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Invisible wrote:
> Oh, and in other news, apparently there was an earth quake last night...
Probably 'shopped, but amusing nonetheless
http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/13/1204118301/etchasketchquake.jpg
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:48:35 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> English has an expression "you come from the wrong side of the tracks",
> i.e., you grew up in the poor neighborhood close to the noisy railroad
> tracks, unlike us rich snobby folks.
>
> You don't even need to be particularly close to the tracks. I was in a
> dorm room in university about two blocks away, and when the train with 4
> locomotives pulling 450 cars behind it hit the horn, it set off the car
> alarms for like 3 blocks.
I lived my childhood in a vicinity of the railroads, and I grew fond of
the sound of trains, and of the railroad announcements. It took me a long
time to forget how I missed those sounds when I moved.
--
Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> Probably 'shopped, but amusing nonetheless
> http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/13/1204118301/etchasketchquake.jpg
What do you mean "probably"? Just compare the perspective of the wall
to the perspective of the tablets.
--
- Warp
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Tim Attwood wrote:
> I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
> dripping wet in just my undies =)
Thanks for the mental image. That's just how I wanted to start my work
day... :-}
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Maybe it's just that you don't remember the trials. :-)
>
>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...
...no, I think he remembers the trails!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/13/1204118301/etchasketchquake.jpg
>
> What do you mean "probably"? Just compare the perspective of the wall
> to the perspective of the tablets.
Or just look at the URL. The b3ta board is a place to show off your
humour/photoshop skills. Just look at last weeks challenge:
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/scientology/
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the
> place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis
> situations.
Excellent. I once woke myself up whilst trying to fend off an enraged
velociraptor when my knee connected with the wall. Good to know my
subconscious has all bases covered...
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>> I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the
>> place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis
>> situations.
>
> Excellent. I once woke myself up whilst trying to fend off an enraged
> velociraptor when my knee connected with the wall. Good to know my
> subconscious has all bases covered...
You've been reading too much XKCD. ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
>>> I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the
>>> place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis
>>> situations.
>>
>> Excellent. I once woke myself up whilst trying to fend off an enraged
>> velociraptor when my knee connected with the wall. Good to know my
>> subconscious has all bases covered...
>
> You've been reading too much XKCD. ;-)
Maybe (and it's all your fault), but this happened years ago...
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> You know how sometimes you're just laying in bed trying to go to sleep,
>> and suddenly you get that feeling like you're falling really fast just
>> for a split second? I really hate that. Makes me jump out of my skin...
>> but then of course you realise you only imagined it.
>
> Blog... ;)
>
stop picking on him ;-)
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