Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 21, 2014 - 6:27pm
When I was in highschool the only bee hive factory in America at the time misprinted our number on like 10,000 of their mailings. Hilarity did not ensue.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 21, 2014 - 8:00pm
Oh Dwayne, not funny. Wait, did you say Hillary didn't come to see you?
Also, what year was that? We've had beekeepers in my state for like, forever.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 21, 2014 - 8:11pm
Well, no she didn't, but we didn't want her too so it worked out.
Not beekeepers, beehive factory. As in the people who make artificial bee hives and bee supplies.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 21, 2014 - 8:28pm
I could make a bees knees joke, but I'll say this instead.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 21, 2014 - 8:56pm
@Dwayne: What!! there are fake beehives!!??! Lord what is the world coming to??? We're doomed!!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 22, 2014 - 4:48am
Artificial isn't the same as a fake.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 22, 2014 - 7:48am
I think an argument could be made against that statement.
Jason Griffin
from Beyond is reading Going PostalApril 22, 2014 - 10:11am
What would your zombie killing weapon of choice be?
Hit it With a Taxi: Zombie Edition.
OMG
Jason Griffin
from Beyond is reading Going PostalApril 22, 2014 - 10:21am
Food item that has since been discontinued and makes you sad---go!
Mountain Dew in a sixteen ounce bottle, pre high fructose corn syrup era.
You're not fooling me with your throwback fakery.
Right across this street at Cunningham’s was the drugstore fountain where he had his first, and probably last, legitimate cherry Mountain Dew in the pre-H.F.C.S. era. Somewhere along the line the companies lowered their standards and the people followed suit. The tastes he had in his possession were sole survivors of a bygone age. This town had become a ghost of what it was. Death by Wal Mart.
OMG
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 22, 2014 - 11:56am
@Jason G: Okay whatever drug you're on, you must share with everyone! :)
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 22, 2014 - 12:02pm
Everyone but her.
Jason Griffin
from Beyond is reading Going PostalApril 22, 2014 - 12:31pm
I'm on the Sheen. Are you sure you want some?
The great pioneers in this area hadn’t been totally reduced to babbling idiots. Lemmy survived Hawkwind and yet still managed to tour and write an advice column for some women’s magazine. Maybe he could Charlie Sheen himself back to health in the grand Vatican assassin style, drink the old tiger’s blood--of course that drug was not available, and if you tried it once you would die, your face would melt off, and your children would weep over your totaled body. So really, there was no hope for the future.
OMG
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 22, 2014 - 12:45pm
I got 99 problems, weeping kids ain't one.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 22, 2014 - 2:19pm
@Dwayne: why not me? :)
@Jason: Sorry, but anything w/Charlie Sheen's name on it is not my idea of a good time.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 22, 2014 - 6:34pm
@Justwords - I didn't even know you had kids. I thought you were a guy until the other day.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 22, 2014 - 8:38pm
@Dwayne: What!!?! The kids aren't the issue; you said "Everyone but her" to my request that Mr. Jason share his goodies (until he told me what they are; that's when I declined, hearing the name "Charlie Sheen" -- shudder!). How did you discover my gender, sir? And it's kid, singular, and he's out of the nest finally (I think, who knows nowadays--they keep coming back for money)!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 23, 2014 - 6:39am
@Jason - When Charlie Sheen sits around and talks about someone who says crazy stuff he always brings me up.
@Justwords - I said not her because it let me get the last post for a while and it messed with you.
I found out you are a woman April 18, 2014 - 8:46am (EST) when I read your post from April 17, 2014 - 3:47pm (EST).
@Dwayne: Yea verily, we are truly trapped in the past here in some things... I personally haven't owned white gloves since I was a little girl...
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryApril 23, 2014 - 6:51am
boom
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 23, 2014 - 2:22pm
Damn! Busted. There goes the disguise.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 23, 2014 - 2:50pm
Yeah, me and my mad reading skills.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 23, 2014 - 3:14pm
I step away for 5 minutes and have lost the entire plot. Ah well. That happens.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 23, 2014 - 4:58pm
@Dwayne: no you win by default--mine. I forgot what I posted. Also, you really thought I was a guy? Hmmm....
@RG: plot that not a big a deal; just improvise!!
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 23, 2014 - 8:11pm
"I taste like the dreams of mad children" sprayed onto a wall in the abandoned Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 23, 2014 - 9:16pm
I didn't really think about your gender much honestly.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 23, 2014 - 10:49pm
@D: I'm insulted by your low expectations, sir!
@RG: Whoa girl! You have one hellva power in improvisation! (crowd goes wild, clapping, whistling, lighting fires, generally out of control, etc.)
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 24, 2014 - 7:58am
I guess it will be worse when I point out that I had no expectations at all?
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 24, 2014 - 2:48pm
Not really Dwayne; in the light of day now, I would not be surprised if you had no expectations of most things. :)
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 24, 2014 - 3:11pm
I have expectations, I just don't care about them.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 24, 2014 - 6:37pm
I would have thought you'd have to care one way or the other; why have them at all?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 25, 2014 - 7:22am
Because hope is a little seed that you put in good soil, fertilize, water, prune, and make sure has lots of sunshine. And if you do all that, it grows up into disappointment!
But also, I mean things I've noticed a pattern in but don't really care about. Neigbor litters my dog has learned how to open most doors, stuff like that.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 25, 2014 - 2:16pm
Ah. Got it. You must have been disappointed a lot to be so pessimistic, or is that your natural disposition?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 25, 2014 - 3:02pm
Just observant.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 25, 2014 - 3:53pm
Realist. Is that a swear word?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 25, 2014 - 4:41pm
It is what mean people call people who aren't mentally ill to the point of self-delusion.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 25, 2014 - 4:45pm
I think you can be a realist and remain optimistic generally. You can lose friends when you're too negative. Unless you shun friendship, Dwayne?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 25, 2014 - 7:15pm
Depends on the friend.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 25, 2014 - 9:07pm
Sigh. You know you're impossible, right?
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 25, 2014 - 11:27pm
Self delusion is a very useful skill at times.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 26, 2014 - 4:40am
I'm serious. If someone cares about me, and is a decent person I'll try to be there friend. If someone is all into crack I might try to help them, but a little distance can be a good thing.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 26, 2014 - 7:37pm
"A little distance can be a good thing."
Well, depends on what's going on. But, seriously, how many people do you know on crack? Nevermind, don't need to know, it's rhetorical in nature.
Trying to decide if the "offense is the best defense" is a natural fit for you, or if something else caused this interesting attitude.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 26, 2014 - 11:18pm
Plausible deniability. A lot of people keep their social circles small: one or two friends, a handful of peers and associates, and any number of acquaintances. The numbers and connection vary widely from person to percon (of course). To an outside observer and at a casual glance it may seem like an individual has a lot of friends, but if you know what to look for, you can see the social distance. It's a valuable targeting tool.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 27, 2014 - 6:30am
I do have a fairly large social circle, just willing to avoid some people.
.
April 27, 2014 - 3:33pm
I believe it is time I get back to the workshop. I want those achievements.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 27, 2014 - 4:10pm
Grigori: a valuable targeting tool for what? People to avoid?
Dwayne: I agree there are some acquaintances (not really friends) that need to be avoided.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 27, 2014 - 6:01pm
That is the way things go.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!April 27, 2014 - 7:01pm
It's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you. (not my own work)
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 27, 2014 - 8:32pm
@justwords:
I've worked with some interesting people who did different types of vulnerability assessments. On the low end it was all about interviews and observation. The high end was old school OSS/CIA tradecraft that makes a good premise for a spy thriller.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 27, 2014 - 9:34pm
@Grigori--
You've just gone "above my pay grade." I'm curious as to how one would cut off that behaviour after work hours; how would you be able to have any kind of personal life? I guess one doesn't, huh? Stress incarnate.
One of my friends' father was in the original OSS during WWII; he never talked about it. Friend still has dad's tiny camera & position locator (can't remember the official name of it).
When I was in an AP English course just before college, we had to write an essay (pop quiz) on "Man's Inhumanity to Man." I stared at a blank page for almost 20 minutes, trying to figure out how to narrow that topic down to a 1500-2000 word paper. The subject has stayed with me since; I got an A+, but I honestly can't tell you what I even put down. Dark subject.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 27, 2014 - 9:40pm
@Justwords:
Actually, psychology classes in college pretty much killed the dating scene for me (there were other contributing factors, but that was the leading one). After joining the military I found myself hanging around with MPs (military Police), CI (counter intelligence), and interrogators more often than not. That just made the cynicism I already possessed flourish. My already high standards for relationships went up a notch or seven.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyApril 28, 2014 - 9:51am
@Grigori--
Your cynicism probably served you well in the military. I'm not sure Nietzsche was right about getting stronger if you don't die; people can break pretty easily from terrible events, even if they do survive.
When I was in highschool the only bee hive factory in America at the time misprinted our number on like 10,000 of their mailings. Hilarity did not ensue.
Oh Dwayne, not funny. Wait, did you say Hillary didn't come to see you?
Also, what year was that? We've had beekeepers in my state for like, forever.
Well, no she didn't, but we didn't want her too so it worked out.
Not beekeepers, beehive factory. As in the people who make artificial bee hives and bee supplies.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kelley-walter-co-bee-hive-factory-clarkson
I could make a bees knees joke, but I'll say this instead.
@Dwayne: What!! there are fake beehives!!??! Lord what is the world coming to??? We're doomed!!
Artificial isn't the same as a fake.
I think an argument could be made against that statement.
What would your zombie killing weapon of choice be?
Hit it With a Taxi: Zombie Edition.
OMG
Food item that has since been discontinued and makes you sad---go!
Mountain Dew in a sixteen ounce bottle, pre high fructose corn syrup era.
You're not fooling me with your throwback fakery.
Right across this street at Cunningham’s was the drugstore fountain where he had his first, and probably last, legitimate cherry Mountain Dew in the pre-H.F.C.S. era. Somewhere along the line the companies lowered their standards and the people followed suit. The tastes he had in his possession were sole survivors of a bygone age. This town had become a ghost of what it was. Death by Wal Mart.
OMG
@Jason G: Okay whatever drug you're on, you must share with everyone! :)
Everyone but her.
I'm on the Sheen. Are you sure you want some?
The great pioneers in this area hadn’t been totally reduced to babbling idiots. Lemmy survived Hawkwind and yet still managed to tour and write an advice column for some women’s magazine. Maybe he could Charlie Sheen himself back to health in the grand Vatican assassin style, drink the old tiger’s blood--of course that drug was not available, and if you tried it once you would die, your face would melt off, and your children would weep over your totaled body. So really, there was no hope for the future.
OMG
I got 99 problems, weeping kids ain't one.
@Dwayne: why not me? :)
@Jason: Sorry, but anything w/Charlie Sheen's name on it is not my idea of a good time.
@Justwords - I didn't even know you had kids. I thought you were a guy until the other day.
@Dwayne: What!!?! The kids aren't the issue; you said "Everyone but her" to my request that Mr. Jason share his goodies (until he told me what they are; that's when I declined, hearing the name "Charlie Sheen" -- shudder!). How did you discover my gender, sir? And it's kid, singular, and he's out of the nest finally (I think, who knows nowadays--they keep coming back for money)!
@Jason - When Charlie Sheen sits around and talks about someone who says crazy stuff he always brings me up.
@Justwords - I said not her because it let me get the last post for a while and it messed with you.
I found out you are a woman April 18, 2014 - 8:46am (EST) when I read your post from April 17, 2014 - 3:47pm (EST).
boom
Damn! Busted. There goes the disguise.
Yeah, me and my mad reading skills.
I step away for 5 minutes and have lost the entire plot. Ah well. That happens.
@Dwayne: no you win by default--mine. I forgot what I posted. Also, you really thought I was a guy? Hmmm....
@RG: plot that not a big a deal; just improvise!!
"I taste like the dreams of mad children" sprayed onto a wall in the abandoned Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital
I didn't really think about your gender much honestly.
@D: I'm insulted by your low expectations, sir!
@RG: Whoa girl! You have one hellva power in improvisation! (crowd goes wild, clapping, whistling, lighting fires, generally out of control, etc.)
I guess it will be worse when I point out that I had no expectations at all?
Not really Dwayne; in the light of day now, I would not be surprised if you had no expectations of most things. :)
I have expectations, I just don't care about them.
I would have thought you'd have to care one way or the other; why have them at all?
Because hope is a little seed that you put in good soil, fertilize, water, prune, and make sure has lots of sunshine. And if you do all that, it grows up into disappointment!
But also, I mean things I've noticed a pattern in but don't really care about. Neigbor litters my dog has learned how to open most doors, stuff like that.
Ah. Got it. You must have been disappointed a lot to be so pessimistic, or is that your natural disposition?
Just observant.
Realist. Is that a swear word?
It is what mean people call people who aren't mentally ill to the point of self-delusion.
I think you can be a realist and remain optimistic generally. You can lose friends when you're too negative. Unless you shun friendship, Dwayne?
Depends on the friend.
Sigh. You know you're impossible, right?
Self delusion is a very useful skill at times.
I'm serious. If someone cares about me, and is a decent person I'll try to be there friend. If someone is all into crack I might try to help them, but a little distance can be a good thing.
"A little distance can be a good thing."
Well, depends on what's going on. But, seriously, how many people do you know on crack? Nevermind, don't need to know, it's rhetorical in nature.
Trying to decide if the "offense is the best defense" is a natural fit for you, or if something else caused this interesting attitude.
Plausible deniability. A lot of people keep their social circles small: one or two friends, a handful of peers and associates, and any number of acquaintances. The numbers and connection vary widely from person to percon (of course). To an outside observer and at a casual glance it may seem like an individual has a lot of friends, but if you know what to look for, you can see the social distance. It's a valuable targeting tool.
I do have a fairly large social circle, just willing to avoid some people.
I believe it is time I get back to the workshop. I want those achievements.
Grigori: a valuable targeting tool for what? People to avoid?
Dwayne: I agree there are some acquaintances (not really friends) that need to be avoided.
That is the way things go.
It's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spent it with you. (not my own work)
@justwords:
I've worked with some interesting people who did different types of vulnerability assessments. On the low end it was all about interviews and observation. The high end was old school OSS/CIA tradecraft that makes a good premise for a spy thriller.
@Grigori--
You've just gone "above my pay grade." I'm curious as to how one would cut off that behaviour after work hours; how would you be able to have any kind of personal life? I guess one doesn't, huh? Stress incarnate.
One of my friends' father was in the original OSS during WWII; he never talked about it. Friend still has dad's tiny camera & position locator (can't remember the official name of it).
When I was in an AP English course just before college, we had to write an essay (pop quiz) on "Man's Inhumanity to Man." I stared at a blank page for almost 20 minutes, trying to figure out how to narrow that topic down to a 1500-2000 word paper. The subject has stayed with me since; I got an A+, but I honestly can't tell you what I even put down. Dark subject.
@Justwords:
Actually, psychology classes in college pretty much killed the dating scene for me (there were other contributing factors, but that was the leading one). After joining the military I found myself hanging around with MPs (military Police), CI (counter intelligence), and interrogators more often than not. That just made the cynicism I already possessed flourish. My already high standards for relationships went up a notch or seven.
@Grigori--
Your cynicism probably served you well in the military. I'm not sure Nietzsche was right about getting stronger if you don't die; people can break pretty easily from terrible events, even if they do survive.