Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146

[InaVegt]

What, punting helpless leprechauns isn't solving your problem?

*le punt*

[Lucky]

*le punt*

Hi Gez, how are you?

[Thufir]

I thought everyone got the New Glasses Headache. This is the first new prescription I've had in some two and a half years, and it's fairly different from the old one, which has been piss poor for my eyesight for the past year or so.

Whenever I got a new prescription (Which I haven't for ages), I always iust ended up going "Woah! Everything's so CLEAR! I can see EVERYTHING!"

I've never met myself, no, what am I like?

Awesome and lovely and wonderful and fantastic. But not shady.
(I should point out I'm not great at detailed descriptions of people. Basically, I like you a lot so I'm iust going to throw positive adiectives at you)

[InaVegt]

Hi Gez, how are you?

I'm fine, thank you. Yourself

[Lucky]

I'm fine, thank you. Yourself

Awesome, just finished my last exam for the summer, so I'm free for a whole 2 weeks or so!

[Malfunctioned]

Whenever I got a new prescription (Which I haven't for ages), I always iust ended up going "Woah! Everything's so CLEAR! I can see EVERYTHING!"

Same. I quite like the feeling of being able to read without either headaches or having to hold them at around arms length.

Awesome and lovely and wonderful and fantastic. But not shady.
(I should point out I'm not great at detailed descriptions of people. Basically, I like you a lot so I'm iust going to throw positive adiectives at you)

Careful, they've got sharp edges.

[PJ the Epic]

Geez. I go away for a month and you get through two of these suckers. I guess I too am caught in the inevitable flow of time.

Anyway, is anyone else out there starting their marching band season?

[Malfunctioned]

Geez. I go away for a month and you get through two of these suckers. I guess I too am caught in the inevitable flow of time.

Anyway, is anyone else out there starting their marching band season?

Nope. Then again I'm not in a marching band so you could wonder why I'm even replying to this...

[PJ the Epic]

Nope. Then again I'm not in a marching band so you could wonder why I'm even replying to this...

I forgot the sense of your guyses humor.

[InaVegt]

Awesome, just finished my last exam for the summer, so I'm free for a whole 2 weeks or so!

On the other hand, you now have 2 weeks to refill that empty pot 'o gold of yours.

[Malfunctioned]

I forgot the sense of your guyses humor.

I'm seem to have done that as well, most of my jokes today have either been as terrible as that or very bad visual puns.

[Thufir]

Careful, they've got sharp edges.

Nothing to worry about. Naturally, as Goddess of the Written Word, Curly is immune to adiective damage.

[Lucky]

On the other hand, you now have 2 weeks to refill that empty pot 'o gold of yours.

So you can steal it again? I'm not falling for that this time.

[InaVegt]

So you can steal it again? I'm not falling for that this time.

Aw. :(

[CurlyKitGirl]

I couldn't ever figure out how to pronounce it "dagayr-ee-oh-type?" No. When I figured out that it was the name of its inventor (Daguerre) with an "otype" added, it became much easier.

Heehee!
I can't remember how or where I heard or figured out how to say dageurreotype, but I've pronounced it correctly since I was about nine or ten.

Hehe. I might have to wait to tell him so he doesn't figure out I've been telling stories on him in the thread.

If he shows up I'll say hi.

I'm not sure. Problem #1: I typically go months alternating between two different pairs, so they get a LOT of use in a short period of time.

Problem #2: I wear out the knees. Usually the right knee. Both because I kneel on the floor a lot and for the same reason as

Problem #3: There's also one point at the right thigh that tends to wear through after a while too. I know exactly what the problem is . . . I always sit with my right leg tucked under me in such a way that it puts pressure there and at the knee. (I'm doing it right now, as a matter of fact.)

But it's also probably a denim quality issue because the majority of them are fairly thin denim (probably a function of my fondness for stretchy jeans - I like never worrying about unbuttoning them ,because I am lazy).

Probably a mix of all of them. Odd cutting and sucky fabric.

The idea of red velvet makes me salivate with delight. But can be difficult to find. My favorite plan is to find some oddly colored denim jeans (purple? green? red? Usually they come in hideous waist-up-at-the-armpits styles) and take the fabric out of those. But it's also a matter of finding jeans with a waistline I like at said thrift store - it's hard to find jeans that are long enough in the back (and don't "gap") but are short enough in the front.

Eh. You know what the solution to all our problems is? HOMEMADE CLOTHES. The other day I took apart a lovely velvet skirt I never wear and turned it into a shirt that fits me probably better than any garment ever has before. My dad told me I looked like I stepped out of a '70s photograph and to be fair I HAVE seen pictures of his mother wearing similar shirts in that era.

What you get is what you can get, but red velvet in ieans is gorgeous. Try trawling as many shops as you can, sometimes in specialist fabric hops you can get special orders or special discounts ordering directly through them. I've only done it once or twice, mostly for relatives.
I really should start making clothes again, I've only really made a pair of ieans, and a funky hat. I think the biggest detriment is the complete lack of sewing machine or anything but the most basic sewing kit.

@Thufir: Every time I get new glasses, I also get a headache. Something about the brain not being used to adjusted prescription/angle/what have you, probably.

That's it! That's it! Adiusting thingies to fit the new lense.

Whenever I got a new prescription (Which I haven't for ages), I always iust ended up going "Woah! Everything's so CLEAR! I can see EVERYTHING!"

Lucky. :smallenvy:

Awesome and lovely and wonderful and fantastic. But not shady.
(I should point out I'm not great at detailed descriptions of people. Basically, I like you a lot so I'm iust going to throw positive adiectives at you)

[AtlanteanTroll]

Kurt Cobian. Purpose or accident?

[Thufir]

Lucky. :smallenvy:

It was always a pretty neat experience. Like, if I focused a bit and thought the right way, I could be Sherlock Holmes. Spotting all the details...

Also, I iust flashed back to Shipping and as a result your faux-smiley transformed into :smallTwoBit: in my head.

[Cristo Meyers]

Also, I iust flashed back to Shipping and as a result your faux-smiley transformed into :smallTwoBit: in my head.

Ah, memories.

Nostalgia you will be the death of me...

[Coidzor]

Ah, memories.

Nostalgia you will be the death of me...

No, no. That's going to be this net. *throws net over the Cristo*

So, how have you been, O Rarest of Beasties?

It was always a pretty neat experience. Like, if I focused a bit and thought the right way, I could be Sherlock Holmes. Spotting all the details...

Also, I iust flashed back to Shipping and as a result your faux-smiley transformed into :smallTwoBit: in my head.

<_< >_>

Awesome.

Also, that's your halloween costume this year unless you can come up with a convincing argument to the contrary.

[Thufir]

No, no. That's going to be this net. *throws net over the Cristo*

So, how have you been, O Rarest of Beasties?

Hate to break it to you, but nets aren't usually deadly.

[Coidzor]

Hate to break it to you, but nets aren't usually deadly.

Oh, fine, it's going to be when we chop him up and sell him to the highest bidder.

But the Net is just the crucial first step.

Also, I can't get over giggling at the idea of you and Koorly as Holmes and Watson.

[Cristo Meyers]

No, no. That's going to be this net. *throws net over the Cristo*

So, how have you been, O Rarest of Beasties?

*wobble wobble*

*wobble wobble*

*wooble POOF*

Wild Cristo was almost caught!

I would say busy, but that'd be a bit of a lie. Been working on and off since January, mostly off. Finally starting to get back into the swing of things. Maybe I'll even start making more than just cursory appearances around here more often.

What I really need to do is start going back over my works in progress and get re-acquainted, but unfortunately Mass Effect 2 is eating my soul right now...

[Thufir]

Also, I can't get over giggling at the idea of you and Koorly as Holmes and Watson.

And now I'm imagining it...

ION: Rarh grar CV nyar. Need to do something about sorting my references.

[Perenelle]

Geez. I go away for a month and you get through two of these suckers. I guess I too am caught in the inevitable flow of time.

Anyway, is anyone else out there starting their marching band season?

Oooh! oooh! I am! *raises hand*

ahh, I love marching band season. Sore calves, sunburn, and falling asleep to the sound of a metronome ringing in your head... best time of the year.

[PJ the Epic]

Oooh! oooh! I am! *raises hand*

ahh, I love marching band season. Sore calves, sunburn, and falling asleep to the sound of a metronome ringing in your head... best time of the year.

Ahhh, so the horribly loud, peircing metronome isn't just my band. Bleh

Also, I rember you from last year. Flute, right? maybe? *prays*

[Thufir]

Missed this when you edited it in, Coid:

Also, that's your halloween costume this year unless you can come up with a convincing argument to the contrary.

I don't usually do anything for Halloween. This year I might be ioining some friends for the second Newcastle Zombie Walk, but obviously I'd have to be a zombie for that.

Besides, Halloween you're supposed to dress as something scary. Not iust wear any costume you happen to think would be interesting.

[Perenelle]

Ahhh, so the horribly loud, peircing metronome isn't just my band. Bleh

Also, I rember you from last year. Flute, right? maybe? *prays*

Sadly, we do too. Ours is incredibly high pitched and obnoxious, its terrible.

Yes, but I play Piccolo in marching band. so yes, you're right. *high fives*

sadly, I do not remember what it was that you played... I'm going to guess Trombone? Maybe? I'm pretty sure it was a brass instrument...

[PJ the Epic]

Sadly, we do too. Ours is incredibly high pitched and obnoxious, its terrible.

Yes, but I play Piccolo in marching band. so yes, you're right. *high fives*

sadly, I do not remember what it was that you played... I'm going to guess Trombone? Maybe? I'm pretty sure it was a brass instrument...

NO DISAPPROVAL! SHAME!

I play clarinet. Or bassoon. Either or. Nothing else.

[Coidzor]

I don't usually do anything for Halloween. This year I might be ioining some friends for the second Newcastle Zombie Walk, but obviously I'd have to be a zombie for that.

Besides, Halloween you're supposed to dress as something scary. Not iust wear any costume you happen to think would be interesting.

Then that would disbar 99% of costumes designed for women!

Besides, you and Koorly as Zombie Holmes and Zombie Femme-Watson would be even more priceless.

...Or would she be Zombie Femme Moriarty?

[Perenelle]

NO DISAPPROVAL! SHAME!

I play clarinet. Or bassoon. Either or. Nothing else.

That was my second guess!! *apologetic huggles*

Thats good though, I prefer woodwinds anyway.