The Thread for Those Who Wish to be Digressive

[Omicron9]

I thought he said "absolute bitch."

No no; you're thinking of my ex.

[Karl Henning]

If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Fv041-dAnqs

[drogulus]

 
     Bozos debating Iginla belong in Hall of Lame

     Truly, there are such bozos.

     The Shift:

     https://www.youtube.com/v/Eq4097-iFdU

     

[Karl Henning]

The Alewife garage is closed this weekend for repairs.  It may or may not reopen for tomorrow's commute.  With the ongoing "chance of rain," I should normally go to Alewife;  but I may need to chance the walk to the bus.  I've got a gustbuster, and waterproof boots . . . .

[Karl Henning]

With my leave, my phone collects and uses interesting pieces of information, and as a result, astonished me this morning.

Google keeps a kind of stopwatch advisory of how much time I have to reach the bus I typically take in the morning;  this I find useful, but it did not astonish me.

This advisory includes a legend "Get to work by 6:15" . . . this did not astonish me.

The bus dropped me off at the Old State House (as usual) this morning, and I walked to the office, with arguably a longer-than-usual wait to cross Congress Street.  I enter the lobby of the building, pass through the trestle to the middle elevator bank, get on the elevator.  None of this is at all astonishing.

The elevators have little screens with rolling content, sometimes a byline of a news item, sometimes a picture someone took out his office window, sometimes a just plain ad.  None of that astonishes, either.

I do glance up at the screen once I get on the elevator, because perhaps half the time, there is a clock.  When I looked at the clock in the elevator this morning, it read 6:15.

[NikF]

I make time to watch the short videos that are regularly posted by jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno

http://www.youtube.com/v/LeqAT7rt4T4

[Karl Henning]

It's Sunblock Week on Planet Henning.

[NikF]

And why would that be?

[Karl Henning]

Down in Florida.  Cracking performance of a piece of mine yesterday (will post to the HQ sometime soon), and now it's just a week of on-beach lolling.

[NikF]

Down in Florida.  Cracking performance of a piece of mine yesterday (will post to the HQ sometime soon), and now it's just a week of on-beach lolling.

Ah, well, congrats on the performance. Yes, it's wise indeed to invest in using sunblock. Also, make sure you have your hat. And ice cream.

[Florestan]

now it's just a week of on-beach lolling.

Dolce farniente! La joie de vivre! La alegria de vivir!

Methinks it's no coincidence that there is no equivalent for the above in the Germanic / Anglo-Saxon world, with the possible exception of the Viennese Gemütlichkeit. 

At least ye Americans you got this awful "time is money" which is the exact, utterly and irreconcilable opposite.    

[Karl Henning]

Ah, well, congrats on the performance. Yes, it's wise indeed to invest in using sunblock. Also, make sure you have your hat. And ice cream.

All, excellent advice!

[Karl Henning]

At least ye Americans you got this awful "time is money" which is the exact, utterly and irreconcilable opposite.   

Not my time, anyways!   0:)

[Florestan]

Not my time, anyways!   0:)

I'm reminded of a joke.

An American billionaire (AB) relax on a Greek island beach. Alongside him, a poor Greek fisherman (PGF).

AB: Just why are youy that lazy?
PGF: What do you mean?
AB: I mean, you should wake up very early in the morning!
PGF: What for?
AB: Well, this way you would go at sea and catch more fish!
PGF: What for?
AB: Well, this way you'd be able to earn more money!
PGF: What for?
AB: Well, with all that money you'd be able to buy some boats and have other fishermen work for you!
PGF: What for?
AB: Well, they would all bring you money and this way you'd be able to enjoy your time here on the beach without having to worry about the future!
PGF: Well, that's exactly what I'm doing right now!

[drogulus]

     Coming back from my annual trip to Buffalo I found myself wondering why it's still there.

[Karl Henning]

Thank God it hasn't gone elsewhere!

[Ken B]

     Coming back from my annual trip to Buffalo I found myself wondering why it's still there.

Irv Weinstein. Four alarm fires, usually in Tonawanda. (Is Tonawanda some sort of arsonist training camp?) It's 11 o'clock, do you know where your children are?

[Ken B]

Thankfully they were able to rescue him without an episiotomy.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/student-gets-stuck-in-giant-stone-vagina-in-germany-20140623-zsiet.html

[NikF]

Thankfully they were able to rescue him without an episiotomy.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/student-gets-stuck-in-giant-stone-vagina-in-germany-20140623-zsiet.html

So, ultimately it was a big flap over nothing?

[Ken B]

So, ultimately it was a big flap over nothing?

A little bit of lube might have helped.