Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. During a bout of insomnia, I ended up watching “Battle of the Network Stars” on ESPN Classic. The episode I saw must have been from 1983, with Tom Wopat, Scott Baio, and Mr. T. So, inspired by Monday night’s skate party music, let’s hit the Wayback Machine for today’s HHD.
First up, get your Daisy Dukes on for Tom Wopat.
Stephen Collins
Adrian Zmed. (There was a nice one of him shirtless, but he was wearing a headband, which pretty much cancels out the sexay for me.)
My favorite 80’s spy, Bruce Boxleitner.
Mark Harmon
Greg Evigan, who IMHO looked better as he aged.
That will do for today. Feather your hair back, put on your boogie shoes, and have a great day.
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Gut mining.
Top of the morning to ya!
We shouldn’t be first on HHD PG. People will talk.
More than they already do.
India launched a vehicle headed for Mars about 10 months back. It made a long journey and yesterday went successfully into a Martian orbit. It does not sound like much to Americans but it is a big deal for India. Only US, EU and Soviets have achieved this so far. And India did it in first attempt. Others went through a failure or two first.
Also, India did it cheap. Only $75 million. That is about 40 cents per mile. My car costs more to operate.
wakey wakey
MJ’s on my shit list.
I dreamed I went to see an old, estranged (for reasons completely unknown to me*) friend, and HE was there. Defending her!!
WTF, MJ?
*I suspect it’s because she’s become a complete New Yorker and I SOOOO live in fly-over country. She’s married an artist, goes to fabulous parties, has zero kids, no teevee, etc …
It helps that they weren’t doing it first, Tushar. A lot of the relevant engineering stuff was published, or at least could be acquired. A LOT of intellectual theft goes on at that level. The USSR and then Russia stole from us, the EU stole from us and them.
And China stole from literally everyone.
Oh, and we stole from Nazi Germany. But we did it by offering citizenship.
Leon, I don’t know the technical details, but India used a method that was theoretically known but not attempted before.
Something like orbiting earth a few times to build speed, escape, slingshot around the Sun and catch Mars on the other side.
It was not exactly Control C Control V
heh
http://www.theospark.net/2014/09/finally-some-good-news-from-middle-east.html
INDIA IS STEALING OUR ORBITAL MOMENTUM AND SLOWING DOWN OUR ORBIT!
The flight path is likely an innovation. but rocketry is a high-theft industry. It’s tradition at this point, right back to us buying Goddard.
This site explains the difference in approach:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/11220947-maven-mom-trajectory-explainer.html
MOMENTUM THEFT!
The blog is too sciency this morning.
Can’t we talk gardening? I want to move some rather big plants today. Zebra grass and a limelight hydrangea. ALso a spirea that doesn’t get enough sun to flower nicely …
thoughts?
Also, what does everyone think of MJ siding with my friend? I thought we had some sort of pact to back each other up?
Is it even remotely possible to start my pepper plants inside now and have them make it to Spring?
Car in, do you want to talk about dreams, because I had two different ones that involved me being trapped in a cafeteria line even though I wasn’t planning to eat. And there was a naked chick in one of them.
I looked away. In the dream. It’s a habit now.
Damnit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-level-turnover-makes-it-harder-for-dhs-to-stay-on-top-of-evolving-threats/2014/09/21/ca7919a6-39d7-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html
Neat. Just like every other agency. The competent are throwing in the towel.
With the right light, you can do it. I’ve been thinking about converted our workroom into a grow room. I’m a tad concerned people may think I’m growing pot, though, so that is holding be back.
But I could get an awesome start on spring.
I’ll have to go to the hydro shop.
Right, see? that’s what I’m worried about. People will think I’m a pothead. We’ve got two grow shops here in Lapeer. @@.
You could start them now, but why would you? Waste of electricity. Peppers don’t do anything until it’s hotter outside anyway. You’ll just be growing them in a dormant stage.
Pot, on the other hand…
Elon Musk went to space cheap, too.
Fooey.
What about tomatoes?
Same thing with tomatoes. They like it hot too. Don’t even bother planting them until nighttime temps average above 50, better 60.
Plus, tomatoes sprout in like a day, and you could transplant them in a week or 2. No sense hurrying with those.
Peppers take a little longer.
Detroit.
Oh sure, talk gardening and everyone goes quiet.
Let’s go back to talking about launching wiserbud into space.
I saw that yesterday, Tushar, congrats. They are planning another Chandrayaan mission to the Moon, too. Russia still blames us for losing their last Mars mission.
I wouldn’t plant things now, but it would take me several months to get everything set up. Starting things in Feb is good. I plan on doing some more in those soda bottles again. I could keep herbs through the winter too.
Soda bottles?
Milk jugs. Soda bottles.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Wintersowing-Tips-Preparing-Milk-Jugs/
Jugs.
Coolest dog ever http://is.gd/b4amJu
Haha, that’s awesome scott.
That reminds me, time to go wake up the Benny.
Most excellent bunky job today Roamy!
*emails two coupons to be used for poolmen, massages, cocktails, and laundry services*
How did I get on the shit list™?
Dreamscape, starring MJ?
you do kinda look like a short Dennis Quaid. More along the line of Innerspace than Dreamscape, though.
Good point. Either way, if I’m banging wassername, I’m ok with it. Meg Ryan?
Yeah, she looked good in that one.
That was before the surgical malpractice, yes.
Niiiice, Roamy! The “dreamboats” the kids go for these days got nuthin’ on the ones we cut our teeth on –
Tush, saw that last night on the India/Mars stuff – way to go! I’m always amazed at how primitive the “cutting edge” technology that got us to the moon and back was, compared to what we have nowadays.
Who knows what they’ll come up with in the next 20-30 years?
Whatever it is, I’m sure mine will keep blinking “12:00” until my future grandkids come and change it for me….
If it’s Dreamscape, it’s Kate Capshaw.
How did I get on the shit list™?
YOU TOOK THAT BITCH’S SIDE.
Duh.
Which, y’know, not too shabby either.
I really let it fly at him, to be honest.
I’m probably just transferring my anger at you, MJ, instead of my ex friend.
Every now and then I get a wild hair up my ass to try to call her again. I’ve been having these thoughts lately, which is probably why I dreamed about it.
Is that like a g-string?
I have the day off.
I’ll put the air conditioners away and try to make room for the furniture I’m picking up tomorrow.
No. Nothing like it.
Is that because you like g-strings and you don’t like wild hairs?
Something like that.
I still have way too much crap in my office. Half the room is stuff that ought to be in the basement.
Gonna have to get a half-dozen bins and some industrial shelves for the barn or something.
Or a dumpster.
After cleaning out the MIL’s place, that is gonna be my spring project. GET RID OF SHIT!
Some of it can be tossed or donated, but not all of it.
And what the heck do I do with a 13″ CRT television?
You’re friend sounds like my kind of person. Mainly that she’s a stuck up snob.
Donate it to goodwill, or give it away, leon. Costs money to dispose of them, now.
Unless you find a home for it at the bottom of your pond.
I’ll see if St Vincent de Paul wants it. Probably not. Goodwill might not either at this point.
You’re friend sounds like my kind of person. Mainly that she’s a stuck up snob.
I look at pictures of her now and I think ‘what the heck happened?’
Jay, I learned that lesson when my mom sold the family house.
Every garbage day I make sure our garbage bin is full to the top, been doing it for a few years.
I’m reading last night’s ONT:
Give me two dozen A-10s, the support they need, & all the ordinance they can eat, & ISIS will be relegated to the dust-bin of history in 96 hours
My ROE would be pretty harsh: it moves, it dies.
Posted by: AltonJackson
*newslettered*
Plus those A-10s cost less than cruise missles.
not all at once of course, but their use costs less.
Before I get hammered.
It also helps to live on a swamp.
If it’s made out of wood I can turn it into dirt in about 2 years.
Gardenblog: bucket ‘tatos.
Haha, I don’t think the homeowners association will like it if I recycle furniture like that.
I grow tomatoes in buckets.
Scott, I jsut gave my boys that lecture the other night about THROWING AWAY AS MUCH AS WE CAN every week. They were totally under utilizing it.
I burn anything wood, though, because I can. I have a few LARGE boxes and I’m trying to figure out where I want my new garden …
I have piles of cardboard that I need to burn.
bury the cardboard, leon. Great dirt.
Leon, I just picked up a bench, Olympic bar, and 290 lbs in weight for $100.
SCORE.
I’ve been watching/ waiting for something to appear on Craigslist.
Bring me the cardboard. WIth my tree and dehumidifier.
I have a farken soccer game this sunday though in ALMA. FML. 2:30 in the middle of the farken day.
Ok, you picked it up, but couldn’t you just buy it? Seems like a waste of $100.
curtiswallin.com is the artist my friend is married to.
So you can see why I’m way below her intellectually, socially, culturally … etc.
Actually, I emailed her that I wanted it, w/in minutes of her reply, but she hasn’t responded
it’s been 18 min.
*sweats
it’s a really good deal.
I bet curtis and MJ would get along great. BTW, it’s CURTIS. Not Curt.
He once said “toodles” to me instead of goodby.
When I was still w/in their social circle, Pat would ask if I saw/talked-to Toodles.
He seems like a nice guy, but Toodles? And did I mention he sews and knits?
In his defense, he’s really good.
*looks up craigslist/lapeer, puts in bid
I’d have to remove all the tape and staples to compost it, wouldn’t I?
I offered $150.
The only one I have to worry about is Leon.
How many staples/tape are on it? But you’d want to unfold it anyway. Lay it flat.
I’m going to harvest my butterfly weed seeds if anyone wants some.
I’m not bidding. I have nowhere to put a barbell but in the barn, and I’m off free weights until my shoulder is rehabbed. Calisthenics only.
Well, other than light kettlebell work here and there.
His artwork is quite nice, actually. The concept is a bit meh, but the execution is FUN and PRETTY.
yea, that’s what I think about it. He’s been doing the same concept for his private work for SEVERAL years now.
He also does some rather serious stuff for theater- flies all over the country /world for that. I’m not really big on words in my artwork. If you have to use words … it’s just not that original anymore.
meh.
His art is crap.
His style is very popular right now. It’s like pop art combined with street art.
It’s been around for about 15 years.
Cardboard is a wonderful way to start a garden plot – lay down a few layers of it where you want your new garden to be, and it will smother all of the weeds underneath it. Cover it with lots of layers of leaves, old hay, and some manure for a couple of months, and come spring you’ll be able to dig down quite a ways for planting.
You should have lots of big fat earthworms doing the heavy lifting long before that.
If your soil has heavy clay (like we have down here), get a bag or two of PLAY sand and sprinkle a couple of layers throughout your pile – the shape of the crystals will ensure that the clay can’t ever “stick” together again. (If you use paving sand, this technique won’t work)
Yes, and it’s crap.
Everything here is sand, Teresa. We have no clay I that I’ve found after many holes dug.
You can also toss your shredded paper in the pile – we have a cross-cut shredder, and that stuff composts down in no time flat.
That’s part of the beauty of art.
Everything here is sand, Teresa.
I’ve heard tales of places like that….
The soil here is slightly better than what I grew up with in the Houston area; folks around there call the dirt “gumbo” for a reason.
I just believe art should require some, y’know, skill.
They have a cat named Pea J.
hipster douchebags
He can paint. This is just his schtick. Which is my issue with the art world. I think it’s too inbred or something. Almost as if they walk in lock step ideologically.
Weird, I know, but it’s my theory.
Scott, they do yoga too.
I don’t mean to bash, but it’s just so easy.
Every Christmas party was the same. Them and their friends debating whether or not it’s worth it to get a car.
@@
Dentist time. I’ll try not to think about hipsters so I don’t grit my teeth.
Plus, despite the internationalism they appear to exist in (they’ve been to ITALY), they really don’t know shit.
A few years back, thes friend showed me a picture of another “coaster” (California, he worked in Napa at a winery) – with his baby. They were using a baby sling, “Wearing it” !!! isn’t that the coolest thing ever?
I still remember the look on her face when I told her I ‘d used them with my first baby onward, years before they started popping up in HIP New York. she was just amazed. how did I, from bumpkin Detroit (at the time), know about such things?
That’s part of what I love about the art world.
It always proves the saying, ‘just because it’s new to you, doesn’t mean it’s new.’
http://media.giphy.com/media/ggZFGSBmQyHrq/giphy.gif
http://is.gd/CrZdml
My boss asked me to temporarily work from NY office at worst possible time. All the hughest assholes in the world have gathered for some UN shit. Alongwith their aides, assistants, minders and other assorted dingleberries.
go kick Obama in the nads for me, will you?
He doesn’t have any.
http://is.gd/EfKhIr
Just kick him in the nad region.
gnad
My wife has a high school classmate who supposedly designed the Dasani label for Dasani water bottles. She lives in Manahtten. I’ve never met her but I’m going to guess she’s a douche. She’s got another high school classmate who is a PhD and is a professor of English at Central Michigan University. I’ve met her and she is a huge douche.
Please stay tuned later for a very important H2 game called:
The Chaddening: The H2 Poolside Style Guide
The game will begin at approx 8pm EST.
I’ll be at work.
I’ll be at work.
I’ll be at your mom’s.
I know.
x 3
heh NO MATH!!!!
I’m still going to make Tony Stewart jokes. I don’t care what some stupid grand jury decides.
I’ll be here, but I don’t hang out near pools.
I’m making meat loaf.
U R all jelly.
So jelly u speechless.
Ugh, woke up this morning with a cold coming on. I’m back home now and waiting for lunch to show up so I can crawl into bed.
Oh look, more evidence that our civilization no longer deserves to live.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/la-ar-betabrands-answer-to-the-adult-onesie-meet-the-suitsy-20140922-story.html
I bet that’ll be everywhere at Google and Apple soon.
Wait, “Beta” brands? Are they trolling?
First MJ takes sides with my ex-friend, then he plans a game for when I’m at work.
what kind of fucksticks is this?
On bush (whore mouths, shut them) moved. The other one … wasn’t so successful. Very deep root. Couldn’t get beneath it. I’ll try again tomorrow. The bush (whore mouths, shut them) may not make it. Oh well. It’s a spirea and it doesn’t get enough sun to flower nicely.
I require my bushes to perform, or they’re gone.
I bet he eats fishsticks during the game.
When aren’t you working? We can plan this fabulous game for Sunday morning from 4-6am.
MJ’s got no game.
Excellent. 4 to 6 am. Sunday morning !
I will be asleep.
MJ’s got no game.
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You should ask your m_m.
You should ask your m_m.
The giant dead branch finished falling. I get to go start sawing in a few minutes.
My life is awesome and I’m the luckiest man alive.
Tomorrow’s crackfat is in VT.
Vermont keeeeled it.
How’s it hanging, pendejo?
http://tinyurl.com/k59dzz7
I’m a grower…….not a shower.
Man, I got to the gym and the post is completely dead. I think we’ll have to save The Chaddening: The H2 Pool Side Style Guile for another night.
I’m heartbroken.
You would have loved Chad. He’s just like you.
My yard work makes crossfit look like prancercise.
*tosses freshly-made caber*
All y’all better step up your game.
I think everyone is in a coma after trying to read Ace’s TL/DR “Obama’s UN speech” post.
http://is.gd/QGW3MY
I don’t talk at poolside, I just flash the guns.
Not my arms or anything, actual guns. Then everyone runs and I have the pool to myself.
Apparently youngest and Staff Sgt Wonderful had reached the “we can fart around each other” stage before he deployed.
This is new information and I must process it.
Including the part I have to process that she told me.
Farting comes after other things for most couples. Not sure how I’d feel about that either, Dave.
Why doesn’t Moses have a job at the airport?
I don’t fart around anyone. Part of the reason I became a smoker was so I could go outside and fart in solitude without looking like an antisocial meth head.
I carry a Bulldog puppy with me at all times.
I’m also trying to figure how this comes up in conversation.
“You know what I really miss, dad?”
I don’t fart.
Ain’t my life, her life. I just want her to be happy, and this kid to come home with all his fingers and toes.
>> I’m also trying to figure how this comes up in conversation.
I think I started it. She’s a new second grade teacher and one of her kids just ripped on in class today so we were laughing about that, and I said something like “well, except for you everybody does it”
It’s not about the farts.
Did anybody figure out that anybody else was actually using blanks when they “shot” the enemy spy today?
Death by fart.
No.
Death by blanks?
Why is Moses such an underachiever?
One time I farted on the way taking Mrs. Dave to the OB when she was pregs and she said “PULL OVER”
We laughed about that too tonight.
Moses is old
He can do this.
http://is.gd/b4amJu
Someone step on a duck?
I think these were the guys Phat was talking about last night.
http://tinyurl.com/l4ql5ev
Man, I could get into a lot of mischief over there with a dozen A-10s.
We’d be doing some “Practical Exercises”.
Just sayin’…
I’m old, and we have been married for 45 years.
I fart with impunity, unless we have company.
Then, I go outside ‘to smoke’.
Oddly enough, Anita does not fart. I’ve never figured that out.
But then, I’m a guy(and apparently, a pig)…
He’s got the nose for it, yeah.
He needs 7 hours of sleep though during the day.
Man, I remember when he could run like that.
Flutterbys!
http://tinyurl.com/lpa53qx
l to r : mare sean jay
http://tinyurl.com/nv2uqll
Dang, where is everyone? You wall went to play games at MJ’s right?
Art,
I think I killed it with “Farting Protocol”.
Sorry Xbrad,
Crazy day here.
Wife’s old iPhone shit the bed.
BTW, non military people REALLY don’t get that reference! That’s the term I used when we went to the AT&T store. Mr Khan looked at me quizzically and the wife did a facepalm.
She did another facepalm when I explained to Khan what ‘shit the bed’ means. That was fucking hilarious.
Then the eldest phatspawn comes home and says she wants to apply to the Air Force Academy. WTF?
Luckily the local Academy Liason Officer is a classmate of mine, Hopefully he can talk her out of it.
In all honesty, I secretly support her: my girl is a fit, strong woman. She’s solid emotionally and could excel at a military academy.
This just kind of blindsided me, still trying to process it.
*farts
*Walks away quickly
Is Xbrad around? I figured he might enjoy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZa4yre0uEk#t=75
That is pretty cool for Phatspawn.
I’m around. A bit.
Ouch. I gave it 20 seconds then stabbed myself in the face.
I H8 it when anti-American douchebags make anti-American speeches at the UN. I really H8 it when it is the President of the US.
LOL. You lasted about 15 seconds longer than I did.
Home for the next 9 days.
Wife has a list of crap to do/fix.
Time to pick up a trip and use that money to pay someone to do the job right.
I get to get paid for doing what I like to do, handyman gets paid for doing what he likes.
win/win.
USAFA is a lot cheaper to attend than most other schools, Phat. Just sayin’.
Dan tried to give me a work list once. Once.
**puts Jenn on the “Kill on sight” list**
One of my college roomies has a nephew at West Point. He’s doing well as a boxer there. My cousin, J, is a USNA grad. He loved it. He’s a Major now. Moving from San Clemente to Baltimore.
Mrs. Phat’s phone?
Dont make me post worse music video because I will find them and when your ears start to blled it’s your own fault.
Look, I’ve already got some really crappy stuff on my phone. Just how badly do you need to hurt me?
I’m very ambivalent about my Academy education.
The phrase I use: ‘A $250K education shoved up your ass a nickel at a time. ‘
I’m gonna sit on the sidelines for her decision. It has to be your choice to go an Academy, otherwise you’re not gonna make it.
I know how hard my freshman year was. I know it will be harder for a girl and it makes me cringe.
My girl is a great chick. She will make the right choice for her.
I have cousins that are nearing 40/over 40 and still paying for school. Not J. He got his Masters at LSU.
Oso,
I didn’t use my GI Bill, so I’m able to transfer it to my girls.
If the eldest goes to USAFA that leaves all 4 years to the youngest.
Eldest wants political science, youngest wants to go into mortuary science.
Not joking. Both girls will fit in at a meat up, the younger is just a little more ‘intense’.
Her and Alex can sit together and not talk.
Jenn, you still around? I have a task for you.
http://xbradtc.com/2014/09/23/which-one-of-my-minions-will-build-this-for-me/
That is even better, Phat. If eldest ends up at AFA, Springs meat up!!!!
I’m sure that everybody knows how much my body hates me
It lets me down most every time and makes me rash and hasty
I feel a total derp before your naked body of work