I like it.
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
crut do you have some $ i can borrow
― Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
construct a box that is covered on the inside with mirrors, and a few small holes to let sunlight in. the box would be 4x4x7 ft, and it would be called "the freakout room"
― Z S, Monday, July 1, 2013 3:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
people taller than 7 feet or wider than 4 feet would not be allowed into the freakout room
― Z S, Monday, July 1, 2013 3:52 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
congratulations, you are an installation artist!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, July 1, 2013 4:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a friend of mine actually did this
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
did you get to experience the freakout firsthand?
― Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
it was ultimately sort of cheap looking on the inside but a fun idea
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link
it sounds a lot like a dressing room at TJ Maxx
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
They had one of those at Robot World in the Wisconsin Dells. I've wanted to build one since I was a kid.
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Buying a dog just to name it "Bounty Hunter"
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
Name it Body Movement and then always talk about your BM
― Z S, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:12 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
middle name The
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 12 July 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
a cartoon of an armed bob dylan following jeff koons, with the caption "Fucking Koons, he always gets away!"
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
a compilation of 'badgirl feminist' web writing called "Click My Lit"
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
http://clickmylit.net/
Here is a sexy lit story about an older guy who uses subliminal seduction to hypnotize a younger girl. Perhaps this online writing job is not of the usual style I have presented in the past but do remember that I like to promote lit that has not been already plugged in other places. Girl Hypnotized has promised they will presenting more lit soon so do check out their latest short subliminal seduction story.
not quite what you had in mind
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
I daydreamed an elaborate finance scheme that I call "Costco Membership Arbitrage" -- basically, you front members the money to go from the "regular" membership at $55 to the "executive" membership at $110 (so you front $55 per household) in exchange for a cut of their 2% rewards cash at the end of the year. The returns could actually be huge, for example, we got back $150 in rewards cash, so we made almost 200% on our $55 "investment" in the executive membership.
Of course this is a terrible idea for many reasons, not least of which being that you can only spend the rewards money at Costco.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Also what kind of family would spend enough at Costco every year to get back enough in rewards to make it worthwhile but wouldn't have the $55 to spend on the membership?
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Terrible idea: Sandra Lee presents a cooking show based on the Forme of Cury.
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Monday, 22 July 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
xpost lol. picturing a room of suits buying and selling kirkland mayonnaise futures
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
I've also tried to dream up Costco import/export schemes. I devote an unseemly amount of time to this kind of thought.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
I've also half-seriously tried to dream up ways of "churning" credit card rewards by just paying myself via a shell company. Of course you'd need a lot of different cards and a lot of transactions to make this actually pay off decently, you'd probably get caught, and I think the processing fees might be greater than the rewards anyway.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
write and record 10 songs, then spend the rest of my life recording different versions of those same 10 songs
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
"I think the processing fees might be greater than the rewards anyway."if you find a 5% reward, you could probably eke out a 2% return.if you live in a state which forces retailers to pay balance of gift cards in cash, you can also churn through them.when the US mint was trying to get rid of dollar coins, people maxed out their cards and returned these heavy bags of coins to the banks and flew for free the rest of the year.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
there was apparently a good scheme running with something called bluebird prepaid cards for a while. I think the bluebird prepaid cards could be used for a lot of stuff regular credit cards couldn't? So you could really maximize your rewards. But I believe the cc companies caught on and did something to clamp down.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
n/a that would make you a real acid mother -- you should do it.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
a twitter account called @RTUnFunny which retweets only shitty jokes
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― Z S, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
what if there are gods, and they can recognize all of the possible alternatives, and they got bored with our branch of the universe and left it behind a long time ago? for example, there's no reason the steam engine couldn't have been invented by the ancient romans - they had all the prequisite knowledge, they just didn't do it. if we're splitting off into nearly infinite branches of alternative universes all the time, then there would be a world where they DID invent the steam engine - jesus could have been a conductor - and that obviously would have been a more entertaining world for the god or gods to pay attention to. it's like save states in videogames. you, as the omniscient player, pay attention to the most successful (in your eyes) state of the game, and your old save states languish there. but what if they game continued on back in those old save states, but you weren't paying attention? that's us! whoa dude
ok back to work
― Z S, Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
we're splitting off
Misread this as 'spliffing off', which might actually be more appropriate...
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
In saddest of all sad Toy Story scenes, the Link in Ocarina of Time Saved Game Universe 3 is alone, working in a Goron mine. Epona is dead. He doesn't even remember how to play his ocarina. He sleeps on a dirty pile of hay in Lon Lon Ranch with this guy
http://nintendoforever.free.fr/N64/ZeldaOcarinaOfTime/ZeldaOOT_Divers/Personnages/ZeldaOOT_personnageSecondaire_ingoAvecEpona.jpg
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
heaven = resumption of a long lost save state by the god userhell = resumption of a long lots save state by the god user's malevolent young sibling(s), who wreak havoc within the game with no intention of trying to make progressthe apocalypse/end of time = deletion of a save state
― Z S, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
the next time I am frustrated with life, I will look to the heavens and shout "Blow into the cartridge!"
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
statistically, you'll have just as much success doing that as you would by praying!
― Z S, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
in alternative universe, that post came out like this:
"statistically, you'll have just as much chalupa meat doing that as you would by slorting!"
― Z S, Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:22 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
terrible idea #234354:
everything is right! but also...everything is wrong.
― Z S, Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
for example, there's no reason the steam engine couldn't have been invented by the ancient romans - they had all the prequisite knowledge, they just didn't do it.
i have this odd mental scenario of one ancient roman saying 'you could make a steam engine with what you've got there' and the other ancient roman saying 'nah'
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 26 July 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
lol
― the pen is mightier than the penisword (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
are they wearing cotton drill togas from lowes.
― estela, Friday, 26 July 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
Feel like people have actually written extensively on why the Romans didn't invent the steam engine actually, especially since they had forerunner devices like the aeolipile - - or at least why they didn't invent half the shit medieval people came up with... basically there was no percentage in it because it was a slave economy with a labor pool that was always in surplus of demand, so the value of replacing person-labor with machine-labor was like, eh, why bother? Whereas your hardscrabble medieval manor town, though not exactly stuffed with great minds and book-learnin', is kind of desperate for any good idea that comes down the pipe, so over the long course of time you see a ton of developments in the way of practical equipment and machinery.
er sorry i realize that is not the point of this existential speculation but historical pedantry insists that they were ill-disposed to invent the steam engine, fundamentally because they were romans
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 July 2013 04:38 (ten years ago) link
didn't hero invent the steam engine?
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 July 2013 05:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.lyft.me/drivers
it's not my idea, but i feel like this belongs here
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Thats a good
idea
― waterface, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm going to assume you're a rapist
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
http://www.yelp.com/biz/lyft-san-francisco
― waterface, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Fuck you Spiral Stairs
― waterface, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
http://valleywag.gawker.com/when-your-smartphone-chauffeur-becomes-a-stalker-801080008
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
As someone who's used Sidecar, Lyft and cabs in San Francsico, and as a young female, I've honestly felt a lot safer in Lyft and Sidecar than cabs. I'd like to believe (and maybe I'm naive) that this is a rare occurrence. When you jump in a cab, no one has any idea where you're going. When you're in a Lyft, Sidecar or Uber, there's an app tracking where you are. You get a picture of your driver, their car and their name before you ever step inside the vehicle, and they've passed a written interview, phone interview and in person interview.
My roommate had a cabbie taking pulls from a handle of whiskey while driving and then whip out a knife on her when she tried to pay with a card. She ran away so panicked she didn't get his cab number or name, meaning he's still out there. That couldn't have happened in Lyft.
It was totally unprofessional for him to ask for her number in that situation and I probably would have reacted the same way, but I'd guess there's just as likely to be a cabbie stalker out there as there is a Lyft driver. 7/16/13 1:55pm
― waterface, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging
― waterface, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
tbf, that could happen with a cabbie too, if you gave one your number
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
yup
― waterface, Friday, 26 July 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
And tbh that's not really "stalking"! That's one awkward series of text message exchanges over the course of a couple hours!
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
I mean, she gave her number, then didn't respond to one text (or volley of texts?), then they had an exchange where the guy was weird, but once she made it clear she didn't want to see him it seems like it ended at that?
― PJ. Turquoise dealer. Chatroulette addict. Andersonville. (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 July 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link