Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[auntiehill]

Coldwater Creek. They used to have the best clothes---lots of all cotton items, vibrant colors, almost everything was machine washable and not too expensive. I got something from them every year, for many years. They went under---they bought Soft Surroundings (which also was a good store) and then sold everything to a Chinese company. Now their clothes come in odd colors, they cost a freaking FORTUNE ($50 for a cotton t shirt?) and shipping costs are ridiculous. I haven't bought a thing from them in several years and never will again.
*grumble*

 

[Birb-of-Prey]

I didn't know Afghanistan exported produce to the US, but apparently you can buy dried white mulberries grown there.. They're really good!

 

[auntiehill]

I don't know why, but this bit of dialogue has been playing in my head for the past hour.

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The fact that I saw this movie ten times (or is it eleven?) in the theaters, may have something to do with it.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The aliens in the movie Contact were dicks. IMHO

I mean they must have had their signal reach many civilizations so each one builds the machine and then they go on a trip and say hi, and that's it, nothing more? People say they were acting like dicks doing that with Ellie's trip being the only source of their existence and she couldn't prove any of it to the wider world.


Would the experience have been the same on other worlds and why do things like that?

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Found out via my High School Reunion page on Facebook that another classmate passed away yesterday after a long illness.

I'm almost out of fingers counting the number of deaths there has been since we graduated in '89 and will have to move to toes soon if any more happen between now and our 40th Reunion.

That's depressing.

 

[auntiehill]

I haven't kept in touch with anyone from college or high school. I moved on. Never jumped on the Facebook bandwagon, either.

Made one of my best friends ever at work,over 20 years ago. She died last year, and I miss her every day. I don't have any friends these day-- it's just my husband, my Mom and my cat.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I never kept in touch with anyone from school, and oddly have never bumped into anyone either for that matter.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I haven't kept in touch with anyone from college or high school. I moved on. Never jumped on the Facebook bandwagon, either.

Made one of my best friends ever at work,over 20 years ago. She died last year, and I miss her every day. I don't have any friends these day-- it's just my husband, my Mom and my cat.

I was like you in that once I graduated from high school, I never looked back.
Then about 11 years ago, someone who I casually knew in high school contacted me via Facebook and said she was coming to Seattle on business and wanted to get together with anyone who still lived in the area and have dinner/drinks.
About a dozen of us responded and we got together and afterwards everyone exchanged Facebook/email/phone numbers and we still get together on a regular basis whenever someone is in town.
I would also like to say that my best friend is someone whom I've known since 2nd grade, so, 45+ years.
Her and I talk to each other on a regular basis even though she lives in another state/time zone.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Mine is odder because of the fact Adelaide is such a small city you are likely to bump into people but in all my travels I save but a couple of people have not bumped into anyone from my school time, primary or high school.

I did get an invite for a HS reunion many, many years ago but just couldn't be bothered attending

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Mine is odder because of the fact Adelaide is such a small city you are likely to bump into people but in all my travels I save but a couple of people have not bumped into anyone from my school time, primary or high school.

I did get an invite for a HS reunion many, many years ago but just couldn't be bothered attending

Adelaide.
Say hello to the Hindley Street County Club for me.
I just recently started following them on YouTube.
What a great cover band.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Adelaide.
Say hello to the Hindley Street County Club for me.
I just recently started following them on YouTube.
What a great cover band.

They are pretty good

 

[John Clark]

I've kept in touch with three people from school (pretty much on a weekly basis). As for the others I've seen a couple, but I know a few others have died from various things.

I don't think reunions are generally a big thing here, but I wouldn't have gone anyway.

 

[Artoo Atari]

Random personal opinion/question: Why is European chocolate so much better than chocolate in the US? As an American, I didn't realize how nasty most of our chocolate was until I tried some from Switzerland and Germany.

 

[Victoria]

European chocolate has higher proportions of cocoa, the cocoa butter used has a higher fat percentage - at least twice as much at the minimum legal levels (more chocolate taste, smoother "feel")

American chocolate has more sugar and salt (sweeter).

They use different emulsfiers and that affects the "feel" too.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

OMG yes imported chocolate from the EU and UK is so much nicer then local shit

 

[Aragorn]

Has there ever been a show or movie or novel where space travelers on a super long (maybe even generational) journey reach their destination and other people are already there because of how much technology has advanced in the meantime?

 

[Avro Arrow]

Has there ever been a show or movie or novel where space travelers on a super long (maybe even generational) journey reach their destination and other people are already there because of how much technology has advanced in the meantime?

I'm sure I've either watched or read something with that exact plot (sublight colony sleeper ship leaves for a distant colony world but when they arrive and wake up they find a human civilization already at their destination because humans discovered FTL travel while the colonists were in suspended animation), but do you think I can remember the title, or even if it was a book or a movie? No, no I cannot.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm writing a weird solar system for a parallel Earth, since Star Trek has whole systems with more then 1 Earth class planet in them I'm doing that too but mine is slightly odd in that we have 4 planets orbiting the sun each an equal distance from each other like one at 12, one at 9, one at 3 and the main one at 6 if you were to look at it like a clock. Yes the orbital mechanics of that would not work but fuck it it is fiction it just does

 

[Aragorn]

I guess true crime killers are the hot thing now in entertainment. There's an upcoming miniseries about John Wayne Gacy and the next Monster season is about Ed Gein.

 

[Tosk]

Has there ever been a show or movie or novel where space travelers on a super long (maybe even generational) journey reach their destination and other people are already there because of how much technology has advanced in the meantime?

There has but for the life of me I can't remember what it was right now.