- strategy in settlers of catan
^^^ this!!!
also • free trade • canada's "new" government • photoshoping images
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Abbott, I would seriously like to get drunk with you and discuss the muppets.
I'm very, very good at it! It's probably the best thing to do when drunk. If I ever see you around, we are SO. ON.
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
- the role of Taiwan in Sino-Japanese relations (LOL HONORS THESIS) - China in general - MY OPINIONS ON THINGS.
Abbott I actually kind of want your opinions on Blankets.
― jessie monster, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
haha jessie i would talk to ANYONE who asked abt my thesis a month or so ago but now that ive been working on it for a while i HATE talking about it and speak in as vague terms as possible
― max, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
my roommate is a china politics nerd too btw so i hear more than i need to about taiwan
― max, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-whaling -imperialism, but only specific areas -Armenian national identity/diaspora -cooking -Jesus (actually, I think I am more likely to talk about Jesus when drunk than any of the above...once, this led to me and a couple other nerds singing Jesus Christ Superstar through at a disintegrating party and then the Catholic making me and the Jewish guy promise to go to afternoon mass tomorrow, which we actually did, and kinda liked.)
But usually, this does not happen, because usually I don't start going on about any of my obsessions when drunk unless someone prompts me. Really, I'm not that ridiculously awful to be around.
― Maria, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
- why the real value at Taco Bell isn't to be found on the Value Menu - can't think of anything else at the moment
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
- how there is nothing whatsoever that you can do to prevent, stall, hinder or obstruct the gentrification of whatever area you don't want to see gentrified, that is unless you are a trillionaire
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
burt reynolds: awesome without mustache, cheesy with mustache
― omar little, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
why the real value at Taco Bell isn't to be found on the Value Menu
I am actually interested in hearing this riff. Particularly if I'm also drunk, and it's 1 in the morning, and we're on the way to Taco Bell.
― kenan, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
BLASPHEMY!
xpost
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
- why Norman McLaren's Lines Horizontal is FUCKING AMAZING - why modern advertising is extremely detrimental to capitalism - film grain vs. pixels - AUDIO: vinyl for listening to music, 96Hz 24-bit poly-wav for everything else, HERE'S WHY - the works of Haruki Murakami, and how I printed his face on my hoodie
Did you guys know I'm in college?
― en i see kay, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
the upper peninsula of michigan Idaho, Idaho culture, Idaho counties and Idaho politics
I have lectured on both of these topics (the latter much less knowledgeably than the former) within the last week.
Most recently I went off about various Unix daemons to a group of friends who didn't know what I was talking about and didn't know why I would know about these things.
― joygoat, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Han totally fired first, and I can discuss that at length at the drop of a hat. Along with how the only "real" Star Wars movies are the first three, original release. None of this CG-doctored crap that was added later.
Viggo, his movies, his art, his politics ... it's kinda sad. Also, how his son really, truly needs to meet our daughter. ;D
Religion. Journalism. History. The history of religious journalism. The journalism of religious history. The religion of historic journalism. Books books books books Writing. Role-play gaming. Anything, really. It's sad.
― Hey Jude, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Once I was talking to a client on the phone, and started going on about Shroedinger's Cat, and he freaked out a bit and hung up. I later realised that because of my manic delivery he thought that I actually had a cat in a box with a canister of poison gas and that I was threatening him or something.
― snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
did you open it and find out?
― one love, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Well it was something like this:
Client: "I'm just calling to see if those parts I ordered have arrived." Me: "Well we've just had a delivery, but I haven't opened it yet. Your stuff could be inside the box, but it might not be. A bit like Shroedinger's Cat." Client: "Erm... sorry, like what?" Me: [getting excited] "Shroedinger's Cat! It's like I've got a cat in a sealed box with a poison gas canister! And there's a 50-50 chance the canister will go off and kill the cat! But because the box is sealed you don't know if the cat is dead or alive until you open the box!" Client: "Er... I'll call back later thanksbye" <CLICK>
― snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Unlimited Texas Hold Them Poker Card Game.
― Mark C, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
-the use of war dogs by Allied forces in WWII -WWII in general -why the sociopolitical & -economical aspects of Max Brooks' World War Z were more interesting than just the zombies, including his satire of modern american cultures and openly advocating for a return to New Deal sensibilities. -Grim Fandango, and how it is a cultural product even as it synthesizes several different cultural products -the experience of watching college athletics v. professional, which quickly morphs into a discussion of Univ. of Michigan football vs Michigan hockey, and eventually it just dissolves into me telling stories of the shit we would pull at hockey games.
― kingfish, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
-also, politickin' and the controlling ideologies of batshit rightwing fuckheads.
― kingfish, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
- Bourbon - The familial conditions that lead to how people i know became the people they are today - Why the lack of bourbon in my glass is a travesty of life altering proportions - How amazing my wife is - Tony Rice and his guitar playing - Blues music - Whatever nonfiction I'm reading at the time - This is SO OTM I cannot even express it. I was SUCH an asshole about fast food for like months after Fast Food Nation - Why SUVs really, really suck
― B.L.A.M., Monday, 12 November 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Idaho, Idaho culture, Idaho counties and Idaho politics
OMG joygoat what did you say?
Also, maria, you have no idea how many times I've busted into JC Superstar in public.
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
People who shit loudly
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
- what the UK needs to do to win Eurovision - what changes could be made to the voting to make it truely representitive of individual people's votes - why Terry Wogan's block voting conspiracy theory is rubbish
― snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
The Burgess Shale
― Mark C, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
- Bourbon - Why the lack of bourbon in my glass is a travesty of life altering proportions
HAHAHAhahahaha OTM
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Dressing as Leatherface got me no play on Halloween...
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Idaho, Idaho culture, Idaho counties and Idaho politicsOMG joygoat what did you say?
Basically I was talking with some friends about how when I mention Idaho to people who've never been there they think how insane it must be, full of skinheads, nothing to eat but potatoes, and...well, that's about it. Racists and potatoes. Maybe Mormons too. And now Larry Craig, I guess.
I live right next door to Idaho and cross the border at least once a week if not more, and obviously this isn't the case. It's part of the case, of course, and it's fun to contrast the state politics with those of my much more liberal state.
It's just fun learning that lots of stereotypes aren't all that accurate. Plus Idaho is super pretty, based on the PBS show I saw last night.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
70% of Idaho is extra pretty, though good chunks of southern Idaho are just cheat grass dotted with the occasional Russian olive. panhandle = k-gorgeous.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
How I make photos.
― Kate, non masonic, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
You make AWESOME photos.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
- why much of reality TV is actually brilliant (specifically wife swap) - anti-TV snobbery in general - the "Port Royal Experiment" and Reconstruction in South Carolina - media consolidation - antipiracy laws in general - words that exist in Dutch but not English - whatever I happen to be learning about at the time (now RF engineering) - too much about my weird family and family dynamics - gay marriage and having lesbian parents - stereotypes about Montana and anywhere that's not NY or CA
i do go on and on
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I should phone beth parker and request that she get on this thread.
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
the crapness of the local music scene
the poor quality of mid 80s vinyl
― electricsound, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
butter is better than margarine
― estela, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
bleh, reality television
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
YES, especially RCA vinyl - I have some Bowie reissues from 1984 that are so thin they're practically flexidiscs. It's almost as if (conspiracy theory approaching) they were making crap quality vinyl to soften people up for re-buying everything on CD.
― snoball, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't get me started!
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
some things I don't really get into detail about on ILX but that I will seriously talk your head off about IRL esp inebriated:
- systems engineering practices and management of complex organizations especially of the technical variety - information presentation and UI design - overuse of jargon in my field vs more mature professions such as public health - risk communication, risk management, and the role of insurers - mental models - all of the above tied together in a vague cloudy shape of an unwritable thesis on why "operator error" is a lame copout when investigating or discussing accidents/system failures - two-factor authentication: why it is stupid and useless - the similarities between information security and maritime safety
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link
- why I want to quit being an "analyst" and become a manager
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
- why a parliamentary system is vastly better than the 2-party system we have here - why the electoral college is shit - why the drinking age and driving age should be reversed here - why drugs should be legalized
― Maria :D, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually agree on the last 3--not enough experience on the first to have an opinion.
I got my drivers license at 17 after a joke of a test , and how I didn't get myself or others killed my first year driving I don't know.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
- the hotness of Mary-Louise Parker, Radha Mitchel and Dana Delany
― milo z, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Rose McGowan's ass
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a little drunk last night and talked about Wallace, Idaho. HAI ABBOTT>
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
HAI 5IVE!
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I lived in the Gem State when I was a kid but then we sold out and moved to glamorous Oregon, which is another place I like to talk about when i'm drunkened.
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG where did you live? Probably Wallace, eh?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
o ya
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
and the link, presumably
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
Would that a link existed.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
the public service loan forgiveness program
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
...and marble madness
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
hamlet
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
why bands in the local music scene aren't successful
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 04:51 (five years ago) link
-Whiskey-Silent and early sound films
― Tha Threadkilla Strikes Again (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
* alex trebek* linguistics* how much i hate andrew jackson* whatever the hell i just read about on wikipedia (usually "on this day")* jazz musicians nobody else has heard of
― Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
-pro-wrestling.
― hourspass, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:25 (five years ago) link
Yakuza gamesThe noise Morrissey makes in Rubber Ring pretending to be a liftWhatever weird internet thing that I would never talk about normally
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
american wites
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
photography
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
kraftwerk
2001: a space odyssey
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
this is why no-one invites me to parties
multilingualism and minority languages
xp wkiw
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:12 (five years ago) link
full solidarity with fellow 2001 obsessives
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link
ILX
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:33 (five years ago) link
I was really drunk on Saturday and I think the cab driver got a full hour on English history, Celts -> Normans w/ the occasional Brexit digression.
― woof, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:40 (five years ago) link
Virginia WoolfMid-career Elvis CostelloLawns, why they are stupidLocal historyCahokiaPatronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sportsStonewall Jackson's flank march at the battle of ChancellorsvilleX-linked intellectual disabilityPost-impressionist paintingErotic thrillersEggs Benedict
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
Any topic about which I know slightly more than the listener(s) (thus exploiting my relative breadth of knowledge/interests without exposing its correlative lack of depth, what up my fellow mega-dilettantes)
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports
opposite
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:42 (five years ago) link
dance dance revolutionbabies, sorry
― kinder, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link
Haneke
― nathom, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link