Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Yeah, cast iron is the shit. I have a handful that I got at a flea market back in the early 90s and they were in kind of ratty shape so I sandblasted them and reseasoned them slowly. Still using them today. Even heat distribution, non-stick, not much in the way of cleanup. I only recently figured out that two of them hook together, sort of, so one forms a lid and it becomes a Dutch oven that way as well. Neat concept.

 

[Volpone]

There's increasingly... If AT&T called me up today and said "we can install a land-line at your house for $26.50 a month," I'd chuck my smart phone and stick a Yellow Pages and a stack of maps under the passenger seat of my car and try to live like the cavemen.

I've already got the most simple, basic, primal smart phone, the Unihertz Jellypro. It is literally smaller than a business card. Not thinner, but the x/y dimensions, you can lay a business card on it and easily cover it.

And even that is too integrated and annoying. When the battery is low a circle: "O" lights up red. When it is dangerously low, it blinks. When it is fullly charged, it is green. Today I came to my laptop and it was flashing white. Now it used to do this, but I thought I disabled all these alerts. But all of a sudden at least one is back. And I can't figure out what triggered it or how to turn it off. So yeah. Fuck it. Just go around happy and obilvious and free. "WHERE WHERE YOU?! I WAS TRYING TO REACH YOU!!" Yeah. Sorry dude. I was out. Doing things. I'll check the answering machine when I get home and maybe call you back.

So alluring.

 

[Volpone]

It's lucky for the dirty Japs that Oppenheimer was fucking around with fairly boring uranium instead of getting into really kinky shit with Mentos and Diet Coke.

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Kyehlar]

 

[Volpone]

I hate when you've got a bunch of things to do and one of them is really quick and simple so you decide to get it out of the way first, only to find out that it is actually impossible and has created a new miserable side-quest.

Needed to send someone an e-mail and didn't remember any of their contact info. Knew it would be in a stack of papers on the top shelf of my closet--probably near the top. It was not. After spending 20 minutes going through all the papers where it should be, I couldn't find it. So now, in the short term, I need to look at Plan B and maybe C to send the e-mail, but I really should also find the missing papers that weren't on the shelf.

So what was going to be a productive morning with a simple plan is already hopelessly derailed and I'm considering going back to bed.

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Volpone]

Dang, the History Channel had some godawful shows. They rerun them on Story Television. Tonight was "Empire Games," a series about ancient warrior cultures(?) At any rate, they were doing the Celts. The casting is mediocre at best. The actor that I guess was supposed to be Julius Caesar looked nothing like him. The reenactments...actually they aren't terrible. But they aren't good either. But the talking heads...yeesh. They had two Scientist/Historians. In a generic library. They put up their credentials captions in a tiny font for not enough time to actually read them. One of them was literally cosplaying Alec Baldwin in "Beetlejuice"--big early '90s hair, big early '90s glasses, black and white flannel shirt with a turtleneck under it. And the direction for him must've been "wave your hands around in random dramatic gestures while over pronouncing and randomly stressing the words." The other guy was like, East Indian Jon Lovitz, in a plaid sportcoat with a plaid tie and(?) a plaid shirt--all different plaids. And his accent was Cousin Balki from "Perfect Strangers." Oh, and he was also prone to adding "um's" and "ah's" to his sentences. Seriously, by the end of the show I gave up just turned on closed captioning because he was incomprehensible.

OK. My bad. It's Netflix: