Midnight In The Desert

[comaphobe]

Speaking of pee, apparently finding good pee locations is critical in KY.

http://youtu.be/9l7yeC6MYWc

When I lived in Kentucky, I used to piss off of my fire escape. It was fun.

[albrecht]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-lake-michigan-water-clarity-20180126-story.html

Damn!

"emergence of invasive mussels, which number in the trillions and have the ability to filter the entire volume of Lake Michigan in four to six days, has had an even greater effect."

[comaphobe]

One of those movies that can be rewatched countless times and you will still laugh.

Roger that!

[GravitySucks]

They have no clue about poutine in western Canada...it probably was crap

They also have two of my toques, my ski helmet, goggles, boots, and gloves. Damn Air Canada.

[GravitySucks]

Damn!

"emergence of invasive mussels, which number in the trillions and have the ability to filter the entire volume of Lake Michigan in four to six days, has had an even greater effect."

I couldn’t believe it when I was up there last. It was brown the whole time I lived in Chicago.

[albrecht]

When I lived in Kentucky, I used to piss off of my fire escape. It was fun.

One summer as a kid I pissed at the Continental Divide, so pissing on both sides of the country AND later pissed at the headwaters of the Mississippi River ensuring my piss drainage to much of the USA. And they say only dogs like to "mark territory?"

[GravitySucks]

One summer as a kid I pissed at the Continental Divide, so pissing on both sides of the country AND later pissed at the headwaters of the Mississippi River ensuring my piss drainage to much of the USA. And they say only dogs like to "mark territory?"

Did you drop some smallpox blankets too?

[comaphobe]

So are you saying that the zebra muscles made the lake clearer?

The great lakes are a disaster with all the pollution, nuclear plants, other industrial waste.
I am very close to Lake Ontario...makes me cry to see what "humanity" has done to these huge and wonderfull once were natural largest fresh water lakes on this planet 

I often ride the shoreline on bike between the QQ and the Humber. Maybe 3 nights a week depending on how I am feeling. I work 56 hours a week and sometime bike is only way to reset my brains. I usually bring a couple of joints with me. It's nice but I wouldn't recommend going into the lake these days.

[69CheckMate]

I do, but I’ve never peed my dog.  I don’t know, nor want to know, how to do that.

Ooo.. that's gotta hurt!

[Robert]

When I lived in Kentucky, I used to piss off of my fire escape. It was fun.

Wha'd your poor fire escape ever do to you, that you had to piss it off, huh?

[dsz]

Americans don’t eat fries with mayo.  That’s a European thing.

Ketchup plus mayo = Utah fry sauce. Delicious. As are either solo with fries.

[dsz]

She would have to bring in a guest host.

How often?

#TeamHeatherWithTheMostest

[aldousburbank]

I work 56 hours a week and sometime bike is only way to reset my brains. I usually bring a couple of joints with me.

My bikes are my therapists. A few years back I jacked a meniscus and through the power of bicycling I regained full mobility. Because if you can't do doggy, are you really alive?  Also good for the head. Joints? Check!  Also, over the years I've discovered that small amounts of Dr Hoffman's magical brain tonic and synchronicity enhancerâ,,¢ not only makes the journey even more enjoyable but the increased visual and psychic acuity makes it safer too.

[Dr. MD MD]

It suffers no such deficit, but it does illustrate my point. You're talking about a trope, a very old one, that forms the basis of multiple stories already. Aliens crashing on earth is stuff John W. Campbell was writing about in the 1930's. With modern scientific knowledge about the scale of the universe, what it takes to actually cross it, the probability that intelligent life in the universe is extremely rare, and that kind of a story is longer believable, modern or realistic. It's 2018 and you can't get away with fossil fiction like that in the age of ultra-realistic fiction like "The Martian" any more than you can get away with writing stories about giant squid attacking Captain Nemo's submarine. The zeitgeist has moved on from age of Jules Verne and it would be silly to write that in the age of the nuclear submarine where one torpedo could take out the squid from miles away.

It's the same with Roswell. It looks like 1940's science fiction, as in under the influence of it. Why do the accounts of the Roswell aliens clearly depict primates? Given Earth's biodiversity, why do the aliens look more like us than earth's jellyfish do? Why lightning? It downed aircraft in the 40's, but not so much with modern technology. Also absent are the modern concepts of future technologies. Where's the nanotechnology? Where's the artificial intelligence? Do you even need to travel to a planet in person when you have advanced A.I.? There's just so much about it that no longer seems plausible.

Now, if you want a modern scenario of an alien ship crashing on earth, it would look like this: have a ship equipped with an alcubierre drive come blasting out of warp right next earth, ending human civilization by irradiating it with the gamma rays that would be coming off that thing, and then have the stranded crashed aliens running around trying to survive as the molecular nanotechnology they had brought with them goes horribly wrong and infects the remaining humans and turns them into mutant zombies that think alien life is delicious.Then kill off one main character per chapter, reveal mid-book Commander Blorthrat's secret desire is to transition into a human and make some social justice point about zombie acceptance, and then go for the big reveal that the dinosaurs never actually went extinct, save the day for the aliens, and end on a salacious sex scene thereby opening the way for a badass sequel about dinosaur-alien hybrid earth. Done!

People don't have to climb mountains either...but they do. Like I said, you suffer from an immense lack of imagination and your fiction is probably a cure for insomnia as a result. You can only see consensus reality and probably have to check any idea you may have against that...but we're all aware of that and so you couldn't be bringing anything unique to the table.

[ranger_star]

Ok baby, i'm back as a subscriber...gonna give a shot at DS and see what we see.

The email that Evil Keith sent with the guest lineup atracted my attention and coupled with the good impression DS gave me on the first show push me to it.

Anyhow...back to recording C2C to listen great sentences like "let's take two calls or maybe a couple..."

[dsz]

Is this Heather's way of admitting her drama was all put on for publicity? I think so...

#Can'tGetRealerThanHeather

[HumanBeing]

[Sean92008]

Spoil it...I wanna know. ..could never remember when that show was on

Las Vegas becomes a lake...

There's pumps constantly keeping the water under ground level.

Other than the stupid factor in how the valley was laid out, it can flood in some pretty populated areas.  I lived up in Green Valley Ranch (at least 200-300 higher than the strip) and flood control channels were big and plentiful. Skateboarding should have been popular but it's took damn hot or cold or windy (high desert).

https://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people/season-1/episode-7

[Dr. MD MD]

Canadians win tonight?

[comaphobe]

Love it! Satan is good, Satan is your pal. Lol.

I am not a fan of some of my immediate neighbors and I take my garbage out like a Klopek. I beat it with a stick. I think I have weirded them out to the max because they avoid eye contact now and that is good. One is now moving out. Still need to work on the other neighbor and make him move ASAP.

[ponyboysunset]

I am not a fan of some of my immediate neighbors and I take my garbage out like a Klopek. I beat it with a stick. I think I have weirded them out to the max because they avoid eye contact now and that is good. One is now moving out. Still need to work on the other neighbor and make him move ASAP.

Perfect. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Grifynne]

How often?

#TeamHeatherWithTheMostest

Every night.

[comaphobe]

Damn!

"emergence of invasive mussels, which number in the trillions and have the ability to filter the entire volume of Lake Michigan in four to six days, has had an even greater effect."

Metal Gear Solid 2 (Big Shell bugs)

[Sean92008]

Ketchup plus mayo = Utah fry sauce. Delicious. As are either solo with fries.

In-N-Out uses thousand island dressing for their burgers and animal-style fries.  You can ask for packets of the thousand island for your regular fries.  I prefer that over ketchup.

Old Spaghetti Factory uses the same thousand island in the southwest as In-N-Out, by the way.

[WOTR]

Dave did mention that a couple of guest hosts were contacted, for times he can't do the show. I believe Tim was mentioned as one of them.

Being the curious sort, I wonder who else is on that list. Howard Hughes, perhaps?

Heather Wade.  Following in Art's footsteps she can tease coming back to host the occasional show for the next several years.

[Walks_At_Night]

Heather's thread is almost 100 pages away from George Senda's.   Gap is closing fast.

[GravitySucks]

I am not a fan of some of my immediate neighbors and I take my garbage out like a Klopek. I beat it with a stick. I think I have weirded them out to the max because they avoid eye contact now and that is good. One is now moving out. Still need to work on the other neighbor and make him move ASAP.

Be careful

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/10/druid-witch-attacked-stabbed-neighbours-had-enough-noisy-pagan

[WOTR]

They have no clue about poutine in western Canada...it probably was crap

Tried in in western Canada... Tried it in Ottawa.  I would not eat it here or there, I would not eat it anywhere.  (It's just not good.)

[HumanBeing]

Canadians win tonight?

Perpetually winning
I was just heading to bed and scanned over the last few pages and there was lots of talk about Canada. Just about how amazing it is here The usual scuttlebutt.
Four seasons, toques, poutine, Montreal strip clubs, donairs and fishing trips. Oh and I found out Freyja is from Canada. That kind of surprised me.

Also, remind me never to get into any intellectual tussles with you or Sci-Fi.
Need a PhD to catch all the nuance and shrouded jabs 

[Grifynne]

I am not a fan of some of my immediate neighbors and I take my garbage out like a Klopek. I beat it with a stick. I think I have weirded them out to the max because they avoid eye contact now and that is good. One is now moving out. Still need to work on the other neighbor and make him move ASAP.