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Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:31 pm

Jack, not sure if I told you or not but your avatar cracks me up every time I see it. Steven Jackson, hahaha.

Sure you Golden State fans were in love with him during the playoffs, but just wait until he dives into the stands throwing punches at fans or gets into an altercation outside of strip club at 3 am and fires his gun into the air and gets hit by a car or starts popping off in the media about how everyone blames him for losing in the playoffs thus effectively alienating him from his teammates or........

Oh heck, why spoil it? Half the fun of having that guy on your team is not knowing what stupid ass stunt he'll pull next.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:31 pm

dude, stephen jackson has been nothing short of a saint since his arrival in oakland. he brought the warriors a level of thugness they did not have, and desperately needed, and for that i am grateful. that toughness got them to the second round of the playoffs, kicking the best team's (and the league MVP's) ass in the process.

you guys got the dunmurphy. bay area fans rejoiced at our good fortune at finding a dupe willing to take not one but both of them. seriously, me and my office mates literally high fived each other upon learning the news of their imminent departure. not one but both!!! and their fat bloated contracts!!

i would have been happy with draft picks for those clowns, but instead we got 2 guys who wanted out of indiana (gee, you never hear anyone wanting that...) who have taken their game up a notch in a system they flourish in.

anyways, i think most of the world outside of the state of indiana knows who got the best of that trade, and who watched the playoffs from home.

jack · Post by **jack** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:20 am

hey, now you too can talk like caravan ray!

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:28 am

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:Jack, not sure if I told you or not but your avatar cracks me up every time I see it. Steven Jackson, hahaha.

And all this time, I thought it was Dean Ween. hmpf.

They played a great extended version of Buenos Tardes last week in Hartford...not to mention four from my favorite album, the Mollusk, as well as Baby Bitch, Exactly Where I'm At (the opener) and the show was packed solid with funny faces by Deaner. Smoking butts on stage and the whole nine.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:00 pm

dean makes the absolute best guitar face in the world. when you can see it. usually, he bends over and plays almost upside down most of the time so you can't see his face, but when you get the rare glimpse, it's priceless...

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:37 pm

i was just watching jeopardy and there was a question about an octothorpe. the answer was "the pound sign". they got it correct.

#. carry on.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:14 pm

jack wrote:i was just watching jeopardy and there was a question about an octothorpe. the answer was "the pound sign". they got it correct.

#. carry on.

I saw that! I was all "yeah! #!"

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:22 pm

jack wrote:i was just watching jeopardy and there was a question about an octothorpe. the answer was "the pound sign". they got it correct.

Pay close attention to question 4.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:31 am

From Verizon's Netway site. (DSL wholesaler/reseller trouble ticket site)

"The is a known issue in Firefox, where when you click on any of the headings (Trouble Ticket, etc), the drop down list is stacked. Fir instance, create, status, and log, under Trouble ticket are stacked on each other. Support is away of the issue, but doesn't have a resolution as of yet. Please use IE until this issue is resolved."

https://www22.verizon.com/ispmaintenanc ... c.jsp?id=1

-starts with the first word 'The' instead of presumably 'There'
-is there really any need for a comma in the first sentence and if so, wouldn't it be AFTER the word 'where'?
- Fir
- no comma needed after the word 'log'
- 1. (Trouble Ticket... 2. Trouble ticket (is either instance correct?)
- Support is away of the issue. (which kinda makes sense in a way because this was posted on 5/29/07 and they haven't done anything about it)

You think maybe this bulletin board is outsourced?

Post by **Lunkhead** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:47 pm

Today is <a href="javascript:location.href = 'http://en.wiki'+'pedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin';">Leon Theremin</a>'s birthday.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:19 am

Which falls squarely in the category of "I really should have known that"

Thanks for the link, Lunk'.

Billy's Little Trip · Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:11 am

Lunkhead wrote:Today is <a href="javascript:location.href = 'http://en.wiki'+'pedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin';">Leon Theremin</a>'s birthday.

Realizing that I knew very little about Theremin, I decided to read up just now. What an interesting guy. This little tidbit especially intrigued me.

Theremin invented the first covert listening device (or "bug") to use passive electromagnetic induction to transmit an audio signal. Theremin's design made the listening device very difficult to detect, because it was very small, had no power supply or active components, and did not radiate any signal unless it was actively being powered and listened to remotely. The same design features gave the device a potentially unlimited operational life.

Theremin's device was embedded in a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States. On August 4, 1945, Soviet school children presented the bugged carving to U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, as a "gesture of friendship" to the USSR's World War II ally. It hung in the ambassador’s Moscow residential office until 1952, when the existence of a bug was accidentally discovered by a British radio operator who heard conversations on an open radio channel. The CIA found the device in the Great Seal carving, and Peter Wright, a scientist and former MI5 counterintelligence officer, eventually figured out how it worked.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:52 am

That's an interesting story. I think if you go to the NSA museum you can see a similar thing (or maybe it's even the same one). I keep meaning to go, but its hours suck.

I think Wreckdom has done some SF entries with theremin, but I couldn't tell you which ones.

That reminds me of a story... some years ago I was playing Balderdash with my sister and her husband, and the word "theremin" came up. I thought, "oh good I know this one" and wrote down the definition for the word. When the definitions came out, the game designers said it was "An electronic keyboard invented by Leon Theremin" and I was irritated.... there's no keyboard!!! I didn't realize before then that they were wrong sometimes...
-bill

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:38 pm

I too am a member of the Songfight! Theremin club, but with not nearly as many as the fine gentlemen mentioned above. No, not you Chris, get out of my way!

Looks like it's time to break it out again. Fight after this one, regardless of title, whattya say?

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:19 pm

Bill: most of WreckdoM's entries have it tucked in there somewhere. Unless I'm totally crazy and my memory's having fun with me again

Paco: Count me in (but remind me/make a stink about it later, next week is a bit... intense... in Casa de Rabid, and my brain might lose this thought).

-rg

jack · Post by **jack** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:31 pm

who knew jesus played the theramin for brody!

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:02 am

Is it hitchin' time for Jeebus? Certainly no need to fret it Rabid (the theremin bit, that is, you're on your own otherwise!) I'll dedicate my performance to you as long as you, you know, understand who/where it's coming from.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:06 pm

jack wrote:who knew jesus played the theramin for brody!

Nice!

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:50 am

Bless you, my children

jack · Post by **jack** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:38 pm

ha. pretty soon the preacher's gonna be telling you that.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:18 pm

Heh. Picture if you will the guy on the right in the "teaching the audience a WreckdoM chorus" picture (with me wielding a concertina) wearing liberty spikes and a sharp suit.

Now picture him telling us that.

It's going to be a fun wedding.

Geoff WreckdoM · Post by **Geoff WreckdoM** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:14 am

Hey, I just found this here conversation, late to the party but count me in for the Thereminabration! We got the Theremin in lots of songs, check out specifically "Honeymoon in Polynesia" or "Scissorkick" by Blue vs. WreckdoM for some sweet licks, and here's my band on the TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvuBhMGpnQc

(sorry about the link, I can't get the embed feature to work for whatever reason, user error I'm sure)