The Friday Thread

tateinbk

xlizellx,

You are clearly a very influential person. By the time I got to Target the rest of Brooklyn had too.

xlizellx

tateinbk said:

xlizellx,

You are clearly a very influential person. By the time I got to Target the rest of Brooklyn had too.

Ha! I am truly a leader.

And yes! There was stuff in stock! And room to walk.

Whynot, I only went to Atlantic because I could walk there and the weather is SO nice. But when I just wanna shop, you are correct....I take the 2 all the way down.

whynot_31

And now, for those who went to high school between 1980 and 1995, a word from The Cure.

jeffrey

If there were only something a bit more recent.

8O

#-o

:-$

[-X

:tongue:

whynot_31

Me thinks Rebecca Black reaches a younger audience.

ntfool

For the first time since early summer, I don't have to go anywhere this weekend! Nothing is planned! WOO HOO!

Oh, wait... that just means I'll be packing all weekend. Oh well.

whynot_31

Mrs. Whynot apparently thinks we should act our age, because she is planning on us going to a Cranberry Harvest Festival in NJ this weekend.

homeowner

Going to Comic-Con baby!!! -Y

tateinbk

I was getting ready for work and heard an awful thumping. Low and behold, my super is on the fire escape taking a hammer to the window, trying to get to the window lock. He had broken through the first layer of the double-paned glass when I tapped on the window to suggest the question of why. He peered through, saw me, and let out a massive flurry of curses in Spanish saying he thought it was the apartment next to me and that he would call the window repair people right away.

Interesting way to start one's friday, n'est-ce pas? To start off with, the very nice, very old lady in the apartment next to me was locked into her apartment. I now know that it takes an awful racket to try and break a locked window. I also know that a certain 4 legged creature highly values his mornings in bed. He values them over anything else as far as I can see.

I'm still left with a question though, When is breaking a window a cheaper option than calling a locksmith?

tateinbk

I have to say, I'm not super enthusiastic about leaving my apartment for work today now that my window is so compromised.

whynot_31

I suspect my dog would have done the same thing

stacey

homeowner said:

It's God's way of making you feel better about yourself...

Nah that's what Maury is for

whynot_31

Happy Friday,

October 21, 2011!

I think this guy is going to be disappointed again. He predicted the world would end in May 2011, and then (when the world did not end), he revised the end date to today:

The World Will End On October 21

The doomsayer who swore that the world was going to end on May 21, Harold Camping, is doubling down.

Last spring, you'll recall, Camping predicted that "The Rapture" would arrive as a series of rolling earthquakes beginning at precisely 6PM on May 21.

God was well aware of time zones, Camping said, and therefore understood that 6PM was a rolling event around the world. This allowed us to establish links to live web-cams, so our readers could watch the world end in real-time, starting in Auckland, New Zealand.

Source: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-16/news/30285581_1_harold-camping-family-radio-network-rapture#ixzz1bQRWj12Z

homeowner

The day's not over yet.

boygabriel

whynot_31 said:

Happy Friday,

October 21, 2011!

I think this guy is going to be disappointed again. He predicted the world would end in May 2011, and then (when the world did not end), he revised the end date to today:

The World Will End On October 21

The doomsayer who swore that the world was going to end on May 21, Harold Camping, is doubling down.

Last spring, you'll recall, Camping predicted that "The Rapture" would arrive as a series of rolling earthquakes beginning at precisely 6PM on May 21.

God was well aware of time zones, Camping said, and therefore understood that 6PM was a rolling event around the world. This allowed us to establish links to live web-cams, so our readers could watch the world end in real-time, starting in Auckland, New Zealand.

Source: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-16/news/30285581_1_harold-camping-family-radio-network-rapture#ixzz1bQRWj12Z

you're going to feel mighty dumb if you're wrong.

wait....

jeffrey

Guessing that one was posted by his dog.

whynot_31

Yes, I suppose Mr Camping could blame his dog for the earlier prediction.

The good news, such as it is, is that Camping doesn't think the world will end in a sudden flash of hell-fire and brimstone. He thinks The End will come quietly. He also thinks that God won't take special vengeance on those who are skeptical, they just won't be saved.

Source: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-16/news/30285581_1_harold-camping-family-radio-network-rapture#ixzz1bQoTjlH8

I refuse to believe that I will not be saved for not believing in the quack known as Mr Camping.

jeffrey

And, on a related note:

Break glass and use in case of holy apocalypse.

(courtesy nsfw warning: contains naughty language bits)

jeffrey

Work's done, no rapture yet, time to git down.

whynot_31

Still no rapture, and the weather has turned cool and crisp.

Sweatshirt weather.

jeffrey

Microsoft's latest vision for a connected mobile future:

Say what you will about Microsoft but they have a great track record with these.

This is a similar video from 1995.

* before the Internet became mainstream (but Yahoo, Amazon, Wired etc. were already around), aside from email and bbs (bulletin board services) via America Online, CompuServe etc.

* just 2 years after the Web (World Wide Web!) was launched

* a mere 1 year after Netscape was founded, coming out of U of Illinios / NCSA Mosaic browser project

* 5 years before the first dotcom peak and crash

* 1 year before Google was founded

* 10 years before YouTube was founded and revolutionized online video

* 3 years before Paypal was founded

* about 15 years before mobile payments started to appear in retail

* just before eBay was founded later the same year

Just wish some of their their future products designers were in charge of the cluttered, overwrought mess that's actually released.

whynot_31

I am proud of myself for buying Halloween candy. My apt gets about 75 kids every year.

xlizellx

I have a big halloween party tomorrow at my school. I hate halloween. I bought a cheap bumble bee costume and just tried it on. It had glitter on it! I am now covered in glitter! And I can never get rid of it! Reason 2781371 I hate halloween.

whynot_31

Tomorrow is Saturday. From what I was told by the media, teachers only work 181 days a year and get off everyday at 2:50 PM.

The media does not lie.

(sarcasm)

xlizellx

whynot_31 said:

Tomorrow is Saturday. From what I was told by the media, teachers only work 181 days a year and get off everyday at 2:50 PM.

The media does not lie.

(sarcasm)

hilarious.

whynot_31

I wish the entire year was like today's weather

jeffrey

ntfool

Opening night tonight!

http://brooklynian.com/forum/the-lounge-random-stuff/spurnreturns-ffor-its-10-year-anniversary

After a decade of opening 17 separate NY stage productions, I still hate opening nights. Oh well. I'll be drunk very shortly thereafter.

jeffrey

Excellent, for you this should be like shooting fish in...er..forget it.

But break a leg! Before the drinking, that is.

whynot_31

In honor of tomorrow being a public holiday (Veteran's day), I believe that we can post on this thread today (Thursday).

Happy Day Before the Weekend!