10 + 15 != 2007

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:16 pm

IKEA doesn't just sell furniture. I usually buy housewares when I make a run to IKEA. And hot dogs. I have been known to drive up just to see what's new (and returned) and get a couple hot dogs.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:18 pm

QotD (Again, according to my feed reader / bookmarks tab. And again, many of these have lapsed): Diesel Sweeties, Crap I drew On My Lunch Break, Sexy Losers, San Antonio Rock City, The Coffee Achievers, Nothing Nice to Say, anything and everything by Josh Lesnick, most things by Dan Kim, Penny Arcade, Toothpaste For Dinner, de^x/dx, Rob and Elliot, Cosmobear, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (which is awesome), Perry Bible Fellowship, Questionable Content, Theater Hopper, VG Cats, Joe Loves Crappy Movies, White Ninja. Um... EatMyComix? Ermm... Unfunny? I've also been known to read XKCD and Explodingdog, although neither of those are really comics. I have left off some comics from this list that frankly I'm embarrassed about reading. I've also left on some comics that I am embarrassed about reading.

As far as, you know, real comics go: Farside and Calvin & Hobbes fo' life, yo. Oh, and Diesel Sweeties again, although I still can't quite get over that.

EDIT'D for redundancy

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:19 pm

Puce wrote:Ermm... Unfunny?

HAHAHAHHA I AM ERIK BECAUSE I TYPE IN ALL CAPS

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:24 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:
fodroy wrote:Last night some friends and I started a band. We're really fast metal/hardcore and we're called Dickfist. We are working on songs to play shows. I am the guitarist. My middle finger and thumb bled all over my guitar from playing too hard. That's what kind of band we are.

qotd: I read Toothpaste for Dinner, Married to the Sea, and White Ninja.
Dickfist is the best band name I've heard so far this month. I hope you guys record and get a Myspace, or maybe even do some fighting on here. Also, I have never bled from playing guitar. I always thought people were exaggerating when they said they played until their fingers bled. But then again, I can only play for about twenty minutes before I get bored and leave. In a band, it might be a different story. Also, I never understood why you have to play so hard just because it's metal. I mean, the electric guitar doesn't get louder when you pound on it. It just goes out of tune. But then, maybe that's what your after. But honestly, your MAXO METAL DEATHGORE pedal should take care of that stuff for you. If you need any more gain, you can even use the dirty channel on your amp. And you can throw a couple fuzzes in your chain. And a POG.

We will probably eventually record. I just get into it when I play hard and fast and also I was a little drunk and that made me want to get even more into it. I hate when bands just stand there.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:37 pm

fodroy wrote:I hate when bands just stand there.

Try playing with a church band. There's a good chance you'll be the only one rocking out.

I guess that's a stereotype. But notice I said good chance. And it's based on my experience. I'm not saying that Christians are dull. I'm just saying, people were always commenting on how I really got into the music more than the rest of the band, and I didn't even think I was, because I was always staring at the lead sheet and concentrating. I guess the second drummer rocked it pretty hard, and this transient bass player guy did too. Man, that bass player guy was awesome. He was an attorney. He played a fretless. He was such a bass player, he even had a bass voice. That was back when they had me on acoustic guitar. Which was back when all I had was my $60 Rogue Dreadnought with a Dean Markley single coil in the soundhole. What happened to those days? Ugh...end ramble.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:39 pm

just curious, is there any kind of wood that is not solid wood?

i mean, as opposed to liquid or gaseous wood?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:43 pm

Solid as opposed to a reconstituted slurry of wood pulp.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:46 pm

jack wrote:just curious, is there any kind of wood that is not solid wood?

i mean, as opposed to liquid or gaseous wood?

Solid doesn't strictly refer to a state of matter. In fact, wood isn't a chemical compound. It doesn't exist exclusively in one state of matter. Wood is a combination of a lot of different substances, some solid, and some liquid, at room temperature.

There's a lot of wood that isn't "solid wood." Solid, meaning one continuous piece of wood, cut from an actual tree. Cheap guitars and desks are made of laminated wood, a bunch of wood scraps glued together. My Rogue acoustic is definitely not solid wood. Neither is the desk I'm sitting at right now.

If you were kidding, I apologize. It didn't seem that funny, so I decided to take the chance and answer the question.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:48 pm

i was just being a smartass but thanks for such an insightful answer.

both of you!

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:03 pm

erik wrote:IKEA doesn't just sell furniture. I usually buy housewares when I make a run to IKEA. And hot dogs. I have been known to drive up just to see what's new (and returned) and get a couple hot dogs.

IKEA HAS HOT DOGS?! WHAT?!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:22 pm

Whenever I do go to Ikea I also go there to get lunch. I like the restaurant, or at least the food they serve there. I've never tried the cafe, though, which is where you get the hot dogs.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:28 pm

So this place has furniture, housewares, and lunch? WTF?

Now, I have to go.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:36 pm

fluffy wrote:If you have Ikea furniture then you also have a tendency to need to buy new Ikea furniture at any moment, due to breakage and/or whimsy.

...and don't forget the meatballs!

I see in the meantime lunch has been addressed, but man those meatballs are fantastic.

furniture cult, haha.
-bill

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:05 pm

Puce wrote:QotD (Again, according to my feed reader / bookmarks tab. And again, many of these have lapsed): ... de/dx, ...

You made my day. Even though you forgot the ^x and anyway it's not called that anymore. :D

Post by **Spud** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:12 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:So this place has furniture, housewares, and lunch? WTF?

Now, I have to go.

Don't forget the <a href="http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s ... le#3">live jazz on Tuesday nights</a>.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:32 pm

This is nuts. We don't have live jazz anywhere.

One time, Rage and I went to WalMart with our acoustics and played out in the garden center.

We got kicked out.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:12 pm

fluffy wrote:you forgot the ^x

Thanks, I missed that. For all the comics I have feeds for I just went to Manage My Subscriptions in Google Reader and copy/pasted the whole list. I guess "^x" breaks reader. Also, yours is listed as de/dx instead of Unity because I've had that feed for well over a year now. Sorry I didn't reply to the do I have any dang readers post the other day.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:23 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:This is nuts. We don't have live jazz anywhere.

One time, Rage and I went to WalMart with our acoustics and played out in the garden center.

We got kicked out.

That is an awesome idea. I may steal that idea at some point. We don't have WalMarts, so I think Bunnings would be a suitable alternative.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:39 pm

Puce wrote:
fluffy wrote:you forgot the ^x
Thanks, I missed that. For all the comics I have feeds for I just went to Manage My Subscriptions in Google Reader and copy/pasted the whole list. I guess "^x" breaks reader. Also, yours is listed as de/dx instead of Unity because I've had that feed for well over a year now. Sorry I didn't reply to the do I have any dang readers post the other day. :)

Unity is the name of the current main series. The site as a whole is just "busybee comics" (formerly de^x/dx).

Confusing, I know.

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:47 pm

Is anyone supposed to know what de^x/dx means. Is it math. Why would this title make anyone want to read it.

Why did I ask so many questions, and not use a single question mark.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:01 am

The full title was "de^x/dx: formulaic and derivative." It was a dumb joke because de^x/dx = e^x, i.e. it's a function whose derivative is exactly the same as itself. Originally my comics were supposed to be retarded derivative deconstructions of webcomic clichés. It didn't work out that way (and in the end they were just retarded).

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:22 am

Oh yeah, it looks like I missed one

My feeds are not categorized

-bill