Honestly, read about what happens to people who suddenly end up with a ton of money and how it affects their lives. My husband had already said that if we somehow won the lottery, he wouldn't even consider claiming it until he could get a trust to claim it anonymously. It's pretty well documented. Even not having a lot of money, just being famous is enough to fuck you up pretty good in this digital age. I was listening to Felicia Day's autobiography while driving cross country, and the amount of depression and anxiety she went through (and she's my age!) made me sad. Also just reminded me how full of assholes 4Chan is. [emoji14]
That's why I spend the 5 minutes it takes to cross the Potomac. Maryland's one of the few states that let you claim anonymously without jumping through a lot of hoops. On the other hand, Virginia won't even let you claim as a trust or corporation. You have to claim as an individual, and that kind of attention I don't want.

Not that I'm going to ever win, mind you. ;)
 
That's why I spend the 5 minutes it takes to cross the Potomac. Maryland's one of the few states that let you claim anonymously without jumping through a lot of hoops. On the other hand, Virginia won't even let you claim as a trust or corporation. You have to claim as an individual, and that kind of attention I don't want.

Not that I'm going to ever win, mind you. ;)
Well... it's still better than Illinois: they aren't even paying out to lottery winners right now.
 
Got to see the small iPhone controlled droid of BB-8 today, from the new Star Wars stuff being released Friday. That thing is awesome.
 
Dear Direct TV, enough with this "alternate universe version of people who don't subscribe to your service" bull shit! So what if Tony Romo's AU version has cable, I'd eat the SHIT out of those brownie cup-cakes! He also has a standard def TV, that means I could play Banjo Kazooie with good picture!
 
Last edited:
For his crop art portrait of comedian Bill Cosby, Nick Rindo used canola seeds, also known as rapeseed.
Science Fail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola
Canola was developed through conventional plant breeding from rapeseed, an oilseed plant already used in ancient civilization as a fuel. The word "rape" in rapeseed comes from the Latin word rapum meaning turnip. Turnip, rutabaga, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, mustard, and many other vegetables are related to the two natural canola varieties commonly grown, which are cultivars of B. napus and B. rapa. The change in name serves to distinguish it from natural rapeseed oil, which has much higher erucic acid content.
Emphasis mine there

That's like calling Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, and a whole lot of other vegetables "cabbage". Ya they're from that, but not the same thing at all anymore. And funnily enough, this too is related to cabbage!



That said, nice art installation. But you can still get actual rapeseed, it's just more difficult.
 

fade

Staff member
Wait, from that same article, though:

The name "canola" was chosen by the board of the Rapeseed Association of Canada in the 1970s. The "Can" part stands for Canada and "ola" refers to oil.[5][6] However, a number of sources, including The Free Dictionary, continue to claim it stands for "Can(ada)+o(il)+l(ow)+a(cid).[7] The name was coined partially to avoid the negative connotations of rapeseed.[8]
 

fade

Staff member
You know what drawing a comic book for years has taught me? So much of art is accidental. It really is like natural selection. My pencil slips--damn that looks better than what I meant to draw. Okay, then in it goes. Whoops accidentally the wrong color. Kind of looks nice. In it goes.

I've read that Tolkien liked to write this way. If he made an error, he incorporated it into the story.
 
You know what drawing a comic book for years has taught me? So much of art is accidental. It really is like natural selection. My pencil slips--damn that looks better than what I meant to draw. Okay, then in it goes. Whoops accidentally the wrong color. Kind of looks nice. In it goes.

I've read that Tolkien liked to write this way. If he made an error, he incorporated it into the story.
That's the Tao of Bob Ross.
 
You know what drawing a comic book for years has taught me? So much of art is accidental. It really is like natural selection. My pencil slips--damn that looks better than what I meant to draw. Okay, then in it goes. Whoops accidentally the wrong color. Kind of looks nice. In it goes.

I've read that Tolkien liked to write this way. If he made an error, he incorporated it into the story.
"Ow my head... How much did I drink last night, and what the hell did I write while drunk? What's this? Tom... Bombadil? What the hell? Eh, screw it, it's going into the story."
 
"Ow my head... How much did I drink last night, and what the hell did I write while drunk? What's this? Tom... Bombadil? What the hell? Eh, screw it, it's going into the story."
Nevertheless there were few things in Lower Middle Earth Spam hadn't idly nibbled and lived to tell about, so he dived in, stuffing himself loudly. [The musrhooms] were of an odd color and odor, but they tasted okay, if a little on the moldy side, and after that the boggies were offered round candies with little letters cleverly printed on them. ("They melt in yoor brain, not in yoor hans," giggled Tim.)...

...Tim, now a rather handsome six-foot carrot, laughed loudly and changed into a coiled parking meter. Frito, dizzy as a great wave of oatmeal flowed through his brain, grew heedless of the puddle of drool collecting in his lap. There was a noiseless explosion between his ears and he watched with terror as the room began stretching and pulsating like Silly Putty in heat. Frito's ears began to grow and his arms changed into badminton rackets. The floor developed holes out of which poured fanged peanut brittle. A score of polka-dotted cockroaches danced a buck and wing on his stomach. A Swiss cheese waltzed him twice around the room, and his nose fell off. Frito opened his mouth to speak and a flock of flying earthworms escaped. His gall bladder sang an aria and did a little tap dance on his appendix. He began to lose consciousness, but before it ebbed completely, he heard a six-foot waffle iron giggle, "If yoo dig it now, jes' wade till th' rush hits you!"...
source

--Patrick
 
So, I'm on youtube, watching the BUDS131 channel, where retired Navy SEAL Don Shipley busts guys for making fraudulent SEAL claims. My mind wanders back to my 20's--I was just out of the navy, and my girlfriend at the time had a friend (also in his early 20's) who claimed to be an ex-seal. I busted him out on the Bolivar Ferry when he pronounced "forecastle" like it was spelled, not like how actual navy people say it.

Anyway, I don't hold that against him--we've all said stupid shit in our 20's to get laid or sound cool.

The reason I bring it up while I was watching these videos for the last hour, and being reminded of the guy, I log onto facebook. Guess who sent me a friend request while I was watching those videos? The same freaking guy! I haven't talked to him in probably 15 years.

How's that for freaking weird?
 
On a completely tangential note, I'm now wondering about that term. A LOT of nautica lterms in English are mangled Dutch. "Forecastle" seems an obvious and clear word in where it came from. Yet, the way it's pronounced is oddly close to "fokzeil" (Jib? the triangular sail all the way in front). Which makes me wonder the term "fokzeil" may be a mangled version of forecastle; considering both are in the general same neighborhood on a ship. Or if it's just coincidental. I assume it's a happy accident, but I'll be thinking about serendipity all day.
 

fade

Staff member
I sail a good bit, and I see a lot of diagrams in other languages. The german names are interesting, because they're very English-like, and read almost like literal descriptions of what the parts are or do.
 
On a completely tangential note, I'm now wondering about that term. A LOT of nautica lterms in English are mangled Dutch. "Forecastle" seems an obvious and clear word in where it came from. Yet, the way it's pronounced is oddly close to "fokzeil" (Jib? the triangular sail all the way in front). Which makes me wonder the term "fokzeil" may be a mangled version of forecastle; considering both are in the general same neighborhood on a ship. Or if it's just coincidental. I assume it's a happy accident, but I'll be thinking about serendipity all day.
Also, you have to remember that most sailors were from the lower classes, very often pressed into service, and several working class or lower class English accents (Estuary English, Geordie, Yorkshire, etc) use glottal stops which could lead to saying fo'c's'le instead of forecastle. The term is still used for enlisted crew quarters in the bow, even though most ships no longer have actual forecastles.
 
The thing with german is, when we need a new word,we slap existing words together that describe the new word?
Sinusitis? What the fuck is that? But "An inflamation of the nasal cavity" explains it all.
Ambulance? Nope.Dont understand. But "Krankenwagen" or "Sick Car",easy.

Bazooka? How about "Panzerfaust" (Tank Fist!).
 
Also, I said Dutch, not German.
But we're the more nasal and aggressive sounding cousin of the Germans, anyway.
And yes, stickwordstogethertosaywhatyouwantism is an awesome way of making new words ;)
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Also, I said Dutch, not German.
But we're the more nasal and aggressive sounding cousin of the Germans, anyway.
And yes, stickwordstogethertosaywhatyouwantism is an awesome way of making new words ;)
Dutch is German with an upper respiratory infection.

(Pauline fumed every time I said that)
 

fade

Staff member
Eh, I know you said Dutch, but I moved on to German, since that's what I'd seen. Wasn't trying to connect the two.
 
Dutch is German with an upper respiratory infection.

(Pauline fumed every time I said that)
It's the other way around.

Eh, I know you said Dutch, but I moved on to German, since that's what I'd seen. Wasn't trying to connect the two.
Dutch doesn't get enough recognition as the important language it was ,once upon a time. Shifting to German is meeeeaaaan.

(a host of English, French and German terms are either transliterations or bad translations from Dutch in a lot of fields - physiology, anatomy, sailing, mechanics)
 
Top