February 3, 2008

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:12 pm

qotd: a bowl of cheerios. I wasn't feeling up to eating anything with strong flavours.

Post by **Spud** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:30 pm

Ginger granola with plain yogurt over it, sliced apples and oranges on top of that, and loaded up with honey to finish.

Pretty much the same as every day, with variation in the fruit only.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:35 pm

Sounds healthy and tasty, Spud.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:12 pm

Congrats Yorkies. I lost 10 bux.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:25 pm

Hmm, I haven't checked the site in a few days. There was a time when that would have made me twitch like crazy.

I've been FAWMing. Nothing recorded yet. But lots of writing. I'll have a song or two ready by the end of Wednesday. In the meantime, my major senior project is due tomorrow at 4:00. No all-nighter this time; I'm pretty much prepared.

QotD: I didn't eat breakfast today. Woke up at about 1:00. Which makes sense, since last night was one of the biggest parties of the year, and I wound up staying up till about 5:30. Still, even nights when I get to sleep at a decent hour and wake up at a similarly decent hour, I don't generally eat breakfast. Sometimes, a cup of yogurt, and if I'm feeling really extravagant, I mix some granola in... I hear it's the most important meal of the day, but I just can't be bothered, usually. And I'm not usually hungry in the mornings, anyway, and you're not supposed to eat if you're not hungry, right?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:32 pm

Damnit, when will this postgame show end so that House can come on?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:39 pm

Ah, there we go. I thought they were going to spout truisms about "the best team won" and so forth all night.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:54 pm

QOTD: A chocolate fudge pop tart and a glass of milk. I don't usually eat breakfast on Sunday because I usually go for a trail run but it was raining this morning.

Other than watching the game I worked on my "Why So Serious?"

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:38 pm

fluffy wrote:Ah, there we go. I thought they were going to spout truisms about "the best team won" and so forth all night.

I don't watch house but thats probably because it's a show for intelligent people. (I've watched it a couple of times and it's really really good, but you know...it's not for me)

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Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:44 am

Hoblit wrote:I don't watch house but thats probably because it's a show for intelligent people.

This is probably why I've never seen it. I get stumped by the plots in Teletubbies.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:49 am

I watch House more for the drama and bitey humor. Apparently the science on it really isn't all that good (although it mostly seems plausible to a non-doctor like me). After each episode I like to read the reviews at politedissent.com where a real doctor analyzes how things would have gone differently in the real world and why the solution is implausible and so on.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:31 am

Hoblit,

House may be a show for intelligent people but c'mon, how could you not watch a show that included a man whose scrotum explodes?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:40 am

Rather, I should say that it's the medicine that's apparently not very good. The science is absolutely terrible (science = hypothesis, then formulating and conducting a test, then interpretation of results, then refinement of the hypothesis), but that's a different matter than factual correctness, and of course House's main plots are mostly about emergent care which generally doesn't have room for science anyway.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:42 am

Niveous wrote:Hoblit,

House may be a show for intelligent people but c'mon, how could you not watch a show that included a man whose scrotum explodes?

REALLY?

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:49 am

It was some crazy episode with a guy who having problems with the pressure in his body. So early in the episode, the pressure builds up and his eye pops out. Then later, he goes to bathroom and pop goes the scrotum.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:10 am

Niveous wrote:pop goes the scrotum.

You've been reading the Lost Books of The Bros. Grimm again, haven't you?

Attention FAWMers...

QOTD: Coffee.

I didn't watch House until people at work started calling me "Son of House". Guess I'm a little acerbic IRL, heh.

But I'm usually right, too.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:12 am

The exploding scrotum bit was in the second season finale, which was a pretty good episode though definitely not where to start watching the show.

Billy's Little Trip · Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:33 pm

I didn't like house at first, but now I'm a regular viewer. I decided I really like Hugh Laurie after I saw him on SNL. He was funny, and is a smoke'n guitar player. Then I saw skits of him on a show in England, which were funny. That sealed it, I'm a house fan.

I'm going to write a new show called "Condominium". It's going to be about a limp gynecologist that has to constantly pop Viagra to keep it up. His nick name on the show will be Condo.
Condo is always borrowing used rubber gloves from his one true doctor friend that is a colorectal specialists, whom jokingly calls him doctor Condom.
The show will delve deep into the rare medical issue of the vagynee and anus. I'm hoping that it will air right after Two And A Half Men.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:38 pm

Yes, I love Hugh Laurie from his work on Black Adder (series 3 and 4), Jeeves & Wooster, and Not The Nine O'Clock News.

When I first saw him in House I had no idea that was him. I was like, "Jeeze, that guy's familiar, where do I know him from?" He does a great job of playing an American. Apparently the casting director he had been saying some derogatory, anti-British-actor things, and when he saw Laurie's tape, he exclaimed something to the effect of, "Now see? THIS is a great American actor!"

It's interesting how British actors seem to need to change their accents more often, and can be very compelling when they do so. David Tennant apparently has a natural Scottish accent (which you'd never know from his Cockney in Doctor Who), and Kate Winslett in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is another great example of a Brit playing an American.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:33 pm

fluffy wrote:Yes, I love Hugh Laurie from his work on Black Adder (series 3 and 4), Jeeves & Wooster, and Not The Nine O'Clock News.
.

Well, I spotted the deliberate mistake!

(If you love him sooooo much - you would know he wasn't actually in one of those programmes

)

I think you meant A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:45 pm

*freeze frame and narrator speaks* Wait a minute, Fluffy wrong? I don't think it's possible. Could fluffy have made a mistake? Or will he pull some rare episode out of his pouch to prove Caravan Ray wrong? Let's all watch how it unfolds. *points back to the screen and lets the film roll*

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:56 pm

fluffy wrote:Yes, I love Hugh Laurie from his work on Black Adder (series 3 and 4)...
When I first saw him in House I had no idea that was him. I was like, "Jeeze, that guy's familiar, where do I know him from?"

Yeah, me too! I had that same feeling. I don't watch House, but he's all over the ads (right, I don't watch ads either, but some things are hard to miss and the TV show ads are right before the regular show comes back, right). Actually it was a single episode in season 2, I think, of Blackadder that I suddenly realized who that was, after having watched it years ago, seen House ads, then watched Blackadder again later.
Anyway
-bill