I was going to ask the same thing. I met a really cute doctor standing in line for the Hillary rally. She was certainly a Dem. If cute is the standard for VP, I’d insist you name her, if I knew her name. Perhaps you could run a missed connections ad in The Stranger. Best way to find your veep.
Kinda bummed because Marge the cat met her doom today instead of coming home with us. Six healthy kittens and when we finally catch the Mom it turns out she is sick.
You rang? It’s no Lunar Lander (the original Atari quarter ripoff) or even a BattleZone, but it’s not bad and took more than a few of my hard earned quarters.
Marge had full blown FELV with no chance of being adopted anywhere. She had spent the last two nights in quarantine at the vet but was tested before being fixed this morning.
29.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I like the Confederate flag dress. That’ll help in the southern states.
30.
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: Wrong. The best video game ever was Tempest.
(Has the G.O.P. put out a game named Grand Theft Election yet?)
40.
Bobby Thomson
Never gonna bake you a pie
Never gonna bathe in lye
41.
scav
I, for one, do shut down unexpectedly from time to time and refuse to communicate with anybody. Wouldn’t hurt to have an upgrade either. Especially as I sometimes break out into analog patience.
When I was at The Ohio State University, Pole Position took money that would have been better spent on beer and pizza. I found it in a retro-hipster-video game & pinball bar here in LA. I dropped 20 bucks before my friends dragged me away.
But, no, Seth is not saying Bernie is literally winning the primaries (in delegates or in any official sense.) He’s just establishing that Senator Sanders is doing demonstrably better than Hillary if you look at each race from the time Hillary actually is running against Mr. Sanders, as a then-existing candidate.
I’m wondering at what point Mr. Sanders was non-existing?
Incidentally, has anyone ever done a follow-up to those “Missed Connections” ads to see if anyone actually MAKES a connection? I always thought that would be a fascinating article…but then, I’m the gal who just loves “Desperately Seeking Susan”..
My personal stalker returns from blissful oblivion to whinge…
I have never understood her obsession with you, since your insomniac work ethic and unfailing goodwill pretty much keep this blog rolling at all hours for the sake of the commenterati. Aside from her constant animus for you which she wears like a string of rotting onions on her belt, she actually has had some pretty valid comments lately. Maybe once she offloads the offending moldy mess, she’ll come around to you too. Perhaps really just a sinus issue? That can make anyone miserable….
I am a fan of yours, which I believe keeps the U-verse in balance.
69.
Mike J
@Miss Bianca: January 20, when Baud is sworn in as our next president, we’ll know.
70.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: Sometimes people just grate on other people.
71.
Keith P.
Saw this quote on the WashPost about Trump that just blew my mind:
The changes among men have been less pronounced, with 37 percent now favorable and 59 percent unfavorable
Spoiler alert – the numbers with women are 25-75. Jeebus. And this is the GOP’s *frontrunner*.
To raise money out of faux outrage, after his people got caught red handed doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing and the DNC restricted their access to data until his campaign promised they wouldn’t do it again.
Funny you should say that, as I was keeping both of them in my mind as I commented. eemom is the anti-mcclaren in as much as she is brief when she feels stabby – however she does tend to get personal, as I’ve exprienced some long while ago. mcclaren just thinks we are a bunch of idiots, and goes on ad nauseum when making a point – so death by a thousand cuts and nearly as many paragraphs.
However, both do make valid points quite often – if you can handle the the maternal venom, or your eyes don’t bleed from exhaustion.
@redshirt: So – due to the level of bitchiness and what I assumed was an understandable axe to grind in the tech biz (which made a lot of sense in my head, FWIW) – I long thought mcclaren was a woman (as I am, also too). Nope, lady’s a dude – to turn that notion on its head.
@seaboogie: Are you stating for the record that mcclaren is a man?
89.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: Thumbnail: Some lawyers on this site argued that the law was likely to be upheld and that naysayers really knew fuck-all about the law and how courts worked. I was one, and so was eemom. We had predicted a 6-3 vote, and that it would not have to go to the tax argument to win, but I would argue that we were more right than wrong. Nevertheless, feelings ran quite high during that time and some people may have carried grudges about their professional judgment be questioned when it was much more right than wrong.
90.
seaboogie
@redshirt: I’ve been told as much is true. But maybe with all the “where you pee” shit (heh) going down in NC this week, we should keep the gender thing fluid. I dunno…
@seaboogie: Sometimes viciousness comes in response to things said years before. It is rather well known that I have an animus toward a commenter here who many people like; I could detail my reasons, but maybe people could accept that my reasons are valid for me. They don’t have to apply to everyone else.
95.
NotMax
Grrrr.
First world problem of the evening –
Cheese which comes packaged in a zip lock type bag which, after initial opening, will neither zip nor lock.
redshirt
How are your Asteroid skills, Cole?
Baud
That’s not me.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: who are you thinking for VP anyway? He better be cute.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Funny, that’s sort of how I picture you.
Just Some Fuckhead
Games are stoopid.
geg6
@Steeplejack:
I was just going to say the same thing.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Steeplejack: Except naked, covered in feces and semen.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: What if he is a she?
@Steeplejack: I need to make Baudrolled a thing.
dlm
@Baud: I was going to ask if that was you.
Baud
@Just Some Fuckhead: Seriously? It’s only Thursday.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Yeah. We suck. But we’d suck even more without you to keep us in line. So, thank you.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Baud: Fuck, that means I got one more day at work.
raven
Texas A&M and Miami suck too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud:
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she.
Nemo_N
I’m with you in the video games part, I’ll be playing DOAX3 all night.
Mike J
@Baud:
I was going to ask the same thing. I met a really cute doctor standing in line for the Hillary rally. She was certainly a Dem. If cute is the standard for VP, I’d insist you name her, if I knew her name. Perhaps you could run a missed connections ad in The Stranger. Best way to find your veep.
khead
Kinda bummed because Marge the cat met her doom today instead of coming home with us. Six healthy kittens and when we finally catch the Mom it turns out she is sick.
redshirt
Do any of you Plebes play Asteroids? The purest video game ever?
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Take a walk on the wild side would be a cool campaign slogan.
Just Some Fuckhead
@redshirt: Says the guy who never played Defender.
Steeplejack
@khead:
Details? Your link is from yesterday.
schrodinger's cat
@khead: What happened to Marge?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Ooh, now I’m thinking of which drag queen we should pick for VP. Miss Rachel Tension?
khead
@redshirt:
You rang? It’s no Lunar Lander (the original Atari quarter ripoff) or even a BattleZone, but it’s not bad and took more than a few of my hard earned quarters.
redshirt
@Just Some Fuckhead: Defender was righteous. But it was linear. Right to left.
Asteroids is all directions at all times, but at a pace you control (if you’re good).
That’s far superior.
MomSense
@Baud:
I’m personally hoping for “let the wild rumpus begin”.
redshirt
@khead: Yeah? So how good are you? I once ended my Asteroid game at 99,990 on purpose, with my last man. You get what I’m saying?
khead
Marge had full blown FELV with no chance of being adopted anywhere. She had spent the last two nights in quarantine at the vet but was tested before being fixed this morning.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I like the Confederate flag dress. That’ll help in the southern states.
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: Wrong. The best video game ever was Tempest.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Pong.
khead
@redshirt:
Not that good. 80K tops? And that’s with “cheating” and hunting the little UFO.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: That was just spin and spray. Asteroids is literally ballet.
redshirt
@khead: Hunting the small UFO is advanced play. Get good at it and increase your score quite easily. Because the asteroids only get harder and harder.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Amen to that.
PaulWartenberg2016
Until I generate $20,000 in book sales, I can’t afford the membership fees for Star Wars the Old Republic or Star Trek Online, so… no gaming for me.
PaulWartenberg2016
@redshirt:
I
AM
SINISTAR
try that, mofos.
Disgruntled former Baud supporter
Shining Force for Sega Genesis
NotMax
Sofa spud.
(Has the G.O.P. put out a game named Grand Theft Election yet?)
Bobby Thomson
Never gonna bake you a pie
Never gonna bathe in lye
scav
I, for one, do shut down unexpectedly from time to time and refuse to communicate with anybody. Wouldn’t hurt to have an upgrade either. Especially as I sometimes break out into analog patience.
Anya
Why is Sanders suing the DNC?
sinnedbackwards
@redshirt: Usta play back when it replaced pong as the cool game. Godfrey’s, in Baltimore.
I was never good enough to get grabbed by NSA to be a stealth spy plane pilot.
NotMax
Idly wondering if a disgruntled banhammer recipient possesses the acumen to launch a DDOS attack.
kdaug
@PaulWartenberg2016: Run, coward!
FlyingToaster
@NotMax: Probably, but what on earth would be the point?
Oh, right, taking down a semi-obscure political blog for two whole hours is entirely the point.
Sigh. I’m clearly getting old.
BruceFromOhio
Missile Command! Defender! Galaga!
MS PAC MAN
Mike J
@khead:
A clone of that was probably the first program of any complexity I ever wrote on my Commie[1]. Very simple, but I learned a lot.
[1] It sure was nice to have sprite handling built in.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
We love you too Cole.
Mike J
@Anya:
It’s the best way to prove you’re really a Democrat.
BruceFromOhio
@NotMax: band name:album name,
Disgruntled Banhammer:Recipient Acumen
Luthe
I know the Nice Polite Republicans aren’t universally beloved around here, but there’s a great NPR piece about the white working class, “real Americans,” and Trumpism vis a vis the GOP.
James E Powell
@BruceFromOhio:
When I was at The Ohio State University, Pole Position took money that would have been better spent on beer and pizza. I found it in a retro-hipster-video game & pinball bar here in LA. I dropped 20 bucks before my friends dragged me away.
NotMax
@BruceFromOhio
Should Mr. Cole ever start up a band, it ought by rights be named Missing Mustard.
;)
Anne Laurie
My personal stalker returns from blissful oblivion to whinge about copywrites, and next thing the blog is under DoS attack. Jussayinisall.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: Copyright, please.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
(*crumples in a heap onto fainting couch*)
;)
seaboogie
Since we are discussing running mates for Baud! 2016, I just had a flash of what I believe is genius for Hillary’ s VP – George Clooney.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: “Cheesehead, please.”
different-church-lady
@Bobby Thomson:
…never gonna coffee, tea or dessert you.
different-church-lady
Here, see if you can help me sort this out:
I’m wondering at what point Mr. Sanders was non-existing?
Miss Bianca
@Mike J:
Incidentally, has anyone ever done a follow-up to those “Missed Connections” ads to see if anyone actually MAKES a connection? I always thought that would be a fascinating article…but then, I’m the gal who just loves “Desperately Seeking Susan”..
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus:
No way, man. Frogger.
different-church-lady
Darwin Award wannabe.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Beerhunter.
eemom
@Anne Laurie:
My dear serial infringer, you flatter me. I wouldn’t know a DOS from a hole in the wall.
Also, the proper spelling is jussayinzall. You’re welcome.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus:
OK, you got me. The only beerhunter I know is this guy.
seaboogie
@Anne Laurie:
I have never understood her obsession with you, since your insomniac work ethic and unfailing goodwill pretty much keep this blog rolling at all hours for the sake of the commenterati. Aside from her constant animus for you which she wears like a string of rotting onions on her belt, she actually has had some pretty valid comments lately. Maybe once she offloads the offending moldy mess, she’ll come around to you too. Perhaps really just a sinus issue? That can make anyone miserable….
I am a fan of yours, which I believe keeps the U-verse in balance.
Mike J
@Miss Bianca: January 20, when Baud is sworn in as our next president, we’ll know.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: Sometimes people just grate on other people.
Keith P.
Saw this quote on the WashPost about Trump that just blew my mind:
Spoiler alert – the numbers with women are 25-75. Jeebus. And this is the GOP’s *frontrunner*.
different-church-lady
@Mike J:
“HEY, BRING THAT BIBLE BACK HERE, YOU ASSHOLE!”
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus: Agreed. And I’ve learned, it’s really not their stuff, it’s my stuff that is at issue.
scuffletuffle
@khead: So what happens now, euthanasia?
redshirt
@Anne Laurie: Is it eemom?
seaboogie
@redshirt: Yes.
redshirt
@seaboogie: She’s not Anne’s personal troll. That undersells eemom.
SFAW
@different-church-lady:
Ah, yes – genius was from (as any good Masshole knows} “Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin”
(There used to be a second line to that couplet, but it wandered into the wrong part of Lynn and got shanked.)
seaboogie
@redshirt: Also agreed, per my comment at #68.
redshirt
@seaboogie: eemom is the anti-mcclaren perhaps?
Bobby Thomson
@Anya:
To raise money out of faux outrage, after his people got caught red handed doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing and the DNC restricted their access to data until his campaign promised they wouldn’t do it again.
seaboogie
@redshirt:
Funny you should say that, as I was keeping both of them in my mind as I commented. eemom is the anti-mcclaren in as much as she is brief when she feels stabby – however she does tend to get personal, as I’ve exprienced some long while ago. mcclaren just thinks we are a bunch of idiots, and goes on ad nauseum when making a point – so death by a thousand cuts and nearly as many paragraphs.
However, both do make valid points quite often – if you can handle the the maternal venom, or your eyes don’t bleed from exhaustion.
Isn’t it fun being a lib?
AkaDad
@SFAW:
As a fellow Masshole, I just lol’d.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: Were you around during the discussions about the ACA Supreme Court case?
redshirt
@seaboogie: mcclaren might have chemical issues that affect her responses from day to day. She does seem to cycle through negative and positive loops.
eemom is eemom and you like her or leave her, I feel like that’s the truth of her responses. She’s as sane as any of us can be.
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus: Nope. Enlighten me, if you wish…
seaboogie
@redshirt: So – due to the level of bitchiness and what I assumed was an understandable axe to grind in the tech biz (which made a lot of sense in my head, FWIW) – I long thought mcclaren was a woman (as I am, also too). Nope, lady’s a dude – to turn that notion on its head.
redshirt
@seaboogie: Are you stating for the record that mcclaren is a man?
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: Thumbnail: Some lawyers on this site argued that the law was likely to be upheld and that naysayers really knew fuck-all about the law and how courts worked. I was one, and so was eemom. We had predicted a 6-3 vote, and that it would not have to go to the tax argument to win, but I would argue that we were more right than wrong. Nevertheless, feelings ran quite high during that time and some people may have carried grudges about their professional judgment be questioned when it was much more right than wrong.
seaboogie
@redshirt: I’ve been told as much is true. But maybe with all the “where you pee” shit (heh) going down in NC this week, we should keep the gender thing fluid. I dunno…
redshirt
@seaboogie: Who knows, nowadays? And perhaps who’s to say?
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you, Omnes. What I love about this site is the level of expertise that is available to call upon, and the brio of expression.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: mclaren is a dude.
Omnes Omnibus
@seaboogie: Sometimes viciousness comes in response to things said years before. It is rather well known that I have an animus toward a commenter here who many people like; I could detail my reasons, but maybe people could accept that my reasons are valid for me. They don’t have to apply to everyone else.
NotMax
Grrrr.
First world problem of the evening –
Cheese which comes packaged in a zip lock type bag which, after initial opening, will neither zip nor lock.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Who is it? Is it Baud?
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: One has zip-lock bag to which one can transfer the cheese, yes?
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: No. If you don’t know, I won’t name names and resurrect a problem.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Sadly, no.
Regular plastic wrap is my go-to option. It’s a goodly amount of cheese. 2 lb., pre-sliced, from Costco.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: I hope it’s JohnCole then.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Saran-Wrap?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Nope, the good stuff.
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus: I accept your reasons.
joel hanes
I finally gave up on waiting for Half-Life 3 after eight years,
bought a new gaming box with an SSD,
and got Fallout 4 from Steam.
That was a month ago.
I have done little else since.
This game is worse than crack.
Paul in KY
@Disgruntled former Baud supporter: Pac man.
Paul in KY
@eemom: Get a room you two!