Into The Afternight: Our 3rd Shift O/T
18 repliesIf you’re still up and want to talk Chiefs, or just hang with fellow citizens of the Kingdom, this is the place.
Hey, God? Fate? The Universe? Flying Spaghetti Monster? Someone please touch me with a noodley appendage, because I could use a couple of low-stress weeks. Any time, now please. In the meantime, I have to keep grinding.
Fortunately, I’m pretty tough, so if I haven’t shattered by now I see no reason to expect it in the future.
With that, time’s yours.
Shadoobi
Ah-oom-papa-oom-papa-mao-mao
I was thinking “go ahead, bite the big apple”, But I’m good with yours.
I’m not clever enough to put a a video of “Shattered”, but thanks for the smile!!
When I don’t get the reference, I riff. Now that I got the hint:
Also glad I made you smile. I have kind of a knack for it, as maybe a week ago I was down at the convenience store for cigars before going to the liquor store next door to stock up on beer, before the cold got even worse. And wouldn’t you know it, a clerk I had noticed but never had talked to while buying cigars was out for a smoke of her own when I came back to retrieve the one I had parked on the ledge by the door. When we made eye contact, I held up the forgotten item and quipped, “cold froze my brain!”, which gave her a good chuckle.
Four words, a context, and a prop were all it took for me to make a stranger laugh. I’m a world-class walk-up comedian.
Theres more videos that are more informative but this is old news in the science world.
Tony knows this stuff. This here is a very basic breakdown if your interested.
I only watched the first ~1 minute. Can’t verify the rest but it was accurate on what I watched.
Yep, decades old, as far as proof of concept goes. Been keeping tabs on it for that long at least, seems like.
Maybe that’s because in 1st, maybe 2nd grade I read a SF story, Space Pirates, I think, where the ship-to-ship combat used magnetic cannons, which puts the concept’s exposure back to more than 4 decades. Plenty cool stuff, you betcha.
People often recount the handful of teachers they’ve had in the K-12 system, and I’ve had as many as anyone (maybe more, but being able to find the vibe in the teachers thus giving myself an advantage is a different topic), but where I think I lucked out over the large majority is that my first two librarians were fantastic, moving me up the “advancement” scale just as fast as I could climb it, all the while throwing challenges my way.
They also listened seriously to me when I talked books with them, which opened my mental landscape ever wider. And Rick, the bookmobile guy was there on tap for me into my adulthood. They had confidence in me, too, as evidenced by Rick’s arranging for me (because who else would have?) to be the final judge of his ride’s name-and-motto contest. My parents certainly had no hand in it, since they were dismissive of my choices and tried to get me to change them by saying there would be a group of adults who were the real final judges, and they would change them anyway. Some love there, eh?
Well, even at that age I knew that Rick had to be involved in it, because it’s not like I applied for the role. So as I said above, who else? And I knew who I trusted on that one, and stuck to my guns. Basically told me that the letter asked me to make my own choices, and that’s what I would send back. If other adults changed them, then it wasn’t important because it wasn’t my choice. Basically, because I was under 14 at the time. You expect an orator, maybe? 😉
My life motto.
I wonder if anyone will take note of tonight’s puns?
I did, I didn’t read all the earlier thread. I just started.
Fair enough, since I was only referring to this thread’s content area.
Completely spaced that the Wild were playing tonight. Only caught about the last 15 mins, but that was enough. Good times.
I must be crazy, what I put myself through for this place.
Oh. Wait, I am crazy. Carry on.
🙂