Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146

[Rawhide]

What... the fuzz or the shave?
'cos it's hard to take photos of the past when I left my Time Travel Camera in the Renaissance.
I sure hope Leonardo Da Vinci isn't abusing the powers of his new toy.

The fuzz, or even before and after shots. Pity.

[Jibar]

The fuzz, or even before and after shots. Pity.

Next time I go three weeks without shaving, I'll try to remember to do this.
And by next time, I mean three weeks from now.

[Quincunx]

What... the fuzz or the shave?
'cos it's hard to take photos of the past when I left my Time Travel Camera in the Renaissance.
I sure hope Leonardo Da Vinci isn't abusing the powers of his new toy.

And they say Caravaggio may have been the first to use the camera obscura to project an image later to be traced for a painting's cartoon. Piffle and tchah. Question is, was his left-handedness right brain strange enough to cope with the projected image being upside-down? For all we know, that flying machine may instead have been a drilling machine.

[Lyesmith]

Shaving is my WORST ENEMY. I have thick, coarse hair which translates into ungodly razor burn. And it refuses to grow into anything decent-looking, as well.
I recently invested in an electric razor, so I just keep it basically-shaved instead of actually-shaved to offset the itch.


My cheeks are an exception. They are shaved WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

[Recaiden]

Whaaaat? The chances of these things happening are... No. This ceases to be chance. No.

No.

You broke my brain.

... such that it is unlikely to happen in any one situation, but somewhere, it must have. So why not here?

[AtlanteanTroll]

Shaving is my WORST ENEMY.

Mine to, I started shaving this year, and I am cutting myself way too much. Damn my horrible dexterity. I did buy an electric razor yesterday, maybe that will solve my problems.

[Archonic Energy]

Hello,
Good Afternoon,
and as always,
REMAIN INDOORS

[AtlanteanTroll]

Hello,
Good Afternoon,
and as always,
REMAIN INDOORS

I have (near) all summer. Except for when I was in DC for a week. It was 102 degrees

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Hello,
Good Afternoon,
and as always,
REMAIN INDOORS

God, imagine the Event happening again! NO! DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST!
*REMAIN INDOORS*

[Lyesmith]

God, imagine the Event happening again! NO! DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST!
*REMAIN INDOORS*

AHHH
AHHHHHH
AHHH
THE EVENT AHHHH

REMAIN INDOORS REMAIN INDOORS REMAIN INDOORS

[Dr. Bath]

Dammit. Gonna have to get the electrocurative chair out again. Stupid THE EVENT.

[SpiderMew]

That show hasnt even started yet out here, has it? Or did the UK get their own The Event before we get ours?

[Jibar]

I am making Lego video game sprites.

I have already made a Question Mark Box, and a Super Mushroom.

I have a whole bunch of red and blue left, along with a serviceable amount of yellow.

What should I make next?

[Dr. Bath]

A very different THE EVENT

Yesss, purchased 6 hours of delicious Oliver Postgate animation yesterday. It is the best thing of all ever.

@^ Optimus Prumblebee

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I only watched one hour of NBC last night, and I am already sick to near death* of hearing about "The Event!"

*Okay, well, I did wake up with the sniffles, which I blame on THE EVENT!

^ Your "The Event" sounds more interesting.

[AtlanteanTroll]

What is "the Event"?

Oh, and Chautauqua

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I don't know if you have American TV in Atlanta or if you'd heard of a show called LOST, but it is a show that starts with a giant mystery or 8 and throughout the series, it adds more mysteries and occassionally solves some of the mysterious mysteries that are going on.

"The Event" is a show on a network channel that will air tonight. It is yet another attempt to take the formula for LOST and try to turn it into another hit show.

Spoiler

Show

Apparently a young man stumbles onto a government cover-up so big that it will change the face of all man-kind forever and ever, and destroy civilivations if it ever comes to light. I bet that its "The Hilton tape was faked."

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?

[Lyesmith]

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?

Repeated brutal beatings with a shovel. If it ripples, the walrus is ripe.

[PhoeKun]

I don't know if you have American TV in Atlanta or if you'd heard of a show called LOST, but it is a show that starts with a giant mystery or 8 and throughout the series, it adds more mysteries and occassionally solves some of the mysterious mysteries that are going on.

"The Event" is a show on a network channel that will air tonight. It is yet another attempt to take the formula for LOST and try to turn it into another hit show.

Spoiler

Show

Apparently a young man stumbles onto a government cover-up so big that it will change the face of all man-kind forever and ever, and destroy civilivations if it ever comes to light. I bet that its "The Hilton tape was faked."

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?

The phrase "The Event" is quickly turning into one of those things that makes me instantly want to put my fist through something. Of course I never will, because whatever I broke would inevitably be too expensive to replace, but... gah. Most irritating advertising campaign in a long while, and without having watched a second of it I can tell you that they've already built "The Event" up into something so big that whatever it winds up being will never be able to live up to the hype in a thousand million years.

I'm not really even sure how I would have fixed that. I think it's just one of those shows that's a failed concept from day one, and they didn't have anybody on staff with the foresight to shoot it down before it reached the public.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I don't live in Atlanta. No one lives in Atlanta. It was destroyed by the Nuclear Fallout 10 years ago.

[CurlyKitGirl]

If, in thirty years, the small crystalline spider webs that drift through the blueness of space with nary a whisper approach this miniscule and insignificant part of the universe, intent on entrapping us in all in their etheral rainbowing beauty, do you think it's possible they would sing?
Crystals resonate and sing if struck after all.
But there's no sound in space.

Now, it's obvious that the crystal webs would resonate given the high amount of space rubbish in orbit around us; but at what point would the non-sound of space become the sound of an atmosphere?

Yes, this is quite inspired by that episode in TNG. No. I don't know why I started thinking of it.
I was writing a story, and got stuck on a detail. And now I've lost track of the plot - and in fact, the entire story - but whimsical and odd minds wish to know.

And for the record, yes, the creatures living in the web would eventually descend to devour us all in a rather upsetting manner.

[Supagoof]

I don't know if you have American TV in Atlanta or if you'd heard of a show called LOST, but it is a show that starts with a giant mystery or 8 and throughout the series, it adds more mysteries and occassionally solves some of the mysterious mysteries that are going on.

"The Event" is a show on a network channel that will air tonight. It is yet another attempt to take the formula for LOST and try to turn it into another hit show.

Spoiler

Show

Apparently a young man stumbles onto a government cover-up so big that it will change the face of all man-kind forever and ever, and destroy civilivations if it ever comes to light. I bet that its "The Hilton tape was faked."

I need a new topic: How can I tell if a walrus is ripe enough to be taken home?

And here you are supporting the hype!

Part of me is intrigued, because it could be something cool like Heroes - where some mystery before it led into a great show (for the first season anyway. After that it went downhill....). But my intrigue is past the point of not needed to see commercials every commercial break for it, and in those ad snippets during the show that run on the bottom of the screen.

PS. Hilton was faking it during the taping - does that count?

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Repeated brutal beatings with a shovel. If it ripples, the walrus is ripe.

Thanks! Its tuskburgers for supper tonight!!

The phrase "The Event" is quickly turning into one of those things that makes me instantly want to put my fist through something. Of course I never will, because whatever I broke would inevitably be too expensive to replace, but... gah. Most irritating advertising campaign in a long while, and without having watched a second of it I can tell you that they've already built "The Event" up into something so big that whatever it winds up being will never be able to live up to the hype in a thousand million years.

I'm not really even sure how I would have fixed that. I think it's just one of those shows that's a failed concept from day one, and they didn't have anybody on staff with the foresight to shoot it down before it reached the public.

They are trying to recapture the LOST crowd. Even from the things they've said on the Wiki, they promise to answer the mysteries. I do agree that they are hping this up so much that it can't live up to its expectations, so I wager the reveal is going to be so off the wall that its insulting to the viewer's intelligence that they are supposed to believe its plausible.

I don't live in Atlanta. No one lives in Atlanta. It was destroyed by the Nuclear Fallout 10 years ago.

I swear I wrote Atlantis and Rawhide snuck in and changed my post.

And for the record, yes, the creatures living in the web would eventually descend to devour us all in a rather upsetting manner.

It won't be that upsetting. The melodious songs of his web will have lulled us all into a passive trancelike state. It will be like being dissolved from the insides in your sleep.

And here you are supporting the hype!

That's why we've moved the conversation to smacking walrus with a shovel and how pleasant it is to be eaten by a space spider.

[AtlanteanTroll]

If, in thirty years, the small crystalline spider webs that drift through the blueness of space with nary a whisper approach this miniscule and insignificant part of the universe, intent on entrapping us in all in their etheral rainbowing beauty, do you think it's possible they would sing?
Crystals resonate and sing if struck after all.
But there's no sound in space.

Now, it's obvious that the crystal webs would resonate given the high amount of space rubbish in orbit around us; but at what point would the non-sound of space become the sound of an atmosphere?

Yes, this is quite inspired by that episode in TNG. No. I don't know why I started thinking of it.
I was writing a story, and got stuck on a detail. And now I've lost track of the plot - and in fact, the entire story - but whimsical and odd minds wish to know.

And for the record, yes, the creatures living in the web would eventually descend to devour us all in a rather upsetting manner.

What are yoou talking about?

[CurlyKitGirl]

It won't be that upsetting. The melodious songs of his web will have lulled us all into a passive trancelike state. It will be like being dissolved from the insides in your sleep.

It's a series of webs. Those web that house colonies of spiders - there can be over ten thousandof those spiders in one colony.
So we're talking about eighty five thousand space spider about to eat us all.
I do like the trance theory though.
But it'd be funner somehow if it merely paralysed you, and then you kind of suffered from locked-in syndrome, so you would see and distantly feel what was happening. Being perfectly aware of it the entire time.

What are yoou talking about?

About a species of colonial spiders that live on crystalline webs that drift throught the universe destroying evrything in their path as they migrate from galaxy to galaxy in search of new prey.
So it seems they would sing.
So the distant ringing that you hear sometimes?
That's the spiders,laying their traps and floating down to the surface of this green land in silken parachutes, awaiting for the chord that will end us and all life on this planet.
Whether or not water-dwellers will be spared is undecided at this time.

Duh.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

It's a series of webs. Those web that house colonies of spiders - there can be over ten thousandof those spiders in one colony.
So we're talking about eighty five thousand space spider about to eat us all.
I do like the trance theory though.
But it'd be funner somehow if it merely paralysed you, and then you kind of suffered from locked-in syndrome, so you would see and distantly feel what was happening. Being perfectly aware of it the entire time.



About a species of colonial spiders that live on crystalline webs that drift throught the universe destroying evrything in their path as they migrate from galaxy to galaxy in search of new prey.
So it seems they would sing.
So the distant ringing that you hear sometimes?
That's the spiders,laying their traps and floating down to the surface of this green land in silken parachutes, awaiting for the chord that will end us and all life on this planet.
Whether or not water-dwellers will be spared is undecided at this time.

Duh.

If the spiders can survive the vaccuum of space, I imagine that water wouldn't be a problem, unless they severly hamper the spider's manuverability.

Hmmmm...I thought we were talking about 1 ultra giant big spider the size of Kilomanjaro, but I think I could survive 85,000 smaller ones. I have some experience fighting giant spider hordes after "The Event." Although the thought of being paralyzed and feeling everything really creeps me out.

[CurlyKitGirl]

If the spiders can survive the vaccuum of space, I imagine that water wouldn't be a problem, unless they severly hamper the spider's manuverability.

Hmmmm...I thought we were talking about 1 ultra giant big spider the size of Kilomanjaro, but I think I could survive 85,000 smaller ones. I have some experience fighting giant spider hordes after "The Event." Although the thought of being paralyzed and feeling everything really creeps me out.

Space isn't exactly water though, so while it would impede a spider's manoueverability, probably not enough to Save the Seals, Whales, Sharks or Dolphins. The deep sea pressure may preserve life though.

Well, eighty five thousand small space-spiders would still be fairly big.
If they can survive your years floating amiably through space, maybe the size of a human? Certainly not much bigger than a house at any rate.

I'm glad you appreciate my creepy death scenario, there's nothing more terrifying than seeing something happening to your body, but not actually being present enough to feel it properly or do anything about it.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I swear I wrote Atlantis and Rawhide snuck in and changed my post.

Ohhhh. Living in Atlantis would make much more sense. Silly Rawhide changing posts so they don't make any sense.

[Lyesmith]

I'm glad you appreciate my creepy death scenario, there's nothing more terrifying than seeing something happening to your body, but not actually being present enough to feel it properly or do anything about it.

Related : Mitchell & Webb's sherlock holmes sketch.

So, results day tomorrow. Scared. So scared.

[SpiderMew]

If, in thirty years, the small crystalline spider webs that drift through the blueness of space with nary a whisper approach this miniscule and insignificant part of the universe, intent on entrapping us in all in their etheral rainbowing beauty, do you think it's possible they would sing?
Crystals resonate and sing if struck after all.
But there's no sound in space.

Now, it's obvious that the crystal webs would resonate given the high amount of space rubbish in orbit around us; but at what point would the non-sound of space become the sound of an atmosphere?

Yes, this is quite inspired by that episode in TNG. No. I don't know why I started thinking of it.
I was writing a story, and got stuck on a detail. And now I've lost track of the plot - and in fact, the entire story - but whimsical and odd minds wish to know.

And for the record, yes, the creatures living in the web would eventually descend to devour us all in a rather upsetting manner.

In space they might not resonate with a sound, but perhaps solar winds would cause a unique frequency to be broadcast that could be picked up by highend recevers. Vibration dosnt strickly cause sounds, it can cause radio signals, infact thats how radiowaves are put out, vibrations.
So a supercomplex living crystal creature, should put out some sort of frequency, even if we dont have the equipment to hear it yet.