Thursday, July 26, 2012

Turtle Hats

* ThePhan pokes her head into the Internet again. Slowly, so it doesn't get skittish.
Randy: Like a turtle?
ThePhan: Yup.
TalkingDog: Turtle!
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Sentynel: I read Phan's message up there as her poking her head into a turtle.
Sentynel: I was going to say I understood it might be a bit skittish about this.
Sentynel: HELLO IN THERE
ThePhan: Hehe
ThePhan: One of the many, many turtles that fill up the entire ocean.
ThePhan: Multiple times.
ThePhan: According to that chapel speaker I dreamed about.
Sentynel: Phan: YES. THOSE TURTLES.
Sentynel: Actually I think I estimated them as fairly small turtles, so your head probably wouldn't fit.
Sentynel: So maybe not those turtles.
ThePhan: Sent: If I cruelly remove the actual turtle part and crack open the shell more and stick my head in there and wear it like a hat?
Sentynel: Congratulations, you've found an item of clothing more likely to get you lynched by animal rights activists than fur.
ThePhan: LOL LOL
ThePhan: TURTLE HATS
ThePhan: So fashionable.
ThePhan: HEY, I hear noise upstairs. Maybe ze boyfriend is finally home.
ThePhan: Maybe he bought me a turtle to make into a hat.
Randy: LOL
Randy: Ask him. In those exact words.
LaZorra: Wow, I come back to the buffer and y'all are talking about murdering animals in the worst ways.
ThePhan: Well, that'll be confusing, talking about him in the third person.
LaZorra: No wonder I love you guys.
ThePhan: LZ: But... to make hats!
LaZorra: A WORTHY CAUSE
ThePhan: I hear... weird noises upstairs. It sounds like he might be removing the turtle and cracking open the shell before he presents the hat to me.
Randy: TP: If he really is, then marry him.
Randy: Like today.
ThePhan: LOL
ThePhan: And everybody gets to make their own turtle hat at the arts and crafts table at our wedding!
LaZorra: LOL LOL
Randy: YES
LaZorra: I kind of love the idea that there's going to be an arts and crafts table at your wedding.
Randy: That too
ThePhan: LOL
LaZorra: I'm picturing the wedding party sitting around with glue guns.
ThePhan: Yeah, I don't really know what spawned that idea.
ThePhan: *I* sure don't like arts and crafts.
Leen: Awww.
Randy: hahaha
Sentynel: You know, if only Aeschylus had got in on this fashion for turtle hats, he wouldn't have been killed when an eagle dropped one on him.
ThePhan: But you gotta give people something to do at weddings.
LaZorra: Maybe it will be a make-your-own-damn-wedding-favor table.
Sentynel: Either because it protected him, or more likely because all the turtles had been turned into hats already.
ThePhan: LZ: That is EXACTLY what it willb e.
ThePhan: *will be
LaZorra: LOL
ThePhan: Glitter, sequins, paint, glue, and a tank full of turtles.
Leen: Sounds like FUN!
Sentynel: Remind me to show up a day early for your wedding so I can launch a guerilla raid to free the turtles before the whole wedding gets arrested for animal cruelty.
ThePhan: Jacob is back home but, alas, no turtle hat. But I told him all about them and he agreed he should have brought me one.

Pictures of My Hair

(Goosey had been talking about texting us a picture of her hair.)

Ticia: TP: I never did get a text from you
Ticia: If you did send me a picture of your hair, I never got it.
ThePhan: What? I'm supposed to text people pictures of my hair?
ThePhan: SOCIAL NORMS CHANGE TOO FAST FOR ME TO KEEP UP
Goosey: Um, *I* texted you
Goosey: Did you change your number AGAIN?
Ticia: Oh, lol.
Ticia: I did not change my number again.
Ticia: Sorry, I got confused.
Goosey: LOL
Goosey: DON IS GOING TO GET A RANDOM PICTURE OF A WOMAN'S HAIR
* Goosey DIES

Haiku

LaZorra: hakko
LaZorra: kk
LaZorra: *ll
ThePhan: LOL
LaZorra: ahloo
LaZorra: HALLO
LaZorra: DAMMIT
Randy: haiku!
LaZorra: I typed something, it disappeared, and I was trying to type "hallo" as a test.
LaZorra: THAT DID NOT WORK.
ThePhan: "Hakko" = a cough. "Ahloo" = a sneeze?
LaZorra: ANYWAY II AM FINE BUT I SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE HAD LESS COFFEE TODAY
LaZorra: LOL
LaZorra: My typing is sick, obviously.
Randy: Typos have been made/LaZorra must be in here/phtotography
LaZorra: LOL
Randy: :)
Sentynel: Haiku are awesome / but sometimes they don't make sense / refrigerator
Randy: Mine was more awesome/because I made it all up/and didn't steal it
TalkingDog: i like food it's good/food food food yay food yay food/nom nom nom nom burp
TalkingDog: food.
Sentynel: I didn't steal it / you can't steal abstract poems / I just borrowed it.
LaZorra: vote talkingdog
Randy: I think TD wins, yes.
ThePhan: Elmo writes haikus / but they are not very good. / He wishes they were.
Randy: hehe
Randy: EMO FROG FTW
Sentynel: I wonder if my / haiku validation tool / is still behaving...
Sentynel: https://sentynel.com/haiku
Randy: wintermute's one about aluminum is still my favorite.
Sentynel: If you read that web / address, it is actually / a haiku itself.
ThePhan: NICE.
ThePhan: I was like, "Nuh-uh," / and then I read it loud, / and I was like, "Whooooaaaa."
ThePhan: *out loud.
LaZorra: LOL LOL
ThePhan: I did not read it loud.
ThePhan: LOL
LaZorra: IF YOU READ IT LOUD / IT CONTAINS MORE SYLLABLES / than if you whisper
Sentynel: I wish I could claim / that address was deliberate / but alas, it's not.
ThePhan: Jacob's sleeping in the next room. I don't think he'd appreciate it if I woke him up yelling, "H! T! T! P! S! COLON! SLASH! SLASH! SENTYNEL DOT COM! SLASH! HAIKU!"
LaZorra: LOL
LaZorra: Slash haiku sounds terrifying.
Maryam: Actually that sounds rather hilarious.
ThePhan: LZ: LOL LOL
Maryam: Frodo and Samwise / Together forever in / minds of sick perverts
LaZorra: bahahaha
Randy: aaaah
LaZorra: You're totally right.
Randy: hehe
LaZorra: That's awesome.
ThePhan: Spock leaned into Kirk, / whispered, "I've always loved you," / and kissed him deeply.
ThePhan: Ha, Maryam finished her slash haiku first.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Refuel

(About Left 4 Dead 2)

ThePhan: I also had to use my melee weapon a lot because I had great trouble picking things up so I couldn't refuel my guns.
Sentynel: The melee weapons are the most fun anyway.
Sentynel: Also, er, I don't think you meant "refuel".
ThePhan: LOL
Sentynel: LOL
ThePhan: YUP REFUEL THEM
ThePhan: I POURED GASOLINE INTO THEM AND THEN THEY STILL DIDN'T WORK
Sentynel: I can't imagine why.

Winning a Halo Match

ThePhan has entered.
ThePhan: Hi everyone!
ThePhan: Jacob says you guys are a cool group.
Goosey: HI JACOB
Sentynel: HI JACOB
ThePhan: Ha, I told him you said hi and he immediately died in his game.
Sentynel: SUCCESS
ThePhan: I think you guys are killing him by accident.
Sentynel: Man, that would be the most convoluted way of winning a Halo match EVER.
ThePhan: ...Or on purpose, it seems.
TalkingDog: We have learned to beat people in Halo without a controller.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Hidden Messages

Sentynel: 2,4,5,7-9,11-13,15,16,18-23,25,26,28,32-34,36,38-65
Sentynel: Er.
Sentynel: This is totally not the window I thought it was.
TalkingDog: Ha! Got your password!
Sentynel: DAMMIT
TalkingDog: I should have guessed it, really.
TalkingDog: Next time, try adding a few capital numbers.
* ThePhan will read only those pages of her next book. She assumes she will find hidden messages from Sentynel.
Sentynel: Yes. Yes you shall.
Sentynel: Although what message depends quite strongly on the book.

Musical Crying

ThePhan: LOL, this is a very melodic wail from this child in the library.
ThePhan: I am finding it much more entertaining than I probably should.
ThePhan: It's a lovely soprano tune.
Ticia: You should sing along.
ThePhan: I should! But the kid appears to have either left or calmed down.
Ticia: Awww, that's too bad.
ThePhan: Which is sad, because it would have been SO AWESOME to harmonize with a crying kid.
wintermute: Sounds like the basis for a new musical instument to me
wintermute: You just need 88 children all crying in different registers.

Life Alert Addiction

Randy: There's a commercial for Life Alert, the "Fallen and I Can't Get Up" thing.
Randy: This lady says "I'll give up bread, soda, and beer but never my Life Alert"
Randy: Who would ask someone to give that up?
TalkingDog: Maybe you can get addicted.
Randy: Always falling down and calling for help. That can be addicting.
TalkingDog: You'd have to get them to a support group, where they teach you that you can get up without it.
TalkingDog: "My name is Margaret, and I've been upright for 2 months. My ankles are killing me."

RinkChat Webcam

ThePhan has left.
ThePhan has entered.
ThePhan has left.
ThePhan has entered.
ThePhan: For some reason my Internet has just decided it is very unhappy with me being in RinkChat.
Ticia: Boo, Internet.
Ticia: It's probably because of all the fancy flash and jpegs and stuff. Sam really needs to tone this place down.
ThePhan: Well, I'll be the first to admit that the live webcam feed of every RinkChat user is nice, but I think maybe it would help if it was limited to only the ones who were actually in chat at the time.
* Sentynel blinks
* Sentynel should probably put some clothes on.
Ticia: Yeah, that's annoying.
Ticia: The webcam thing.
Ticia: But also the Sentynel naked thing.
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* Sam comes back and reads "But also the Sentynel naked thing" and decides not to investigate further.

Enthusastic Greetings

wintermute: PHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
wintermute: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
wintermute: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Sam: Wow. Congrats on avoiding a scroll bar on my screen. (Your cue to go longer.)
ThePhan: That was quite enthusiastic.
ThePhan: Hello, all.
Sam: That was not enthusiastic.
Sentynel: 'lo.
* Sentynel tries for the least enthusiastic possible greeting.
TalkingDog: hm.
Sam: *grunt*

The Exorcist Dance Numbers

ThePhan: Also, Sam, in case you did not see this: http://unpublishedforareason.blogspot....12/06/blind-spots-2012-band-wagon.html
Sam: TP: Check out Silk Stockings sometime. It's essentially a musical version of Ninotchka (no need to have seen that) with Astaire and Charisse. It's also interesting in that it's roughly the last classic MGM musical, and although they knock the dance numbers out of the park, you can sense that the filmmakers were aware the genre was fading out and tried a little harder to stay relevant instead of merely exulting in the format.
Sam: So it's a curiosity AND a great example of the genre in one.
ThePhan: Oh, right! I remember you mentioning that when I said I was seeing The Band Wagon. I shall add it to my list.
ThePhan: I think I'm going to watch The Exorcist next for the blind spots list.
Sam: I didn't really like the dance numbers in that..
Sam: Ok, there's some impressively freaky choreography in it, but no joy.
ThePhan: Hey, dance isn't always all about joy.
Sam: There should be a joy of craft and process, even if it's absent in the subject.
Sam: Also, that movie forgets the lessons Fred Astaire's movies taught about cinematography. You should do long takes of the whole of the dancers' bodies. But The Exorcist is so fixated on Linda Blair's (puking) head, you seldom if ever see what her feet are doing.
Sam: It's tragic that some of filmdom's best tap dancing sequences were only captured from the neck up.
Sam: ...I got nowhere else to go with this.

I Hereby Christ You

ThePhan: LOL. Someone Facebook posted "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," spread out over several statuses, one word at a time.
ThePhan: However, FB does not always put statuses in order when they show up in my news feed.
ThePhan: I got, "Can I through things strengthens all who do Christ me."
LaZorra: I HEREBY CHRIST YOU
ThePhan: Yay! Now I can through things strengthen you!

A Monk Singing Opera

Randy: I'm watching a monk sing Opera
TalkingDog: That sounds weird.
Randy: It was pretty cool
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LaZorra: I just glanced at the buffer and saw, "Randy: I'm watching Monk sing Opera."
TalkingDog: That is what I read at first.
LaZorra: Not only did I think you meant the Tony Shalhoub character, but the capitalization made me think first of teh web browser.
* LaZorra watches House sing Firefox.

Blankfinger

TalkingDog: Also, I burned my finger slightly on the pan. So ow again.
TalkingDog: Ooh. My fingerprint is smoother on that part.
* TalkingDog stares at it.
ThePhan: You burned off your fingerprints! Quick, go commit crimes with one finger!
LaZorra: LOL LOL
TalkingDog: That's a silly-awesome premise for a supervillain. Blankfinger.
Randy: He is....THE FINGER
Randy: Or that
TalkingDog: Maybe a Bond villain.
ThePhan: Goldfinger's cousin.
* LaZorra is Blankfinger's henchmen.
* LaZorra skyllks around.
LaZorra: "Give 'im da finger, boss! Give 'im da finger!"
LaZorra: *henchman
LaZorra: I AM ALL OF THE HENCHMEN
ThePhan: LZ will be ALL the henchmen.
LaZorra: LOL
ThePhan: In my mind, you are Oompa Loompas.
TalkingDog: Your nickname is Digits.
LaZorra: Phan: noooooooooooooo
LaZorra: TD: :D
LaZorra: Oompa LaZorras?
TalkingDog: Loompa-Zoompas!
LaZorra: hahaha
ThePhan: LOL
TalkingDog: Now my evil plan will be to destroy all the pizza.
* ThePhan hides the pizzas that were in her fridge so Blankfinger cannot get them!
TalkingDog: The law will require all pizza to be served with sauerkraut. Then no one will ever order it!
ThePhan: LOL
Randy: ewww
TalkingDog: You might still be able to get some illegal pizza in a bake-easy, but those will be dealt with harshly.
* LaZorra snickers snivelingly in the corner.
TalkingDog: I picture a world in which pepperoni will require a prescription and a background check.
TalkingDog: I should write horror stories.