The Sixth Conversation Thread

[lsd]

I've only seen the first part...
in the end, Lynch's film wasn't so bad...

[TBPO]

I don't watch serials, but I watched Dune and Dune 2 in cinema, and I read a lot of fantasy book (I'm reading Temeraire series today).

In the scene in Dune: Part Two where Paul Atreides rides a sandworm for the first time in his life, I think I've heard someone shout "Timothée!" - which is the first name of the actor impersonating Paul Atreides. But maybe I have misheard it, and apart from this "error", the film is great (as is the first part).

I didn't hear it.

[lurker]

Welp, we have a gas generator. Just in time for the next hurricane.

[Arayaz]

Hurricane's headed my way too. School canceled on Wednesday and Thursday. Probably won't get much worse than heavy rain, though.

[Man in Space]

Probably won't get much worse than heavy rain, though.

It had its flaws, yes, but to use it as a comparand to gauge how awful something is is to a) sell it short, or b) to disregard entirely the—

Oh. You meant “heavy rain” literally, not the eponymous PS3 game…which is what my brain was telling me at first…

[eldin raigmore]

Where's Eldin?

Thanks for asking! I was able to sign back on today 2024/Sep/10.

[Arayaz]

Probably won't get much worse than heavy rain, though.

It had its flaws, yes, but to use it as a comparand to gauge how awful something is is to a) sell it short, or b) to disregard entirely the—

Oh. You meant “heavy rain” literally, not the eponymous PS3 game…which is what my brain was telling me at first…

I laughed so hard at this.

Also, I looked up Heavy Rain, and apparently it's one of the best games of all time, according to critics.

This rain will not be.

[Knox Adjacent]

De Gruyter has lotsa books out now re: Pacific Linguistics cheap and I'm awaiting a couple. What me in 2007 woulda looked at you funny for!

[Khemehekis]

Lol. There was a post like that here a while ago where someone reanalyzed another word like that. Can't seem to find it.
Also, I just realized what the root of analyze is if we take out the -ize...

I believe you're thinking of this post (and the following few posts): https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=31 ... ic#p316143

[Khemehekis]

Jimmy Carter is a centenarian now.

[Egerius]

Jimmy Carter is a centenarian now.

He wants to keep going until he can mail his vote in.
I, on the other hand, have no desire to live past 60.

[Arayaz]

I don't know what I'll think when I'm older, but at the moment I wouldn't want to live that long either. I don't want to slowly decline over decades, each day more tired than the last ...

[eldin raigmore]

Jimmy Carter is a centenarian now.

He wants to keep going until he can mail his vote in.
I, on the other hand, have no desire to live past 60.

My ambition, since very young, has been to meet my grandchildren.
I don’t think my daughter is likely to ever go to post secondary school; if she does I’d like to see her graduate.
She’s been engaged several times, but never married. So there’s a chance I will meet at least one grandchild!
But I’d like to see this country at peace post Jan 21 2025.

This busted hip and thigh keeps me from helping any campaigns, and throws into question my ability to even vote this election.
….
Anyway: I’m guessing I’ll live 8 to 17 more years, and pass away between the ages of 80 and 89.
But more or less isn’t impossible. It’s just that, that’s been the average for my family this past while.

[Man in Space]

Over dinner this evening, my mother reminded me of the existence of a certain iconic local television skit.

Up in Cleveland, the local B-movie presenter Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson, the same one from The Love Boat and Saget-era America’s Funniest Home Videos) was extremely popular. Despite only being active in the role for a handful of years in the early ’60s, his Ghoulardi is still referenced to this day. There have been some successors: The (late) Ron Sweed, “The Ghoul”, a crewman on the project who became an ascended fanboy with permission from Anderson himself; some bloke called “Son of Ghoul”, about whom I know little because he wasn’t on our local broadcast channels; and Svengoolie, who has seen reasonable success are likely the most well-known examples.

One of Anderson’s Ghoulardi crew was a guy named Chuck Schodowsky. He went on to sort of fill the niche that Ghoulardi had occupied, though he went about it a little differently. Regardless, a local weatherman named Houlihan ended up joining him, making it Big Chuck and Houlihan the Weather Man. Houlihan departed at some point and was succeeded by John Rinaldi. Rinaldi is a little person and Schodowsky is tall himself, so they naturally became Big Chuck and L’il John.

They were active until fairly recently, still hosting shows. When I was in high school, my family and I were on it once. (My father also appeared on the Ghoul’s show once thanks to someone spotting his and his friend’s Halloween costumes and Sweed writing a bit about it.) I’ve met them, and once, when I was in college, I wrote a letter to Big Chuck, and I came back from a trip across the state shortly thereafter to find a very nice handwritten reply.

They worked with a number of others—mundane, famous, and infamous; local or not—to various degrees. (The now late) Dick Goddard, a legend of local weather reporting, was a frequent collaborator (I sort-of met him too once; freshman year one of the band shows got rained out, so they put us all in this cramped, half-size gym and had us do the show in there. I was on the drumline, and in our opener, we had to modify one of the formations due to the space issues, and I basically ended up catty-corner to Goddard by less than 10 feet), as was Art Lafredo, and—yes, really—the notorious Dr. Robert J. White. Lafredo is relevant here.

Some of their skits have aged poorly, but most of them haven’t. Perhaps their most well-known skit (and my favorite of theirs) was “Chase”. Lafredo is the motorcycle cop, and the other two should be obvious.

[TBPO]

Did anyone play:
1) Minecraft?
2) Forge of Empires?
3) Horizon: Zero Dawn?

[sangi39]

Did anyone play:
1) Minecraft?
2) Forge of Empires?
3) Horizon: Zero Dawn?

Still play Minecraft, but not nearly as much as I did last year (350 hours in one world in 9 months, on top of a full-time job and overtime ). Christmas time at work gets insane, so I stopped playing at all around November, and it never quite got back up to the same level. I really want to start playing again properly next year, because the autocrafter was added to the game, and I really want to see about connecting what have, in the past, been disconnected farms that involved a chunk of background work because while you could rely on smelters and redstone to do some stuff, the moment crafting was involved (like the dried kelp blocks) you had to step in and become, basically, a part of the machinery

[eldin raigmore]

My Physical and Occupational Therapists say that, in the exercises they’re currently helping me with (like getting up from a wheelchair or bed onto a walker), I’m now doing >50% of the work and they’re doing <50% !

(These are the same therapists who, at our last conference btwn patient, patient’s family, and all of patient’s nurses and therapists,
reported I was doing about 25% of the work, whilst they were doing about 75%!)

So: That’s an improvement!

[Visions1]

I'm very happy to hear.

[Dormouse559]

Oh, that torturous feeling when you start a conlang with an intricate phonology and sound changes, only partially document them, and then drop the conlang entirely for several months. Now that I’ve remembered it exists (seven-ish months later), I’m left to sift through the few notes I did take and cryptic lists of reflexes.

[HolyHandGrenade!]

Did anyone play:
1) Minecraft?

Not since a creeper came & blew up half my stuff (including my diamonds).