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Apple Talk / Re: A SHOW OF HANDS

« on: February 08, 2010, 07:53:05 pm »

Sometimes I want to drive off a bridge.

And miss all the cheap laughs?

You have to watch those bridges in Portland, I hear.  They have a siren-song all their own, and then you go bumpity-bump face first along the bottom for a week or two...And when you wash up, you make the poor policeman lose his lunch.

Best to have fun, instead.

They do call to you. It's like in the moments approaching the bridge, you have this moment of wondering whether you'll be able to control the compulsion to veer sharply to the right, take that box right through the railing and over the edge to find the bottom below, whatever that might be. But you don't, most of the time; you white-knuckle the steering wheel and stay the course until you get to the other side and you're in the clear and you don't have to worry about it until you get to the next bridge.

But sometimes, even more than the call of the bridges, there's the desire to drive to the end of the world. I know exactly where it is.

So do I.  Davidson Canyon on the East side of Tucson, Green Valley on the South end, Star Pass on the West, and Piccacho on the North.

Pictures of Piccacho should be posted on Portland Bridges.  It would either increase the suicide rate, or eliminate it altogether.

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Apple Talk / Re: A SHOW OF HANDS

« on: February 08, 2010, 07:32:41 pm »

Sometimes I want to drive off a bridge.

And miss all the cheap laughs?

You have to watch those bridges in Portland, I hear.  They have a siren-song all their own, and then you go bumpity-bump face first along the bottom for a week or two...And when you wash up, you make the poor policeman lose his lunch.

Best to have fun, instead.

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Apple Talk / Re: Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

« on: February 08, 2010, 07:28:44 pm »

I wanted to develop Schrodinger's Shotgun.

Would that work on the undead?

You can't tell until you try it.

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Apple Talk / Re: A SHOW OF HANDS

« on: February 08, 2010, 07:26:13 pm »

fun is all there is worth doing.

memebomb.

I think memebombs might have been a mistake, at least as far as I am concerned.  The world has enough soundbites, and I am no longer interested in grabbing the brains of those who can't be bothered reading more than a blurb.  I have a special word for people like that.

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Apple Talk / Re: Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

« on: February 08, 2010, 07:24:02 pm »

Question:  Can I use Quantum?

Let's leave the pseudoscience for the hippies, shall we?

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Apple Talk / Re: A SHOW OF HANDS

« on: February 08, 2010, 07:21:16 pm »

Pointing out flaws in a system does not imply that the system is worthless...I have no interest in explaining that in great detail to drones who couldn't figure it out on their own.  Suffice it to say that fun is all there is worth doing, and I do a bit more than I probably should.

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Apple Talk / Re: I am in a bad way

« on: February 08, 2010, 06:20:26 pm »

I developed a fool-proof hangover cure:  Learn to have fun without alcohol.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Still haven't got the hang of this "freedom of religion" thing...

« on: February 08, 2010, 06:05:06 pm »

When oh when will people stop mistaking symbolic issues for, er, actual issues?

When humans stop being symbology-driven.

And that would just take the fun out of everything.

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Apple Talk / Re: Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

« on: February 08, 2010, 06:03:44 pm »

Geekign Out - When engineering, chemistry, software, cooking, armoring, weaponcrafting, smithing, psychology, propaganda and dissembling, or any other simialr / related field comes up, and long, focused discussions on how to do it BETTER / FASTER / HARDER / MORE POWERFUL / BIGGER, etc.  occur, stay out and shut up.  They're having fun.

This.  Doktor Howl is all about the gadgets.

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Apple Talk / Re: Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

« on: February 08, 2010, 05:48:34 pm »

So, is there a specific degree one may aquire or is this just something you fall into like a vat of noxious chemicals?

Neither.  It's a mindset.  Do you learn to use the odd bits of technology around you and use them for your own amusement, or not?  Also, are you FOR or AGAINST destroying the major metropolis of your choice?

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Apple Talk / Re: Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

« on: February 08, 2010, 04:44:09 pm »

Well, hell.  I'm on board.

Yeah, benefit #3 is a real draw.

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Apple Talk / Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

« on: February 08, 2010, 04:24:37 pm »

Yesterday, while I was soldering the first connections on my optical stunner, it occurred to me that the world isn't ready for you, Kai.  They aren't ready for understanding the rules of how the universe works...because the universe is a cold, empty place, and even contemplating it sets off all their primate rage instincts.

No, Kai, you are doomed to be the scapegoat of the Know-Nothings, the Tea Partiers, and the corporate interests that want to keep the population ignorant.  With this in mind, I am here to attempt to convert you to Mad Science.  Allow me to explain the benefits, as they compare to regular science:

1.  Regular scientists drive sensible transportation.  Mad scientists drive chopped hearses with built in weaponry.

2.  Regular scientists define a wild party as three different bean dips.  Mad scientists define a wild party as fighting the giant squid in the basement.

3.  Regular scientists go on a date, and it's dinner and a movie.  Mad scientists just strap their date to the slab and get busy.

4.  Regular scientists retire at 70.  Mad scientists go down swinging when the hero blows up their base (and we usually escape to menace the world later on, with cybernetic parts replacing the bits we lost).  Pissing yourself in the old folks home, or howling in fury in a burning/collapsing/self-destructing volcano hideout?  You choose.

5.  Regular scientists ride those silly backwards bikes to stay in shape.  Mad scientists wear a full body waldo and throw cars around while laughing maniacally.  Laughing maniacally, Kai.  When's the last time you did that?

6.  Regular scientists secretly yearn to be mad scientists.  Mad scientists secretly yearn to CONQUER THE WORLD WITH AN ARMY OF RADIOACTIVE GORILLAS!

People fear science, Kai.  But who's afraid of a mad scientist?  Fucking nobody.

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Apple Talk / Re: In Memoriam: TGRR 2002-2010

« on: February 08, 2010, 04:09:07 pm »

Goodbye Hello Roger! It sounds like you had quite an experience - your nervous system is all realigned, huh? I want to hear more about your transcendence. Is it hard to leave behind your old identity? What made you want to get a new one? What does Doc Howl have to say about Rage?

I'm glad we didn't lose ya, man. 

In this case, it wasn't too hard to walk away from my identity, both IRL and online.  I was getting a little lazy and bored with the TGRR persona...I wasn't doing enough, and when your mind isn't big enough for the job, the answer is sometimes to just get a new one.

And rage is bad for you.  In hindsight, needing rage to act is a sign of laziness, and you typically miss your intended target...and I think we've had entirely enough collateral damage around here, don't you?

Lastly, as I said before, the Holy Man™ is useless in America, right now...perhaps Payne can get some use out of it.  What we need now is cartoon mad science, Cram.  Religion scares people, and it puts them off of your message.  But who is afraid of a "mad scientist" in this day and age?  Fucking nobody.  You're a joke, and everyone likes to hear jokes.

But wait until they get the punchline, Professor.

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Apple Talk / Re: Hey, LMNO...

« on: February 08, 2010, 04:00:20 pm »

Dear Doktor Howl, I have a few logistical questions:

Who is the author of the original pieces attributed to TGRR? 

Do you prefer to keep the TGRR moniker on the scribd hardcopy?

Your previous two rants were written and recorded by TGRR; any future recordings will be written by TGRR and recited by Doktor Howl -- how would you like this to be credited on the album/website?

Leave any extant pieces with the original attribution, written or spoken.  No need to complicate things.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: KAI, THEY'RE ON TO YOU!

« on: February 08, 2010, 02:14:09 pm »

Interesting comment there:

The real question here--and this is where I'd like to see the legal test case--is whether a member of "an organization subject to foreign control," like SHELL or TEXACO or ANY MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION, should have to register, too. If those corporations donate money to any political campaign, as the Supreme Court now says they can, aren't they interested in "controlling" the United States?