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Fashion It So, which has been distracting me thoroughly and hilariously for the last two days and looks to keep right on truckin’ through the weekend until I run out of archive. The thing about pretty much all incarnations of Trek is that it’s like a lasagna of good, bad, and cheesy, and the bad and the cheesy are actually as much a part of the appeal as the good. It’s kind of like a stadium hot dog in that sense. You take your servings of bad with the good because it’s part of the experience, and wouldn’t be the same without it. The people writing this blog are watching Trek for pretty much exactly the same basic reason I am, except vastly more focused on the costuming choices.
So the context for this is the folks at Valve had Cave Johnson’s voice actor record a whole bunch of new lines for a new level creator downloadable content package for Portal 2, so that the lines play more or less at random at the beginning of created levels. That’s actually not really important, nor is having played any Portal game ever or knowing who the hell Cave Johnson is. This is all of those lines stitched together in a 25 minute sequence. The experience of hitting “play” on this is like having a mad scientist CEO who took acting lessons from the William Shatner school of scenery chewing come into your work space and emit a stream of consciousness. It’s the best background to reading my news feeds I have ever experienced. chariots chariots
David Sunflower Seeds now comes with a reclosable zip-top bag, so you don’t have to rip an awkwardly sized hole in it that you optimistically try to crumple closed after you’re done with your feed seed bag for the moment. Stingray, who always has various seed and nut bags in various stages of consumption strewn around his desk because he is actually a parrot, is very excited about this.
May 11th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
I always put my sunflower seeds in a ziplock bag. Looks like they’re finally catching up.
May 11th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Cave Johnson is great.
I swear Valve tapped into Kelly Johnson and some other crazy-as-a-fox R&D folks for the character.
May 12th, 2012 at 5:56 am
David pumpkin seeds are the best.
IMHO Sunflower seeds are too much work for too little reward.
May 12th, 2012 at 11:21 am
An interesting link I found this AM:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/04/my-speech-delivered-at-new-york-federal.html
The Federal Reserve folks make the mistake of inviting an Austrian School Economist to speak at their banquet.
Closing words:
May 12th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
“Stingray, who always has various seed and nut bags in various stages of consumption strewn around his desk because he is actually a parrot, is very excited about this.”
The image I have is a large parrot squawking obscenely and angrily about tentacles and bicycle riders. My day is complete.
May 13th, 2012 at 5:53 am
The image I have is a large parrot squawking obscenely and angrily about tentacles and bicycle riders. My day is complete.
And, because I’m reading this before the caffeine has percolated through my brain meats, I imagined this as Yelling Bird (from Questionable Content) with tentacles. Instead of wings. Some sort of bizarre squidbird, screaming about bicycles.
May 13th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
“Stingray, who always has various … nut bags in various stages of consumption strewn around his desk.
Well, you probably warned the bicyclists about riding across the NerdRanch before. Kinda surprised the aggregate had more than one between them, though.
May 15th, 2012 at 5:50 am
Now if they would package the pumpkin seeds that way, all would be right in Tamaraland.
May 15th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
I, also, thought the “because he is a parrot” line was hilarious.
Me, I prefer my nuts and seeds pre-shelled, and ideally in the form of “low-to-no-peanuts mixed nuts”.
May 15th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I got a bag of candy-coated sunflower seeds from the candy shop. They’re like M&Ms with sunflower seeds instead of chocolate, and they are really quite tasty.
May 15th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
I love J.K. Simmons he was great in Portal 2