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Saw a mostly-upvoted thread in /r/conspiracy asking what the "bright yellow powder" that was coating everything in Ontario was, and whether the news reports saying it was pollen were a cover-up. Commenter proposes that it might be yellowcake uranium, also upvoted.

Now somebody just needs to scatter aluminum tubes all over the place and we got us a warzone.  I hear that stuff's pretty valuable, maybe you can rig up a collection net.

Also, way for Jeb to hook up George W Bushes baggage to his campaign......

I think he's banking on the George's miraculously sudden rise in opinion polling among very small numbers of absolute Republican primary voters.  Obviously that doesn't amount to anything, but Jeb's probably decided that he might as well acknowledge his brother's existence since he can't exactly sweep him under the rug.


Meanwhile, for anyone who didn't the aftermath of last week's declaration of martial law in Texas, former Governor and likely repeat Presidential also-ran His Imperial Majesty Richard Perry I had an immediate reaction to the new Governor's dispatch of the state guard.  Namely, don't try to turn the military into the bad guys.  On the one hand, I'm kind of impressed that Rick Perry actually managed to say something about the federal government that wasn't fucking insane, but on the other hand it is pretty damn sad when "not leveling guns at your own nation's troops" is the now bold and sensible side of an argument.

I'm not exactly sure why he felt the need to say anything, since it dilutes the Secession brand he made the state a laughingstock to cultivate, and probably won't make anybody who already didn't like him rethink the guy while costing him the vitally important paranoid-schizophrenic vote.  But I shouldn't complain too much about anybody actually using their fucking brains.

Not pictured: Another case of Natural Light, a boxful of frozen daiquiri stuff, and a bottle of Kamora liqueur that will stay in the sink until it thinks about what it did.

Allow me to explain.

My mother is good friends with a landlord, slumlord really, who owns some properties on the south side of town.  The south side of town is always the rough side.  One of her properties she was leasing for a long time to an independent-operator liquor store.  After the original owner died the management went in the toilet and she eventually had to lock them out of the property and look for another tenant.  After waffling about it for two weeks, the operator finally said they weren't coming back for the stock left in the store.

Since the landlord doesn't have a liquor license, all she could do was throw it away.  So she called up all her friends and family to come down and grab up everything they could carry.

I showed up with three big tubs, expecting her to say I could fill one with whatever I liked.  I wound up loading my car to the ground with booze and had to stop before my tires blew out.

Altogether: 116 bottles, 24 six-packs, 10 cases, 6 bottles of mixer syrup, and more Canada Dry than I'm ever going to drink.

Quote from: MaximumZero on May 01, 2014, 10:11:58 pm

Who's jealous and has two thumbs? This guy. *doublethumbpoint*

Echo this.

I've actually been noticing lately that... a lot of really good bands seem to kinda' avoid my neck of the woods. Like, I'll go check touring schedules or something and they'll go everywhere in the US except the southeast. I mean, I can't exactly blame them, per se, but...

Well let's put it this way, a double-bill of Iced Earth and Sabaton couldn't fill a bar in downtown Dallas rated for 138 people.  Admittedly, it was a Tuesday night, but damn you'd think the entire local metal scene had turned out.

And if you weren't jealous enough by the way, when my friend and I were leaving, Sabaton drove right by us in the parking lot.  Aw yeah, I was like five feet and a piece of sheet metal away from one of the bigger names in folk-esque-ultra-war-themed-Norwegian-newwave-power-metal.

I was screwing around with setting up a space station when I saw an object go flying through the Kerbin system and remembered that enough time had passed for the starter asteroid cloud to start passing by.  I've almost maxed out the tech tree (I like playing with the restrictions of campaign mode) so I hastily slapped together a rocket to catch the next intercept.  Given my past difficulties with docking it was absolute miracle that I managed to catch it on the far edges of the system, but the rocket used almost all of it's fuel just getting there so I couldn't do anything with it.

I have a tendency to build rockets to exactly the capability that I think they'll need, which usually results in them being inadequate for the job (as the field of stranded landers on the Mun can attest).  I don't like having a bunch of extra rocket left over at each stage of a mission, because then I have to plan around the thing.

For the next asteroid though, I didn't want to screw around.  It was a class B instead of the first's C and would pass much closer to Kerbin, but I'd wasted enough time to screw up again.  So I did what probably everyone has done with the latest version and made this:


It practically walks off the launch pad and burns up all the booster stages just getting near orbit, but the main stage left over is enough to put the robotic catcher almost anywhere in Kerbin's SOI.  This is great, because the boosters are automatically disposed of and the rest will be on some weird unique orbit.  Turns out though, class B's are lighter than I expected, so the catcher was able to put it at a perfectly planar 5000km orbit just waiting for a science team, with over 3/4 of its fuel left.  After I get all the science out of it, maybe I'll crash it into the ocean.

Feeling pretty good about that, mastering the rather difficult new feature on the third second attempt.

For the short term, I'm going to look into some of my educational benefits. At least for the moment, the ones I can get while serving as compared to the ones after I'm discharged are completely different and non-overlapping. For now, I've gone through the effort of trying to get back into the tuition assistance program. Trying to get some classes out of the way right now certainly won't hurt, although I still don't know what I'd really like to study (my old TA request that I did as a dumb private was through Central Texas College, so I'm planning to pursue it through them. From my understanding, they're pretty transferable).

Well you're always free to stop by if you're in town again.  Best of luck man.

It's from Two Best Friends Play Portal 2. There are a few videos that put Matt and Pat's words into the mouths of Homestuck characters, as well. If you like mash-ups like that.

Yeah, they commented on one of those videos and thought they were quite inventive reuses of their dialogue.  Also, that particular gag is a reference to The South Park Movie.  No really.

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on April 14, 2014, 09:28:31 pm

You're an unspoken fan of Legalism so long as you're the one making the laws?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is exactly what it says.

Does that make me special or something?  I thought everyone secretly wanted to be an autocrat...

I really love the city names in SMAC.  I wonder how the player-designed factions will mesh with that in CBE.