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I can certainly believe this. Ever since I've been trying out this new chair, going to get the wheels fixed, trying various cushions, basically learning how to use the new chair, I've felt...to put it into non-melodramatic words...out of sorts, very irritable, etc. Granted, my lone testimony is about the worst kind of anecdotal evidence a scientist could want, but it inclines me to think there's something to this about how the human mind interfaces with tools on a long-term basis.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:13:31 GMT
If there's a better use of crowd sourcing than Heard on TV, I have yet to exploit it. Love this site.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:53:22 GMT
Kingrockwell said, "I am Jack's tired quote from a lame movie/book."
Kingrockwell said, "The kind of ruins the whole visual gag the thing was going for, though. I think it would've been lame with a guitar."
Kingrockwell said, "My LCS is generally dumb, but they treat their comics as an afterthought anyway (most of their money is from video rentals and porn)."
Kingrockwell said, "...dumb-faced dummy..."
I guess some ableist words are more ableist than others on Scans Daily.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:48:03 GMT
It's nice to know that Scans Daily is super cereal about enforcing consistent rules...such as this time and this time when I used "fucktard" without being warned...and not just a mod getting their rocks off (it's a community locked post).
Being banned from Scans Daily doesn't make me mad, but the pretense of doing it bugs me. I'll cop to an ableist statement I made back in January (the locked link), comparing DC writers to people on the Autism Spectrum, and I've done my best to not do that again. But banning me for something I (and others) have said before, without receiving warnings, smacks of a new mod flexing their powers and not trying to foster a friendlier community. That's what bugs me about this.
If I'm going to be banned, I wanted to be banned for something awesome, not for slipping up and calling Matt "Aren't Mental Disabilities Emoliscious" Fraction a "fucktard." That's so totally weak sauce.
(Yes, expect a few more posts like this while I get all the lulz I can out of SD.)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:51:03 GMT
From Kung-Fu Monkey: @jarodrussell: May was please have more scenes of Parker listing off the technical details of heists? That was simply my favorite part of the season so far. :)
S3 opener. She sometimes forgets, however, she is capable of things others are not. When ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scavgraphcs first told me about Leverage, he did so by saying that Parker was like Doctor Developer if he was a cute, blond bombshell. The first episode I finally watched was The First David Job, wherein Parker says one of my favorite lines ever, "Some people do crosswords." It was at that moment, I knew two things. One, he was right; two, I loved this show.
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:09:33 GMT
Dear Scans Daily Mods,
Given your tireless efforts to convert the vibrant community into a gray, humorless bog of conformity, I thought you could use a little help. As such, here is a list of most every ableistic use of the word "lame" and "gimp" provided by Google. I suppose, as you are coalition of bipedal supremacists, you may not care, but I thought I'd do what I could to make SD a safe place.
Hatefully,
jarodrussell
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:09:59 GMT
Perhaps the only thing funnier than the Naruto Cafe, a steak and sushi restaurant, is this review: I went here with my nakama (that means "friend" in Japanese) the other day. I asked for ramen but they didn't have it so me and my nakama had to eat this weird cold fish stuff instead. We came for Japan food but ended up having to eat some fish thing that's probably French or something. It doesn't matter though because we could see Naruto-sama everywhere we looked and we could shout "Dattebayo" (that means "Habeeb it!" in Japanese) and everyone knew what we meant. Only in Alabama.
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:14:39 GMT
I listened to James May's reading the audio version of his book today...most anyway. I fell asleep somewhere between the Wright Brothers and nylon. It's a great thing to listen to, and maybe I missed this, but I feel he missed the greatest technological development of the 20th century. It's the pinnacle of convergence, something you'd never have without the combustion engine, synthetic materials, and telephone switching.
Pizza delivery.
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:44 GMT
James May stuck in a car with a fashion model is surprisingly hilarious.
See what I mean.
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:47:14 GMT
Skimming through the old Castellan Blog, I came across an entry that makes sense now: I was looking into the bodyguarding business with Christopher Chance when I had to bug out. Hah, hah, hah.
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:49:17 GMT
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:20:43 GMT
 In a fight between Wolverine and Michael Westen, I'd put money on Westen. :) Also, if anyone wants to make there own, here's the template.
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:33:12 GMT
You know, if Damian Wayne were a television character he'd be lauded as being as brilliant as Stewie Griffin, Greg House, Sheldon Cooper, and Rodney McKay. But since he's just a comic character, people want shame him into normalcy. This is why we can't have nice things!
Also, wouldn't it be nice if we one day found out that Prometheus had used his access in Limbo to break the fourth wall? I mean, if you wanted to do something really lulzy and rub a bunch of heroes' noses in it, killing Lian Harper and committing suicide by Arrow would be the way for it. Upon death, you both get knocked into a meta-textual limbo, where you can train Lian, daughter of the world's greatest marksman and second greatest assassin, as your disciple. Because once you break the fourth wall, you know death in never permanent...ask the man who just killed you...but it's a great way to get peace and quiet to plan for your return. Bonus points too if you get to send the guy who killed you to jail.
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:14:34 GMT
Since stealing Prometheus's key, Doctor Developer had been busy. He wasn't content building a crooked house in Limbo. After an initial bit of testing he'd realized that not only was Prometheus a terrible criminal, but he was an absolutely terrible carpenter. Things built in Limbo didn't end up crooked, not unless you absolutely failed to take gravitational torsion into account when reinforcing your super-structure.
It took a few weeks of slipping out after Jennifer had gone to bed, and a couple of nights of dosing a humidifier with an aerosol anesthesia to make sure she stayed asleep, but it wasn't long until he'd used the procured key to move a sizable chunk of his robotics production into the alternate dimension. He had no plans to build robots in Limbo, but he needed the automation all the same for his idea.
An idea that came in very handy when Prometheus finally showed up to reclaim his key.
"I want my key back!" Prometheus bellowed. He'd lured Doctor Developer to an abandoned parking lot by nabbing Jennifer on her way home from work. Doctor Developer always expected Prometheus to return for his key, that was only kosher among two super-villains. Kidnapping Jennifer, though, crossed the line. That was like Lex Luthor going after The Doom Patrol. You just didn't go after some guy's arch-nemesis...even if she was his wife...without offering to team-up first.
There was no excuse for being uncivil when trying to kill someone.
"You can't have it back, so go away," Doctor Developer said. Banter really was more Jennifer's area of expertise.
"Do you remember the last time we fought? I beat your ass silly until you ran away," Prometheus goaded. "But you can't run away now, or else I'll kill Little Miss Hostage." He pointed his tonfa back where Jennifer was chained to what looked like a bomb. It was a little taller than her, cylindrical, and there was a clock counting down to zero above her head. "So, we doing this the easy way, or the hard way?"
"I like things easy," Doctor Developer said.
"Then hand over the key," Prometheus growled. He stepped toward Doctor Developer, his arm stretched out to take the key.
"No, I meant easy for me," Doctor Developer answered, then spoke aloud: "Prototype, alpha alpha one." Prometheus charged, but the ground beneath him began to twinkle. Suddenly, all around his feet, there ball bearings. Worse still, they appeared there mid-step. His foot came down on a patch, and he was thrown back onto the ground.
Doctor Developer continued, "Prototype, alpha alpha two."
The air above Prometheus shimmered. He tried to roll out of the way, but his hand hit another patch of bearings and he crashed back down. Prometheus looked up in the air just in time to see the shimmer coalesce into a golden glob of slime. No sooner had he seen the glob than it fell toward him, impacting, covering him completely. Doctor Developer smiled as he watched Prometheus's struggles slow to a stop as the glob hardened.
Certain he was save for the time being, Doctor Developer stepped around the amber coated Prometheus, toward Jennifer. He pulled the tape off her mouth before beginning an inspection of the bomb-thing. "What did you just do?" she asked.
"I used his key for something better than a getaway car," Doctor Developer said. "Hey, do you like this outfit?" He pointed at the work clothes Jennifer was wearing.
"Not Particularly, why?" Jennifer asked.
"It probably wouldn't be a good idea to try and get you loose before the bomb goes off," he told her, "and I haven't quite gotten the key's interface working with my 3-D scanners, so I'd probably have to grab a chunk of the bomb if I took your clothes too."
"Forget my clothes, how are you going to get me without grabbing a chunk of the bomb?" Jennifer asked, her tone wasn't completely incredulous, but she halfway expected something like the answer she was about to hear.
"Oh, that's easy," Doctor Developer almost chuckled, "I've been doping the humidifier water with an isotope this week, and you've been breathing it in. You and I are just radioactive enough that Prototype can detect us for a safe teleport, but we'll lose our clothes."
Jennifer glared at her husband for a second before she asked, "How long before the bomb goes off?"
Doctor Developer checked the timer. "Five seconds."
"Okay, fine! But no more doping me...with anything!"
"Prototype, nine one one."
As the timer his two, the two of them flashed away, their empty clothes falling into a pair of heaps where they previously stood. As the timer displayed one, from his amber prison, Prometheus cursed under his breath and swore vengeance next time around. When it hit zero, the roof of the empty parking structure erupted into a fireball.
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:09:24 GMT
 I know I've mentioned this before, but I wonder how many Darknets there are running on people's SmartPhones. I've used my phone as a modem before, I know you can tether phones to laptops to get Mbit connections, but how about phones that autodial other phones to upload bits of data that get get relayed to other phones. A network of hackers with their own private Internet that doesn't involve a single laptop, a high-speed data plan, just this familiar noise. Burn-Net. An entire Internet built atop disposable phones.
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:35:08 GMT
Cameron: I don't understand this show.
Jennifer: What don't you understand?
Cameron: If this Chuck guy likes Sarah, why doesn't he just lock Shaw in a dungeon. That's what I'd do.
Jennifer: Oh, Deedee, you're one in a million. (Thankfully.) First off, locking people in dungeons isn't how you're supposed to solve interpersonal conflicts. Remember the time you told me you wanted to be alone to work with a giant plant?
Cameron: Maybe...
Jennifer: I'll bet. You can't solve all your problems with traps. And, second, television writers just have to draw these stories out. They only have so many episodes to write, and if they wrapped up this story too soon, then what would they do?
Cameron: I don't know, couldn't Chuck and Sarah date? People do that, right. Don't spies date?
Jennifer: In real life, who knows. On television, though, it comes down to, well, people don't like to see two characters get together. People think shows lose chemistry when two characters start dating.
Cameron: Really?
Jennifer: Well, I'm no expert, but take those cartoon your like watching, the one with the coyote and the bird.
Cameron: Roadrunner.
Jennifer: Roadrunner, right. How much fun would those be if the Coyote caught the Roadrunner? What would he do then?
Cameron: Let the Roadrunner go. Then he can chase him again. That's what I'd do, anyway.
Jennifer: Yes, yes, you would.
Cameron: Just because you catch someone, that doesn't mean the fun's over.
Jennifer: Unless...?
Cameron: Unless that someone is trying to be friendly, then you use your words, not mutated plant monsters.
Jennifer: That's my boy. Oh, hey, it's eight thirty. Change the channel.
Cameron: Oh, not, that show...I hate that show.
Jennifer: You just hate the idea of someone smarter than you.
Cameron: Those guys are not smarter than me. My robots work!
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:31:37 GMT
One silver lining to the recent Apple audit is hard proof that people who want to make the world a better place are hypocrites who will gladly approve of functional slave labor for shiny things.
This makes me happy because I suspect once oil prices start going up, driving energy prices up, they'll grudgingly bend their morals and accept the production of Thorium reactors to keep charging their iPads.
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:43:36 GMT
I do not recommend them. What's wrong with being a bed-ridden shut-in anyway?
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:12:51 GMT
Busted Chameleon Circuit...cute.
Also, um, does the QED work for GLaDOS now?
Superman/Batman: Most Wanted is still my favorite DC animated movie to date, for two big reasons. ... No, not those! I meant Toyman and the fact I could use Toyman and this self-referential joke to make a Power Girl joke.
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:57:37 GMT
This is how much I hate Matt Fraction. I don't give two tugs about X-Men, Magneto, or Kitty Pryde and I'm skewering his interview just because I can do so with very little effort.
You want to know how far ahead of Matt Fraction I am? A week ago, I answered a question he just asked today. "How has Kitty been eating and breathing all this time? I don't know, why don't we USE A TIME MACHINE TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM."
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:41:42 GMT
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