our own history
We have lost our memories
We will only see what is left
And remember the names
And the time
We lived in a time of peace
When the world was bright and glorious
When the sun set
There were only four living things
And the land wasn't full of bugs
And when we were lost at sea
We made a pilgrimage to one of Saturn
There was another story, though - we were there
On Earth, we called ourselves the Children of Light
We fought the Space Mutants
And the War Pigs
And the Gods that were on the other side!

And so it goes on. Our lives are short. We don't seem quite so smart after all this. What if something doesn't work? What if we're getting older? Is it okay to lose our sense of humor? Why does everything have to be perfect? What if the world doesn't need us anymore? What if life isn't worth living? What would you do

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link

Jfc i am shook

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link

She walked out with empty arms
Machine gun in her hands
She is good and she is bad
No one understands

What she said

You are too good
For me
She wants to be like your mother who was always there for me
You're just a cry for my tears
They both say good bye
No she won't let me miss you

She walked out of my car with a bad ass attitude
And just as I was getting out she got out with a new car

She's always here for me I can't go without her
So I'm back to where she started

This is all a lie
But my tears are flowing for you
When my head spins down I'm trying to get you to stay
So you can stop worrying about where this's leading

You're too good to be this bad
And she's really good too
This is all a lie
I'm too nice
That's where the real truth lies

So where I come from
We grew apart
But we're going to meet again
We're going to meet again
And we're going to make it back together

And I'm here for you
You're too good To say you're fine for what happened
The real truth lies
So where I come from I'm from the right place
I'm on top of you
I'm here for you
You're too good
You're too good
To say you're

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link

Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the canoli.

(All leave.)

Holtzman: I would imagine the gun is now in one of the cans, or is it in the cupboards, or are we all going to be eating chicken-fried steak and eating chicken-fried steak together for the rest of the day, which, by the way, is going to be the most horrible thing, right?

I'm a meat eaters, so the last thing I want is for you to think that we're all vegetarian because you think it's the easiest way to please God — which, believe it or not, is a Christian thing that is also the world's most difficult thing to do.

So I'm really hoping this is going to help the world in some way. But we'd like everyone in this room in these three-and-a-half minutes, to leave the gun. You can go ahead and stay, but please, let's get out of here.

(The room breaks up. The door opens into a group of four men in suits, all dressed in black suits. They smile, and wave.)

We're going to be back. We're going to go to hell in a handbasket.

(As we come out, they step off a stage and disappear into a crowd of

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link

Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait

What made that strange, black hole move in faster than an average
No one has seen a black hole move at this speed for some 500 million years. [Note: It wasn't until 1979 that astrophysicists figured out all the details concerning the supermassive black hole at the center of the universe. I am also a fan of the Einstein's equation, and thus have tried to come up with some ideas for why this might be. I am not sure, so there is no guarantee that this will be confirmed. The most likely explanation is that he's just trying to keep cool. But no idea has been proved, and there still is no official statement from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft .]
The other interesting question is when the event occurred..
[Note: This was discussed in the NASA FAQ which I believe has the most information , but I cannot find it anywhere. Sorry. It seems like a major problem.]
The Hubble Space Telescope detected an unusual event. As a followup to their earlier observations, observations by other agencies have revealed the event might have been caused by one or more collisions between massive stars, or by the "strong nuclear interaction" of both merging stars. I have put together this brief explanation from here on out if it seems

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link

(we built the pyramids)

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link

Trying to write actual sensical prose for work right after you've been playing with TtT is an exercise in suddenly everything sounds weird. Including this.

mick signals, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link

Dying at:

[Note: This was discussed in the NASA FAQ which I believe has the most information , but I cannot find it anywhere. Sorry. It seems like a major problem.]

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link

17 Quirky and Unusual Things to Do in London

Go on an outdoor art walk at The Line. Hiking Trail.

Pump up the history of Soho.

Explore a Roman temple dedicated to Mithras.

Drink coffee in a Victorian toilet at the Attendant.

Watch a movie at the Soho Museum.

Enjoy a picnic in one of the Soho Gardens.

Learn where to find old records on Wikipedia.

Get into a conversation at the Soho Museum.

Read about historical events and their significance online.

Catch up on classic Soho films.

Find some old Soho souvenirs, too—and make some money for souvenirs.

Watch a London play.

Go on a cruise.

Learn about the British Isles' rich maritime heritage.

Visit the Royal Observatory.

Discover famous landmarks like the Tower of London—which opened for visitors in April of 2014!

Read about the different types of coffee shops in London.

Try some Soho cafe food, such as a tasty macaroons with lemon icing or an eggy toast with fresh bacon and lemon!

Discover what to do when your bus is late because the driver doesn't have his license!

Visit the Victoria Line stop, before you leave London

alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link

Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free

Grab the bus back, Kenny, just don't need to explain
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to get too carried away
Just drop off the key, Lee, and make your move
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't have to bother about the details

Just drop off the key, Lee, and let me decide
Gus, it's time to turn you into a real man.
Just drop on the door. Don't touch me now, man
Just give me a ride, Kenny. I'll be right back

We are leaving right now.
Go on with your mission, get you on that train.

Just drop off the key, Lee, and let me decide
Gus, it's time to turn you into a real man.
Just drop off the key, Lee, and put the handcuffs on my neck
Get on the bus, Lee, take your leave and don't worry about the rest of this

Go on with your mission, get you on that train. Be patient, it won't take too long.

This is all

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link

9 Pretty Spring 2019 Makeup Trends You're Going to See Everywhere:

1. Rainbow Eyeshadow.

2. Bold Eyeliner.

3. Monochromatic Makeup.

4. That I Just-Left-My-Facialist Skin.

5. Eyeshadow Lashes.

6. Lipsticks From The Dark Side.

7. Lipstick Lashes!

8. Makeup from My Grandfather.

9. Makeup From My Aunt-niece.

10. Makeup From My Grandpa.

11. Makeup From A Grandmother.

12. Making-Of Makeup From My Granddaddy.

13. Makeup From My Dad's Grandmother.

4. Makeup From My Grandmom's Grandmother.

14. Makeup From A Grandpa's Grandmother.

15. Makeup From My Mother-in-Law Who is A Grown Woman Makeup Artist!

6. Lipsticks From The Dark Side.

7. Lips Of My Grandfather Who Is A Grown Woman Makeup Artist!

8. Makeup From My Grandmother Who Is A Grown Woman Makeup Artist!

9. Makeup From A Grandparent Who is A Grown

alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link

All my friends are heathens, take it slow.
Wait for them to ask you who you know.
Please don't make any sudden moves.
You don't know the half of the abuse.

Please let me know if you ever get hit with this, i'd like to report it if possible.
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, contact me at b✧.wes✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
And if you have trouble finding someone to answer your email, please follow me on Twitter @btsx .

Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link

I've been playing around with this for a couple of days and thought I was pretty much over it but then it comes up with something like this:

What's the deal with airline food? You get served by your food service person, but you'll just keep being served by your food service person.

At any point if the food service guy keeps acting like a chicken, you're not going to want to make another reservation. So there's a whole process to getting your food back to the food service person. And if you forget who's actually the manager, that's actually against the rules. You're not supposed to be there. You're not supposed to be the manager.

But how do I get there from what I see the sign says?

The answer is, it's in the airport.

When I check into this hotel from here, it's a restaurant called the La Paloma hotel, and I'm seated at The Cattleman Café.

So I order food, get in and there's a line.

If you're like me, you don't know what to expect. You're here for my meal. My stomach just feels like it's on fire, like, "You guys are nuts, aren't you guys just going to let me have that goddamn chicken?'" I'm like, "Yeah, it's in the airplane."

I go in, ask for the chicken.

All the crew is yelling at me like this chicken is just some kind of a

silverfish, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link

And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time. There is no other person in the whole of the galaxy who can say that.

The other two are, of course, your mother and your father. You have a mother whom you can never forget, and your father whom you never lose sight of. They were never going to be the same. Their fate and legacy would have been impossible, if even a fraction had survived to me."

She turned the page, and pulled up a page.

We must not get lost. There is no other galaxy I can think of where two of the greatest scientists of the twenty-nineties were living side by side. I had thought myself a pretty smart boy but I'm quite sure they would never have met... If only they had met…

We must not get lost.

* * *

It was night on the second day. My mother was out and my father was down behind the counter at Denny's. Her office was a fairly small space with a few shelves of shelving and a couple of boxes on the floor in a corner behind the counter. The door for the back was open and she had turned out all the lights.

She came in, her dark brown hair swept back in three braids. She wore a business suit. There was a gold chain

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 31 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun and games
We got everything you want
Honey, we know the names
And you're a very sexy girl
Who's
the hottest little baby
Who's the next next big thing
That could change our worlds
We know where you come from
We know where you come from
We might be able to change your life
Yeah - that's that girl
But we need you now
We need that one - now
If you want me for a girl
I'm gonna tell him to stop messing with you
I'm gonna make him try
I know your life's full of problems and difficulties
We've got fun and games
We got everything you want
Honey, we know the names
And you're a very sexy girl
Who's the hottest baby,
Who's the next big thing
That could change our worlds
We know where you come from
We know where you come from
We might be able to change your life
Yeah...

ver·i·si·mil·i·tude
/ˌvərəsəˈmiləˌt(y)o͞od/
Learn to pronounce
noun
the appearance of being true or real.

Ex.
The Sex Pistols: Rock 'n' Roll is for Fucks (1981)

I read the blogpost about this (https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/) and found something interesting about what it was trained on:

We created a new dataset which emphasizes diversity of content, by scraping content from the Internet. In order to preserve document quality, we used only pages which have been curated/filtered by humans—specifically, we used outbound links from Reddit which received at least 3 karma. This can be thought of as a heuristic indicator for whether other users found the link interesting (whether educational or funny), leading to higher data quality than other similar datasets

The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link

Catchin' Cans, Baby, Catchin' Cans (2002)

i am curious to see this

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link

totally

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link

Fellas! (What?)
Fellas! (What?)
I'm ready! (I'm ready!)
I think I'm gonna
enjoy myself.
The next time you see them, you don't know whether you wish to laugh, cry, laugh so much. Perhaps it's a sign. Perhaps it is all that lies behind everything you say and do every day. Whatever it is, I am going to say it in my book.
(Yes! And yes, and yes!)
And if you find yourself going around asking these same questions of those who don't hear you, ask yourself: What did they hear and do? And for those who don't hear, what was their action? Did the guy or the woman just do too much or too little? Did he or she just sit back or did she jump?
The bottom line is we all know what is real. And it's not all that we think it is. It's the way we feel about it and how we act, say and think about it. The more you talk about this stuff, the more you'll realize that it is a matter of a few dozen, sometimes hundred key words and some pretty good logic and some pretty clever writing.
What's true?
If you love it, don't be afraid to say you love it because nobody is. If you don't

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link

Trying to write actual sensical prose for work right after you've been playing with TtT is an exercise in suddenly everything sounds weird. Including this.

― mick signals, Friday, May 31, 2019 10:15 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too true, too true. I've noticed that fuckin' around with Transformer for long stretches of time has a cognitive effect not unlike what happens to my eyes if I wind up staring at a tiny screen for too long. Sharp focus is not immediately forthcoming.

John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link

Too true, too true. I've noticed that fuckin' around with Transformer for long stretches of time has a cognitive effect not unlike what happens to my eyes if I wind up staring at a tiny screen for too long. Sharp focus is not immediately forthcoming. I guess that's something about human nature.

At any rate, Transformer, let's talk about it.

It's a Transformer.

You know the old expression, "It takes a village to raise a child"? Well, it's a Transformer. As with our world, this is about the size of my head with a tiny bit of extra space built in. But more importantly, you have an all-purpose handheld video game controller that's about the size of a softball thrown in there.

And as an aside, it's worth noting that Transformer's controllers may even be lighter than games like Super Smash Bros. Wii U's. If more people bought a Transformer, they'd sell for significantly less than the controllers Wii U sold last year, which means a lot more money will be spent developing these games. That's not to say Transformer isn't a fun title, as anyone who's played the game and loved it can attest. But for it to be a big moneymaker? It might find even bigger markets than Super Smash Bros. for Switch. And if any game

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link

I'd like to know the granularity at which these answers are constructed. The site seems to say responses are constructed word-by-word, but that seems misleading to me. The prevalence of complex sentences, with multiple subjects and dependent clauses, suggests pattern matching that is based at a higher (and more restrictive) level than single words. Anyway, these results are more impressive than anything I've seen before using Markov text generation, even though it is still gibberish. Good work, Transformer!

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link

Is this thread also being generated by a neural net
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, May 31, 2019 2:31 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Isn't everything at this point
― John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Friday, May 31, 2019 2:34 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Of course it is. Except it's neural nets, plural. And they aren't hardware, but wetware.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, May 31, 2019 2:37 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
speak for yourself, meatbag
― naked rollercoaster-riding world record holder (bizarro gazzara), Friday, May 31, 2019 2:37 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why is the space station on fire?
― The End is Nigh, Friday, May 31, 2019 2:39 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I am in trouble
― Toastmaster (WTF) (Pimp), Friday, May 31, 2019 2:49 PM (four and a half hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My friends are dead

John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link

I'd like to know the granularity at which these answers are constructed. The site seems to say responses are constructed word-by-word, but that seems misleading to me. The prevalence of complex sentences, with multiple subjects and dependent clauses, suggests pattern matching that is based at a higher (and more restrictive) level than single words.

From the blog, "Our model, called GPT-2 (a successor to GPT), was trained simply to predict the next word in 40GB of Internet text." Using such a large dataset, and given 1024 words of context when training, it basically implicitly learns sentence and even paragraph structure.

The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 31 May 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link

Airplane chicken is A+

alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link

Mad - I Hate Music
Hollywood Squares - Hillside Strangler
Slugs - Problem Child
Vox Pop - Cab Driver
Controllers - (The Original) Neutron Bomb
Dogs - Slash Your Face
Gasoline - Killer Man
Kraut - Matinee
Child Molesters - (I'm The) Hillside Strangler
Cold Cock - I Wanna Be Rich
Authorities - Radiation Masturbation
Authorities - I Hate Cops
Nuns - Decadent Jew
Users - Sick Of You
Vicious Visions - I Beat You
To Death
Pig - I Hate To Spank Myself
Hounds Of Love - I Love You And Why You Love Me
All That Remains - My Life
No Good Shit - Get Me To the Hospital
Piggy - The Last Time
Sirens Of L.A. - Let Me Make My Move
Stripped Naked - I'm Not Your Cuckold
Piggy - When I Walk Away
I Know Your Face - Get Up And Quit

flopson, Friday, 31 May 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link

Ooh stick you
Your mama too
And your daddy

Your mama, your daddy
Your greasy, greasy grandmammy
You got a hole in your panty
Got a big behind like frankenstein
Going beep-beep-beep down sesame street
Toot-toot-toot wear army boots
In your ear with a can of beer
Up your butt with a coconut

I'm gonna knock your head off with this hot rock
And I do want you to wear
A condom
But that's okay then
I'm just gonna kick your ass out
And I'm a little gay so I'm going to go get an ice cream
What do you say baby?
We'll roll this baby around
When the heat is raging
Like your daddy in the kitchen
But as your daddy in the kitchen it's okay baby
When your daddy does his cooking
And your daddy, in the kitchen
We can all laugh
But let's leave the sauce out
And your mommy will sit on her couch in the lounge like momma
We're gonna roll this baby around
Baby girl you ready for me?
Baby girl you ready for me?
Baby, girl, girl
Don't be a little bitch
You don't give a damn
I ain't gonna tell a motherfuckin'

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link

bloated, big bag of bloatation – drunk
bound-and-hagged – staying home on Friday or Saturday night
cob nobbler – loser
dish – desirable guy
fuzz – heavy wool sweaters
harsh realm – bummer

hornier territory – unruly
nagging questions – "how much of a bitch did you have to be for this?!"
stubborn, hunchback – drunk
unfortunate events – getting stuck in traffic, taking a wrong turn
bitter-eyed, bitter-eyed – a bad mood
meltdown – bad feeling
lucky charm – a feeling of success
coddled, chipped-off – living in a nice apartment
narrow-minded, uncouth – being in school or college
haughty, obnoxious – being in a group of people who are really mean
whip – having sexual relations (usually during sex)
stuffy, stiff upper lip – a good smile
naked – wearing clothes.
gift – a nice gift to your parents.
loudmouth – talking too much
flamboyant – arrogant
drunk – drunk and belligerent
wet-headed, blubbering – losing everything
sucking – making a mess of something
pissed – having your nose rubbed

me and you and a resinous goo (seandalai), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link

Baldrick: “I have a plan, sir.”
Blackadder: “Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one?”
Baldrick: “Yes, sir.”
Blackadder: “As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?”

Baldrick: “Yes, sir.”
Blackadder: “As cunning as a rogue of Shakespeare’s own creation?”
Baldrick: “Yes, sir.”
Blackadder: “As cunning as an assassin dressed as a detective?”
Baldrick: “Yes, sir.“
[The actor then takes the lead. The pair have to make a choice between the two. If they choose "Cunning" it gives Blackadder the option to kill Baldrick, leaving the other choices open. Blackadder then takes the last option - to cut down the snake, which cuts into his liver. A final sequence reveals a scene with a cut-out of Baldrick who has been taken to hospital with a heart attack. The camera then zooms out on the actor performing his turn as the audience watches the actor fall to the floor.]
[Blackadder is then joined by another actor who is called in to appear with him at

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link

naked - wearing clothes.

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link

3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil.
6 slices bacon.
3 pounds lean stewing beef cut into 2-inch cubes.
Salt and pepper.
2 carrots sliced.
10-12 small pearl onions OR 1 small white onion diced.
8 ounce mushrooms sliced.
2 cups red wine young and full-bodied (like Beaujolais, Cotes du Rhone or Burgundy)

½ cup water (about 2 quarts, enough if you need a lot of it to bring up the liquid)
2 tablespoons butter. You don't need to add it right away.

Pour some of the vegetable broth into the bowl of a food processor or blender. Pulse until all of the fat and water have evaporated and the soup comes up with a nice, fluffy consistency.

Add the rest of the vegetable broth in the same mixing bowl.

Add the onions and mushrooms. Saute for a few minutes over medium heat, until well-browned. If you don't have room in your kitchen for lots of onions and mushrooms, then cut them into pieces and toss them in a bowl of water.

Stir in the beef bouillon cube and a cup or two of water that has been added to the pot. Bring to a boil and then lower heat and simmer over medium heat, stirring occasionally for 20-30 minutes, or until the beef

flopson, Saturday, 1 June 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link

Different bonus tracks depending on your region:
1. "Cherry-Coloured Funk"
2. "Pitch the Baby"
3. "Iceblink Luck"
4. "Fifty-Fifty Clown"
5. "Heaven or Las Vegas"
6. "I Wear Your Ring"
7. "Fotzepolitic"
8. "Wolf in the Breast"
9. "Road, River and Rail"
10. "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires"

11. "I'll See You Again"
12. "I Love You, Honey"
13. "You're Not Alone Yet"
14. "Let The Music Be Singed"
15. "I'll Still Live On in the Night"
16. "Suck, Fuck, Scream and Scream"
17. "Love and Mercy Will Love You Forever"
18. "Let the Moon Shine"
19. "I Don't Care At Any Age"
20. "Someday, Maybe This Time"

11. "Vocal Guitars and the Pee"
12. "Laughing on a Ghost"
13. "The Night Is Dark and the Moon a Stone"
14. "Shiver me timbers and watch me fall"
15. "Mystery Shack"
16. "Barely Alive"
17. "Folk on the Wall"
18. "Fantasy Time"
19. "Fruit of the Loom"

11. "Woozy Boyz"
12. "Jets"
13. "Raging Fetus"
14. "I've Got an Iceberg"
15. "Sudden Death"
16. "Hooked on a Feeling"
17. "The Road to Hell and Back"

John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Saturday, 1 June 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link

is a hot dog a sandwich?

A hot dog is a sandwich, but a hot dog is not a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich

When I buy a sandwich, the sandwich I'm buying is a sandwich. How could it be otherwise?!

I bought the sandwich.

I got the hot dog.

I ate it.

You're right, a hot dog is a sandwich, but a hot dog is not a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich.

If you want to know about why you need one to eat a sandwich, ask your grandma.

slugbuggy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:19 (four years ago) link

this thread freaks me out, dnw

Ambient Police (sleeve), Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:34 (four years ago) link

Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? I love Lady Gaga. I think she's a really interesting artist. (I mean, not in a literal sense: I've seen all of her videos, I've interviewed her on various TV shows, she's been nominated for an Oscar, she won a Grammy, she's been nominated for two major music awards, and of course she's a big Hillary fan.) Well, maybe she's not the first to come to my mind as a "real person" to consider the climate change effects of global warming, or at least her celebrity status doesn't mean much to me! Anyway, Gaga really is smart! After all, she's really smart! So is Bill Gates, and if you believe me, he's not afraid to call things out! So when is it likely global warming will lead to major food shortages, wars, climate chaos, and all sorts of terrible things? Will there be increased heat waves? Is it possible for us to get colds? That doesn't mean global warming hasn't already become an existential threat! Of course, it just may be that in the next hundred years, we might not know which way to think about climate change! The bottom line is that we are already already witnessing the consequences of global warming. As a matter of fact, a recent NASA report published by scientists

Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:54 (four years ago) link

icp are a rap group that have been around since the begining of rap music. However, they were formed not so long ago when a group of rapping fans started liking this duo. They were originally a group of rappers. However, during the recent period, the members of the rapping group started making music and became popular.

However, there's no evidence of these raps being composed without an artist by their side. This suggests they are the real deal. We are looking into this.

slugbuggy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link

I'm getting a new foster kitten tomorrow so (this is two different lists)

Good names for kittens
Tigger
Tiger
Max
Smokey
Sassy

Skeleton
The Great Panda
Baby Boomer
Big Apple Cheesecake Ltd.
Rachael Bannard
Sisterhood of Crows
Ghostly Linda
I.B. Singer
Marilyn Manson's Ghost
Sneaky Bob
BigglyTuff
Tobias
Kittenbear
Nancy
Krunchy
Pony
Blues Cuts / Naughty
The Team
Nimoy
Rabbits
Jolly Bear
Gobbledy Gumbo
Little Snuggly

Bubbles and Muffins
Giant Cookie Dough
Tiny Penguin
Fairy Tale
Jazz Bass
The Man Behind the Mask:
Cocktail
Eddie
Frosty the Polar Bear
Duckaroo
Fancy Dress (aka Pizza Hut):
Wings and Whiskers
Buzz Cat
Jambalaya
Big Foot
Horse
Kitty
Pepsi Dog
Sonic Rainboom
Maggie Mouse
Peppermint Patty
Bart
Ariel
Frozen
M*a*s*h
Carrot Top

mick signals, Saturday, 1 June 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link

More help for mick :)

Rumpus
Kerfuffle
Hubbub
Tempest
Teacup

Inappropriate
Shower Talk
Korra
Luna
Tailor
Harmless
Korra Knee
Ink
Maze
Sightless
Ceremony
Aerial Attack
Harsh Light
Tiger
Lift
Korra Kick
Dolphin Dance
Crescent Wave
Dragon Dance
Swift
Dance
Dance
Dance
Dazzle
Dance
Dazzle
Dragon Breath
Night Dance
Crescent Wave
Climb Up
Jump
Fluttering Clouds
Dance
Gnaw
Crazy
Water Splash
Dragon Leap
Dance
Gnaw
Gnaw
Gnaw
Dance
Elegant
Horse Rush
Gnaw
Gnaw
Gnaw
Dance
Elegant
Wicked Leap
Bubble Jump
Gnaw
Climb Up
Climb Down
Dragon Punch
Dragon Pulse
Dance
Elegant
Ice Spike
Dance
Elegant
Water Splash
Dragon Punch
Dragon Pulse
Swift
Climb Down
Dragon Rush
Dragon Dance
Swift
Dragon Dance
Dragon Breath
Water Pulse
Climb

--- from the best fosters on the web:
https://kitten.academy/mewspaper/2019/3/27/welcome-to-tempests-tantrums

weatheringdaleson, Saturday, 1 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link

A lot of that reads like steps for kitten khoreography

mick signals, Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link

When you look back, it was a lot smarter to have been on board the train," Sager says of the decision to go live that morning. "We knew it was all going to go wrong." He was right, of course. The train went down. It crashed into a tree while passing a school at mile 40 on a wet May morning. The accident killed two. And the train went through the front windows of a Wal-Mart. "What is a WalMart?" Sager says. "The Walmart. Walmarts were like giant black boxes. People went through the front windows of Walmarts because they wanted to stay alive longer as a survival strategy." In a strange echo of the American Dream, for those still living on the West Coast during those days "that was your ticket to freedom," Sager says. It wasn't as if Wal-Mart was going to be everywhere any more. As Sager wrote in The New Yorker about his years of reading about the Great Recession, the last thing Wal-Mart wanted to hear about was its bankruptcy. The company had to shut down. But if it weren't to, another bankruptcy was inevitable.

The financial media's portrayal of it all is remarkably accurate. Many media outlets still blame Wal-Mart for skyrocketing prices, but that has been done by Wal-Mart itself. It's always easier to blame Wal-

The Pingularity (ledge), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link

Transformers! More that meets the eye! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of The Beast before he destroys us all! And when Optimus Prime goes on a rampage to prove his worth, the Autobots don't hold back to stop him. They have plans! Written by Kody Otsuka

Transformers! More that meets the eye! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of The ichor in an all-new adventure that will take you through the first-ever Battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, all while meeting characters from your favorite Transformers films! The Transformers Movie Movie: The First Encounter is in theaters June 16, 2016. The movie will debut in select theaters July 25, 2016, and the first Friday of August in select theaters. More details are available at www.thesuperheromovie.com. Transformers (2015) stars Chris Pratt as Optimus Prime, Jacob Batalon as Chryse, Michael Bay as Soundwave, Megatron as Prancer, Peter Cullen as Bumblebee, Lauren Shuler Donner as Skywarp, Peter Cullen as Ratchet, C.T. Johnson as Grimlock, Alexandra Shipp as Jazz, and Eric Powell as Hot Rod. The film is written and directed by Michael DiMartino. The film was produced by Hasbro/Warner Bros., along with Paramount Pictures.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link

To be a great artist  is not a straight line towards the moon! 
And no, that doesn't mean it looks like the sun. To be a great artist  is not simply a matter of putting a square before an even square. 
It's about putting the square in a square so much so that the square's center is not in any particular diagonal or even line. It's about putting any center square above any center other than the center itself.
Now I'm not suggesting that you must be an absolute genius to put each square on their own line.
It's that, with enough creative practice, you find a way to put one, two, three, five, or even many of these squares in a line to ensure that each box has the center (with each box having the line and center being adjacent to each other).
Just don't mistake that for the truth, or I could be doing something completely different. I could be doing something completely different if I try and teach you exactly what I've been doing and you don't understand it.
The truth is, I've already taught you about how to put a line or a line above an even line. If you haven't learned yet how the box itself does this, then go back to where you learned it and start again. If you start back at the beginning, you'll learn more.

The Pingularity (ledge), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link

i tried seeding it with if but 9 times out of 10 it came out with something completely coherent, plausible, and lol free.

The Pingularity (ledge), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link

No more lolling around or jumping up and downs to buy some meat or a snack, because I am already starving. At this pace, my body doesn't have the time for any more hunger, and I'll be back in an hour or two. I can always eat before bed again, so I've decided to go for an early night. I can easily go back to working today but I'm really looking forward to coming back to the office tomorrow. I have the office so I don't have to be up all night every day... The last thing I need to worry about at the office right now is a job interview for tomorrow. I'll just leave my work computer there and just work... My first thought is to just take it with me. I know I'm not in the mood, so I'm not sure what to do. I'm not sure what it is that gives me the urge to get home even though I know it's completely un-neccessary, but... Oh, God! The alarm goes off. No, really, it was the worst call of all time. I didn't know... I woke up with a horrible hangover. I think I'll just get some sleep today and get back to work. I need to work for two hours tomorrow, and then I'll be ready for the interview. There's a reason we don't let people sleep in the

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