Blah.
Name five people you would like to go to dinner and party with, and your answer can not be five supermodels (female or male) who all for some strange and inexplicable reason want to sleep with you.
I don’t know my five yet.
*** Update ***
I am replacing my old 4 year old CyberPower PC (well, not replacing it, moving it to the second desk so Shawn can have a desktop) and am just going straight iMac. Got two 27″ monitors, 32 gigs of ram, top of the line graphics card, and am just going to run VMWare Fusion so I can still have access to Windows programs, so expect a shitload of frantic tech questions tomorrow. I’m to the point now that Ijust want shit to work, and Apple does that for me.
ulee
Rosie.
Lily.
Steve.
Shawn.
Cole.
Then Hitler and Stalin.
Walker
Since it is an Open Thread.
Been playing Watch Dogs this evening. The hacking missions are awesome. Especially when I hack a camera phone and ride along in a guy’s pocket.
But then there is all this vehicle mission bulls**t. If I wanted to play GTA, I would have bought GTA. Let me go back the hacking.
Morzer
Are we limiting this to living people? Or can the dinner and party include resurrected dead people?
John (MCCARTHY) Cole
@Walker: I got sucked into World of Tanks. All the guys I know from the army are playing it, and we have a teamspeak account an run missions with the same precision we did IRL. Lot of fun.
Joseph Nobles
Jennifer Lawrence, Jesus, Don Cheadle, Maya Angelou, Oscar Wilde.
Citizen Alan
Are we allowed to put strychnine in the coffee and arsenic in the desserts? Because if so, I can think of five SCOTUS justices I’d LOVE to have dinner with.
trollhattan
Hmm, Robert Duvall, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Uma Thurman, McKinley Morganfield (Richard Thompson if they have to be alive).
Soonergrunt
Ban Ki Moon
Buzz Aldrin
Jane Goodall
Julia Gillard
My wife
Bonus-both of my kids along for the dinner.
handy
Edited: bah, wrong thread.
rikyrah
I am choosing dead people.
Dr. Dorothy Height
Dr. John Hope Franklin
Dr.Benjamin Elijah Mays
Whitney Young
Henry O. Tanner
Walter White (former head of the NAACP)
beltane
@Joseph Nobles: I would like Oscar Wilde to be a front pager here.
lamh36
President Obama and Michelle (uh…duh), Sandra Bullock (cause she seems like fun and has been a great NOLA transplant), George Clooney (cause uh…duh), ummmm…Hugh Jackman (cuz he seems like a lot of fun)
Chad
I just ordered a new MacBook for my work laptop for this 3 year hardware upgrade. Im tearing my hair out. Its like windows, kind of, except with none of the shortcuts that make shit work. Its like “Different, but not better”. And why does every software company just kind of half ass the same program that works well on Windows for the Mac?
/sigh
#firstworldproblems
Soonergrunt
@rikyrah: “I am choosing dead people.”
That ought to make for short dinner conversation.
JPL
Many years ago I came up with a list of folks that I would like to have dinner with.
The list back them was John Updike, William Buckley, and Anne Tyler. It’s a strange list but one that would lead to interesting discussions.
Several years ago, when Bush was still President, I mentioned to a son that if I had a dinner party GW would not be allowed, but Laura could attend. He was pretty shocked that at my imaginary party, I would prevent a President from attending.
Now I would invite the President and his wife, Malia and Sasha and maybe Bo.
jl
Monte Python, it it’s just yuks at dinner.
If there are after dinner activities, the five most beautiful women supermodels/actresses of my choice, who will for VERY understandable and COMPLETELY OBVIOUS explicable reasons want to sleep with me after they enjoy my charming debonair presence and conversation.
lamh36
Hmmmm…can anyone explain how Cuomo can cover his ass over this?
Cuomo’s camp admits to keeping Republicans in control of Senate
Andrew Cuomo Has A Real Problem On His Left Flank. Good.
Soonergrunt
Well, THIS is…interesting.
My newest follower on Twitter:
sutjihadi
@sutjihadi
Game theorist & gamer. Sufi revert. Anti-capitalist quant & Assangian. Charter anon & occupier. Fractalist. Gaming is the dark matter of the social metaverse
lamh36
The R in NRO stands for Racist doesn’t it? I’ve always thought so.
Also too there was this (warning…link to NRO):
R.I.P., Maya Angelou, Proud Gun Owner and User, by Tim Cavanaugh,…
NRO trolling the death of Maya Angelou, would we expect anything less?
JPL
@lamh36: It’s a power play. Kasam Reed will not campaign for Jason Carter for Governor even though they are both Democrats. I think Reed believes he has more leverage with Governor Deal. I hate politics.
The Dangerman
Lee Harvey Oswald (since the Earhart mystery is basically solved)
The Beatles
I’ll have to take a 6th, namely, a Supermodel that just happens to be a huge Beatle fan
ETA: I suppose the Supermodel can be #5 and I’ll sit in for Ringo.
beltane
Jesus, William Blake, Michelle Obama, Emma Goldman, and George Carlin
Mnemosyne
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Neil de Grasse Tyson
President Obama
Abraham Lincoln
Harry Houdini
It’s an ever-changing list, but those are the ones that come to mind tonight.
ETA: And my husband can act as butler if he asks nicely. ;-)
ulee
This is my back up list.
Emily Dickinson.
Thomas Jefferson.
Bob Dylan.
Oscar Wilde.
Vladamir the Impaler.
Mnemosyne
@Soonergrunt:
That description sounds very familiar.
JPL
The local NBC station in Atlanta has an amazing tribute to Maya Angelou. All the local stations have had extensive coverage but they had Andrew Young talking about his personal interactions with her. It’s nice.
lamh36
@JPL: Since Cuomo is up for re-election right? I’m guessing by being willing with teh GOP side, he compensates if he is challenged from his left?
James E. Powell
Why do so many people believe that supermodels make excellent (and therefore are the most desirable) sex partners? They photograph well.
Omnes Omnibus
@ulee: It’s just Vlad. Four letters, one syllable.
Morzer
@ulee:
Have you considered subbing in Nero, DougJ, Pol Pot, Hannibal Lecter and Scott Walker? Just for the sake of diversity.
Ivan X
John, I’m a Mac consultant. I’ve been enjoying Balloon Juice for years. If you run into trouble or have questions or whatever, hit me up and I’ll provide you with free support as a way of saying thanks.
Also, too, I prefer Parallels Desktop to VMWare Fusion, but they’re both excellent. Also, glad to see you are getting the 27″ because you get a proper 7200 RPM drive, but buyer beware on the 21″ because if you don’t get the SSD, you’ll get stuck with a 5400 RPM drive (even in the so-called “fusion drive” config). But you can always add a fast drive via USB 3 or Thunderbolt later.
Soonergrunt
@Mnemosyne: yeah.
Francis
Jimmy Carter
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
George Washington
the actual historical Jesus Christ
Omnes Omnibus
Is this supposed to be people who I find interesting? Or am I trying to make an interesting conversational evening?
SatanicPanic
You said party, right?
Rihanna
Lil Wayne
Miley Cyrus
That one English prince (not the bald one with with hot wife)
Oscar Wilde
Some fabulously rich stupid dude who wants to blow lots of money
ETA- and I would say Kesha but she just got out of rehab
phantomist
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Dorothy Parker
Jackie Robinson
Bill Murray
And a lot of booze.
JPL
@lamh36: I think Cuomo has higher aspirations. Kasem Reed is another story, because he’s popular in Atlanta. There is no reason for him not to campaign for a Democrat for Governor. He will campaign for Nunn though.
Morzer
@Soonergrunt:
I guess someone is opening a CHANnel of communication to you. Good luck to her, whoever this person might be.
beth
Thomas Jefferson
John and Abigail Adams
Sean Hannity
Ted Cruz
This lineup just to hear one of the founding fathers turn to Abigail and say “can you believe these assholes?”
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JPL: Please include Sunny as well, even though the youngest ones always seem to get more attention (in the eyes of the older ones).
Soonergrunt
@Morzer: MC used to email me quite a bit after she left here. She was witty, erudite, logical, polite, respectful of opposing views, and very articulate. We emailed back and forth for about a month.
Then one day the emails just stopped.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
President Obama and the First Lady.
Duchess Catherine of Cambridge.
Neil Armstrong.
John W. Young.
scav
Can I go fictional? I really want to add Sherlock Holmes into the mix.
William Morris, Van Gogh, Dorothy Sayers, Oliver Sacks, and then it depends. Julia Child might be fun.
Concerned Citizen
Hunter S. Thompson
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Phillip K Dick
David Byrne
Hugh Howey (I wanted a recent entry. Wool is bad ass.)
Morzer
@Soonergrunt:
I seem to remember she was in some sort of science program. Hopefully something good came of it.
JPL
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Since John said that not to pick five supermodels or hunks, in my case, I felt limited to five. Of course Sunny is welcome.
lamh36
Man, I really wish BJ allowed gifs, cause I have one handy right now after reading this bit:
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: There are many writers who are/were interesting but who probably wouldn’t provide much lighthearted banter at the dinner table. Seating Joe Strummer next to Andrew Sullivan, on the other hand, would have the potential to be entertaining.
gbear
Well I’ve already been allowed to hold court with the five guys from Styx during their after-concert meal in Duluth MN, but that wasn’t much fun. I’m sure they were excited to have the guys from the second floor lounge band visiting them during their meal…
Lyrebird
Jon Stewart
Some single available male friend of Jon Stewart’s (does that break the rule? he doesn’t have to look like a model at all)
Elizabeth Warren
Michelle Obama
Wendy Davis
I dunno.
I bet a dinner with J (McC) Cole and raven and so forth would be unforgettable, too.
lamh36
Um…wait..what?
Brad Pitt punched in the face on red carpet
Morzer
@Soonergrunt:
Apparently not everything is changed, changed utterly about Our Mutual Friend.
jl
@lamh36: Tried to crash a BJer famous five dinner? People shouldn’t have invited Angelina without him, that shows no class.
billB
Hey, you all are aiming low; Genghis Khan, Mao, Plato, Queen Hatshepsut, Cleopatra. Two chicks, two dudes and a neuter…. Great Party.
Chris
Harry Truman, Charles De Gaulle, George Orwell, Victor Hugo, Davy Crockett.
Omnes Omnibus
Henry II of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joe Strummer, Mme de Pompadour, and Richard Pryor.
lamh36
@jl: Shoot, now I want to drop Clooney and add Brad Pitt, just so I can be like dude, WTF did you do?
Seriously though, hope Mr Pitt is alright. That had to be scary for him and Jolie
beltane
@lamh36: Let’s be grateful that the mentally ill man responsible wasn’t excercising his 2nd amendment rights in this instance.
scav
@scav: Might sub in S. Colbert for van Gogh, the mix might be better and I’m not sure he’d enjoy it as much as I would. He might be better for an intimate pub lunch or afternoon at the Bistro.
BottyGuy
Living:
Barack Obama
Louis C.K.
Chris Rock
Elizabeth Warren
Charlie Pierce
Dead:
Dorothy Parker
Mark Train
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare
BGinCHI
Fred Hiatt
poison apple
poison apple
poison apple
poison apple
Main course: poison apple
jl
@beltane: From the story it looks like a celebrity prankster tried for a gag and accidentally slammed Pitt in the face. Some guy putting the ‘ass’ into ‘assault;.
Edit: I misread your comment. You familiar with who the assailant is? Is he a known nutcase who pulls pranks on celebs?
JPL
Although it’s difficult to only find five people, who would you not want in your house?
My list would include
Cheney
GW
Steve Forbes.. (he’s just creepy)
John Bolton ..(see above)
Rush Limbaugh
BTW It’s really, really, difficult to limit it to five.
lamh36
@beltane: they were in France, Paris I think. What are the gun laws like in FRance?
beltane
The only modern day Republican I would consider inviting to my dinner party is Arnold Schwarzenegger, but only if he was in the Conan the Barbarian stage of his career.
SiubhanDuinne
@beltane:
Soonergrunt
@lamh36: There’s a guy that Edward Snowden should meet. They should sit down, and hash their differences out about that. I think if only they met face to face, one could convince the other of his viewpoint.
Someone should tell Glenn Greenwald about this Snowden fella.
The Pale Scot
@Chad: Keyboard shortcuts for OSX
You might find that using your thumb for the command key is easier than than reaching over for the control key in windows is. And most apps use the same keys. (At least in design and video, if its Quickbooks or Office, well……)
Check out the system preferences panes and especially the keyboard prefs, you can make unique apps specific shortcuts and also the finder’s pref panel to customize the toolbar.
My sister was a MSC Trainer, when 2012? came out she said fuck this bought a mac and became a flight attendant.
beltane
@jl: I saw the assailant referred to as a “crazed man”. I guess he was just an obnoxious dumbass.
trollhattan
My all-dead list: Churchill, Lincoln, Dorothy Parker, Ansel Adams, Jimi Hendrix.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Yeah, but I bet you were never propositioned by Robert Merrill.
Just Some Fuckhead
5 people at the same time?
lamh36
@Soonergrunt: I know right. I assume anyone whatever side you fall on had to just roll their eyes after hearing that line…smh
Suffern ACE
Russell Brand, Gary Larson, Joi Ito, Jamie Hyneman, and Ed Yong.
beltane
Someone ought to invite Tom Friedman’s cab driver.
SatanicPanic
@BGinCHI: I can think of a few people who I’d like to have a seat at the table during a reenactment of the poop-eating scene in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: Are fictional characters allowed?
scav
@Morzer: I want to know about how all the atheists in other cultures necessarily pick up the judeoxianism blahdiblah, plus why atheism is only truthful if it is completely untethered from all cultural norms of the surrounding culture? silly me, I thought the critical bit was not believing in a god / gods.
Jordan Rules
Stephen Colbert
Bob Marley
Josephine Baker
Sade
Joe Biden
Fort Geek
Abe Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
U.S. Grant
…and George W. Bush, so that stupid bastard can explain himself to them.
gbear
Rodney Crowell because his albums have been nothing but great stories for many years.
Geoff Emerick to hear stories about Apple, The Beatles and Badfinger.
Craig Finn from the Hold Steady to talk about our common hometown (that he used to namedrop constantly in his songs).
Architect Fay Jones because his work is so beautiful.
My friend Jim Hatch just to hear him laugh again.
Suffern ACE
@Just Some Fuckhead: that’s normally how it’s done. You could have them over sequentially, but then you’d be eating a very long meal.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
The news reports keep calling the guy a “prankster,” but when you’re sticking your face in people’s crotches (like he did to Bradley Cooper), that’s not a prank, that’s sexual assault. Ironically, this is one of those cases where if he’d stuck his head under a woman’s dress on the bus, he’d probably get more jail time than he did for doing it to America Ferrera.
Morzer
@scav:
Beats me, but maybe we aren’t meant to know these things.
trollhattan
@trollhattan:
Crap, I demand six to add Sam Clemens.
Citizen_X
What I really want is a small (<6 total) gathering where Rachel Maddow tends bar. Awesome mixology knowledge, and she'd be great conversation.
Emerald
Shakespeare
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Dickens
Obama
Tim Curry
And because this is fantasy, I’m having Carl Sagan in for the dessert course as well. And I demand Sam Clemens too.
Congrats on the Mac. I’ve been a maccie for decades, and enjoy games with VMFusion (although GOG has been coming out with all kinds of older games they’re porting to Mac). Not to say that I haven’t had a few problems over the years, but mostly, the stuff just works.
KG
Living: Emmy Rossum, Shakira, Yasiel Puig, Obama, and Freema Agyeman
Dead: Thomas Jefferson, Wilde, Shakespeare, Bettie Page, and Agatha Christie
jonas
Mine’s a Hollywood-centric affair:
Chelsea Handler
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
George Clooney
Stephen Colbert
David Cross
Comrade Dread
Living: Al Gore, Ian McKellen, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Louis CK, and Elizabeth Warren
Dead: Kurt Vonnegut, James Madison, St. James, George Carlin, and Marie Curie
Other: Jesus, mostly so I can could ask Him all the questions we’d all like to know the answers to, and get Him on video saying exactly what He thinks about the folks carrying on in His name.
Mike E
What, no love for Ben Franklin?
Stephen Colbert.
Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Jay Gould.
My friend Marco whom I’ve known since 4th grade.
Morzer
This is my C-list dinner party:
Clooney, Colbert, Cumberbatch,Cyrus (Miley) and Crow (Sheryl)
Culture of Truth
If we’re going fictional then I’m inviting Tyrion Lannister. and Gollum.
Abraham Lincoln
William Shakespeare
Leonardo Da Vinci
Martin Luther King
Jesus
Barack Obama
Pope Francis
Stephen Colbert
Mikhail Gorbachev
Jimmy Carter
Higgs Boson's Mate
Me at 24, me at 36, me at 42, me at 55, and Thomas Pynchon.
Citizen_X
@billB: If I’m going to invite a neuter–well, a eunuch–it would definitely be Admiral Zheng He, master of the great Chinese treasure fleets.
trollhattan
@Comrade Dread:
Pro tip: don’t sit right next to Marie Curie.
Omnes Omnibus
Another party would be: Rabelais, de Sade, Colette, Henry Miller, and Anais Nin. One would need to carefully consider the menu.
Culture of Truth
I bet Ben Franklin, Oscar Wilde, Sam Clemens, Dorothy Parker, and Shakespeare would be great dinner guests. With artists like da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, you take your chances on their conversation skills. In annother way, Obama is fascinating, but you know Biden and Bill Clinton are a lot of fun to hang out with.
jonas
Ok, if I was in a more academic mood:
Neil De Grasse Tyson
Edward Witten
Ira Flatow
Walter Isaacson
and our own Tom Levenson!
John Revolta
Dead: Groucho, Thurber, Twain, Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman
Living:
…………………………….ummmmmmm, lemme get back to yez
Suffern ACE
@trollhattan: …unless you’re making s’mores.
Culture of Truth
@trollhattan: Pro tip: don’t sit right next to Marie Curie. But she’s useful in a power outage.
NotMax
Hm.
Socrates
Voltaire
Peter the Great
Lucretia Mott
Nelson Mandela
(And Escoffier as the caterer.)
List subject to change daily, if not hourly.
Bob Munck
@trollhattan: Duvall’s easy. Just get in the habit of eating at The Rail Stop or Girasole in The Plains, VA. Sooner or later he’ll wander in.
Comrade Dread
@trollhattan: Well, I was assuming that whatever process we could use to resurrect her for an evening would take care of the radium poisoning, but if not, I could always swap her out for Nikola Tesla
maya
Vlad the Impaler
Ayn Rand
Genghis Khan
Ronald Reagan
Soupy Sales
beltane
@Culture of Truth: Joe Biden would be terrific as a wedding guest. Bill Clinton is by all accounts an outstanding conversationalist, but he would need to be balanced out by someone who could occasionally step in and say “Bill, you’re full of shit.”
Morzer
@beltane:
Could be a good time for a BYOM invite (Bring Your Own Muzzle).
Culture of Truth
@beltane: They way I heard it, that role usually fell to Al Gore.
NotMax
Loved, loved, loved Steve Allen’s Meeting of the Minds, which was based on a similar concept.
Senyordave
Ben Franklin
Einstein
Churchill
Simone de Beauvoir
Frederick Douglas
karen
Jon Stewart
John Oliver
Stephen Colbert
Bill Cosby
Craig Ferguson
I chose them because I figure those five topical comedians would have fun stories to tell and I love their humor.
joeyess
Larry David, George Carlin, Ricky Gervais, Tim Minchin, and Sam Brownback.(just so he would be feel a twinge in his asshole)
jonas
And holy shit sticks, did anyone catch this complete cowpat of a story in the NYT? Fucking villager reporting. Shorter: Koch brothers astroturf outfit promotes ridiculously craven anti-renewable energy policies in Ohio. Headline: Popular backlash against renewable energy!!!1!
Just kill me.
trollhattan
@karen:
I’ll come if you add another John: Cleese.
jonas
@joeyess: The last thing I would want to see at a dinner party is Sam Brownback with a twingy asshole.
NotMax
@jonas
Not just Ohio. They’ve been at the same thing in Kansas for quite some time. Extreme bills have been brought up repeatedly in the Kansas legislature which, so far, has not bitten the poisoned apple.
Morzer
@jonas:
Why would Brownback bring Jonah Goldberg along?
NotMax
@Morzer
Food taster?
jonas
I’m reminded of some of the classic, if campy, Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts — which were just epic:
Don Rickles
Dean Martin
Bob Newhart
Phyllis Diller
Nipsey Russell
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Not if he actually wants any of the dinner.
scav
Stephan Fry would likely be a good choice to keep conversations going. So, if I limit myself to living actors, Oh fink, I am already so over five. Pat Stewart, Cumberbatch, Gatiss, and I really want Gregory Doran in there, so now I need a Shakespeare-heavy night. v. misc night. Still shuffling, but I think I’ll put Simon Callow/Roger Rees & Ian Mckellen in with the Shakespeareans, Michael Wood ditto for historical end, add Hugh Laurie and the leftover Simon Callow/Roger Rees guest to the misc night and then pout a bit that I still don’t have Roger Allam and Anton Lessor squeezed in for voices alone. I need a restaurant.
beltane
John never told us his five choices to be fantasy dinner party guests.
Morzer
@scav:
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.
Bubblegum Tate
Rashida Jones
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Carol Kaye
DJ Premier
Ken Jennings
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: Well, they did take out all of the pews.
scav
@Morzer: excepting Alice.
moderateindy
Does nobody else see the glaringly obvious contradiction in those two sentences?
Hoosierspud
Bette Midler
Neil Young
Margaret Atwood
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sherman Alexie
Morzer
@moderateindy:
It isn’t so much a contradiction as Cole starting to believe in his own dreams halfway through his spiel.
Suffern ACE
I might invite the pilot of the missing Malaysian flight, and then give the exclusive interview to Glenn Greenwald, just to piss off Michael Kinsley.
Vixen Strangely
David Brooks, Charles Pierce, Driftglass, Tengrain, my own spouse(moral support), and I would need a supply of liquor adequate to confront (enjoy) the resulting smashup.
Morzer
@scav:
Alice is marrying one of the guards.
scav
@Morzer: Well, the White Rabbit was otherwise occupied.
NotMax
To the commenter whose initials are O. O. – may just be me, but the same thing is happening with responses to your posts as happened to Yatsuno’s original nym, to wit, they just disappear into the phlogistan. Has been occurring for about three days now. FYWP.
Curious if anyone else experiencing the same.
Joel
Eric Lander
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Chelsea Perretti
Tom Lennon
Jason Mantzoukas
ulee
@scav: Don’t fuck with Alice. We will bring the world on you with that shit.
Omnes Omnibus
@scav: Remember what the dormouse said “Feed your head, feed your head.”
nellcote
Bonnie Raitt
EmmyLou Harris
Elvis Costello
Keith Richards
Tom Waits
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Sorry, man. Were they complimentary comments or not? It matters to me, in that I need to decide whether or not to participate in the potential solution.
scav
@ulee: Alice generally Springs back, to change genre abruptly.
NotMax
@O. O.
Complimentary. And too often glib. :)
Just tried a response with the single word “Testing” – it vanished.
Anyhoo, the response to #127 was along the lines of the internet being in dire need of a rimshot symbol for some time now.
Years back kept using this:
\__/
but none seemed to understand what it was meant to represent.
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: Too much of that behavior and you end up with Rabbit’s dishtowels on your legs.
feebog
Elmore Leonard
Sir Francis Richard Burton
James Madison
Samuel Clemons
Sammy Davis Jr.
Violet
@NotMax: I had that happen a day or two ago. Wondered if it was a name thing. I made sure my comment contained no forbidden words and still FYWP disappeared it.
NotMax
@Violet
Than you. That’s how it began with Yutsano/Yatsuno.
NotMax
@NotMax
Stupid keyboard and stupider arthritic fingers. Of course, should read: Thank you.
Violet
@NotMax: Yep. Happened with Yutsy and he had to change his name. Now it seems to be happening with O O. Seems like FYWP is acting up.
hilts
T.E. Lawrence
George S. Patton
Emma Goldman
Martin Luther King
Mary Wollstonecraft
am
That new rig is a hoss. You could get pulled over with that much screen real estate and ram. I bet you’ll enjoy it…
scav
@NotMax: My random disappearences weren’t OO related, in fact I don’t think they were replys at all. There have been a lot of complaints about FYWP being hungry recently. Spam filter might be involved, based on some of the comments I’ve heard and an error message I received. Although that’s not to say OO might not be caught up in it more centrally.
mike with a mic
@John Cole
You do realize that imacs one use a mobile GPU, which are vastly slower than desktop grade GPUs, and two suffer the apple curse of always being a generation or so. The fastest GPU option in an imac is a 780m chip, it’s a neutered GF104 product and slightly between the old 670gtx and 680gtx desktops, it doesn’t even compare to the desktop GTX 780ti/Titan Black (which is the current fastest nvidia graphics card). Even more hilariously, the mobile 800 series parts have been out for a bit now, so not only do you have a crippled mobile graphics card, you’re a generation behind as well.
apple does some things well provided you live their ecosystem and don’t fall into the power user area, but they don’t do top of the line, and they are utterly pathetic when it comes to high end parts. Either lacking high end completely, showing up a generation or two behind the party, or in the case of their current imacs managing to do both at the same time.
And that’s not even a “build your own and overclock it dude” type issue, it’s a “you’re using a last generation mobile graphics part, there is nothing high end or top of the line about this unless you were high when you wrote it and topped it off with another line of blow”.
NotMax
@scav
As I recall the earlier happenstance, it was not a universal thing which zapped all trying to reply while incorporating the nym as a link.
But it was consistent in whom it did affect, and affected increasingly more people as time went on.
ulee
And white privilege. Yes, it exists. But I’ll tell you, if you grow up in the Northeast in high school, you are going to get your ass kicked, or fight back, everyday of your life. I’m getting tired off all this bullshit self pity.
ruemara
5… people? Hmm, I already had nice time meeting up with BJers. We could do that again. I did want dinner with Kathe Kollewitz, Marguerite Duras, Bruce Lee, Heisenberg & Seneca. But more of a short tea time. Who knows if I’d really like their company or they mine?
@ulee: Calling out white privilege isn’t self pity. Is this blog set to “douche” lately?
ruemara
@lamh36: Does this mean he’ll go away now? Forever? He’s unworthy of the last name Cuomo.
ulee
@ruemara: yes, I’m a douch becaue I grew up outside Washington DC.
ulee
Bad spelling, I know. But this is getting ridiculous.
ulee
Have you been to these neighborhoods? Do you have any idea on how bad the situation is?
Groucho48
Koch Brothers
Adelson
Roger Ailes
Hannibal Lecter
I’d leave for a beer run, early on, but provide a couple bottles of chilled Chianti to tide them over
srv
John, you do know 4K monitors are a thing now? $700. But you need the right box to drive those monitors.
Imagine what Steve looks like in 4K.
My five:
George Clinton (what the fuck is wrong with you people wanting Bill?)
Natalie Portman (she’s not a supermodel, she’s superwoman!)
Wes Craven
Elon Musk
Krugman
Neil dG Tyson loses out because I had him in college.
divF
According to Emily Post, six is too small for a dinner party – ten is a better number. I name eight for each list, since Madame and I will make 10. So two categories:
(1) Public figures:
Nancy Pelosi, Steve Martin, Jerry Brown, Linda Ronstadt, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Tony LaRussa, Meryl Streep.
(2) Balloon Juicers (FPer’s and otherwise):
John Cole, Tom Levenson, Soonergrunt, Anne Laurie, Hungry Joe, raven, aimai, Yutsano, c u n d gulag, … oh, to hell with it, you’re all invited, and I’ll press-gang Cole and anyone who shows an interest into helping me with the cooking (I have a big kitchen)
Hobbes
Tori Amos, Noam Chomsky, Ursula Le Guin, Brian Blessed, and Tony Robinson.
divF
@Hobbes: Dang. Should have included LeGuin.
Jordan Rules
Next thread needs to be what’s on the menu at these fascinating dinner parties.
Mnemosyne
@ulee:
You do realize that trying to tell black commenters that you understand black people better than they do is what makes them call you a douchebag, right?
srv
@Hobbes: Wow, she’s still alive!
Lathe of Heavan on Youtube
ulee
@Mnemosyne: I don’t care who calls me a douchebag, niggah.
ulee
You ever walked down a street in the hood, niggah? This is how the it’s talked. Don’t be so shocked.
Villago Delenda Est
Jesus
Adam Smith
Benjamin Franklin
Mary Shelley
Heinz Guderian (or Erich von Manstein)
If they have to be alive:
President and Mrs. Obama
George Lucas (WTF were you thinking with Jar-Jar, idiot?)
Paul McCartney (WTF were you thinking when you married that model, idiot?)
Patrick Stewart
JustRuss
@Ivan X:
Damned if you’re not right. I’m going to be buying few dozen of these this summer, and slow hard drives make my life harder. Thanks for cheaping out, Apple!
mike in dc
Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Lee
Albert Einstein
Richard Pryor
William Faulkner
Living:
Louis CK
Juan Cole
Elon James White
Aisha Tyler
Elizabeth Warren
Jordan Rules
I really wish I knew howw to sew like my grandmother. I’m enthralled with the women’s wardrobes in Poirot. Really, all the Art Deco stuff is so on point. But ooh wee I really want some of those clothes. They are cinched and snatched! Fab!
Death Panel Truck
The Marx Brothers, Chico and Harpo in particular.
ulee
Anyway, my whitebread ass is off to bed. I need to work tomorrow. Good thoughts for all of you.
mai naem
Five’s too few for a nice dinner party. You need a few more. Richard Feynman, FDR, LBJ, Leonardo Da Vinci, Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Julia Child, George Carlin, Gregory Peck, Stephen Colbert, Alexander Fleming,Charles Dickens, Buddy Holly and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
There’s a million others though – Molly Ivins, Ann Richards, Christopher Columbus, Vasco Da Gama, Francis Drake, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Mohammed, Malcolm X, Gregor Mendel, Harriet Tubman,Jimmy Stewart, Roald Dahl, Truman Capote, Scott Fitzgerald, Rasputin,Paul Robeson, Fidel Castro, Buddha, Mary Magdalene, Teddy Roosevelt, Lewis and Clark, Geronimo, Robin Hood, Alan Turing, Robert Oppenheimer
David Koch
Sam Kinison
Richard Pryor
Harold Ramis
Groucho Marx
OJ Simpson
patrick II
Bill Moyers
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Paul Krugman
Steven Colbert
Elizabeth Warren
Barack Obama
I know that is six, but I couldn’t decide who to kick out.
Amir Khalid
Five people is rather too crowded a table for me, most evenings. But okay, I’ll play:
Hang Jebat
Puteri Gunung Ledang (The Princess of Mount Ophir, to you Westerners) — now there’s a woman who knows what she’s worth!
Anne Hathaway
Juan Cole
Grumpy Cat
Captain America
Amir Khalid
Some sports news — Malcolm Glazer, famous about a decade ago for putting Manchester United FC on the hook for the billion or so dollars he borrowed to buy them up, has died at the age of 85. Without ever setting foot in Old Trafford.
Summer
Bede
Shakespeare
Cabeza de Vaca
Jon Krakauer
Isabella Bird
We will be giddy and no doubt go out dancing after coffee. Maybe Tim Robbins, Stephen Colbert, Son House, Paul Robeson, and Hallie Flanagan will join us.
J R in WV
@NotMax:
I just replied to OO and it went away. about 4:12 am… Very odd bug, could we be hacked?
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: That’s funny, I was gonna choose all dead people too, only it doesn’t matter which ones, their dead. Which is fine by me ’cause their quiet and I want to eat my dinner in peace.
OzarkHillbilly
@J R in WV: Happens to me here from time to time, repeatedly (one after another) Don’t know why.
schrodinger's cat
Emmy Noether
Richard Feynman
John LeCarre
Benedict Cumberbatch
Indira Gandhi ( I find her fascinating, she was India’s Richard Nixon)
I had a fun dinner IRL just couple of days ago. I had dinner at the Cricket Club of India’s bar overlooking the Brabourne Stadium. The Mumbai team was practicing at the nets and one of my dinner companions was a former test cricketer (someone who represents India in the 5 day matches against other cricketing nations). Really cool. AFAIK, CCI is the oldest cricket club in India. Walking through their main dining hall was like being transported to another era.
schrodinger's cat
Also too,
Bob Dylan
Tunch kitteh
raven
John Steinbeck
Walter Payton
Janis Joplin
Ho Chi Minh
Stanley Kubrick
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodinger’s cat: Either Feynman or LeCarre would be on my list of people I would like to listen to.
? Martin
Living people, in no particular order
Mike Rowe
Jennifer Lawrence
Stephen Colbert
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Elizabeth Warren
BTW, never buy new Apple hardware 5 days before WWDC. If nothing is announced by Tuesday of next week, pull the trigger.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I never would have thought of Ho Chi Minh. Good choice.
Baud
Then I got nothing.
MattF
Collection of 200+ MacOS screen savers from Jamie Zawinsky:
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html
Includes all the classics; flying toasters, bouncing cows, rotating high dimensional polyhedra and many more.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Dude was awesome.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
If this is the same glitch which happened previously, it is slightly different, in that sends only the replies to one specific individual into never-never land. Not for everyone, but consistently for just some of us.
low-tech cyclist
Sticking with the living, a politics-themed list:
Michelle Obama
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Warren
Nancy Pelosi
Kirsten Gillibrand
NotMax
Another list, for no reason other than marking time.
Jonathan Swift
Theodore Dreiser
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Josephine Baker
H. L. Mencken
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I do not recall if my comments were general or specific replies, I only noticed my rising irritation. I will pay more attention in the future.
For the record, I am the most computer illiterate person here. I only mentioned my previous problems because it has been going on for months (in a very hit and miss way) and thought that info might be useful to those more knowledgeable than I.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Indeed, he was.
Alex S.
David Bowie
Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire
Warren Buffet
Katharine Hepburn
Gautama Buddha
I’m not sure that this would yield an interesting conversation though…
I also like the Bill Murray suggestion…
Also, I’m afraid that VA Secretary Shinseki will have to go.
SRW1
@Amir Khalid:
I am not a ManU fan, but apparently Glazer’s spawn stink up OT quite enough. Presumably when they pick up their checks for the precious ‘advicing’ they do as non-executive directors on the ManU board. These guys (&girls) really know how to milk a company for all it is worth.
cmm
Barack and Michelle Obama, Bruce Springsteen, John Scalzi, and Wil Wheaton.
Keith G
I want folks who can answer important questions about history that I have:
Sun Tzu
Jesus of Nazareth.
Mohammed
Augustine of Canterbury (d. CE 604)
The fifth spot may have to be settled by rolling dice (with apologies to Jesus) to decide between Paul of Tarsus, James Madison, and Abe Lincoln
Bobby Thomson
@lamh36: Cuomo is the primary reason I’ve learned to stop worrying and accept a Clinton candidacy.
Bobby Thomson
@ruemara: @Mnemosyne: Among many things.
Morzer
@lamh36:
Anything that involves Cuomo getting a good, hard kicking and being exposed as the greedy little legacy brat he is sounds excellent to me.
low-tech cyclist
Theme for this list of dead guys:
Buddha was he where it’s at, is he where you are,
could Mahomet move a mountain, or was that just PR?
– Murray Head as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus of Nazareth
Siddhartha Gautama, aka Buddha
Muhammed
Saul/Paul of Tarsus
Isaiah of Babylon (the guy who wrote chs. 40-55 of Isaiah)
Digital Amish
Frank Zappa
Arthur C. Clarke
Katherine Hepburn
da Vinci
Eleanor Roosevelt
alternative (pot luck):
Rush Limbaugh
Sean Hannity
Michelle Malkin
Mark Levin
Hannibal Lector
jayackroyd
Jared Diamond
Neal Stephenson
Russell Munroe
Noam Chomsky
Stephen Colbert
jayackroyd
Public policy people
Larry Summers
Elizabeth Warren
Rahm
RJ Eskow
David Dayen
Surveillance State
Edward Snowden
Marcy Wheeler
George HW Bush
Robert Gates
David Brin
Deep State
Bill Clinton
Dick Cheney
Noam Chomsky
James Bamford
Joe Wilson
ruemara
@ulee: you drunk, high, asshole.
hartly
Limited to living people/creatures:
The Philly Phanatic
Terrance Dicks
Christopher H Bidmead
Eric Saward
Phillip Hinchcliffe
The Pale Scot
@Chad: I’m too dumb and probably too late but here’s the link
Keyboard shortcuts for OSX
karen
@trollhattan:
Deal.
low-tech cyclist
@jayackroyd: jay – I’m guessing you mean Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame).
jayackroyd
@low-tech cyclist: Yes, thanks. I actually looked him up to make sure I got the last name right…..
lethargytartare
” I’m to the point now that Ijust want shit to work, and Apple does that for me. ”
“so expect a shitload of frantic tech questions tomorrow.”
lol
hidflect
Houston, we’ve lost another one…
Mike E
@hartly: Heh, Dave Raymond was the original Phanatic and would tell some good tales about breaking in that character… I’d have him join my dinner party just to do impressions of Tommy Lasorda!
MCA1
I’m keeping in mind that it’s a dinner party here, so I drop all the weighty historical figures whose brain you’d love to pick for a couple hours from the list. Instead, I go with “I think hanging out with this person in a group would be delightful and I could just sit back and be entertained by the conversation.” MLK, Jesus, Beethoven, Lincoln, all those folks are more like “Name the five people you’d most like to have coffee with one-on-one.”
That narrows it down, but it’s still an unwieldy number. Eventually cut from the list: Jim Jarmusch, Robert Downey, Jr., Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, David Sedaris, Garrison Keillor, Faulkner, Churchill, Gene Wilder, Ernest Shackleton, Ed Norton, Stephen Colbert, Steve Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Louis CK, Ben Franklin, Hemingway, Woody Guthrie, Teddy Roosevelt, Jack Nicholson, Jim Henson, George Carlin, John Cleese, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Bridges, Bill Murray.
I’m left with this, today at least: Mark Twain, Conan O’Brien, Mel Brooks, Bob Marley, and Mario Batali to cook and bring some choice Brunello. After dinner, we meet Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron and Audrey Hepburn for drinks, and Mozart, Prince, and Ellen Degeneres crash the party.
Rex Everything
Glenn Greenwald
Edward Snowden
Ralph Nader
Jane Hamsher
Freddie DeBoer
Thymezone
Any five that will pick up the check.
SFAW
@feebog:
Please forgive my dickitude, but it’s Richard Francis Burton.
SFAW
It would have to be multiple dinners for me
Kelly Johnson
Meine Grosseltern
Kubrick and Kurosawa
Samuel Clemens
Ludwig van
Harry Parker
Abraham Lincoln
Paul Robeson
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (thanks for the reminder, feebog!)
Sun Tzu or Clausewitz
… for starters
Suzan
The founding fathers (Paine, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, as many as allowed) plus Jesus and Sarah Palin.
I’d sell the video.
2liberal
ok, so who is O.O. ?
mclaren
Sappho.
Heraclitus.
Lao tzu.
William Shakespeare.
Ibn Al-Haytham.
(Assuming some magical device could let me speak their lingo.)
Douglas Wayne Wieboldt
If not necessarily alive: Brahms, Verdi, Marquez, Plath & Monet.
If alive: Arvo Part, Andras Schiff, Doris Lessing, Terry Goodkind & Michelle Obama
Douglas Wayne Wieboldt
If not necessarily alive: Brahms, Verdi, Marquez, Plath & Monet.
If alive: Arvo Part, Andras Schiff, Doris Lessing, Terry Goodkind & Michelle Obama
Douglas Wayne Wieboldt
If not necessarily alive: Brahms, Verdi, Marquez, Plath & Monet.
If alive: Arvo Part, Andras Schiff, Doris Lessing, Terry Goodkind & Michelle Obama
Douglas Wayne Wieboldt
If not necessarily alive: Brahms, Verdi, Marquez, Plath & Monet.
If alive: Arvo Part, Andras Schiff, Doris Lessing, Terry Goodkind & Michelle Obama