Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 9, 2012 - 9:04pm
Hmmm. Interesting. So hopefully you didn't go to Penn State.
Let go my Eggo Coach!
Fritz
April 9, 2012 - 9:13pm
I'm having a hard time visualizing the panda sitting around watching Milo and Otis. Is anyone else? lol
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesApril 9, 2012 - 9:28pm
I had a hard time sitting through that when i was five.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryApril 9, 2012 - 9:42pm
Milo and Otis was already around when you were five?
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 9, 2012 - 9:45pm
Kelly is a youngster. Well, a kitten actually. A kitten with knuckles.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 9, 2012 - 9:46pm
I love that movie.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesApril 9, 2012 - 11:04pm
Yeah I'm not as old as I look, apparently. :P Thanks Dave. I'm gonna go slash my teenage emo wrists now.
/bedtime-ego-boost'd
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesApril 9, 2012 - 11:07pm
I need a Christian Side Hug.
Matt
from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 12:20am
I just chose this name so that Matt Attack couldn't have it.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersApril 10, 2012 - 4:59am
The point is, Otis was a pug - not a bulldog.
Fuck people. Get it together.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryApril 10, 2012 - 5:14am
I am so totally not clear. How old are you, Meat? Are you that 12 year old that everybody's concerned about corrupting?
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 6:19am
Good job setting the record straight, Avery.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 10, 2012 - 7:52am
Christian Side Hug
lol
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesApril 10, 2012 - 8:54am
I'm not the twelve year old. But I will be next year.
Arturo Bandini
from Denver, CO is reading Beautiful RuinsApril 10, 2012 - 11:24am
The struggling, yet over-confident, writer in John Fante's books. There's a couple of traits about Arturo that I can identify with. hmmmm, not sure what those might be...
eggogallego
from Glendale, AZ is reading Bitch PlanetApril 10, 2012 - 7:55pm
@PandaMask: Pretty much got it. It's Guy-yeh-ghos.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 10, 2012 - 7:56pm
I think Joe should trade pics with you now, Sparrow. I'd rather see your purple hair that his stupid face lol
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 10, 2012 - 8:00pm
Yes, got it right.
Whatever happened to Joe? I no longer see his pitts.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 10, 2012 - 8:01pm
He joined the marines. Now he's getting sodomized by the best of the best of the best, sir!
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 10, 2012 - 8:03pm
Be all you can be, anally.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 10, 2012 - 8:23pm
That was the Army. That was too gay, (Way back in the days of don't ask, don't tell) so they switched to 'An Army of One guy masturbating quietly in the corner while nobody watches'
The Marines are just looking for a few good men. A buddy of mine had to quit the Marines over all that touchy feely crap. He remembered when he joined that being gay in the military was prohibited. Now it's optional. He wanted to be gone before it became mandatory.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 10, 2012 - 8:56pm
Sometimes being stuck in a foxhole with your buddy can be taken out of context.
Grigori Black
from US is reading Radium Girls by Amanda GowinApril 10, 2012 - 10:30pm
That's not even looking at the Air Force. Aim High.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.April 11, 2012 - 12:46am
I stole my username from Nikki.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 11, 2012 - 12:51am
I stole my username from Howie.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 11, 2012 - 3:19am
I fucked an alien and stole his soul.
Chris Davis
from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry CrewsApril 11, 2012 - 4:39am
The way I came up with my screen is kind of interesting. In mid 1982 my parents fucked, 9 months later when I was born they named me Chris Davis. They told me this story many times in my youth (going into far more detail with the fucking part) and I liked it so much I adopted it as my screen name.
The picture I use is from my usual screen name PopeDeadpool3rd (or some form of it) which comes from me being a huge comic book fan and a recovering Catholic.
closure
from Australia is reading The Ghormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn PeakeApril 11, 2012 - 6:02am
I'll bite.
So I write for a living. Okay, I left out a word. I write software for a living. Yeah. Big difference.
Anyway, in computer programming, you have functions, which is a bunch of variables and instructions that do something.
You also have closures - that is a function nested inside another function, that nobody from the outside knows is there, but the closure has access to all the goodies (variables and instructions) inside the function that it has been 'closed' inside of.
Like the alien queen in Ripley's chest.
And my avatar is just a bunch of brackets.
What? Stop staring at me.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryApril 11, 2012 - 6:05am
So I write for a living.
You very nearly gave me a heart attack.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceApril 11, 2012 - 6:51am
mine came weirdly. i was back at the cult when i named myself, and chose something that sounded jazzy. simple, yeah, but "typie" was the nickname of some asshole in junior high, so in honour of him, i made myself his overlord. he was called that cause he could do 216 words per minute.
closure
from Australia is reading The Ghormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn PeakeApril 11, 2012 - 7:11am
@Utah: Nearly? Damn! Then my plan has failed. All is lost.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeApril 11, 2012 - 9:45am
Mine came from my obsession to have alter egos and something I can hide behind. I saw a girl wearing a panda mask in a magazine and took it as my own.
I always assumed this was from Ben Stiller's character in Tropic Thunder. A sort of kill-your-idols thing.
My screen name is simply the surnames of my maternal grandmothers. So, it is part of my name - the unnamed names of my lineage.
My name is super-common. Like John Smith or Ali Ahmed or Jose Martinez. So - pseudonym.
I notice no one's taken the screen name Pseudonym yet...
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelApril 11, 2012 - 10:04am
Real name: Jose Fernando Diaz - Named after my grandfather on my mothers side.
Joseph Day is the English translation. I left out the F because I couldnt be bothered to find the English translation. Probably Frank.
Why: I'm anti-Spanish. I don't like the Spanish language nor many of the backwards style thinking that is "tradition" in the Hispanic community.
I use the Doc because I was a hospital corpsman in the Navy serving with Marines. That is what they call us.
The picture is a young(er) Sparrowstark when she was a boot Marine.
Trivia: is the word "boot" derogatory? No, it is an acronym for barely out of training.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 11, 2012 - 11:13am
Anti-Spanish?
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelApril 11, 2012 - 11:17am
Yes, anti-Spanish. I dont like the language and much of the culture. I know it's considered very bad, but I like what I like and vice versa.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksApril 11, 2012 - 1:53pm
When I was thirteen I started spelling my name Kourtnie because I found out my dad had a son with a woman who both died before he met my mom and there were always rumors that he'd named me after an ex-girlfriend. I hated the idea that he named me after her, but I switched back in January to Courtney for embarrassing reasons. I used Kourtnie as my username for every site I had because it was rarely taken, but I don't like the memories associated with it and I've deleted every account I had under that name.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 11, 2012 - 1:55pm
I have my dad's last name, and I'd possibly kill him given the oppurtunity.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksApril 11, 2012 - 2:05pm
I had a great relationship with my dad growing up, but I always wanted to take my mom's name (Peabody) because I liked her family more and there were books written about the Peabodys because we somehow went from giving loans to J.P. Morgan to found his bank to being drunks and convicts.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 11, 2012 - 2:08pm
^ wow slightly less than wow
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 11, 2012 - 2:06pm
You took out all the good stuff.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksApril 11, 2012 - 2:09pm
I thought it sounded like I was trying to brag.
What I edited out: Nathaniel Hawthorne married into my family, we were consults to George Washington during the Civil War, and we gave J.P. Morgan the first loan to make Chase banks.
EDIT: To put it into perspective, my mom stole this book from the New Albany, Indiana library. We were important enough to have books written about us, but we later became drunks and convicts and murderers and resorted to stealing books written about us. I currently have it on my bookshelf as a reminder.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 11, 2012 - 2:09pm
^ the wow
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 11, 2012 - 2:11pm
...but, "Civil War?"
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksApril 11, 2012 - 2:14pm
Fuck, make that "Revolutionary War." I'm stoned.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 11, 2012 - 2:17pm
I fought alongside George Washington during the Clone Wars.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksApril 11, 2012 - 2:22pm
I cloned George Washington.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 11, 2012 - 2:26pm
We shall build an army and take down the Empire.
Laramore Black
from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8April 11, 2012 - 7:56pm
To get back on more important subjects, Milo and Otis was awesome.
Homeward Bound was better though.
In other news I watched Matilda for the first time in years along with a Casper movie, it was really odd because following Matilda I daydreamed about moving shit with my mind for hours like I did as a kid.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 11, 2012 - 11:59pm
@Day - It translates to Vernon.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanApril 12, 2012 - 12:11am
Hmmm. Interesting. So hopefully you didn't go to Penn State.
Let go my Eggo Coach!
I'm having a hard time visualizing the panda sitting around watching Milo and Otis. Is anyone else? lol
I had a hard time sitting through that when i was five.
Milo and Otis was already around when you were five?
Kelly is a youngster. Well, a kitten actually. A kitten with knuckles.
I love that movie.
Yeah I'm not as old as I look, apparently. :P Thanks Dave. I'm gonna go slash my teenage emo wrists now.
/bedtime-ego-boost'd
I need a Christian Side Hug.
I just chose this name so that Matt Attack couldn't have it.
The point is, Otis was a pug - not a bulldog.
Fuck people. Get it together.
I am so totally not clear. How old are you, Meat? Are you that 12 year old that everybody's concerned about corrupting?
Good job setting the record straight, Avery.
lol
I'm not the twelve year old. But I will be next year.
The struggling, yet over-confident, writer in John Fante's books. There's a couple of traits about Arturo that I can identify with. hmmmm, not sure what those might be...
@PandaMask: Pretty much got it. It's Guy-yeh-ghos.
I think Joe should trade pics with you now, Sparrow. I'd rather see your purple hair that his stupid face lol
Yes, got it right.
Whatever happened to Joe? I no longer see his pitts.
He joined the marines. Now he's getting sodomized by the best of the best of the best, sir!
Be all you can be, anally.
That was the Army. That was too gay, (Way back in the days of don't ask, don't tell) so they switched to 'An Army of One guy masturbating quietly in the corner while nobody watches'
The Marines are just looking for a few good men. A buddy of mine had to quit the Marines over all that touchy feely crap. He remembered when he joined that being gay in the military was prohibited. Now it's optional. He wanted to be gone before it became mandatory.
Sometimes being stuck in a foxhole with your buddy can be taken out of context.
That's not even looking at the Air Force. Aim High.
I stole my username from Nikki.
I stole my username from Howie.
I fucked an alien and stole his soul.
The way I came up with my screen is kind of interesting. In mid 1982 my parents fucked, 9 months later when I was born they named me Chris Davis. They told me this story many times in my youth (going into far more detail with the fucking part) and I liked it so much I adopted it as my screen name.
The picture I use is from my usual screen name PopeDeadpool3rd (or some form of it) which comes from me being a huge comic book fan and a recovering Catholic.
I'll bite.
So I write for a living. Okay, I left out a word. I write software for a living. Yeah. Big difference.
Anyway, in computer programming, you have functions, which is a bunch of variables and instructions that do something.
You also have closures - that is a function nested inside another function, that nobody from the outside knows is there, but the closure has access to all the goodies (variables and instructions) inside the function that it has been 'closed' inside of.
Like the alien queen in Ripley's chest.
And my avatar is just a bunch of brackets.
What? Stop staring at me.
You very nearly gave me a heart attack.
mine came weirdly. i was back at the cult when i named myself, and chose something that sounded jazzy. simple, yeah, but "typie" was the nickname of some asshole in junior high, so in honour of him, i made myself his overlord. he was called that cause he could do 216 words per minute.
@Utah: Nearly? Damn! Then my plan has failed. All is lost.
I always assumed this was from Ben Stiller's character in Tropic Thunder. A sort of kill-your-idols thing.
My screen name is simply the surnames of my maternal grandmothers. So, it is part of my name - the unnamed names of my lineage.
My name is super-common. Like John Smith or Ali Ahmed or Jose Martinez. So - pseudonym.
I notice no one's taken the screen name Pseudonym yet...
Real name: Jose Fernando Diaz - Named after my grandfather on my mothers side.
Joseph Day is the English translation. I left out the F because I couldnt be bothered to find the English translation. Probably Frank.
Why: I'm anti-Spanish. I don't like the Spanish language nor many of the backwards style thinking that is "tradition" in the Hispanic community.
I use the Doc because I was a hospital corpsman in the Navy serving with Marines. That is what they call us.
The picture is a young(er) Sparrowstark when she was a boot Marine.
Trivia: is the word "boot" derogatory? No, it is an acronym for barely out of training.
Anti-Spanish?
Yes, anti-Spanish. I dont like the language and much of the culture. I know it's considered very bad, but I like what I like and vice versa.
When I was thirteen I started spelling my name Kourtnie because I found out my dad had a son with a woman who both died before he met my mom and there were always rumors that he'd named me after an ex-girlfriend. I hated the idea that he named me after her, but I switched back in January to Courtney for embarrassing reasons. I used Kourtnie as my username for every site I had because it was rarely taken, but I don't like the memories associated with it and I've deleted every account I had under that name.
I have my dad's last name, and I'd possibly kill him given the oppurtunity.
I had a great relationship with my dad growing up, but I always wanted to take my mom's name (Peabody) because I liked her family more and there were books written about the Peabodys because we somehow went from giving loans to J.P. Morgan to found his bank to being drunks and convicts.
^
wowslightly less than wowYou took out all the good stuff.
I thought it sounded like I was trying to brag.
What I edited out: Nathaniel Hawthorne married into my family, we were consults to George Washington during the Civil War, and we gave J.P. Morgan the first loan to make Chase banks.
EDIT: To put it into perspective, my mom stole this book from the New Albany, Indiana library. We were important enough to have books written about us, but we later became drunks and convicts and murderers and resorted to stealing books written about us. I currently have it on my bookshelf as a reminder.
^ the wow
...but, "Civil War?"
Fuck, make that "Revolutionary War." I'm stoned.
I fought alongside George Washington during the Clone Wars.
I cloned George Washington.
We shall build an army and take down the Empire.
To get back on more important subjects, Milo and Otis was awesome.
Homeward Bound was better though.
In other news I watched Matilda for the first time in years along with a Casper movie, it was really odd because following Matilda I daydreamed about moving shit with my mind for hours like I did as a kid.
@Day - It translates to Vernon.