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posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:40 AM on January 30, 2023

So, we all wanna know... group uniforms, or individual costumes with like an MF belt buckle or pin?
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:25 AM on August 29, 2022

Just joined RF as whootay.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 7:30 AM on May 16, 2022

Any chance for a late signup? Also got the dates mixed up.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:18 PM on November 12, 2021

Yes, please.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 1:35 PM on October 28, 2021

Yes to the general sentiment, mea culpa to my having done so myself in the past. One possible solution is for readers of threads not to reward snarky comments just because they're usually short and snappy. I'm a big boy now and should be beyond caring about karma upvotes Whuffie favorites, but it hasn't escaped my attention that my shorter comments tend to get favorited a lot more than the longer, more thoughtful comments that seem to be tl;dred.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:48 AM on January 19, 2021

Ditto on second chancing.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:01 AM on October 30, 2020

allo allo!
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:35 AM on June 3, 2020

The latest (and much-discussed on the purple) episode of Star Trek: Picard featured the return of Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One, whose first appearance was in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Scorpion, Part II."
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:47 PM on February 24, 2020

I wonder if we have any Star Trek fans around here...

ha ha ha oh boy

(Sincerely, Short Treks has just started up again, with Picard and Discovery S3 on the horizon, among other things, and we're still grinding through a rewatch of ENT on the purple.)
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:57 AM on October 8, 2019

I'd love to do a post on the original plans that Bowie had for Diamond Dogs; I'll have to see what's linkable.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:58 AM on October 8, 2019

The "iWalk" post was interesting. Not as upfront dismissive as the infamous Slashdot post, but you still have people predicting its imminent demise, until someone shows up who has actually used an iPod and clearly gets why it's exceptional. And, of course, the iPhone is much closer to that initial speculation.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 2:43 PM on September 24, 2019

I have vanishingly little fashion sense--a substantial amount of my wardrobe is black, on the theory that it never goes out of style and matches with itself, and I have several shelves in my bedroom devoted to T-shirts--and thus might I explain how, in the early fall of 1984, after having seen Purple Rain several times in the theater (I completely wanted to believe that the most talented man in pop music at the time was an alienated loner like me), I came into the possession… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 2:09 PM on September 17, 2019

Today, right now, I'm passionate about decluttering my space, and I'm making significant progress. And discoveries, things that I'd long thought lost, but I'm not allowing myself to be distracted by them.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 11:51 AM on July 14, 2019

I am digging the shininess.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 1:30 PM on June 14, 2019

pony request: keto option
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 4:32 PM on April 1, 2019

Movie series I haven't seen: Shrek, Austin Powers, Transformers. Big-deal TV series I haven't seen a single complete episode of: Mad Men, The Sopranos, Friends, Downton Abbey. I am fairly sure that I've seen a complete episode of Seinfeld, but I couldn't tell you which one, and I saw the first episode of Roseanne and that was it--I didn't hate it, but didn't feel the need to see any more. (A whole bunch of series… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:50 AM on April 1, 2019

Sometimes, when I'm climbing a hill on my bike, I make what I think of as the Dylan Noises--these sort of nasal, buzzing whines that sound like stereotypical Bob Dylan, but don't make any real words, except for maybe "whoa" or "oh". Ridin' with Bob, man.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:33 AM on March 11, 2019

#EMRJKC944Lyfe
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 2:27 PM on January 18, 2019

You walk into your classroom on the first day of class in grade school. You take a new pencil out of the pencil box and walk up to the pencil sharpener. You sharpen your pencil to a perfect point, and just before you walk back to your desk, you breathe in the scent of fresh cedar. That smell.

Also, I just rewatched the Rick and Morty episode "Rick Potion No. 9", and this time, having already experienced the shock of the ending, I paid more… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 11:53 PM on January 12, 2019

But it feels like the rest of my life has so, so much loss ahead. How do people bear it?

My solution was simply to embrace it, to accept that that loss would always be part of my life. One of the worst things about losing my parents at an early age was that some relatives (maybe well-meaning, probably not really very good at dealing with things like this) insisted that I should just get over it and move on. My acceptance that my feelings of loss… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 9:14 AM on January 13, 2019

Sadly, no, but the guest line-up looks pretty incredible.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:41 AM on January 2, 2019

I'm not fond of New Year's resolutions, because I'm of the opinion that, if it's worth starting or keeping, it's worth starting or keeping before NYD. The first time I sobered up, it was NYD of 2005, and I stayed sober for 2 1/2 years; when I went back out again, I pretty much picked up again at the level I'd quit at. (So, longer than I'd originally planned--I meant to try this sobriety thing for a year--but it still didn't stick.) When I quit the second time, it was at the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 9:23 PM on December 30, 2018

Well, I had a pretty good Christmas, and it went pretty well, but "pretty well" is only within the context of what I had expected to happen, versus what did. I went up to Chicago to spend Christmas with an aunt and uncle with whom I'd lived during my high school years. Two of my sisters also made plans to go up there, staying in a motel. One of those sisters is the one who has had a pattern for many years of making plans to do stuff with her siblings and others, insisting on making all… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 11:10 AM on December 28, 2018

Favorite treble clef mnemonic: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which is also the title of a Moody Blues album and a Tom Stoppard play.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 6:55 PM on December 15, 2018

Random bits of random interactions over the years:

- When I was a teenager walking to a friend's house in Chicago, an elderly man stopped me and asked me if I would start up his furnace on Saturday mornings for a dollar. I declined. It wasn't until much later that I realized that he was looking for a shabbos goy, and if I hadn't been about a mile from home at the time, I probably would have done it.

- Was window-shopping, and this guy walks up… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:30 AM on December 9, 2018

(Note: I feel kind of bad for the proselytizers and will probably not actually fuck with them.)

I've been proselytized to in the past and just kind of shrugged it off; I'm sure that they meant well. This was strictly off-the-cuff because it was about the last place I expected something like that; I think that we might have been looking at comics or some other nerd thing.

If you're feeling particularly whimsical,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 2:09 PM on December 9, 2018

Look up "rob liefeld jesus." You might regret it; you'll never forget it.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 12:36 PM on December 13, 2018

I'm thankful that, a bit over seven years ago, I was arrested for driving under the influence, thus beginning the road to recovery that I could not have initiated myself in the state that I was in, and making each subsequent Thanksgiving vastly better than it otherwise would have been.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 5:14 PM on November 23, 2018

Aargh! Preoccupied, missed the date. Oh, well, happy quonsmas, erryone!
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 5:39 PM on November 20, 2018

Aw, shit. Damnit. I don't have the words.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 4:31 AM on November 9, 2018

Except that I wish the best for you and gingerbeer in the time that you have left. That seems so inadequate, but it's all I've got. Damnit.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 4:33 AM on November 9, 2018

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posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 1:32 PM on November 13, 2018

Kate McKinnon in general, Kate McKinnon getting abducted by aliens in particular.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:09 PM on September 30, 2018

Ordered. (It also gave me an excuse to get that pin of Sithrak ("an insane god for an unjust world" has never seemed more appropriate than now) that I've always coveted.)
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:22 AM on July 31, 2018

I've got the Apple Watch, which tracks my daily movement and plots it on a handy circle graph. This includes the number of times a day that I stand up and move around, at least while I'm wearing the watch (I tend not to wear it at home. The "Stand" reminder was followed in an update by a "Breathe" reminder, which led me to joke with people that the next iteration would be "Blink." Aside from that, the only major things that I track are blood sugar (required by my… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:07 AM on May 6, 2018

All of a sudden I'm twenty-six again.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 7:14 AM on April 1, 2018

Someone else here who just favorited it (and bumped it into three figures, woo!), because sometimes the threshold for hitting that button is not that high. That's certainly true for a bunch of posts and comments that I've made; sometimes I'll put a lot of work into a post or comment and it's almost ignored, then I'll make a passing comment without really thinking about it and the updoots pour in. The race goes not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, &c.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:53 AM on March 26, 2018

My sincere thanks to my new penpals in Team Cloud Nine. I very much appreciate the handmade valentines, and regret that I don't possess the craftiness to reciprocate with bespoke cards of my own, although I tried to make up for it with stickers.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:53 AM on February 14, 2018

Happy birthday!
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 12:35 PM on December 7, 2017

I have received my gift from yasaman, and while I am certainly delighted at the assortment of dark chocolates, I am also... apprehensive. You see, yasaman didn't just include a variety of 80% and 85% chocolates. She also included... this. Something which I literally did not know existed. I mean, how much more dark could it be? And the answer is: none. None more dark.

So, now I sit with this incredible thing, this handheld Monolith, and ponder my fate. Do I dare open it… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 9:03 PM on November 29, 2017

Marlys. Marlys makes me happy.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 2:03 PM on November 13, 2017

Giant tardigrade ("Ripper") from Disco Trek, wearing a Disco Trek T-shirt.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 12:16 PM on October 31, 2017

The G.I. Joe Astronaut with an authentically-detailed Mercury capsule. (Not "authentically-detailed" in that the real thing had a big see-through hatch that made entrance and egress easy--it had a tiny hatch that was barely big enough for a skinny astronaut to crawl through--but the rest of it was solid; they even had a control panel sticker that was a faithful reproduction of this; I knew because I checked it against the encylopedia.) It was the last toy that my parents gave to me… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 2:28 PM on October 17, 2017

Auberjonoises

Le Auberjonoisérie
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 9:33 AM on October 11, 2017

At least with Len Wein we'll mostly be arguing about the good taste of Wolverine and Swamp Thing jokes. Maybe arguing the toss on some of his later feuds with Alan Moore.

Funny you mentioned Wein, because someone has already brought up Wein's alleged remark about Batgirl--"cripple the bitch"--in the obit thread. That's as reported by Alan Moore, the one who actually decided to have the Joker paralyze Barbara Gordon. I have no reason to… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:01 PM on September 10, 2017

Pretty fly for that guy.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 8:39 PM on September 7, 2017

My outdoorsy (by which I mean mostly camping) experience divides up into two groups: Boy Scouts and post-divorce. I had the benefit of belonging to a couple of good troops in rural Wisconsin, and they had an annual summer trip to Camp Decorah, as well as smaller camping expeditions in the other seasons. It was great, even when we were playing tag at night and I ran face-first into a tree and came home with scabs on my face. On one trip, some of the guys were trying to toast bread on sticks and… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 10:46 AM on August 27, 2017

When I saw this thread, I immediately thought of the never-ever that got a strong reaction from someone: I've never seen an Austin Powers movie, which doesn't seem that remarkable to me, but he immediately had a negative reaction, as if I were being incredibly snobbish by saying that. (It's not even that I don't like Mike Myers, as I've seen both Wayne's World movies; it's more like I've seen so many quotes and video clips from them that I feel like… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 1:51 PM on June 28, 2017

I haven't been to Florida

y'aint missing anything.

I could honestly go to Disneyworld and EPCOT, just to say that I've been, and I'd like to see the Keys while they're still above water.
posted to MetaTalk by Halloween Jack at 9:55 PM on June 28, 2017