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I can't believe I'm taking sexual advice from Ted Mosby. That's like taking fashion advice from...Ted Mosby.

Dude, I was trying not to give a spoiler!

But...but...Bill Murray!

Tell me you stayed after the credits.

Seven, you need to see this.

He went extinct for your sins.

I've missed you on IM, Sugar Tits.

At 9/29/09 09:24 PM, Proteas wrote: Gotcha. Brass octagon dog tag, sweet.

Yep. One of the guys who makes the custom tags can do both sides, so I can do the logo, my name, and my phone number on the front (like name and serial number), and on the back, his name and our full address.

At 9/28/09 10:07 PM, Proteas wrote: Only thing I could immediatly find on google (I know, lame) was the Nebraska Huskers football team, and the band Husker Du. Since you don't live in Nebraska, I'm left to assume you're referring to the punk band?

Bzzt.

Husker was William Adama's callsign during his pilot days. Battlestar Galactica ftw.

At 9/28/09 09:28 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: 1) Male or Female?

We're leaning strongly toward male.

2) How old?

Probably in the 3-5 year range, or very slightly older.

3) What are you thinking about a name?

Right now the frontrunner is Husker. Ten points to the person who figures out the reference, and why that name will allow us to get the dog a badass custom dogtag.

I got a call from the rescue lady to let me know that we have been approved to adopt one of their greyhounds! She sent me a final email checklist thingie for them to give to the folks who do the matches, so they can pick the best dog for us. Fingers crossed, we are supposed to have our new friend by the end of October!

Polanski isn't being extradited to stand trial, he's being extradited to be sentenced. He already pled guilty to the charges in the original trial.

Frankly I don't care how good your movies are. Drugging up a 13-year-old girl and fucking her in the ass is inexcusable.

Godwin: Hitler was an artist too.

The age of consent laws exist because at some point you have to assign a numerical value as a guideline. You can't write a law that says "It's okay to fuck 15-year-olds, but only if they're mature for their age," it just would not work. At some point there does have to be a certainly level of arbitrariness to it. Just like speed limits. Yes, maybe some people can drive safely going 80, but some people can't. Same goes for blood-alcohol limits, voting rights, etc.

At 9/27/09 02:40 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: Children have no sexual urges and therefore they don't know what they are saying 'yes' to.

While I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, this is simply not true. Children are surprisingly sexual. It's not like when you turn 18 or hit puberty or whatever it flips on the sex switch. Before they reach sexual maturity they are already curious about their genitals and those of the opposite sex.

HOWEVER, they are still not capable of giving informed consent, and while a teen might be informed, sex with under-18s is still illegal because of the tendency for those situations to be abused. So sex with kids is still wrong, but not for the reason you state.

Had my housewarming/birthday party last night. I think we wound up with nine bottles of wine - one bottle of brut champagne, three bottles of white, and five bottles of red. Some of the reds are really interesting and nice, which makes me a wee bit sad that I have such a strong reaction to red wine (headaches). Maybe I can regift them or something. Too nice to just use for cooking.

Only party I've ever thrown where the gifts ended up being worth more than what we spent to throw the party. We got gift cards to Lowe's, Target, and Petsmart, and my dad gave us some general-use Amex gift cards. Pretty good haul.

I'm eating leftover brie and installing Civ IV: Colonization, which Andrew bought for me. Not a bad day at all :)

You could probably substitute heavy-gauge aluminum wire, it's much cheaper. It's going to have a little more "give" than copper.

At 9/26/09 02:38 PM, SolInvictus wrote: speaking of wire; i'm gonna have to track some relatively large gauge copper wire for some bonsai shaping.

You're going to be better off with hardware store stocks than craft wire for that.

My sister had a young bonsai tree that was doing very well, but her cat decided to knock it off the shelf and that killed it :(

At 9/26/09 02:41 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: You don't really need wire. You just have to trim in the right places.

Totally not true. Even the great masters of bonsai use wire and padding to shape the trees.

There's a huge collection of bonsai trees at the National Aboretum in DC. They have one tree there that's 400+ years old and has been passed down from master to apprentice for generations. Pretty amazing stuff.

At 9/25/09 11:21 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: It R a "PUNNE" or play upone wordf.

There's an amusing moment in an episode of True Blood (and I believe the scene is lifted directly from one of the books) where Sookie kind of groans at a play on words and Bill remarks "You have to remember that when some of us were alive, puns were considered the highest form of humor."

I had a similar problem the first time I tried to knit in the round. Wound up making something that was more like a Mobius strip than a hat.

I had some friends who were heavily involved in SCA and did a lot of leather and metalcraft, and the guy who did most of the metal work eventually got so good he could work chain mail without looking at it. You'll get there!

At 9/22/09 09:46 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Has anyone worked with the Firefox plugin Zotero? I'm using it for my next project. I need to get over the mental block of thinking it's called Zydeco.

A team at my alma mater actually wrote Zotero. I like it - it's limited in what it can do, but I found it to be extremely useful throughout undergrad and grad.

The guy who goes around campus and teaches people how to use it has the professional title of "Zotero Evangelist."

Whenever there's a big protest downtown, it makes life a living hell for anyone in a 30-mile radius. Makes it really difficult for me to have any sympathy for their cause, regardless of how I feel about the politics involved. Folks who come to DC for political reasons seem to forget that other people LIVE here.

Hair, whether on your head, face, or body, tends to have what stylists usually call "whorls" in it. Looks like you've got a nice little whorl in your neckbeard.

I have one right at the crown of my head, as well as a weird little pattern at the back of my neck where the hair grows out toward the sides of my neck rather than straight down, and a little cowlick thing at the front so my bangs stand up straight. It's awesome.

(Not really.)

Whorls are only a problem if you're shaving with a traditional razor - electric razors don't seem to give a damn.

At 9/18/09 02:11 PM, fli wrote: This is crazy...
I saw two guys today with hitler mustaches today...

They might have been military. The military restricts how far your mustache can extend to the sides, and it the rules often result in Hitler 'staches.

Unfortunately I'm not one of them - my father is obsessed with tennis.

At 9/13/09 06:54 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I watched that episode too. and I hate melon. and I wanted to eat every single thing they ended up making.

The steak and lettuce rolls with melon and radish sticks sounded really awesome.

Turns out nearly all of my big bag of potatoes has gone off, so I may have to turn to my jicama for the pot roast tonight. I've done pork roasts with apples, and I understand it tastes a little like an apple, so we'll see.

Actually it's a giant legume :)

After watching Battle Melon on Iron Chef America, I decided I wanted to pick up a jicama root. There's a Korean grocery right by the place where we do Sunday brunch, so we bought one.

I have no idea what to do with this thing. There are recipes all over the internet, and I'm sure eventually I'll want to try all of them, but I'm kind of at a loss what to do with this first jicama.

So any suggestions would be hot ;)

The tricky thing about an aneurysm is they typically don't feel like anything. :(

At 9/10/09 01:28 PM, Elfer wrote: Out of curiosity, does it have a hi-hat pedal?

I'm not sure. I think his kit has it, but Rock Band doesn't recognize it, or something. He took a regular electronic kit and the Ion kit for Rock Band and made a Frankenstein.

And while it would be pretty similar, I wouldn't say it's exactly the same. There's a bit more to drums than hitting the right notes in the right order.

I'd say it doesn't HAVE to be as complex as playing the drums for real, but it can be. Since we got the game he has definitely developed his drumming skills a lot, and when we go to visit our friends who have acoustic kits, he can sit down and jam with them no problem.

At 9/10/09 05:18 PM, Proteas wrote: I don't think it does. I think it's just your toms and a bass drum.

The Ion kit is toms, snare, kick drum, and three cymbals. There are only four colors, and there are seven pads on our set. You can hit the yellow tom or the yellow cymbal interchangeably and the game isn't smart enough to know the difference, but it recognizes the different pads during the fills and adds in the appropriate sound.

He hybridized it so he can plug in his drum brain and play the kit by itself or unplug the brain and play the game without having to move his set around. Plus he likes the more realistic feel of having all the pads instead of just the four. He also ditched the original Ion pedal because it was insanely loud, and all you could hear was "CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK" when he was playing it.

My ability to play the real guitar has actually proven to be a massive handicap in playing Rock Band. I can play bass on the little plastic guitars, but I fail at lead guitar.

If you get one of the advanced kits, like my husband has, the drumming is exactly the same as playing real drums on an electric kit.

At 9/9/09 09:00 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: Yeah you guys can play Rock Band.....but can you do it accoustically? :-P

Well, I usually sing, so yeah.

At 9/9/09 08:40 PM, stafffighter wrote: Only the oppretunity to be Ringo could inspire me to find out where the hell the drum adapter went to.

Steve only abandoned his when his stomach was growling so loudly I could hear it over the game.