Looks like we are going to get hammered with another ice and snow storm, which is just what I was looking for again. Shawn and I are supposed to head to the annual Mardi Gras party here in town, but neither of us are particularly motivated, and I have a couple of the fraternity boys coming down for dinner and to watch the Penguins/Blackhawks in the Winter Classic. Got enough groceries for a couple of days, so we may just hunker down and watch the game and SNL and call it a night.
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NotMax
Any particular comment on the following from the WV legislature:
feebog
Raining cats and dogs and baby unicorns here in SoCal. We need the rain, so no complaints, hope this builds up the snow pack in the Sierras, which is where we really need it. Everybody hunker down and stay safe out there.
BGinCHI
Snowing to beat the band (as my mother would say) here right now. Supposed to go all night.
What a great joy that winter is extending itself and snowing all over us. Not as bad as the gay agenda getting rammed down the throats of AZ Republicans, but close.
That hockey game is gonna be great. Especially because fuck Putin.
IowaOldLady
Hunkering down at home with food, friends, and pets sounds wonderful.
jharp
We’re supposed to get 5 to 9 inches of snow in central Indiana. Then back to below zero temps.
An amazing winter and not in a good way.
Villago Delenda Est
What? You’re not flocking to the blockbuster of the millennium, Son of God? Why, Noisemax assures me that it will break all box office records and is the most anticipated film of 2014!
BGinCHI
@jharp: Plus, you know, Mike Pence.
gbear
@NotMax: Well if you’re going to kill them off by not providing healthcare benefits, you might as well give their families a break on the way out.
I hate all these assholes.
And winter is never going to end. Everyone in MN is becoming suicidal.
Roger Moore
@feebog:
It isn’t that bad; it’s a fairly typical winter storm. It’s just that it’s been a few years since we’ve had one, so people have had longer than usual to forget how to drive in the rain.
HinTN
@feebog: Sure do hope those baby unicorns fill the reservoirs with useful stuff.
As fer Cole and the WV Leg, y’all haint got nuttin on us, boys. Suck it!
OzarkHillbilly
We’re supposed to get somewhere between 5 and 9 inches of freezing rain, sleet, and snow, Believe me, the wife and I aren’t going anywhere before Tuesday at the earliest. Still hasn’t begun tho. I am sure you are going to get hammered worse than us. If you can’t walk there? Don’t go.
IowaOldLady
@gbear: The Starks tried to warn us, but did we listen?
WereBear
@Villago Delenda Est: I was gobsmacked to discover it’s The Bible miniseries from the History Channel, edited down to feature size.
Just the thought makes my film nerves squick out.
Fuzzy
Just stopping day three of rain here in the East Bay. Made a dent in the drought but we need this six more times for me to justify a garden. We have a great twice weekly farmers market five miles away that will see more of me. Hmm maybe just two tomato plants.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: I have to say I enjoyed the NewsMax story about Apple’s CEO giving the middle finger to some right-wing “think”[sic] -tank. You of course have to scroll all the way down to the very last sentence of the story to find
Can’t even crack 3 percent. Impressive.
Baud
@WereBear:
Just don’t tell me how it ends. I hate spoilers.
gbear
@IowaOldLady: Apparently I didn’t. Who are the Starks?
IowaOldLady
@gbear: Game of Thrones. Their family words are “Winter Is Coming.”
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: My favorite:
Edit; the only thing he left out was the word “asshole” at the end of the sentence. But I guess it was understood.
NotMax
@Baud
The scene where Jesus takes Mary Magdalene to the edge of the mount and shouts “King of the world” is particularly memorable.
Pogonip
I plan to start the spring cleaning as the snow piles up outside. No lasagna this weekend: still pondering whether to go with crumbles or sausage. Tune in again 2 weeks from now. Next weekend is supposed to be relatively nice so I’m not likely to be inside cooking. I am really tired of staying indoors.
Pogonip
@IowaOldLady: They said winter was COMING. Not a word about it staying…and staying…and staying…
shelly
The few pics i’ve seen of the lead…looks like he’s rivaling Jeffrey Hunter (King of Kings), of “I was a teenage Jesus” fame. Great, great hair.
***************
Yup, we’re supposed to get hammered here in north Jersey too. Got an appointment with my neurologist this Wednesday. Having trouble just walking on bare ground, so the news that we’re getting another 8 inches at least, plus brutal temps to ensure nothing will melt and turn all icey….is not good news.
Pogonip
@shelly: Invest in Yaktrax! At this time of year you’ll have to get them by mail order, but perhaps you could have them overnighted.
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: Well, there was also this:
I’m sure a whole bunch of Wall Street analysts read that and immediately fainted from shock.
gbear
@IowaOldLady: Ahh. No TV or cable at my house. Cable was first thing to get thrown off the budget about 25 years ago.
IowaOldLady
@gbear: I hesitate to say it, but you could read the books.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
A favorite ‘toon winter moment is when the eponymous character in Bone is cautioned to prepare because winter in the valley comes quick.
jharp
@jharp:
I see it is not looking too good your way either.
This weather has become ridiculous.
gbear
@Villago Delenda Est: I heard that the holy ghost bought up all the tickets.
@shelly: I hope this version picks up a nickname as good as ‘I Was A Teenage Jesus’.
gbear
@IowaOldLady: I know nothing…
WaterGirl
@BGinCHI: I am jealous. We were supposed to get that storm, too, but it seems to have missed us. They are scaling the prediction back to 1-3 inches.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I’ve never watched a hockey team score four goals in 57 seconds before.
NotMax
@gbear
The moneychangers at the box office might be feeling a bit awkward.
NotMax
So who shall it be (I lean towards Gohmert) to be the first to opine that unrest in Ukraine gained traction only after Obamacare kicked in?
lamh36
I’m back in Baton Rouge for the weekend. Started my new job last Monday. Still looking for an apartment, but until then I’ll be keeping my BR apt and staying with my sis during the week until I find a place.
So since I’m hear, I’m missing the big weekend parades Endymion (tonight) and Bacchus (tomorrow night).
I’ll be back in NOLA Monday though. Hopefully it doens’t rain on Monday, if not I’ll be at Orpheus parade tomorrow night and I’ll decide if I want to check out Fat Tuesday or just catch parades on tv
lamh36
Litlebritdiftrnt
I have been seriously blitzing the housework today, mainly cause there was a Dr. Who marathon.
Linda Featheringill
NOAA says that we’re due to 8 to 10 inches Sunday night and Monday. Ugh.
SarahT
“Ripper Street” and a bottle of Rioja here. Storm # eleventyfourthousand not due here ’til tomorrow early evening. Whee ! Glad we have more bottles of Rioja.
Randy P
The NOAA forecast says 3-5 Sunday night and another 4-8 Monday. At least I think those are separate numbers, not cumulative.
Unfortunately my workplace is far enough away that they will get only 1-3″ in this storm. So I’m not quite sure what I’m going to be doing Monday morning, whether it’s my duty to die trying to get to work, to spend my tiny bit of vacation (this job is less than 2 yrs old and I only have about 15 hours vac carried over from last year).
CaseyL
I want to know what you serve the frat boys for dinner, and how they react. I know it’ll be healthy and tasty, and they might just love it, but there’s bound to be a moment of culture shock when they first lay eyes on a meal that lacks sugar, wheat, rice, and processed foods.
Weather here in Seattle: cold and rainy, after a few days of sun. The new normal is heavy rainfall. Seattle used to be famous for its constant gentle drizzle, but starting about 7 years ago that changed and now we get monsoons. People are starting to use umbrellas! We never use umbrellas – the joke is that’s how you can tell someone is from out of town – but I’m seeing them a lot now.
NotMax
@Linda Featheringill, et al.
Recipes.
Snow Cake
Snow Pancakes
Snow Ice Cream
shelly
Hmm, I’ve got some rum, some applejack and a little bit of gin. With some Diet Pepsi, maybe I can knock together a version of Long Island Iced Tea.
Or hell, considering the temps, just add some hot water to the rum and make Grog.
Joel
♪ We need a war
We need a war to show ’em
We need a war to show ’em that we can
We need a war to show ’em can do it
Whenever we say we need a war ♪
WaterGirl
I just caught up on the last 4 episodes of Orphan Black season 1 last night. I have a question for anyone who has been watching, or for our language folks.
SPOILER
When Sarah is headed out to meet her birth mom, her step mom says to “mind” the birth mom. I took that as her wanting Sarah to listen and pay attention to her birth mom, but the friend who was watching it with me took it as more of a warning to beware of the birth mom.
SarahT
@lamh36: Was there for Krewe de Vieux – SO wanted to stay for Muses, Zulu, and of course, Barkus. Have fun Lundi Gras and Fat Tuesday !
SarahT
@shelly: You’ll sleep well, that’s for sure
Bostondreams
@WaterGirl:
Common phrasing and meaning. I’m reminded of ‘mind the wire’ from the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, when the troop transport was traveling under telegraph wires.
NotMax
@shelly
(Needs a candy thermometer.) Add some rum to maple syrup and heat to 240 degrees F.
Drizzle in strips over fresh snow.
Voila! Maple-Rum Taffy.
WaterGirl
@Bostondreams: I had never heard “mind” used as a warning. Maybe that’s a british thing.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
“Mind your step” is not particularly uncommon, but may be regional in frequency.
“Mind your manners” is probably more widespread.
Pogonip
@gbear: I got rid of mine last January. Haven’t missed it a bit. Whenever my 27-year-old TV dies and we get a new one we’ll hook it up to the Internet. Right now on the very rare occasions I want to watch something I have to so on a computer. But the only thing I watch routinely is local news which comes in just fine via rabbit ears.
I found that when you don’t watch TV you save money, oddly enough, probably because you don’t see commercials and it would never occur to you on your own that you could use an automatic egg shelled.
Mary Brown
@gbear: Just got off the phone with my brother who lives way up in Lengby MN. He said it’s around 15 below there. He’s seriously thinking of trying to sell his house and move somewhere, anywhere that has better weather. My little sister is tiny and is a mail carrier in Minneapolis – she’s been getting forced overtime because of so many people calling in sick etc. They other day she was trying to walk to the next house and sunk in the snow all the way to her rear. She was stuck for awhile. She’s trying to stick it out for 2 more years so she can retire. Poor little thing.
Pogonip
@NotMax: That’s how we’ll defeat Old Man Winter! We’ll eat all that snow!
The other day big fat Christmas-card flakes were falling and I tried to catch them on my tongue. Sometime in the last 40 years I lost the knack; I didn’t catch a one.
RSA
@dmsilev:
One of my computer science Ph.D. students, who’s blind, thought this was great.
Pogonip
@Mary Brown: Oh my gosh! Your poor sister! Can she maybe move indoors to sorting, or is that all done by machine now?
Cervantes
@WaterGirl:
You didn’t actually say what your question was.
Plus the answer could depend on when and where this show is set (I haven’t the vaguest idea).
Mike in NC
Binge watching Season 2 of “House of Cards”. What a bunch of assholes; worse than the ones I read about while working in DC.
Tomorrow will be 70 degrees.
BGinCHI
@SarahT: Thanks for the Ripper St reminder!! Love that show. Missed episode 1 but will get it On Demand.
BGinCHI
@Mike in NC: 70? You got extra rooms?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@WaterGirl: It looks like Orphan Black is a BBC show. Phrases like “Mind the Gap” (look out for the gap when getting on/off the subway train) are common over there.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Howard Beale IV
@gbear: Hey, next weekend it’s supposed to be in the mid 40s in the Twin Cities….
WaterGirl
@Cervantes: Sorry if I was unclear. I was wondering how others interpreted it, and whether using “mind” as kind of a warning was something other people had encountered.
The answer makes a huge difference plot-wise in the story. Show is on BBC America.
Tom the First
Hard to follow the puck because of all the flakes falling. This is gonna be a long one.
Bex
@gbear: Saw the hashtag #hotjesus. I will say that actor is pretty.
WaterGirl
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: That’s very helpful, thanks!
Gex
I’m just wondering if racist old white people KNOW they are being racist and just not care? Or if they don’t realize it.
Ran into a friend of my mom’s at the Gopher’s gymnastics meet. She was doing crowd control on the upper level, and I waved from the lower level. At the end of the meet she came down to me and said, “I had to be up there to make sure the Indians didn’t cause trouble.” What the fuck? Isn’t she there to make sure no one causes trouble? I can guarantee her that white college kids cause plenty of trouble at the University of Minnesota too.
Which kind of Indians? Why is that the opening statement? Does she know that lots of people think I look Native American? WHY WOULD ANYONE SAY THIS?
I ended up changing the topic to my aunt’s cancer. She can rest assured she is a shitty conversationalist when I chose cancer as easier, happier topic of conversation over whatever vile crap she had to offer up.
scav
Enjoying mildly the thought that tomorrow is known to some as Cheesefare Sunday. No idea what I’ll do with the nomenclature, let alone the fact. Otherwise wrestling with entirely too much census data and men named Peter born about 1893 in obscure parts of Transcarpathia.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
“Mind your manners.”
ETA: Late again. What NotMax said.
SarahT
@BGinCHI: Wasn’t in love with Episode 1 but looking forward to tonight’s. Enjoy !
Randy P
@WaterGirl: In England, absolutely. “Mind the gap”, “mind the overhang”. I would say if they are English people that is the default meaning of “mind”. It’s one of those charming little differences I love about being in different countries.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Well, see, that’s what confused me. To me, mind your manners means “pay attention to your manners”, so I thought she was encouraging Sarah to listen and pay attention to this person. But my friend thought it was a warning, as in “beware of this person”, which is totally different.
WaterGirl
@Randy P: Mind the overhang, as in watch out for the overhang. That supports my friend’s thinking. Watch out for this person. Beware. Thanks.
Edit: I agree that language subtleties and language differences are very interesting!
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
To me it has both senses, although not as strong as beware. More like “be careful around/with.”
scav
@WaterGirl: It might be worse, (eta: meaning not cleared up yet) what about childminder? That seems to be UKish and maintain the care connotation. “Take care” has a similar ambiguity though.
WereBear
@Bex: LOL! The “pretty Jesus” syndrome caused no end of trouble for this former Southern Baptist, growing up.
Still like beards and long hair… just a hippie at heart.
Alison
Hmmmm. I just noticed a folder in my documents that I don’t remember creating or downloading or anything. I scanned it with McAfee and it says there’s no viruses or spyware in it, but I’m wary of opening it to see what’s in it. Is the McAfee scan enough to tell me it’s safe to open? Or should I just delete it?
gbear
@Mary Brown: I feel sorry for your sister. The last big snowfall we had started out as two inches of slush that turned everything under the snow into a glare ice that won’t go away. The sidewalks and streets are as bad as I’ve ever seen them, and the fucking below zero temps will not let up.
@Pogonip: I have the opposite problem. I wind up online bouncing between AllMusic and Amazon spending money on music (and cat stuff and books).
I just got back from the nearest pizza shop – thin crust white pizza with pepperoni, onions and black olives. Mmmm.
Howard Beale IV
@dmsilev: What I though was mind-bogling was when those assholes were actually whining about the fact that the Apple was only doing it for the subsidies:
So let me get this straight: if other power companies get subsides for green energy it’s OK, but if Apple gets the it’s not?
I’m beginning to think it’s time to create a new website and mobile apps to identify individuals who should not be given any aid of any kind (except maybe a single oken dollar bill) if you run across them in any accident situation and be left to suffe, since they don’t seem to give a flying fuck about anything else.
RuhRow_Gyro
Justice Janine is on FOX, trying to start a war.
KG
@Gex: doubt she realized she was being racist. “Indian” in that context usually means “young rowdy people”… I hear people refer to their own kids as wild Indians at times.
WereBear
@KG: Which is also racist.
WaterGirl
@scav: Your comment prompted me to wonder if that phrasing might have been used intensionally because of its ambiguity. That would certainly fit with the show itself, where very little is certain.
Now I’m left to ponder until the show returns in April.
NotMax
@Alison
Could be something, could be nothing, could have been auto-created by another program (such as a game, for example).
Use Malwarebytes (free version) and run a scan.
(Shall hold my tongue regarding McAfee.)
James E. Powell
@WaterGirl:
The character, Sarah’s foster mother, Siobhan Sadler aka Mrs. S, is Irish.
WaterGirl
Thanks to all for the “meaning of mind” language conversation. Just looked at wikipedia, and I see that the show is Canadian.
WaterGirl
@James E. Powell: It’s true! I hadn’t thought of that. Are you watching orphan black?
John O
If I were the NHL, or even a franchise in the NHL, I would tune my goal posts to ring with an extended musical note, because it would be exciting and cool. Tonight would have been wonderful for it. *TINGGGGGGGG* *CLANGGGGGGG* And so on.
If you REALLY wanted to get fancy, you could tune both posts along with the crossbar to make different sounds, so it would be easier for the fans to ID a clanked post or crossbar.
I’m an idea man.
Cookie Monster
@WaterGirl: q.v. Mind the gap.
MomSense
Did some sewing projects today and almost finished design project #2. Then I found a Timothy Olyphant movie and blew off all my chores to watch it.
It is another night of below zero temps and a good night to just watch movies and sip wine.
scav
@John O: A hockey Pachinko / Pinball mashup . . . Wire up the suits and have bits of wall that bounce the players about if they run into them. Flashing lights,lasers, disco balls, dry ice explosions . . . I think TomL knows the musical theme / cheerleaders / midgame show to book . . . .
Cervantes
@WaterGirl:
And:
Was it just “Mind [person’s name]”? Yes, that could mean “Obey” or “Beware of.” It could also mean “Take care of.”
I’m assuming it is set in present-day “generic” England so we need not consider archaic usage and dialect.
(By the way, was it you and Elizabelle who showed me the other day where to find that Woody Allen article? If so, thanks. Some day, not today, if you remind me, I will tell you about the judge involved in the custody case. He was an old lefty and a good person.)
Elmo
@Steeplejack:
“Mind your back” is common NE restaurant-speak when you’re passing behind somebody, especially if you or they happen to be carrying something.
Alison
@NotMax: Thanks. I figured out where it came from, though I’m still not sure why there are so many files in the folder….so I just deleted it since I know I don’t need it :P
John O
@scav:
No. That would be tacky.
The goal posts already make a decent sound, but they could sound better. And it’s exciting to begin with when a puck nails a post, so the sound being emphasized would be all good.
Just don’t change the Blackhawks uniforms!
scav
@John O: Oh, I blew past tacky in my mind. Baroque insanity or bust.
tybee
@IowaOldLady:
i thought that was from the film “Being There”
James E. Powell
@WaterGirl:
Yes and I’m looking forward to the next season. Tatiana Maslany’s ability to create distinct personalities is pretty amazing to me. I wonder what her methods are and how often she has to switch back and forth.
MomSense
@Joel:
we need a war.
John O
@scav:
I was trying to be understated and ironical. :-)
(And it’s also possible that the winter here finally has tipped me into hysteria. Logged 4.5 hours in the car today, much of it in the blizzard you can see on NBC, and moved someone in between. Ugghh. Lots of white knuckle driving.)
Poopyman
Sipping this while cruising BJ. We’re supposed to get ice and snow tomorrow – they keep lessening the ice and increasing the snow. Getting my weather fix from the WaPo blog.
WaterGirl
@Cervantes: Just used “undelete” on Tivo to get the last episode, but I didn’t find the scene when I scanned through it. I may try again tomorrow, though.
Not sure which of us posted the link, maybe both, hard to recall.
WaterGirl
@James E. Powell: It would be really fun to get to play all those roles, I think, assuming you were up to the task skill-wise, which she most definitely is!
It’s really a great show. Smart, funny, serious. I watch with a friend who travels for months at a time, so I haven’t been able to watch one episode at a time as they go along. Now I think I might prefer watching several in a row to watching every week. My friend is leaving again on 4/20, but we’re gonna try to watch the first episode on 4/19. Then I’ll have to wait awhile to catch up on the rest. Hoping we know what’s up with Kira by the end of the first show.
Edit: I did read somewhere that she tried out her Sarah accent on taxi drivers. Like you, I would love to know methods and how they handle the various scenes.
rikyrah
Orphan Black was awesome. The actress that plays the lead so deserves an Emmy.
scav
@John O: O, we’re all there. I’m to the point where I’m rooting for the snow, which might just be a death wish. Suicide by random neighbors bludgeoning en masse.
John Revolta
I think that when there’s a tie at the end of a hockey game there should just be a free-for-all fight to the finish. Last guy standing, his team wins. Give the fans their money’s worth!
John O
@scav:
Yeah. I have a dog to walk and no yard, so I bought some ski pants last winter, and I’m now calling them my greatest single purchase value of all time.
I’ve gone consecutive weeks this winter wearing nothing else below my waist. And my “FU Winter!” jacket is a camo hunting jacket, so I imagine my suburban neighbors have their concerns at this point. I can (and have a lot this winter) lay the full face mask look on top of the camo hunter and the ski pants, for even greater effect.
I’m too old to care.
KS in MA
@Steeplejack: Webster’s has 16 definitions for “mind” as a verb, fwiw.
mainmata
@WaterGirl: Really? While it is a commonly used verb in the UK (“Mind the gap” warning on the London Underground referring to the space between the train and the platform being just one example) mind as a verb is also American. For example: “Mind you, I am never going to that restaurant again.” Mind is also used a lot like “remind” in the USA. Not so alien, really.
Suffern ACE
@NotMax: mind the store.
jharp
@John Revolta:
Agreed. And for baseball games that go into extra innings base runners should be allowed to take their bats with them and be allowed to use them to prevent being tagged out.
Thor Heyerdahl
@Alison: Avast scanner lets you use a “sandbox” to test something…would recommend it in this case.
seaboogie
@HinTN: Baby unicorns fill the reservoirs with rainbows and edible gold leaf and pre-filtered water that is pristine and rich in health-giving minerals. Baby unicorns are good that way.
ronin122
JC not trying to rub it in (‘Hawks fan) but I was actually at the game tonight. It was definitely a fun time if you don’t mind freezing your bits off (can’t understand for the life of me why anyone would take their shirts off, esp. with the wind blowing off the lake….), but goddamn did it get loud there. Think it had to do with the way the UFO was designed (fuck if I know why they did that to Soldier Field) but the sound reflects downward. You literally could not hear the national anthem at all, which says a lot, though mostly because it’s our tradition to get loud as hell during that.
Suffern ACE
@Villago Delenda Est: in week two, when it’s receipts go down, can we declare a victory for atheists and that the public is rejecting its pro christian propaganda message…the way that newsmax declared victory over The Butler this summer?
Mnemosyne
@Gex:
Possibly silly question, but is the nickname of one of the other teams the Indians? As in, I had to be up there to make sure the Trojans didn’t cause trouble, or whatever goofy nickname the team has.
Mnemosyne
Also, too, if any movie fans are around, I finally got around to seeing Hugo. Never thought I would say this about a Scorsese film, but it was friggin’ adorable (and yet perfectly pitched not to be saccharine).
I like how Scorsese is sneaking more and more very subtle classic movie references into his films (or else I’ve finally seen enough of the same movies to catch them). One of my first thoughts was, Where did he find a clone of S.Z. Sakall?
ETA: Also, too, the Young Frankenstein references with the Sacha Baron Cohen character.
someofparts
When I picture a bunch of guys hunkering down and watching the game, I wonder what comparable thing would be natural and bonding for the gals in the area to hunker around. Thinking on it a bit, I’m pretty sure Home and Garden TV would do the trick.
I used to know a couple who had a rambling old house big enough for the husband to have room in the front for his friends to hunker down with their music while his wife had a den in the back off the kitchen where the gals hung out. The big kitchen operated as the co-ed area.