Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-Muffin

[Zeb The Troll]

In more tangential and totally unrelated, topic shifting, news...

PuddingTroll is auditioning to be a baby model tomorrow morning. I'm not entirely sure what this involves other than him being cute and not being shy around a photographer.

Has anyone else ever done this that can fill me in on some of the inner workings? Like, what is a normal percentage for the agent's cut? How often can we expect to have to take him for auditions (aside from the one with the agency later this morning)? Does it pay well enough to be worth the drive from Baltimore to NYC for the audition? How will I help him cope with the inevitable fame?

[Dr. Bath]

You are not aiding my self-esteem any by showing up and getting accolades for something I found first while I was subsequently ignored, mon amie.

Well, you did post it at 4 in the morning at the end of the thread at the bottom of the page. And started talking about comics, how could people not be distracted?

Jibar your story was almost good enough to stop me irrationally hating Norfolk.

Almost.

Lets not be hasty now.

[Phase]

Well, you did post it at 4 in the morning at the end of the thread at the bottom of the page. And started talking about comics, how could people not be distracted?

Shush, you. Logic has nothing to do with this.

[Dr. Bath]

Gorram Astrophysics. Why did they have do the vast majority of lectures in the dark at nine on a monday morning so I fell asleep? It's a conspiracy and I blame Phase.

[CurlyKitGirl]

In more tangential and totally unrelated, topic shifting, news...

PuddingTroll is auditioning to be a baby model tomorrow morning. I'm not entirely sure what this involves other than him being cute and not being shy around a photographer.

Has anyone else ever done this that can fill me in on some of the inner workings? Like, what is a normal percentage for the agent's cut? How often can we expect to have to take him for auditions (aside from the one with the agency later this morning)? Does it pay well enough to be worth the drive from Baltimore to NYC for the audition? How will I help him cope with the inevitable fame?

PudingTroll is definitely cute enough to be in a serious chance of getting the modelling job.

@Bath: You're avvie . . . *shudders* Damnable doll.
I agree with the conspiracy theory though; a lot of my lectures are early, yet my curtains are acting like blackout curtains when they didn't last term. I missed my first lecture today.

[Dr. Bath]

The BEST doll. It's like a gurning doll AND a clown!

Could be, could just be that it is perhaps slightly darker now than last semester? What with the dreary grey sky of deepest, darkest peru January? Just saying.

Maybe get an alarm clock? I hear they work wonders.

ARGHARGH WHY IS MY EXAM A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN THAT IS THE FURTHEST AWAY A PLACE ON CAMPUS COULD POSSIBLY BE. SHOUTING. ARGH.

p.s. Babies are funny-lookin'. A hyuk hyuk. The laughing babies in a recent advert genuinely terrify a friend of mine. I don't think the pay for baby modelling is all that great if you even get the job, there's high competition for not so much demand (since everyone obviously thinks their baby is the cutest). Never work with children or animals and all that.

[Zeb The Troll]

I don't think the pay for baby modelling is all that great if you even get the job, there's high competition for not so much demand (since everyone obviously thinks their baby is the cutest). Never work with children or animals and all that.

Well, it's not like we're looking to make millions or are expecting him to be the next Gerber Baby or anything. Just wondering if there'd be any left over after the travel and the agent cut if he did make the cut, ya know?

(And of course everyone thinks their baby is the cutest, but mine really IS. No, really! )

[Dr. Bath]

Maybe but I seriously doubt it would be little more that 500 dollars, probably less (maybe more). There's always more almost as cute babies that will do it for less. Damn those money-grubbing babies! Coming over here and taking our jobs! We should deport them we should.

But did you do this for your previous baby? Or are you dissin' dat first baby down town.

[Jibar]

(And of course everyone thinks their baby is the cutest, but mine really IS. No, really! )

It's true, I've seen pics.

[Dr. Bath]

Babies are just failed clones. All weird and mutanty.

Also jib-jibbity, why are you holding a flashing gold squid? Such overwhelming confusing envelopes me.

[Lyesmith]

Babies are just failed clones. All weird and mutanty.

Also jib-jibbity, why are you holding a flashing gold squid? Such overwhelming confusing envelopes me.

Babies are scary. Less scary than your avvie, bath, but still scary.

Also, playground? NEVER CATCH NOROVIRUS

[Jibar]

Babies are just failed clones. All weird and mutanty.

Also jib-jibbity, why are you holding a flashing gold squid? Such overwhelming confusing envelopes me.

It's a gauntlet with an energy source attached.
You can't really see it at this level, but there's a mass of wires attaching it to the fingers which have metal plates on the tips.

[Recaiden]

It's a gauntlet with an energy source attached.
You can't really see it at this level, but there's a mass of wires attaching it to the fingers which have metal plates on the tips.

Don't you love avatars with detail you can't make out?

I thought there was a 4th finger at 1st, though.

[Dr. Bath]

It's a gauntlet gold mechanical squid with an energy source attached.
You can't really see it at this level, but there's a mass of wires attaching it to the fingers which have metal plates on the tips.

Ok, cool.

I always tried to avoid putting too much detail in, a) waste of time b) just makes it look less OotSy/like you are trying too hard

Good thinking, Zira. I shall bear that in mind.

[Lyesmith]

Ok, cool.

I always tried to avoid putting too much detail in, a) waste of time b) just makes it look less OotSy/like you are trying too hard

Good thinking, Zira. I shall bear that in mind.

You should. You get to avoid shakes, bodily fatigue and vomiting!

[Scorpina]

Huh, I have all those right now.

On the plus side, it's a day off work!

[randman22222]

Spoiler

Show

I make the first post.

Bob S. (codename) makes a post recognizing me and proves it with details about my personal life.

Bob S. confirms that he goes to my school because he has details about my school that would be difficult to find out otherwise.

Bob S. gives me a confirmed clue:


8085: C]---->((( L THU

8085 is confirmed BOBS, but not related to his name, but related to an event. BS is probably Bake Sale, and BO is probably Band/Orchestra or Build On, school organizations.

L THU is lunch, Thursday.

The C] is C building and stairs, arrow is just an arrow, and the ((( are a set of curved steps at my school known as the senior steps.

Next day:

I go to the steps at lunch, don't see him, can't find the bake sale until the second half of lunch, and due to the fact there was a crowd, maybe missed him.

Bake Sale was by Build On, so BOBS is confirmed.

Second poster is given codename Bob S. due to the 8085 deal, but that is confirmed not his name because it is confirmed not related to his initials.

Pictures were provided as proof that I went to the locales important.

Above is a story that happened to me, I thought it was interesting, but it might not be, hence spoiler tags. Also, sorta long.

So I'm living in an ARG, because I get secret messages from somebody in code. No, I'm not crazy, I just spend a lot of time on 4chan and somebody specifically sent me a code, I solved it, circumstances meant that the meeting place was moved, thus, trying again.

That does sound really interesting...

But...

4chan? Really? The butt of the internet?

[Player_Zero]

I too have the day off! Not because I'm sick, I just woke up at 1PM because I couldn't be bothered with lectures today.

[Kobold-Bard]

Just FYI, next Monday is "National Pull a Sickie Day" apparently.*

What will your excuse be?

*Fact received from an adverty on Viva (a uk music channel), and so should not be trusted without further clarification.

[Player_Zero]

Unfortunately I have to hand my assignment on group theory in on Monday. Chock full of abelian groups and isomorphisms.

Did you know, the group of positive real numbers with the multiplication operator is isomorphic to the real numbers with the addition operator? Well it is.

[Phaedra]

Just FYI, next Monday is "National Pull a Sickie Day" apparently.*

What will your excuse be?

*Fact received from an adverty on Viva (a uk music channel), and so should not be trusted without further clarification.

So tempting, but I'm supposed to be interviewing a director of a multinational company then, so I suppose I should actually turn up. He's quite an important man. Not that anyone ever checks where I am anyway. I could be doing my research from a mediterranean island for all my supervisor cares.

I'm not though. However much I dream about that possibility.

[Thufir]

I'm not skipping my first lecture of semester 2 in my final year for some stupid arbitrary stupid day.

At least not deliberately. At current rate I might sleep through it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've just had breakfast, and it's now time I left the house for a choir rehearsal.

[CurlyKitGirl]

@BAth: I shall shun you like the plague; freaky doll-demon.

Just back from a class. I have decided to redub it the Friday Argument. Because all we did was argue and bicker over poems.
And I completely (if you pardon my leetspeak a moment) pwned the professor running it.
Both he and I started to say something and then he stopped and said, "Curly, I think you're going to say what I say, so why don't you say it first."
" . . .
I don't know what you're going to say, I can't read minds."
Cue laughter and him blushing.

[Player_Zero]

I'm not skipping my first lecture of semester 2 in my final year for some stupid arbitrary stupid day.

At least not deliberately. At current rate I might sleep through it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've just had breakfast, and it's now time I left the house for a choir rehearsal.

You still haven't started term yet? Oo, you unconscionable bugger.

[Neko Toast]

You still haven't started term yet? Oo, you unconscionable bugger.

>.> I haven't started, either.
Classes start on Monday, and move-in day is Sunday.

[Player_Zero]

And here I was labouring away, spending much of my time playing minesweeper and sleeping in!

My best time is 172 on expert.

[Gullara]

And here I was labouring away, spending much of my time playing minesweeper and sleeping in!

My best time is 172 on expert.

Nice I always screw up when I only have a few mines left.

[Kobold-Bard]

You still haven't started term yet? Oo, you unconscionable bugger.

If it makes you feel any better I don't start until February.

[Quincunx]

Minesweeper without marking the mines is as close as it gets to difficult nowadays. Need a new puzzle game that I can think about but not get so embroiled in that I can't put it down (that's Mastermind out).

[Zocelot]

I used to play a minesweeper a ton a few years ago, but I've fallen out of practice. It was a really useful thing to do when you're having an msn conversation, and the other person is slow to reply.

My times are 3/36/129.
I got 2 seconds on beginner once, but due to some stuff happening, it didn't save.

These days, the best I can do is 8/45-50/150-175

Edit: Oh, the reason I came to RB was to announce that I completed a fort consisting of a table, a dest and 37 chairs. It was pretty intense. I didn't take any pictures, but other people did. I'll see if I can get them and upload them later.