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So, What Did We Learn Today?

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Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:09 / 12.07.06

Sympathies for your sunburned head. The first summer I lived in Spain my scalp was Not Happy.

Triplets

00:19 / 12.07.06

Of course they can swim, Lula. We have cats and they can swim, hence seacats: gigantic cats that ferry humans to and fro. Same with dogs. Seadogs.

See slug? Sea slug.

El_Cid

03:48 / 12.07.06

Hi, I'm new here, and enjoying this thread enough to comment...I learned this last week, but I still feel like sharing it, as it is Very Important:

If you should happen to live in snake country, and if that country has rattlesnakes, do not under any circumstances wear your Ipod and go hiking in the wilderness after dark.

Barber's Adagio for Strings is quite lovely, but it obliterates the sound of the rattling, you see.

And that is bad in a way that I can't totally express, because if you should blunder into a rattler strike, the surprise will be total.

I didn't get bit. But only because of the graces of fate.

Please, learn from my stupidity. Leave the mp3 player at home, eh?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:54 / 12.07.06

Flip side: if you walk on to a bus when grumpy without some sort of musical apparatus (yes, I travel avec un accordion), the dodgiest person will automatically decide that they have to talk to you, no matter how closed off, unresponsive, and stone-like you are.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:52 / 12.07.06

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

23:38 / 12.07.06

Okay, but what did the Autobots teach you, Haus? If it was how to properly breed insecticons, I really would like to know.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

12:30 / 13.07.06

Today I learned that my intense desire to learn to play the banjo can be eradicated in one fell swoop by the cover of one of the most highly regarded instructional books on the market.

Who, for the love of God, is this thing supposed to encourage?

Chiropteran

12:37 / 13.07.06

Matt, I like you, but if you're dissing the banjo then I'll see you outside.

*rolls up sleeves*

(And I know the the arm belongs to the dancing cowgirl, but every time I look at that cover, it looks like the second horse from the right is waving enthusiastically.)

And what have I learned, to keep things on-topic? When attempting to fix a record player, do not remove anything that you don't know what it does, just because it appears to be in the way. No one should have had to tell me this, but there you go.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

13:34 / 13.07.06

No, no, I freakin' LOVE the banjo, but the cover of that book just reinforces every bad "banjo players are all barn-dancin' cowboys" stereotype in the book.

Chiropteran

13:57 / 13.07.06

Ah, gotcha - I had read your "intense desire" as sarcasm. Sorry...

*rolls sleeves back down*

Twice

14:14 / 13.07.06

Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

kan

14:37 / 13.07.06

eating bruised fruit isn't as yucky as you think it's gonna be

paranoidwriter waves hello

15:40 / 13.07.06

I've re-learnt today that even after all these years and my experiences with... erm... "dodgy types", I can still put myself in a position where, despite working my fingers to stumps and knowing I've covered all the bases, I'm still likely to be scammed and ripped off... Seriously, waiting for a cheque when you haven't eaten for a day and half can really fuck with your brain... Grrr... Feed me... FEED ME!

invisible_al

16:22 / 13.07.06

When using Audacity for the first time to record a talk at a conference, make sure you've spent some time getting to know the software so that when you've recorded the hours worth of audio, so you actually save it instead of deleting it. *headdesk*

Whisky Priestess

19:22 / 13.07.06

Oh dear ... feeling your pain.

Char Aina

20:48 / 13.07.06

al...
it may be too late, but when you turn audacity on it sometimes asks you if you want to delete the temproray files left over from last time it ws on.
all the component parts of your last project should be there, if you do some digging.

unless you said yes to the delete option, of course...

Dead Megatron

20:50 / 13.07.06

Jokes featuring Transformers pictures are always funny, yes they are.

Char Aina

20:53 / 13.07.06

if only he had more than one...

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:18 / 13.07.06

You know how that criticism makes me feel, toksik?

Tortured.

Actually, that looks a bit like a sexy party. A transforgy.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:19 / 13.07.06

In fact, the sort of image you might find in a Jazz mag.

Sorry.

Char Aina

22:25 / 13.07.06

sorry for the sideswipe, dude.
i didnt mean to burn down the haus over an inferno in a tea-kup.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:26 / 13.07.06

Did I say something bad? It's all a bit of a Blurr...

Char Aina

22:27 / 13.07.06

i think it was all a smokescreen to cover my triggerhappy needlenose.

Char Aina

22:29 / 13.07.06

i get all hardheaded when faced with highbrow scrappers.

Char Aina

22:32 / 13.07.06

i'm a headstrong ramhorn when i get into a longhaul slugfest...

man, i am such a geek.

Dead Megatron

22:34 / 13.07.06

Hmm, this is so Hot Rod. But, if you don't stop, I'll be forced to request to Grimlock this thread.

(I always kinda knew Jazz was into the BDSM scene)

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:43 / 13.07.06

Jazz was pretty easygoing. He'd try anything. Prowl was his more repressed brother - David to his Nate, sort of thing. Obviously, this made Prowl a far more interesting character, and one of the few I think Furman really struggled with.

Just wanted to Blaster thought or two out there.

Char Aina

22:43 / 13.07.06

well, it's hardly a bombshell.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:55 / 13.07.06

Yeah, but a fellow with an Ironhide like yours is more likely to Kickback and relax, rather than wanting to start a Rumble or succumbing to Frenzy.

Char Aina

22:59 / 13.07.06

man, this is like some kinda whirl-ing dirge.

Char Aina

23:02 / 13.07.06

you know what i learned a second ago?
if itunes is the player you use, you should remember to check the 'skip when shuffling' box for all your audiobooks.

'heart of darkness' doesnt really go with electro or metal, and it isnt really what you want when you're drunk.

even if the reader sounds hott.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

14:10 / 14.07.06

The side of a flag closest to the pole when the flag is raised is the "hoist side."

Evil Scientist

14:45 / 14.07.06

That the loose change in my pockets is also referred to as...shrapnel.

■

08:07 / 15.07.06

That you should never let water get into a pack of cod-liver oil capsules. Eugh.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:24 / 15.07.06

The benefits office has an 0845 number- more expensive than normal numbers, and excluded from most mobile deals' "free minutes". A friend of mine has managed to ring up a forty quid phone bill trying to track down fifty quid's worth of missing payments. That's just wrong, surely?

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