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Tubular [Dan Collins]

Superfast internet? Will that make bloggers die even younger?

38 Replies to “Tubular [Dan Collins]”

  1. SarahW says:

    Perhaps there will be stress-reducing holograms.

  2. Well, no. But my grid computer-based explosive vest simulations will fly!

  3. So, you know, *someone’s* dying younger.

  4. McGehee says:

    The answer depends on how fast we’re talking. At some speed level bloggers will be able to die before they’re born.

    Probably not until after Teh Singularity [pbui].

  5. Karl says:

    Faster, Internet! Kill! Kill!

  6. Dear Karl,

    Well, that’s this evening’s download targets identified.

    Russ

  7. Mikey NTH says:

    Would it be so fast that you would die before you even started?

    BTW, Sarah – who needs holograms when the Japanese are working on the Marilyn Monroebot. Grwaarrr.

  8. JD says:

    The streets will flow with the blood of the early dying bloggers.

  9. tdgh says:

    ‘The grid’ goes on this Autom. They’re going to create a black hole. It’s the terminator movie. When this happens, don’t forget the red eye thing is fission.

    Where are the north American servers, we should have access like the British multiversities.

  10. Dear JD,

    Please tell me that was a “Beavis & Butt-Head” reference.

    I found myself in Paris in late 1997 (middle of October, or thereabouts – when the weather’s decent, but the summer fares have ended). Walking down a back street in the Contrescarpe area, I suddenly found myself face to face with a sign saying “Beavis et Butt-Head se font l’Amérique”.

    I knew then that (a) the culture wars were over , and (b) we had won.

    Patrick

  11. Woo, look at that, a storm’s coming in.

  12. Jeffersonian says:

    #10 – Our daughter is in London for a semester to “study.” She and some friends went to Athens for the weekend and she sent us a souvenir: a Spongebob book in Greek.

  13. #12: USA! USA! USA!

  14. An internet that’s even busier than the existing one? What a broad, mighty river of data that would be.

    Well it’s too thick to navigate
    And it’s too thin to plow

  15. happyfeet says:

    I bet it’s expensive.

  16. J. Peden says:

    I’m stickin’ with my NYT tin-foil, thank you, including my very affordable AARP crypts.

    Meanwhile, Spider Piggy rules!

  17. JD says:

    Patrick – I once saw some jihadi yell something to the effect of “the streets shall flow with the blood of the non-believers”, and have found that it is easily adaptable to a variety of issues.

  18. Jim in KC says:

    Hartford, with that mic’d up board that he’d shuffle around on. Brilliant stuff. I’m glad I caught his live show once.

  19. B Moe says:

    Hartford, with that mic’d up board that he’d shuffle around on.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onWArx6Ui1A&feature=related

    I grew up on the Ohio River, we used to follow him around like Deadheads as he did the summer circuit of river days festivals up and down the valley. Stoned and tripping on shrooms or stone straight, it was some of the best shit I have ever heard. Miss him bad.

  20. MC says:

    So CERN built a grid. So how does that make my cable modem faster?

  21. Jeff G. says:

    I’m ready to step off the interwebs all together. The pricks on martial arts sites are worse than the trolls I have to deal with here.

  22. happyfeet says:

    Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.

  23. Rob Crawford says:

    The pricks on martial arts sites are worse than the trolls I have to deal with here.

    What about the pricks on the marital arts sites? They any better?

  24. Slartibartfast says:

    I read through a bit of that, Jeff, and much of it doesn’t make sense to me. One thing stood out, though, and that was discussion of Cecchine plagiarizing or outright stealing his material. Which is a pretty stupid thing to say, unless he actually stole or mimicked someone else’s scripts for his tapes/DVDs. There are very few people on the planet (near neighborhood of zero) who have invented entire martial arts disciplines from scratch, without relying on What Has Gone Before.

    Plus, I was completely unaware that Cecchine was claiming to have been the originator of catch-wrestling. But then again, these are not conversations that I get into, much.

  25. Jeff G. says:

    He doesn’t claim to be the originator of catch wrestling, Slart. He just brought it back as a method of submission grappling after it had been nearly lost (or rather, swallowed whole by pro wrestling). Hence, “The Lost Art of Hooking” series. And hence the praise from Lou Thesz.

  26. Jeff G. says:

    But again, I need to remove myself from the intertubes and find something else to do. People suck.

  27. Karl says:

    That last is true enough, though sometimes in a good way. Not an excuse to cede the ‘net. More tuber-blogging, pls.

  28. JD says:

    Jeff – In re. Krav Maga, do you prefer the traditional or “commando” school of Krav?

  29. Jeff G. says:

    Traditional. But go over to the site I linked and you’ll be told it’s laughable crap.

  30. Jeff G. says:

    Eventually, I’m going to have to kill someone with the sawed off head of a jackalope. That’s an inevitability, I think.

  31. JD says:

    Jeff – The reason I ask is that 2 new studios opened here in Indy recently. I have been taking at the studio wherem the instructors were trained at the National Academy, nod to Imi.

  32. McGehee says:

    Eventually, I’m going to have to kill someone with the sawed off head of a jackalope.

    Is there a Longhorn Steakhouse in Denver? You could swipe one of theirs, and the horns are short and concealable.

    Not like those giant antler racks on most that you see around.

  33. Jeff G. says:

    Some dude from Canada is threatening to beat me up now. Seriously, man. I hate the internet.

  34. Swen Swenson says:

    “the streets shall flow with the blood of the non-believers”

    Isn’t that Steve Jobs’ motto?

  35. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    Some dude from Canada is threatening to beat me up now

    Just let him know you’re not one of those Sea Shepherd hippies and he’ll back down.

  36. McGehee says:

    Some dude from Canada is threatening to beat me up now.

    What’d you do, take away his beer?

  37. Swen Swenson says:

    The pricks on martial arts sites are worse than the trolls I have to deal with here.

    No doubt. Here we only exchange verbal blows, there they use tongue fu.

  38. MC says:

    Whoa! The drama from your interlocutors on bullshido is, erm, submission by suffocation.

    Hey, at least on PW it’s like mostly politics, you know shit like that way.

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