'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
They fight crime....
And they rock. And sometimes there's man-on-man action.
An LJ user has posted photos of a bizarre Ziggy Stardust comic where David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, Ozzy Osbourne and Batman (!) fight crime together. The commentary is priceless. >[link]Oh, and Kate Bush too. Kate sez: "Mick and Oz have called a meeting of the Council of Elders."
Ooh... I've heard of "Desert Bus."
Frank Cifaldi has uncovered a long-lost Penn and Teller video game that was never released in stores, and Waxy is hosting a torrent of it. The game involves lots of tricks, shenanigans, and genuinely weird and improbable easter-eggs, and has cameos from Lou Reed and Debbie Harry.
The most infamous part was "Desert Bus," a "VeriSimulator" in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, I'd read the bus veers to the right, so you can't just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the game, you got one point.
See, if I was a game programmer, I'd totally come up with games like "Desert Bus." I once wrote a text-based space game for my Radio Shack PC-1 where no matter what you'd do you'd be killed in your first move.
People thought I was strange....
See, if I was a game programmer, I'd totally come up with games like "Desert Bus." I once wrote a text-based space game for my Radio Shack PC-1 where no matter what you'd do you'd be killed in your first move.
I wrote a game for the Commodore PETs at high school that did the same thing.
I played a lot of text-based games that did the same thing, but I always thought it was me.
Heh - me too. I just assumed I was really bad at text games. Damn you wiley programmers!
View from my desk. (It didn't come out that well, but we're in the middle of a snowstorm here.)
I'm watching the Terry Gilliam episode of the Python retrospective.
I saw the end of that. Amen to the
unholy mind-fuckedness of it
Huh. Part of the nightwatch last night. And here I am with the morning team. Except can it official without Theodosia?
All retirees should have a booty if they want. Or possibly booty.
Tommy, no to 8 hours of simulated bus driving across the desert, but possibly yes to certain death, because I know you'd do it imaginatively varied with maximum gore.
Cool picture, Jess! I see Lilly Land and Conseco Fieldhouse from my window. Beyond that is the haze of southside Indy.
aww... you and your dog can have matching cones on you head...
They use the term ready-to-wear in ways I never would.
My sister succumbed to the lure of a dress she didn't need yesterday. Priciest dress she's ever bought. She sent pictures last night. Damn, with my whole trying to mix it up a bit I haven't hit a note like that. Cream coloured dress covered in large butterflies. Sheath with an empire waist and large pleats that start mid-thigh. Low round neckline, no sleeves, and the kicker is the bow on the left strap. Oh, and piping. Orthoepy would love the detailing, I swear.
Excellent job.
There was a "game" that came on one of our macs way back when (early-mid 80s, I'm guessing) in which the goal was to thread a camel through the eye of a needle. You had a choice of camels, though I can't quite recall the names. And of course, it couldn't be done.
We tormented many a friend with that game.