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  • edited 2011-10-27 23:09:12
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Imipolex intends to eat a bunch of fast food in an attempt to induce insanity early. :P
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    "Dressed-for-Success" made me think of "Suited For Success".
    Me too.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Had fast food today, and was called insane today. You may be on to something.
  • edited 2011-10-27 23:32:44
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...why were you called insane?

    ...also, is there STEELERMANIA still going on at the store you work at? What store is this? Why do I wonder this?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You're just full of questions tonight, aren't you Anonus?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    STEELERMANIA will last throughout the NFL season, particularly on days when the Steelers, y'know, actually play. And I will continue to feel superior by not caring.

    And, to be fair, I called myself insane. The other person just agreed. But I can't remember why.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    We should all meet up and lock ourselves in a room and do crack.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    I'll bring the straws!
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    The Crack Heap
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The HAM Heap of The Qwzra Tropes Forum
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Iguana
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Last night I dreamed I was exploring the junior high school I went to. I went down this one corridor that I had never gone down in real life, and found myself going down numerous spiral staircases into hidden offices far underground. Apparently it was the headquarters of some insurrectionist kind of group who were going to overthrow something, I don't know what.

    For some reason, Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" played the whole time.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    WHAT NO WAY ADRIEN BRO-DY THE ONLY CRACK I WORRY ABOUT IS CRACKIN' OPEN A FAYGO AND SLAMMIN' IT DOWN MAH THROAT YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN CUZ DRUG FREE IS THE WAY TO BE, AND IF DON'T AGREE, I'M SORRY BUT I THINK YOU'VE OVERDOSED ON ALL YOUR SMARTYSMART MEDS OVER AT ST. BOHRS HOSPITAL WAY DOWN IN NERDSVILLE!!!
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^Is this the first dream you've had in a while?

    ^...I didn't expect that to come from the character you play as.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    It is the first dream I've remembered in quite a while.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    I hardly ever know what mandude is gonna say.

    It's been far too long since I last posted as him.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Mandude?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ...I had a dream this morning that I almost wrote down, but now I've totally forgotten what it was. Damn.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    It has been too long. You know, mandude. He hates Nerdsville and only likes cool bros like himself who hail from Cooltown.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm listening to this

  • edited 2011-10-27 23:59:10
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I want to bring Manonus here, but there's now no way to do that isn't roundabout.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I just thought it was funny, because Jumpingzombie refers to her boyfriend as mandude. Heh.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I'm going to try to stay in touch with her, via PMs.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ^ I probably should, too.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    ....You don't think?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ....Don't think what?
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    That mandude is JZ's mandude.

    PMs have always seemed weird to me, for whatever reason.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I kinda like getting PMs, except I'm never quite sure when the conversation has ended.
  • edited 2011-10-28 00:21:42
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I like Vanilla's PM system better than TVT's.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ^^ I have the same problem...

    ^ Vanilla's is much more suited to carrying on conversations. It very nearly presents itself as a private thread.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    This cut of WFSB News Package/Advantage is very un-Gari in its sound:


  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    WHAT IS LOVE

    Baby don't hurt me

    Don't hurt me

    No more
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    KDKA's take on the CBS O&O open template is masterful. (This is the "Steelers Victory" version):


  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    KDKA

    It's a TV station
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Foxit Reader 5.1 seems to have done undone a bit of the UI uglification that 5.0 introduced.

    It still doesn't use any of the native window toolbars or anything, but neither did version 4. But it uses the native window chrome now and that's good enough for me.

    For comparison:
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^The first in your market, too. And one of two in the whole country east of the K/W line with a callsign starting with "K" (the other being longtime corporate sibling KYW-TV in Philadelphia).

    ^It's more streamlined.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Well, the screenshot of the older one does have the bookmark sidebar popped open. I didn't bother with that because I wanted to keep my screenshot small.

    (The bookmark sidebar is important because without it navigating large PDF files is a pain)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...you know, KPIX seems more like a fit for NBC than CBS, going by the callsign alone.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...man, building an entertainment empire around Summit would be weird.

    Their only "franchise" to date is The Twilight Saga, and I don't know where the studio will go when that's over.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Aliens

    Landing in Alabama
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    WAFFLE
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    IS THIS BURNING



    AN ETERNAL FLAME
  • edited 2011-10-28 01:30:21
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    45UPN KENTARO
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ^^ That song used to creep me out when I was a kid, for some reason.

    I liked it, though.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    the wb
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Evolution of illustrations in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

    1961 -- note the outlined US shields, and the use of "THRU TRAFFIC" rather than a route designation:
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    1971, 1978, 1988 (all used the same illustrations)
    image

    2000 -- for the first time, these were distributed as vector graphics in a PDF file. Note also that the text-only "US 56" sign is still included, despite most states having already discontinued this practice decades ago.
    image

    2003: The proper typefaces were used, but the signs still aren't quite pattern-accurate. (Note the inline fraction for "1/2", for example)
    image


    2009 (latest edition)
    image

  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...what leads to new MUTCD editions?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I wonder why signs are green
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    They're a pretty shade of green.
  • edited 2011-10-28 01:59:16
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ...what leads to new MUTCD editions?
    I'm not sure there's anything specific that leads to new editions. New editions usually include changes based on studies about how to make signage more efficient/effective. For instance, the latest edition forbids the use of names (road names, places names, any names) in all-caps, since studies have shown mixed-case is more legible. It also forbids the use of signs like the one on the right here, because studies showed that drivers mistakenly assumed "exit only" applied to both lanes.

    I wonder why signs are green
    In the ye olde days of the 1940s and 1950s, guide signs were primarily black and white--smaller signs, like you'd see on conventional roads, where black-on-white, and overhead signs like you see on freeways were white-on-black. Then Caltrans (the California Department of Transportation) experimented with a few different color combinations, and found that white on green was the most legible.
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