Randomness XVI: Brains versus Bleach - an Epic Rap Battle in Iambic Pentameter.

[OneBoot]

1 minute ago, paintybeard said:

All Connie Willis's books are great.

 

Indeed they are! She does a wondeful job writing powerfully evocative scenes. To say nothing of the dog is delightfully silly, while I think Doomsday book is probably her grimmest one. 

 

What's funny is I stumbled upon her completely at random. I absolutely love Jenny Stirlin, the voice actor that reads the audiobooks for one of my favorie series (the Mary Russell series), and one day decided to see what else she'd voiced. I found Doomsday book, was intrigued by the description, and dove in. I quite enjoyed it, right up until things turned sharply south; then I enjoyed it on a very different level. It left me a bit emotionally wrecked for a couple of days, though. She aims for the feels and never pulls her punches lol. 

 

Huzzah! 

--OneBoot :D 

[Kangaroorex]

4 hours ago, Inarah said:

I had not realized it was pi day, but made one anyway. Apple, as it happens.

 

Shepherds pie (or cottage pie, if you prefer) can be made keto/ low carb.  And there are some good corned beef pie recipe s, too.

Did a corned beef today for the dnd group.  Used a combination of cider and dragons milk to cook the meat. The flavor was excellent!  On the flip side we were also supposed to have  baked potatoes but someone in the house saw the crock pot and the oven running and turned off the oven rendering the potatoes at the very raw state.  At least the meat was good!

2 hours ago, Marvin said:

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In other news, everyone at my (very small) church is laughing in the face of death and all, and the pastor made a FB post about not canceling services and threw in some remarks I thought rather snide, and meh. I'm kind of in the middle on things. It very well may be too early to be distancing here, and the hysteria is absolutely out of control, but it's not really by much and I just feel better holing up a little right now. So I am. Meh.

 

Since most of our active congregation is either young families or folks in their 80s we've opted to go to live streaming for a while.  It does mean I get to sleep in on Sunday morning Shoot!

 

On a more somber note we had our first party death.  Our warlock discovered he couldn't swim!  Unfortunately that discovery wss made after he jumped off the boat to swim. Around the enemy shop where no one was watching...

 

Heroic efforts to save him were made but all that was recovered was a waterlogged corpse

[FaekiasDracon]

6 hours ago, Cyradis said:

 

Someone better know how to make moonshine. Who wants to go through the apocalypse sober the whole time? 

Given the correct enzyme and enough time the toilet paper hoarders can make moonshine out of it.  Cellulose is pretty much just a polymerized chain of glucose molecules, so pretty simple to convert to ethanol (again, given the correct enzyme).

[Kangaroorex]

1 hour ago, FaekiasDracon said:

Given the correct enzyme and enough time the toilet paper hoarders can make moonshine out of it.  Cellulose is pretty much just a polymerized chain of glucose molecules, so pretty simple to convert to ethanol (again, given the correct enzyme).

Of course the typical conversion of cellulose to alcohol is to methanol so their TP hooch would more likely lead to blindness and death...

[haldir]

18 hours ago, Grumpy Cave Bear said:

This is the view from our back porch right now:

 

 

This is the Beaverton, OR area.  It’s mid-March, it almost never snows this late in the year!  It’s also going below freezing tonight.

 

It’s the end times, I tell you!

 

 

Your snow turned to rain this morning on this side of the state. Gotta love it. Load finally showed up & of course it was raining. Pull the last pallet off the truck & it had stopped.....grrrrrrr

 

1600 pieces here I come! (Oh joy! Gotta love mass hysteria....)

[Keianna]

The con I was going to this weekend got cancelled, After registration had opened! 

 

And the city has decided that groups of any size in public places are suddenly a threat to society and are calling the police to break up groups of cosplayers. 

 

Really struggling with disappointment and depression this weekend. My roommate's are helping by being really cool. We made apple pie, peanut butter jelly pie and Okonomiyaki (Japanese flat pie) yesterday. 

[Crowley]

11 hours ago, NebulousMissy said:

Due to the coronavirus, all state-run liquor stores (so, all liquor stores because of weird dry state horse-elves) in 4 out of 5 of the Philly area counties will shut down starting Monday. Also all bars. ALL bars.

 

This will be... something.

Well... I... uh... I hope NYC does consider closing the bars, but thankfully beer can be had at any grocery store, corner market, or pharmacy. On the other hand, better safe than sorry. 

 

I do begin to wonder how this will impact my CPA exam scheduled in mid April. Things should be pretty bad by that point, probably nearing the worst point... Hm. And that all assuming that I don't come down with it, and lose study time, and need to reschedule anyway. 

 

COFFEE!!

 

Then waffles, and study time. D&D tonight, where one character has spread a plague around the city. 

[PaganMegan]

19 hours ago, Green Eyed Monster said:

Not to rain on anybodies parade, but;  You do know that this little rhyming song started as a response to the Black Death?

"Ring around the rosies"

The characteristic pox that erupted on the victims skin.

"A pocket full of posies"

To combat the stench of death

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down [dead].

Ashes = achoo, the sound of a sneeze.  Which transmitted the disease through aerosol of the sputum.

The long snouted mask that Doctors wore during the plague were developed to give the Dr. a chance of having air to breath that wasn't contaminated by aerosol-ed virus.

GEM

Sorry to be a downer.

We now return you to the normal festivities.

'Swhy I added it. Grump says that probably a later interpretation, even though they were "contemperaneous".

 

My answer was he should talk to Grammum about Dublin street children's songs. It may mot have been adults that made the song, and songs stick around for a LONG time.

 

Ah, plague doctors.

 

Long pants under long robes, long beaked masks stuffed with posies, cachets, or rose petals, and red lenses were the 15th century bunny suits.

 

Oh, and a pokey stick.

 

Grump's goody two shoes undead army has a bunch of them for necromancers. They go into plague sites to help since the dead can't catch the plague, and the fleas don't feed on walking corpses.

 

Oddly, people don't leap to the conclusion that they are there to help.

 

The army is creepy as eff.

 

I'm from the government, and I'm here to HELP you!

 

I do like how he made that guy look tired and concerned. A bit beaten down, sad and creepy, not menacing.

 

I think he may be one of the STLs we get from their Kickstarter.

 

I should probably doodle up a leader for my Night Stalker army.

[Rob Dean]

Well, now that I am stocked up and ready for the apocalypse, it’s been time to paint and prepare miniatures for priming.

 

I finished off a dozen vintage Minifig Gondorians this morning (as in, finished their basing), and have been cleaning and priming a batch of Ral Partha things since yesterday.  (My brother and I were at Cincycon last weekend before the plague playing Ral Partha’s Chaos Wars.) 

 

I am wishing that my boss would make the decision that we should work from home; recovering my two hours of commute time daily would allow quite a bit of painting.   

[redambrosia]

Last night my cyberpunk group decided to take this whole thing extremely seriously, and kicked off the night playing Pandemic. I’d like to tell y’all that it is totally possible to beat covid19, because we did so (I think we decided the yellow bops were covid19... or maybe the red ones, since that’s the one in Asia... I dunno ). 
 

The white chicken chili was amazing, I could have eaten the whole pot! And I got to roll my medtech skill a bunch and then smack some idiots with my medical bag in cyberpunk. 
 

The only wrinkle in our enjoyable night was the horrible diaper rash that Sephy developed. Anytime she filled her diaper at all, she cried for 15 minutes. We managed to get the rash under control by the end of the night (combo of letting her be bare for a few minutes and putting aquaphor on her tush), but it was very sad to see her in so much pain. 

[Dilvish the Deliverer]

20 minutes ago, redambrosia said:

Last night my cyberpunk group decided to take this whole thing extremely seriously, and kicked off the night playing Pandemic. I’d like to tell y’all that it is totally possible to beat covid19, because we did so (I think we decided the yellow bops were covid19... or maybe the red ones, since that’s the one in Asia... I dunno ). 
 

The white chicken chili was amazing, I could have eaten the whole pot! And I got to roll my medtech skill a bunch and then smack some idiots with my medical bag in cyberpunk. 
 

The only wrinkle in our enjoyable night was the horrible diaper rash that Sephy developed. Anytime she filled her diaper at all, she cried for 15 minutes. We managed to get the rash under control by the end of the night (combo of letting her be bare for a few minutes and putting aquaphor on her tush), but it was very sad to see her in so much pain. 

Our kids had bad diaper rash too.  Awesome Wife ended up mixing up a batch of tripple cream ointment and that helped immensely.  Used it on all three of our girls.

[PaganMegan]

To everyone stockpiling food for the Apocalypse Plague Covid-19 virus, Corned Beef is cheap right now, and will keep for months in the fridge, or a year in the freezer.

 

By the power of St. Patrick you can survive this!

 

That can be purple or not, depending on how much you like corned beef.

 

Sending Grump out for a couple more points, because I freaking LOVE corned beef, and I can swap it in place of the Sunday Pot Roast.

27 minutes ago, redambrosia said:

Last night my cyberpunk group decided to take this whole thing extremely seriously, and kicked off the night playing Pandemic. I’d like to tell y’all that it is totally possible to beat covid19, because we did so (I think we decided the yellow bops were covid19... or maybe the red ones, since that’s the one in Asia... I dunno ). 
 

The white chicken chili was amazing, I could have eaten the whole pot! And I got to roll my medtech skill a bunch and then smack some idiots with my medical bag in cyberpunk. 
 

The only wrinkle in our enjoyable night was the horrible diaper rash that Sephy developed. Anytime she filled her diaper at all, she cried for 15 minutes. We managed to get the rash under control by the end of the night (combo of letting her be bare for a few minutes and putting aquaphor on her tush), but it was very sad to see her in so much pain. 

Grump does a chicken chili verde which is YUMMY. Chicken thighs, white beans, and a salsa verde, I think.

[Werkrobotwerk]

9 hours ago, Marvin said:

I've got a mostly full bottle of Bulleit and don't even drink, like, ever, but now I kinda feel like maybe I ought to hit the liquor store. Gotta catch 'em all!

bulleit is good stuff. I was drinking some last night

[redambrosia]

37 minutes ago, Dilvish the Deliverer said:

Our kids had bad diaper rash too.  Awesome Wife ended up mixing up a batch of tripple cream ointment and that helped immensely.  Used it on all three of our girls.

Sephy’s is being caused by her antibiotic. It’s turned her poop very acidic, though it hasn’t given her diarrhea (thank goodness). The rash is already better, but we have to keep putting aquaphor on her tush. I do not like seeing my little imp that distressed.

[LittleBluberry]

14 hours ago, TGP said:

 

I just look at the labels on the nasty little sachet packets to tell whether it is really honey or maple syrup. Usually it is not. If all else fails, it tastes different.

 

 

Was going to say that real honey tastes amazing, adulterated honey does not.  But I grew up with fresh honey from my Dad's hive.  Apparently he learned how to keep bees as an impoverished child during the war.  They got an extra sugar ration out if it.

 

14 hours ago, Oakleaf98 said:

 

 

12 hours ago, Cyradis said:

 

Someone better know how to make moonshine. Who wants to go through the apocalypse sober the whole time? 

 

If we run out of alcohol there will be raids on local warehouses.  A shockingly large number of local businesses produce alcohol on site.  Not that I'll need any, we've got lots.

 

47 minutes ago, Dilvish the Deliverer said:

Our kids had bad diaper rash too.  Awesome Wife ended up mixing up a batch of tripple cream ointment and that helped immensely.  Used it on all three of our girls.

 

Frequent baths help a lot too, and I used to feed my girls kids probiotics interleaved with the antibiotics.  You can mix packets of culturelle in a sippy cup with whatever they normally drink.