Deep 6 FaWtL

[NobodysHome]

Why it's a bad idea to send your short-attention-span sons to the store for you:

NobodysHome: So I need 15 red potatoes and a vegetable for dinner. And don't get the big ones. They should be a little smaller than a tangerine, got it? 15 red potatoes.
Impus Minor: Got it!

So, Impus Minor returned with 15 red tomatoes, each a little smaller than a tangerine. And they were the insane-expensive, hand-grown-and-picked, $6.99 a pound variety.

So of course, Impus Major, being a tomato fiend, grabbed one, ate it, declared it the best tomato he'd ever had, and asks why I don't buy these every time I go to the store.

$6.99 a pound, my boy. $6.99 a pound...

EDIT: If you pay ME $6.99 a pound, I'll happily dance naked for you.
...and the sky wept once more...

[lynora]

I got my new glasses today. I'm still getting used to them. I've been wearing the same style of glasses for the last fourteen years and these are different so it's weirding me out. I mean, I like them and all, but it is definitely an adjustment. :)

[lynora]

Unfortunately the kidlet's glasses weren't in. Well, they were and then they weren't. Not totally sure what's up with all of that, but I think they came in, but weren't what was ordered and had to be sent back and no one followed up with me. So I have to make the long drive yet again when they have them in. Which they have no idea when that will be. Ugh. It's an hour drive in heavy traffic on busy highways so not an easy trip. I really need to figure out the alternate route that lets me skip 696. It's bloody always a parking lot disguised as a highway. :/
But hey, at least we got a couple hours further through Neverwhere. The kidlet and I have started listening to audiobooks in the car again. We used to do that when he was little, but we stopped because he didn't have the attention span for it. And now he likes it again. We've already listened to Good Omens, which he loved. And so far he's enjoying Neverwhere.

[Freehold DM]

lynora wrote:

I got my new glasses today. I'm still getting used to them. I've been wearing the same style of glasses for the last fourteen years and these are different so it's weirding me out. I mean, I like them and all, but it is definitely an adjustment. :)

hello HELLO...eyebrow waggle, sets black manliness to Idris Elba

[lynora]

Freehold DM wrote:

lynora wrote:

I got my new glasses today. I'm still getting used to them. I've been wearing the same style of glasses for the last fourteen years and these are different so it's weirding me out. I mean, I like them and all, but it is definitely an adjustment. :)

hello HELLO...eyebrow waggle, sets black manliness to Idris Elba

*faints* I think that's setting the dial a little too high ;P

[lisamarlene]

lynora wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

lynora wrote:

I got my new glasses today. I'm still getting used to them. I've been wearing the same style of glasses for the last fourteen years and these are different so it's weirding me out. I mean, I like them and all, but it is definitely an adjustment. :)

hello HELLO...eyebrow waggle, sets black manliness to Idris Elba

*faints* I think that's setting the dial a little too high ;P

Definitely too high. Try turning it back a notch to Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Nope. Still too high.

[NobodysHome]

lynora wrote:

I got my new glasses today. I'm still getting used to them. I've been wearing the same style of glasses for the last fourteen years and these are different so it's weirding me out. I mean, I like them and all, but it is definitely an adjustment. :)

I like 'em!

[Freehold DM]

lisamarlene wrote:

lynora wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

lynora wrote:

I got my new glasses today. I'm still getting used to them. I've been wearing the same style of glasses for the last fourteen years and these are different so it's weirding me out. I mean, I like them and all, but it is definitely an adjustment. :)

hello HELLO...eyebrow waggle, sets black manliness to Idris Elba

*faints* I think that's setting the dial a little too high ;P

Definitely too high. Try turning it back a notch to Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Nope. Still too high.

sets it to regular Freehold

[Tacticslion]

lynora wrote:

Unfortunately the kidlet's glasses weren't in. Well, they were and then they weren't. Not totally sure what's up with all of that, but I think they came in, but weren't what was ordered and had to be sent back and no one followed up with me. So I have to make the long drive yet again when they have them in. Which they have no idea when that will be. Ugh. It's an hour drive in heavy traffic on busy highways so not an easy trip. I really need to figure out the alternate route that lets me skip 696. It's bloody always a parking lot disguised as a highway. :/

But hey, at least we got a couple hours further through Neverwhere. The kidlet and I have started listening to audiobooks in the car again. We used to do that when he was little, but we stopped because he didn't have the attention span for it. And now he likes it again. We've already listened to Good Omens, which he loved. And so far he's enjoying Neverwhere.

Ooh! Two great Gaimen choices!

(Sorry about the lame parts, though...)

[captain yesterday]

Starfinder is so close!

[lynora]

Tacticslion wrote:

lynora wrote:

Unfortunately the kidlet's glasses weren't in. Well, they were and then they weren't. Not totally sure what's up with all of that, but I think they came in, but weren't what was ordered and had to be sent back and no one followed up with me. So I have to make the long drive yet again when they have them in. Which they have no idea when that will be. Ugh. It's an hour drive in heavy traffic on busy highways so not an easy trip. I really need to figure out the alternate route that lets me skip 696. It's bloody always a parking lot disguised as a highway. :/

But hey, at least we got a couple hours further through Neverwhere. The kidlet and I have started listening to audiobooks in the car again. We used to do that when he was little, but we stopped because he didn't have the attention span for it. And now he likes it again. We've already listened to Good Omens, which he loved. And so far he's enjoying Neverwhere.

Ooh! Two great Gaimen choices!

(Sorry about the lame parts, though...)

Yeah, Gaiman is one of my favorite authors, and his books tend to work really well in audiobook format, so of course that's where I started. :)

[gran rey de los mono]

lisamarlene wrote:

...
Did you read both books?
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul was a bit less odd.

It helps to understand the first book a bit to know that it was actually a failed plotline for Doctor Who, back when Adams was a writer for the show. When it didn't work out, he changed a few things and turned it into a novel instead.

After double-checking with my bookshelf, yes I have read Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. It is, in fact the only one I have. Which means it is possible I haven't read the first, although I'm pretty sure I have. But now whenever I try to think of the plot, all I come up with is "Wait, that's from the second book." So now I'm not sure if I have actually read the first one or not.

The second one is still plenty weird, though.

[Punniculus]

TOZ wrote:

Punniculus wrote:

Honestly, I'd love to just form a group that's made of lovelies dressed as characters from RWBY.

Dibs on Adam.

Noted.

[Punniculus]

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Punniculus wrote:

I'm also looking for someone to wear this.

Honestly, I'd love to just form a group that's made of lovelies dressed as characters from RWBY.

I'd love to dress as Qrow, but I sadly lack the build for it... he's all wiry an' stuff, and I'm anything but.

Jean's outfit looks like way too much work, and my hair doesn't take dye.

Hmmm.

Would wearing a bear costume work?

Build, scmuild. Wear what you want. Or go for Professor Port. Or if you want to go bear-like, we can probably set you up with an Ursa costume.

Although, if you have your heart set on bear, that's fine too. After all, I'm still trying to breed some owlbears. Maybe you'll be more willing than the last one.

[gran rey de los mono]

John Napier 698 wrote:

Hey, NH. I spoke to my brother earlier today. He approves of all my ideas about moving forward away from my dead Security career. But he recommends doing all simultaneously. Going to refurbish a "junker" tower to use as a test platform for my improvements to an obscure OS (MMURTL). Going to add support in the built-in debugger for floating point instructions.

MMURTL sounds like something that murlocks would use. At think it's murlocks. The froggy things from Hearthstone.

[gran rey de los mono]

Went and saw Spiderman today. I really enjoyed it. I wasn't sure I would since I didn't care for the trio with Tobey, and didn't see the other trio, but I thought it was good.

[gran rey de los mono]

The jockey saw the horse groom sprinkling something behind his horse's neck. "What's that?" asked the jockey. "It's yeast", answered the groom. "This will discourage birds from mistakenly building nests in your horse's beautiful mane." "Will that really work?" asked the jockey. "Of course!" replied the groom, "for yeast is yeast and nest is nest, and never the mane shall tweet."

[gran rey de los mono]

Smitty was a heating and cooling technician. His assistant was a small chimpanzee he had trained to do all the duct work. The chimp had no fear of heights or confined spaces, and besides, he didn't have to be paid. One day, Smitty got a call from a customer who said his air conditioner had broken down. Smitty went over and discovered some defective ducting. The customer asked if it would be hard to fix. "No problem," replied Smitty, "I have a little duct ape that will take care of it!"

[gran rey de los mono]

Captain Kidd and his crew were on the high seas when they were attacked by Blackbeard, their arch enemy. The first shot by Blackbeard's gunners took off Kidd's forward mast. The second shot splintered the center mast, and the third disintegrated the rear mast. Panic stricken, one of Kidd's men asked what they should do. "We have no choice but to surrender", replied the pirate, "He's using weapons of mast destruction!"

[gran rey de los mono]

A famous merchandising tycoon told the following story at a conference: "There was town out in the Old west that had two general stores. Harry, who owned one of them was a workaholic. He opened early, stayed in the store all day and closed late. Even so, he barely made a living. Larry, who ran the other store, came in at nine. At ten he went out back where he kept some cattle, and made all the cows turn and face north. After lunch, Larry went out back again and made all the cows turn and face south. This practice was repeated every day and Larry's store was successful and he became wealthy." The speaker then asked his audience if anyone could tell what principle of merchandising was illustrated by the story. A guy in the back stood up and said, "That's easy. The point is if you want to be successful in merchandising, it is important to rotate your stock!"

[gran rey de los mono]

This English landlady had a couple of struggling poets for tenants. When the poor fellows got behind in their rent, and the landlady was unable to have them evicted. Instead, she decided to murder them. She baked a large scone and put some poison in it, then invited the poets down for tea. She served each of the chaps a cup of tea and half the scone. The poison worked as advertised, but of course crime does not pay, and the awful woman was soon arrested. Feigning innocence, she demanded to know with what she was being charged. The police inspector replied: "Well, it seems, madam, that you have killed two bards with one scone!"

[gran rey de los mono]

The Soviets got sick of buying wheat from the Americans and began to spend millions on research into grains. Finally U.S. intelligence found out that the Soviet scientists had developed a new grain that yielded twice the harvest of conventional wheat and grew in half the time. Several agents died before it was discovered that the new grain was called "Krilk". The CIA was panicked! Without the Soviet dependency on American grains the security of the West could be forever compromised. Congress quickly convened and appropriated several hundred million dollars for the CIA to send up spy satellites over Russia to learn the secrets of Krilk. Finally, after several years, the satellites began to send back images of the factory deep in the Soviet Union that was processing the Krilk. The CIA sent in over a hundred agents. None returned. The process remained a secret. The satellites were next to useless because they could only see the outside of the building, not the actual milling of the harvests. Finally the Soviet Ambassador in Washington sent a message to the President of the U.S. to let him know that all further attempts to learn the secrets would be futile. The message read, "You are wasting your money. Everyone knows that it's no use spying over milled Krilk!"

[gran rey de los mono]

A bounty hunter rode into town one morning and went into the Sheriff's office. "Anyone with a price on his head round these parts?" asked the Bounty Hunter. "Well," said the Sheriff, "there's a $500 reward, dead or alive, for the Brown Paper Kid." "The Brown Paper Kid?!" Exclaimed the Bounty Hunter. "Who in tarnation is the Brown Paper Kid?" "He's a varmint who wears a hat made from brown paper," replied the Sheriff. "His coat is made from brown paper. His shirts are made from brown paper. He wears pants made from brown paper and his boots are made from brown paper." "Well," says the Bounty Hunter, "and what's he wanted for?" The Sheriff replied, "He's wanted for rustling".

[gran rey de los mono]

A mechanic who worked out of his home had a dog named Mace. Mace had a bad habit of eating all the grass on the mechanic's lawn, so the mechanic had to keep Mace inside. The grass eventually became overgrown. One day the mechanic was working on a car in the backyard and dropped his wrench, losing it in the tall grass. He couldn't find it for the life of him, so he decided to call it a day. That night, Mace escaped from the house and ate all the grass in the backyard. The next morning the mechanic went outside and saw his wrench glinting in the sunlight. Realizing what had happened he looked toward the heavens and proclaimed, "A grazing Mace, how sweet the hound, that saved a wrench for me!"

[gran rey de los mono]

At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and a calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement.
He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.

[gran rey de los mono]

Three people are in a lifeboat, adrift at sea. They have four cigarettes, but no matches or lighters. How can they each smoke a cigarette? Answer: throw one cigarette overboard, which will make the boat a cigarette lighter.

[gran rey de los mono]

The police answered a call from the local convent about a strange object circling overhead. When the officer arrived, he asked the Mother Superior what kind of object it was. "I can't say", she replied, "but sister Elizabeth says she knows exactly what it was, do you want to speak with her?" "That's ok", said the policeman, "I'll just put it down as a nun-identified flying object."

[Captain Oblivious]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

...
Did you read both books?
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul was a bit less odd.

It helps to understand the first book a bit to know that it was actually a failed plotline for Doctor Who, back when Adams was a writer for the show. When it didn't work out, he changed a few things and turned it into a novel instead.

After double-checking with my bookshelf, yes I have read Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. It is, in fact the only one I have. Which means it is possible I haven't read the first, although I'm pretty sure I have. But now whenever I try to think of the plot, all I come up with is "Wait, that's from the second book." So now I'm not sure if I have actually read the first one or not.

The second one is still plenty weird, though.

Writing weird books doesn't sound like Douglas Adams.

[captain yesterday]

Yay! Surprise visit from my dad and the out of state nephews.

And unlike the rest of my brothers (and every sitcom) I actually like surprise visits so it's all good. :-)

[lisamarlene]

Last day of teaching summer school before vacation!

W00000000000000t!

I'll miss the kids, but dear gods, I have *earned* this.

[captain yesterday]

Someone left a marble sculpture on the curb.

[Wei Ji the Learner]

Punniculus wrote:

Build, scmuild. Wear what you want. Or go for Professor Port. Or if you want to go bear-like, we can probably set you up with an Ursa costume.

Although, if you have your heart set on bear, that's fine too. After all, I'm still trying to breed some owlbears. Maybe you'll be more willing than the last one.

OOoh. An Ursa outfit would look freakin' awesome! SOLD!*

*:

...provided one doesn't have to wear it above say, 70 degrees or fifty percent humidity...

[Punniculus]

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Punniculus wrote:

Build, scmuild. Wear what you want. Or go for Professor Port. Or if you want to go bear-like, we can probably set you up with an Ursa costume.

Although, if you have your heart set on bear, that's fine too. After all, I'm still trying to breed some owlbears. Maybe you'll be more willing than the last one.

OOoh. An Ursa outfit would look freakin' awesome! SOLD!*

It's large enough that we may be able to rig up some kind of AC in it. Then again, we have magic. We can enchant it with Endure Elements and keep you comfy.

[Tacticslion]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

John Napier 698 wrote:

Hey, NH. I spoke to my brother earlier today. He approves of all my ideas about moving forward away from my dead Security career. But he recommends doing all simultaneously. Going to refurbish a "junker" tower to use as a test platform for my improvements to an obscure OS (MMURTL). Going to add support in the built-in debugger for floating point instructions.

MMURTL sounds like something that murlocks would use. At think it's murlocks. The froggy things from Hearthstone.

Sounds like a woman's name, to me.

Maybe in a text adventure game.

A Text Adventure Game wrote:

"You see MMURTL. She stands, as if waiting for you."

"You notice that she seems to be made of strings of numbers. As she smiles, it's kind of creepy."

">"

[Tacticslion]

Punniculus wrote:

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Punniculus wrote:

Build, scmuild. Wear what you want. Or go for Professor Port. Or if you want to go bear-like, we can probably set you up with an Ursa costume.

Although, if you have your heart set on bear, that's fine too. After all, I'm still trying to breed some owlbears. Maybe you'll be more willing than the last one.

OOoh. An Ursa outfit would look freakin' awesome! SOLD!*

It's large enough that we may be able to rig up some kind of AC in it. Then again, we have magic. We can enchant it with Endure Elements and keep you comfy.

Boop

[captain yesterday]

I'm surprised Wei Ji and I are the only FaWtLites subscribed to Starfinder.

[The Game Hamster]

I don't have the moola for that unfortunately...

[Tacticslion]

The Game Hamster wrote:

I don't have the moola for that unfortunately...

This one.

Won't stop us from buying it, though (we're saving up)!

EDIT: seriously, though, money is the only thing that prohibits us from being a superscriber... XD

[TriOmegaZero]

Not really into Starfinder. Maybe GenCon will change my mind.

[John Napier 698]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

John Napier 698 wrote:

Hey, NH. I spoke to my brother earlier today. He approves of all my ideas about moving forward away from my dead Security career. But he recommends doing all simultaneously. Going to refurbish a "junker" tower to use as a test platform for my improvements to an obscure OS (MMURTL). Going to add support in the built-in debugger for floating point instructions.

MMURTL sounds like something that murlocks would use. At think it's murlocks. The froggy things from Hearthstone.

No, Gran Rey. It's an acronym for Message-based MUltitasking Real-Time KerneL. It's an OS written in the 1990's by Richard Burgess. Link.

[Wei Ji the Learner]

I'll be brutally honest, I'm subscribed to pick the sucker up at GenCon without the finagling of worrying when it's going to hit the house.

Subsequent installments are up in the air depending on reception of initial offering.

[NobodysHome]

captain yesterday wrote:

I'm surprised Wei Ji and I are the only FaWtLites subscribed to Starfinder.

We've never been into Sci-Fi RPGs. They just don't work for us. And we played quite a bit of the original Traveler, really trying to like it, but it never worked out.

(Even more ironically, our gaming group includes the original authors of Blackwatch, and we still don't play Sci-Fi RPGs.)

[NobodysHome]

In other news, tonight's the night we uncork the ancient Glenlivet. A few mildly-amusing notes:

After trying to invite a bunch of people, it turns out Rivoli only accepts reservations for 6. A serious problem when your favorite restaurant is only maybe 5 times the size of your (small) living room. So with the 4 of us (Shiro's player, Hi's player, NobodysWife, and I) and Impus Major bound and determined to come along, there were serious negotiations and give-and-takes to end up with a 6th person. (I am rather proud of Impus Minor for not saying, "What's in it for me if I bow out?", but instead, "Well, I think that person would like it more, so they should go.")
Unfortunately, we missed out on lisamarlene (something about not being able to bring hubby), so the hard-fought battle for spot #6 finally ended up with one of our old GMs.

Those who can't fit will be missed and toasted.

And yes, lisamarlene, you'll get to try the stuff!

Speaking of "the stuff", it's rather alarming in that, in spite of the fact that we were wine snobs back in our 20's, I think this is the first time we're ever opening anything over $100, much less $1000. I agree with the general consensus: There's a huge difference between $5 wine and $50 wine. Once you're over $50, even the experts have trouble telling the difference.

Yeah, we always drove my father nuts. He was a card-carrying member of the "Gallo fun club", and couldn't believe that we could tell the difference between "Gallo Hearty Burgundy" and "1983 Duck Horn Merlot". So every few weeks he'd buy another "under $10" bottle of red and force us to do a blind taste test against our preferred wines (roughly $28-$35 a bottle back then). And we were right 100% of the time. There was never a question. Even when confronted with 4 different glasses, we had no trouble distinguishing the cheap stuff from the good stuff.
So yes, in spite of articles to the contrary, both NobodysWife and I could distinguish good wine from bad wine.

So anyway, I'll take a sip just because how can you not? Especially since it's my 50th birthday celebration and all.

But I'm far more interested in how many of the staff we can get to tipple. I'm hoping Wendy (the head chef) takes a moment to come out and take a whiff, but we'll see...

[lynora]

captain yesterday wrote:

I'm surprised Wei Ji and I are the only FaWtLites subscribed to Starfinder.

I'm super looking forward to getting the rule book itself, but we don't do APs and setting specific stuff so subscriptions don't usually work for us.

[Freehold DM]

Freehold doesn't subscribe.

[John Napier 698]

Once again, the Library's A/C is getting the better of me. Leaving an hour early. See everyone tomorrow.

[Kajehase]

My latest twitter follower is

Quote:

a new menswear brand that represents a modern and youthful take on classic wardrobe essentials.

You're allowed to laugh. I know I am.

[Drejk]

Tacticslion wrote:

The Game Hamster wrote:

I don't have the moola for that unfortunately...

This one.

Won't stop us from buying it, though (we're saving up)!

EDIT: seriously, though, money is the only thing that prohibits us from being a superscriber... XD

I'll be looking someone with a paizo account and a paypal at a later time to get me Starfinder pdf/gift card for $9.99, for which I would pay via paypal.

[captain yesterday]

You wouldn't need a PayPal, I have Pathfinder advantage, a 9.99 pdf becomes 7.49 instantly.

Considering how awesome you've been over the years that's almost a pittance.

[Drejk]

I meant that I'd send someone money via paypal and s/he would buy me starfinder (I don't deal with credit cards and paypal does not support Paizo).