The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Finally saw the Green Knight, and I really hope it was dense with metaphors that I didn't pick up on, because I really don't know what the point of any of it was.
Non-Complaint - Happy New Year! I stayed home and started to watch three versions of dracula on the Universal Monsters Channel, but fell asleep before midnight local.
Complaint - Greyhound Bus company closed its downtown location, and now it costs more to Uber to the new location than it does to bus half way across the country.
Happy New Year!!!
Dracula Untold
Ah ha, he gets it.
Yeah, if you mean the Green Knight with Sean Connery, then yeah, lots-o-green, and loose heads, but the concept is mostly brain mush.
Big Complaint: My RTX 3090 is restarting my computer; I have requested an RMA from EVGA. Evga is no longer a vendor for Nvidia. I'm so afraid I will end up with an ATI Radeon card. I've tried the 3090 on two different machines, and the same results restart.
The real complaint is that I have an RTX 3070 8GBs and am missing the other 16 GB of VRAM while rendering.
No, the Green Knight with Dev Patel that was released a year or two ago.
Oh. OK. Never mind.
Never heard of it. I still live in the last century. Who is Dev Patel?
Non-complaint: Wheee... had a shot of Disaronno early, and later two flutes of champagne. Then stayed up until midnight to watch the party at EPCOT on TV. Got bored(i.e. zonked) after the fireworks and went to bed.
Complaint: I think that's the first time I was up 'till midnight since the previous New Year. Gettin' old.
Non-complaint: Made a big casserole of scalloped potatoes & ham. Yum!
Complaint: I forgot to include mushroom pieces & stems to the sauce.
Non-complaint: The neighbors in the other half of the house are back from their vacation. They've turned up the thermostat. Yay, It's not 60F in here all day anymore.
Complaint: Gotta talk to them 'bout that.
I got the same ticket for today. I stayed home all day and did nothing.
I don't know if my internet is being slow with the 4 iso files I am downloading or if the 4 different iso files I am downloading at once is just slowing the downloads.
I did just find my usb stick I meant to do this with a couple months ago.
So there’s a man I met at my workplace some years ago. And we became close and… he’s my lover.
He’s not my lover. He’s just a nice old man with real whiskers and when I saw him speaking dutch to that girl… He’s not my lover and he’s not Santa Claus either. I just said that because I get distracted easily and like to pull other people in with me. But we did develop kind of a father/daughter relationship, I’d say. He retired from the workplace and I have probably another 40 years to go or whatever.
Anyway, he was really all about the 60’s counterculture, and the British influence on it. All of the music he likes comes from that era. I mean he knows who Mott the Hoople is. There’s a guy at my workplace now who mentioned a band from that time and I was like, “I’ll bet you know who Mott the Hoople is”.
The father figure and I were on a road trip. He, I, another woman, and yet another woman and her daughter, all in the little car I had at the time. Perhaps it was reminiscent of an earlier time when a bunch of people would be piled into a VW mini bus or something. I don’t know.
Anyway, he would often speak to me about how music and culture were great in the 60’s and perhaps still alive in the 70’s, and everything just basically died when the 80’s came. Meanwhile, I was a strange bird. I mean my music collection is mostly compact disc and, like, I know who Keith Sweat is. And I get mildly excited if Leona Lewis or Natasha Bedingfield release new music. But with these streaming music services, I was able to go back in time and realize how much I like Richard Marx and Juice Newton.
It goes without saying, the man and I like different music and favor different decades of music. But back to this road trip with him in this car full of women who don’t know who Donovan is. I asked one of the women to name a song she liked so I could use it to seed the music player. And I don’t remember what song she picked but when it played, she obviously truly liked it. And the man obviously truly didn’t.
And she asked him a question which finally gets to the point that makes this relevant to what you said. She was aware of him not liking any music from the 80’s onward. And she asked something like, “So you’ve really gone through 40 years of music and not found one song you like?” And it changed the way I viewed the situation. In all the conversations I’d had with him, it had never occurred to me how much he lived in the past.
We had conversations about this before though. He had music, LSD, people taking a stand against established powers, and then the 60’s ended. I, on the other hand, didn’t have a house or children yet, or a bunch of other things I wanted to have in life; and by the time I came along, the world already sucked and the only hope was it could be fixed in a last minute hail mary of stopping air pollution and war. So he felt like his best years were behind him and I felt like mine were in front of me. He lived in the past and I lived in the future, and neither of us were very upbeat about the present. Maybe our mutual disdain for the present was what brought us together. A fan of 60’s British counterculture and a modern counterculture girl who thought T-Rexx was a dinosaur.
Slumdog Millionaire, if that means anything to you. An Indian-British actor.
...they did the same where I live and donm't understand why as we had a nice fairly new terminal which had a roof over where the buses loaded/unloaded. Now buses stop at a curb totally in the open along a street that parallels the tracks leading into Union Station (Portland OR). No protection from the weather or even a place to sit while waiting and definitely not a great place after sundown.
The ticket office is 4 blocks away. and you have to carry your own luggage over to the stop (no more checked luggage). or waste monbey for a short taxi ride,
I can understand this in a small town, but in a major city it is ridiculous
One of the oldest human beliefs is that things used to be better and everything new is garbage. Confucius, writing in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, was all about how much better things were a few hundred years before his own time. Your friend/lover is ably demonstrating what's called the Sieve of Time, wherein one remembers only the positive aspects of their time. I love music from before my time, but I'm also aware that then, as now, as any time in the history of art, most of it was terrible. Look at 1969, for example: the Beatles' Abbey road, Santana's first album, Led Zeppelin's first TWO albums, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, Stevie Wonder's My Cherie Amour....but THIS was one of the biggest songs of the year:
Richard Marx is so great.
LOL they played Sugar, Sugar on the DAB Radio station my brother listens to at one point today during our drive around Mannum, Swan Reach and the Barrosa Valley and I sang along to it
What?... You still have ticket offices? Ours has gone to Web/Mobile apps/whatever tags and if one manages to find a bus going anywhere, one may not be able to pay for it (cash not accepted)
Apparently, Greyhound Bus was recently bought by a German bus company, Flixbus. Looks like there is some growing pains! There are no shortage of options to use as a bus station. We have an Amtrak terminal, a large downtown city bus transfer station, and a large under-utilized riverside market, all capable of serving as a place for Greyhound/Flixbus to use. Instead, Greyhound/Flixbus directs me to a city 57 miles away. The cynic in me suspects that Greyhound/Flixbus tried to get the city to pay for a new bus station and the mayor/council refused. The really cynical person in me suspects Greyhound/Flixbus didn't even bother to try.
When I came to Washington DC in '84 The old Greyhound downtown bus terminal from the 40s & 50s on New York Avenue had been covered over with that ugly colored sheet aluminum & glass cladding so unfortunately popular in the '60s. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Years later while I was still in DC during the 80s or 90s the old bus station had been unclad, refurbished, and is now the lobby of a big office building behind it. There's something about curvy Art Deco type designs from the 30s & 40s that resonates with me.
Sharp cornered cereal box buildings don't.
I lived in the DC area from '86 to '18, off and on. In the early days, I worked next to Chinatown in what is now called 'Penn Quarter' back when we had to navigate police tape and chalked victim outlines on the sidewalks to get to work, and after work the women in our office were escorted by security guards to the Gallery Place metro station. (And kids had to walk to school in the snow up hill, both ways!). This is before the basketball/hockey stadium. There was a small specialty bus service between DC and NYC that locals called the Chinatown-Chinatown Express. Cheaper and faster than Greyhound back in the day. Not sure if it is still running, or if it is, if the transformation of the area to higher end stuff pushed the Chinatown Express to a new location. Area had a lot of money pour in long after I stopped working there.
Up here, when my parents were kids, kids went to school on skis, 10 miles up hill, both ways, all year around.
When I was in DC, I lived in three places. For a while I lived in "The Envoy" on 16th St. NW. Upscale area west of Meridian Park
Where at one time, Senator John Kennedy(the original) and Jacqueline had lived. Also, President Reagan had dinner in the mansion next door while we lived in the Envoy(you can't hide a motorcade). The Envoy had a wide, long wonderful marble lobby with huge chandeliers. The old stately hotel had been remodeled into condos and apartments. Gorgous place. But, too small, too expensive.
Then I bought the house on the northeast corner of "6th & P St." NW . A three story typical brick Washington town house, terrible condition. Did some major repairs, but a couple years later found a fool to pay more money for it than I did.
Then I moved next door(east along P) into a rental for a year or so, until we finally bought our condo in Reston Virginia.
But our time in the 6th & P area (Shaw) of DC was "interesting" to say the least. That area is a few blocks above Chinatown, and was also the domain of the "O Street Gang".
Scary looking people lurking around the fortressified neighborhood Korean store. Shots in the night. A knifed person dropping dead in my front yard (I built a fence after that). Scary people on the street eyeing your jewelry. But in the years that we were there, gentrification was evident all along P and up 6th.
Edited to add: I just checked Google for images of The Envoy. The marble floor & pillars are there but it looks as if they've removed the old Chandeliers. Either that or I've conflated that lobby with another in my ancient past. How can I forget the absence of 3 huge chandeliers?
My Parents use snow shoes made from pine cones and vines.
When I was a little kid living in Wisconsin, I didn't like going out in the snow. We moved away around the time I was finished with Pre-school.
finally all 4 iso files were downloaded. only one had to be redownloaded. now to set them up on the usb thumb drive
...ah that explains why I have been seeing FlixBus here instead of Bolt as of late. I just thought Bolt changed their name.
One would imagine a European company understood the need for a central terminal facility as they tend to be further ahead of us when it comes transportation options to the automobile. Portland really needs a better option than what I described. There are empty buildings/properties in the city centre I'm sure would be more adequate Crikey, even our local transit system has shelters at most bus stops.
I watch a lot of crime documetries etc and started to wonder, do all legal people own Lady Justice statuettes?
I never knew there were so many, I expect to see one on a courthouse or something but there seems to be one on everyone's desk too.
or is this just for TV and movies?
I know people sometimes have them in gardens along with the usual Statues of David, The Thinker or lewd cherubs usually urinating in a fountain
I can't remember if Perry Mason had one in his office, but he did have that honkin' big bust of Voltaire that I wondered who was for decades until you asked this question and I did a Google for "Images of Perry Mason's office" and found one that claimed it was Voltaire.
I ain't-a-gonna argue, kinda' looks right. Satisfaction complete.
Well, depending on which way up you hold it a Justice statuette can either be a blunt instrument or a pointy intrument.
I think it's something different. The director needs to whack people in the face that the actor is playing the part of a lawyer. And for people with an attention span exceeded by a gnat, a statue of Lady Justice tells them what they've not learnt through paying attention to anything other than their phone.
Regards,
Richard