RinkLinks

As before, posted with only teeny bits of context. And sometimes none at all.

Randy: MOXIE

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/04/29/news/lewiston-auburn/lisbon-high-school-student-wins-logo-design-contest-for-2012-moxie-festival/?ref=regionstate

[Randy->LaZorra, ThePhan] this https://twitter.com/#!/OmniZ815/status/196690044646465537/photo/1 is awesome.

SirDude: Random thought: "Senile" and "wizard" are two words you never want to hear describing the same person.

TalkingDog: Like this guy? http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/9/05

LaZorra: This is beautiful:

http://exp.lore.com/post/22098979354/to-take-your-breath-away-a-spellbinding-timelapse

LaZorra: Heavy artistic license, but man.

goldfishy: Oh man I love this:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowy-sK_-lWxZMBJNLDnFdmVI0ZetbweJJSPYrwSz3sUg7JPsu-1l6d4FUdNWsBWdj5J2RxfkHHLyBrSldsTbF8g6ZvTt3rjC9uTV6gSMVc2hQDW87Brf3_QNj1_axJMQh7X5osq-kNS4/s1600/PixarRegularSMALL.jpg

Dave: One of the coolest videos I've ever seen on Youtube was a guy air-launching a scale model of the Bell X-1 rocket plane from under the wing of a scale model B-17. goldfishy: Oh awesome Dave: Oh, I guess it was a B-50 Dave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnCnNvwc7A Dave: Oh, the comments say B29 goldfishy: This might be awesome to people who watch Mystery Science Theatre:  https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEp7qx4JvBV5NDpynA29e-pKGfmmtPE6OD4r5iIEGsOjZDD_QM25Smr3fE3hsAAgxseCa27ViZdh0hjS6O2DtuQ_bmpykTuS_OjYD45Br670RrC5IZxQrPJdzAqUW_wLD-lNThBzLmKk0/s1600/MST3Ksmall.jpg goldfishy: Want!!! http://www.etsy.com/listing/94897043/the-fellowship * TalkingDog wants this one. http://www.etsy.com/listing/52339885/river-tam-and-the-fireflies LaZorra: The Onion is touch-and-go these days, but this is pretty funny:  http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-announces-plans-to-put-man-on-bus-to-clevelan,28024/ Randy:  http://gizmodo.com/5906382/mom-of-the-year-makes-her-sons-lunch-look-like-awesome-art Ticia: http://www.nothingbutcountry.com/2011/07/mountain-dew-cupcakes-yummm/ Goosey: Hahhahaa  http://failbook.failblog.org/2012/05/01/funny-facebook-fails-commas-are-still-important/ Goosey: Also dahaha  http://failbook.failblog.org/2012/05/01/funny-facebook-fails-living-in-a-modern-age/ wintermute: Wow:  http://failblog.org/2012/05/01/mobile-phone-texting-autocorrect-autocowrecks-best-puzzle-ever/ Maryam: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m36f6syWFz1qgsr1po1_1280.jpg Heh. Sam: This is so freaking funny. As it was the last time I listened to it and probably linked it in here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzroViEvCnI Randy: I liked a skit that guy did Randy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImnpErdDzA&feature=related wintermute: I got Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test on Kindle today. wintermute: Finally. wintermute: After hearing him interviewed on Monster Talk. wintermute: http://monstertalk.skeptic.com/webpage/qu-est-que-c-est- Randy: LOL http://imgur.com/Lldoq Randy: hehe http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson133.html wintermute: http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson5.html is good. Sentynel:  http://jen-campbell.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/weird-things-customers-say-at-book.html  Meta-weird things customers say in bookshops!

Sentynel: http://notalwaysright.com/try-adobe-heathenshop/19489 ...

Randy: http://www.mostwatchedtoday.com/tag/roller-kingdom-reno/ best. rollerskating ad. EVER

Goosey: This is freaking awesome http://www.youtube.com/embed/nA3LtXnNIto?feature=player_embedded

Randy: LOL https://twitter.com/#!/BradBaileyGTR/status/198205419544518658/photo/1

wintermute: http://xkcd.com/880/

wintermute: Hehe: http://xk3d.xkcd.com/

Randy: oooh

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1384441698/ny-shakespeare-exchange-sonnet-project-and-island

wintermute: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/295167887/southern-rising-rpg

wintermute: That could be the best monster/civil war game since Yetisburg.

wintermute:

http://paizo.com/products/btpy81x6?Yetisburg-Titanic-Battles-in-History-Volume-1

Randy: LOL http://survivingtheworld.net/Recitation9.html

Randy: Oh man http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson234.html

Kysle: Baby cthuhlhu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI

Randy: http://cheezburger.com/6184588544?siteId=75

Randy: LOL http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/05/04/see-the-avengers-in-real-3d/

Sentynel: http://millionshort.com/ This is sorta interesting. It's like a hipster Google. It removes the most popular websites from the results.

Sentynel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpT5NvxVP2Q Oh dear me, it's Yodalling.

Sentynel: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002SQG4TU No words.

Randy: http://cheezburger.com/6191793920?siteId=11

Sentynel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9-Ijbk3_8 Okay, this is awesome.

Sentynel:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/may/04/heartland-institute-global-warming-murder  Wow. Nothing like a rational debate.

iwpg: http://notalwaysright.com/dumb-without-shadow-of-a-doubt/19566

LaZorra: ...Owl City covered In Christ Alone?!

LaZorra: How did I not know they did Christian stuff?

ThePhan: Say wha?

LaZorra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWw24s5gG8

Sentynel: Leen: I just finished watching all six of those videos you linked the first of a couple of hours ago. OUCH.

Goosey: ouch videos?

Sentynel: Goosey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsamwOs2slI Language, schadenfreude and Darwin Award candidate warnings.

Goosey: fishy: here, read a cute/sad story about a doggy

http://bayintegratedmarketing.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/a-dogs-purpose-from-a-6-year-old/

Blogging From My Memory

Randy: Has a baby ever projectile vomited on you?
Leen: lol!
ThePhan: Not once.
ThePhan: Which is totally OK with me.
Leen: Really? Wow!
ThePhan: Actually, I'm surprised that hasn't happened to me, given how many little siblings I had. I've never been vomited on or peed on by a baby.
Leen: Indeed.
ThePhan: Unless I've blogged it from my memory.
Leen: That is shocking.
Leen: LOL
Leen: I'm not sure how you managed that.
Sentynel: I guess putting it on the internet removes it from your own mind.
LaZorra: Phan: You can blog FROM YOUR MIND?!
ThePhan: LOL LOL LOL
* ThePhan just came back to the window and noticed what she wrote.
Leen: hehehe
ThePhan: Yes. Once I blog things from memory, they have no longer happened.
Randy: LOL

Mouth Time Machine

ThePhan: Ha, also, since you didn't see this on Facebook, this is the discussion we had during tonight's dinner date, and which has continued in even more detail on Facebook: What would it be like if your mouth could reverse time? Like if you put food in your mouth and it got younger and younger until it reverted back to its original ingredients? What kind of implications would this have?
ThePhan: But with everything, not just food. My favorite implications with this included eating raisins (he gave me the image of a baby shoving like 30 raisins in its mouth and then freaking out when the raisins suddenly doubled in size as they turned into grapes), throwing up (I said something about being sick, and then we both said at the same time, "BUT THEN IT WOULD TURN BACK INTO FOOD") and sucking your thumb (a child with this power who did this would always have a baby thumb, even as a grown adult).
LaZorra: LOL LOL LOL
LaZorra: You could neverr kiss anyone, either.
ThePhan: Well, we decided it really only worked if something was IN your mouth, not just touching it. So he pointed out that kissing wouldn't necessarily do that unless there was tongue action, in which case you would youngify their tongues.
LaZorra: Man, THAT would be creepy, LOL.
ThePhan: RIGHT?
LaZorra: Wait, would it work on YOUR OWN TONGUE?
ThePhan: OH MY GOSH
ThePhan: PROBABLY
ThePhan: AND YOUR TEETH
ThePhan: THAT WOULD SUCK
LaZorra: You'd be losing your baby teeth FOREVER.
LaZorra: And just think of getting braces. Eventually, the metal would turn back into ore, which would turn back into rock. YOU WOULD HAVE BOULDERS IN YOUR MOUTH.
ThePhan: LOL LOL
ThePhan: I am going to collect the discussions on FB and here about it and post them all on my blog.
LaZorra: LOL
LaZorra: I wonder about juice, too. Would it turn back into chunks of fruit?
ThePhan: Yeah, I think so. And if you then kept it in there longer, the fruit would turn back to seeds.
LaZorra: My brain is spinning.
ThePhan: My sister Rebekah ended up with this WEIRD idea where you could eat fish and then feed guests caviar that you made in your own mouth.
LaZorra: WHOAEWWWW
ThePhan: If she thinks this is acceptable party host etiquette, I am NEVER going to a party she hosts.
ThePhan: She insists it's OK because she wouldn't TELL them that's where it came from.
LaZorra: LOL LOL
LaZorra: Uhm, yeaaaaah, suuuuure...
LaZorra: I was just thinking about language. We'd all think in the modern version of English but end up speaking like William Shatner.
LaZorra: SHAKESPEARE
LaZorra: William SHAKESPEARE
LaZorra: William Shatner takes so long to speak that he'd probably end up sounding like Beowulf.
ThePhan: LOL LOL
ThePhan: William Shakespeare climbeth a mountain. Why climbeth Shakespeare a mountain?
LaZorra: LOL!

Ponies

ThePhan: Ticia just gave me almost 7000 ponies in Turntable.
Randy: ponies?
ThePhan: Well, OK, she might have been announcing that I had 6696 points, but she was typing with a child in her arms and said "poinys."
Randy: LOL
Nyperold: They'd better be little ponies, or you're not going to bave space in which to keep them.
Ticia: :-P
Ticia: They're MY little ponies. You can't have them!

Star Wars Questions

ThePhan: Heh. My boyfriend is a nerd. He recently got a lightsaber as a present from his family, and he brought it along on our walk and kept hitting bushes and trees with it and talking about how much he loves it.
TalkingDog: I want a lightsaber!
Randy: yeah, me too
TalkingDog: What color did he get?
TalkingDog: I want blue.
ThePhan: TD: Blue. But he also has a red one at home that he has informed me he's bringing back so we can fight together.
TalkingDog: Woo!
TalkingDog: "Darth Phan" could be a good Sith name.
TalkingDog: I wonder where Luke learned to make a lightsaber.
Maryam: He went to the library?
TalkingDog: Maybe. But the Emperor had wiped out all recorded knowledge of the Force by that point. Or so I heard.
Randy: I think the books about the in-between the movie stuff mentions holocubes or something.
Maryam: I wonder why they don't have a blue Luke one available.
TalkingDog: Luke's blue saber was Anakin's.
Maryam: Oh, that's a good point.
SirDude: I feel like I could be contributing something if I knew more about Star Wars
LaZorra: What I want to know is how he ended up with a normal name like "Luke."
TalkingDog: Hehe.
LaZorra: Or maybe that sounds really exotic in the Star Wars universe.
Maryam: The fewer syllables for Padme to gasp out while dying, the better.
Maryam: It's just coincidental it sounds like an Earth name.
LaZorra: haha
Maryam: Or maybe she was trying to say, "Look, quit bothering me with those squalling kids and get me some treatment here."
Maryam: But all she could get out was a weird-sounding "Look".
Randy: LOL
LaZorra: LOL
ThePhan: He got off lucky. If she had gotten further into her sentence, his name could have been Lukewitbawthor.
Maryam: LOL

RinkLinks

OK, I'm going to do this other new thing that's not really about RinkQuotes, but it's connected. As I read through transcripts to find quotes, frequently I find links to cool other sites and I bookmark them all to watch or look at later. We Rinkies share a lot of links. So as I go through transcripts, I'm just going to start a list of links people shared in chat. No commentary from me, just a list of the links people shared that they thought others might find interesting. Maybe more people will find them interesting here, as well.

No links to personal-life stuff, or links that are given solely as examples in conversations and not particularly interesting on their own. Other than that, I'm not sorting through these or making them look nice, just giving the lines of chat they originally came from.

Oh, and final disclaimer: I realize some of these are a bit outdated, because the transcripts I take them from are frequently from a while back. But some of these I hadn't looked at then, so they were new to me now and I'm sure will be new to a few others as well.

OK. Enough disclaimers. You will never see those again. On to the new segment.


Dave: And then, using his SUPER POWERS! HE ESCAPED!
Sam: hahah
Sam: Best part of that was how at the end of each episode, all the kids would be like, "Oh no! How's he gonna get out of this one!?"
Sam: Why, using his SUPER POWERS!
Sam: Oh, yay! Whoooo! Yay!!
Dave: HOORAY! NEVER SAW THAT COMING!
Dave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjNeRUyoyY

wintermute: Huh. There are two steampunk settings for Pathfinder being Kickstarted right now.
wintermute: http://kck.st/HP8n51 and http://kck.st/zuYmCj

wintermute: http://i.imgur.com/umUZK.jpg

Sentynel: https://imgur.com/gallery/ftuTG EWWWWWWWWWWWW (NSFS: unclean sink)

Randy: TP: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/ed23/ you need that.

Sentynel: The longer I spend on reddit.com/r/askscience, the more tempted I become to answer the stupid questions with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSf9aEETnvE

Sentynel: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android Where the heck did that come from? $2.6 million already. Wow.

TalkingDog: i am bored
Goosey: TD: Um, read a crazy rp story? http://www.steampoweredgiraffe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=395

Randy: WANT http://gizmodo.com/5901977/tiny-pies-are-the-greatest-thing-to-ever-be-jammed-on-a-stick

Sentynel: http://is.gd/Yixboh This is amazing in so, so many ways.

Sentynel: http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/11588/1334649724/kofi.jpg THIS IS AMAZING

Sentynel: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/apr/17/1 Homeopathic hilarity of the day!

Dave: This is pretty interesting, yo: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229

Goosey: This is a real toy, guys. Category: WHY? http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81090882/

Goosey: LOL!!!! http://www.ksl.com/?sid=20046727&nid=1017&title=have-you-seen-this-great-byu-prank&s_cid=queue-2
Goosey: That's incredible.
Goosey: Watch it. It's funny, and involves cute animals.

Sentynel: https://www.facebook.com/TheDarwinAwards/posts/10150667600387553 Best. Idea. Ever.

Goosey: hahaha http://failbook.failblog.org/2012/04/17/funny-facebook-fails-or-a-scratching-post/

ThePhan: It's the chocolate Goosey sent me! It has chocolate and peanuts and a taste I hadn't eaten in so long I'd forgotten what they tasted like so I didn't realize until I looked at the wrapper that I was eating raisins, but even though I don't eat raisins very often, they're pretty good in this chocolate!
Sentynel: That's a heck of a run-on sentence.
ThePhan: Yeah, that run-on sentence about raisins just reminded me of... hold on, let me find it...
ThePhan: This. It makes me think of this. http://youtu.be/FLYm3kmT6cQ?t=1m37s

Maryam: http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/Jennifer%20H%20.%20ow%20.%20deepest%20regrets.jpg I love this cake from today's Cake Wrecks.

Randy: dude http://io9.com/5903530/if-this-video-doesnt-make-you-grin-like-an-idiot-there-might-be-something-wrong-with-you

niekie: http://i.imgur.com/fAsqQ.png

Sentynel: Okay, I'm going to link something that is in many ways extremely disturbing, and in others uplifting, because I think it's important. Don't click it if you don't want to cry. (There's a little bad language and stuff too.)
Sentynel: This is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit with one of the survivors of Utøya.
Sentynel: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sid20/iama_ut%C3%B8ya_survivor/

Sentynel: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/04/24-hours-of-photographs-merged-into-a-single-panoramic-image/ Clever and pretty.

LaZorra: I have reached the end of the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtSuFOXd9c

Sentynel: http://notalwaysrelated.com/the-ex-generation-x/21038 This is scary.

wintermute: http://www.buzzfeed.com/fjelstud/weird-things-customers-say-in-bookshops - #11 is just jaw-dropping.

Maryam: http://notalwaysright.com/cash-back-and-forth/19098

Sentynel: "Burglar identified on CCTV by his dance moves." http://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/04/security-cam-records-burglars-signature-dance-moves.html

TalkingDog: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8)

Traveling By Post

ThePhan: So a LOT more people than I expected like my status about today being six months since Jacob and I went official. I texted him: "Holy crap. 20 people so far have liked my FB status about our halfyeariversary. I think we have a fan club."
wintermute: Phan: You should be on G+, so I can also like your relationship.
ThePhan: wm: Every once in awhile I wander over there a post something. But there are only like 3 people on there who aren't more active on Facebook. Heh.
ThePhan: *and post
LaZorra: She wanders over on a post.
ThePhan: Traveling by post is the way to go.
wintermute: From pillar to post?
LaZorra: This explains the postmarks all over your face.

Musical Theater Nerd

ThePhan: So I'm watching the newest episode of Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23 (haven't made my mind up about whether or not I like it yet. It's sometimes really funny and sometimes just dumb).
Goosey: sitcom?
ThePhan: James Van Der Beek plays himself in it and is complaining that everyone just associates him with Dawson.
ThePhan: Yeah.
ThePhan: Only like 2 episodes exist so far. Heh. Brand new/
ThePhan: Anyway. He's complaining about it and yells, "I'm more than just one character! I was the original Gavroche in Les Mis!"
ThePhan: My thoughts went as follows:
Goosey: lol
ThePhan: "What? No, he wasn't. That was Braden Danner."
ThePhan: "Unless he meant the London cast? But, no, that was Oliver Spencer."
Goosey: LOL
ThePhan: "...Oh. Wait. I bet they made that up. Because nobody is supposed to know the actual real answer."
ThePhan: "I AM A NERD."
Goosey: hahahahaha

The Third Mountain

LaZorra: Also in completely unrelated news I vote we start our Rinkie commune here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/summitvoice1/6942860020/lightbox/
Goosey: TOO MUCH SNOW
* TalkingDog steals all the snow.
Leen: Yeah, I'm sick of snow.
Leen: It is pretty, though.
ThePhan: I will teach theater on the third mountain.
LaZorra: It would be pretty awesome to address your mail to "The Phan, The Third Mountain, Frisco, CO."
ThePhan: YES IT WOULD
ThePhan: I'm pretty sure if I taught theater on a random mountain in Colorado, all guru-like, I *would* just call myself "The Phan" all the time.
ThePhan: Way more mysterious and sage-ish.

Tornatidoes

LaZorra: aaaarizona
ThePhan: LZ: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain?
Dave: ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE
LaZorra: LOL
LaZorra: Dave: No, no, they don't have hurricanes on the plains. You're htinkinf of tornatidoes.
ThePhan: He's what of what?
Randy: LOL LOL
LaZorra: He's...htinkinf. Come on, you htink all the time.
ThePhan: "Tornatidoes" sounds kind of adorable.
ThePhan: "Who's a cute little tornatido? You are! Yes, you are!"
LaZorra: LOL
TalkingDog: I thought it sounded like some new made-up Mexican food Taco Bell would put out.
Dave: You say tornatidoes, I say tornado!

Death Row for Bad Boxes

Randy: I moved boxes all day. Woo
goldfishy: That sounds very exciting
Randy: hehe
Randy: It was ok. We are trying to sort stuff so the boxes that are going to be destroyed this year are all together, then next year, and so on
goldfishy: Why are you destroying the boxes?
Randy: They are files from different places, and after we scan them in we destroy the physical files within a certain amount of time so it won't take up all the space we have.
goldfishy: Ah
goldfishy: I was imagining a sort of death row for bad boxes
goldfishy: Ones who didn't hold their contents properly or didn't protect them enough
Randy: I think the companies we get them from set the dates for whatever reason.
goldfishy: And for some horrible reason you make them wait to go to their doom
Randy: LOL
goldfishy: And never once considered the fact that the boxes might have something in them

13 Billion

ThePhan: FB friend posts: "There's plenty of fish in the sea..." "That's cool and all, but I'm human."
ThePhan: Friend of FB friend responds: "'There is an estimated 13 billion people in the world and it is likely that you will meet someone else' better?"
Randy: LOL
Goosey: LOL
Sentynel: I'm curious which world THEY'RE from.
Sentynel: As there's seven billion on mine.
ThePhan: ...13 billion?
Dave: Yeah, that's a lot of billions.
TalkingDog: They're counting mermaids.
ThePhan: LOL LOL. I commented on it and said, "How are there 13 billion people in the world? Did we all get cloned and not know it?"
ThePhan: Response: "Its called population growth and I didn't know it was that difficult a concept"
Sentynel: LOL
Sentynel: The population has grown REALLY fast in the last, like, few months or something, evidently.
ThePhan: LOL LOL. He's just responded again: "Sorry apparently its 6 billion. And that my peers is why you don't trust wikipedia."
Dave: Wow yeah, that's a lot of people to just show up suddenly.
Sentynel: I'm somewhat curious where exactly on Wikipedia he was looking.
Dave: Can you imagine throwing a party for 7 billion and 13 billion show up instead? You'd really need to make some more dip.
Sentynel: As the rather obvious "world population" page says in the first line "The world population is the sum of all humans on Earth. As of today, it is estimated to number 7.007 billion by the United States Census Bureau (USCB)."
ThePhan: Dave: LOL
ThePhan: Sent: Sometimes 7.007 looks like 13 to me, too.