new yorkers: how many times per week, on average, do you think about dancing on soul train?

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― jw (ex machina), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

midi lol

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I lived on the 16th floor of my the NYU dorm on Lafayette St -- the window by my bedside looked down on a parking lot. One morning, attempting to turn my alarm clock off, I knocked the damn thing out the window and promptly went back to sleep, hardly remembering what I had done.

Fast forward to two weeks later: Flyers are posted at the elevators on every floor, with a photocopied photo of my distinctive, art-deco style clock embedded in its own huge dent in the trunk of a Nissan Altima, with a man's hand in frame pointing at it. There was a notice asking for information about the culprit. I took a few flyers down, but I think I lost the one I saved. :(

TIME FLIES LOL

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nicholasmueller.com/images/125_puffnbj.gif

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

there should be a greasemonkey script that puts that .gif on every thread where Bjork is mentioned.

― Brig. Chop Them Up (scarymonster), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think i was ever tempted to enter the bobst library diving competition, though, but there were a lot of contestants when i was at nyu -- they put up plexi on the balconies my last semester

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

depends on whether i am in a good mood or not. right now, i'd say about three or four times a day. bad mood, bad dreams, and i think i have an ear infection.

― the table is the table (trees), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nyu.edu/photobureau/building/bobst/images/bobst.atrium.013.D1.jpg

TAKE THE PLUNGE

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.acorn-gaming.org.uk/Emulation/qbert.gif

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the sound qbert makes when he hits bottom.
Is the sound of an actual marble being dropped inside the machine?

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

or something:
Dedicated upright cabinets for Q*bert contain a solenoid that creates a knocking sound inside the cabinet whenever a character falls off the pyramid, simulating the sound a character might make if it actually fell to the bottom of the cabinet. In some units, this sound is created by a bean bag inside the case rigged to fall.[2]

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

escher designed the floor of the nyu library, explaining why it looks like spikes viewed from above.

― the table is the table (trees), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

does barcade's qbert have this

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael White = Bluto Hulot

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Weird, I think I had a dream about Q-Bert recently. I was imagining what it looked like below the pyramid, as he fell. It seemed like the fall would be peaceful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

see also, jumping off fire escape
-- jw (jo...), February 12th, 2007. (ex machina) (later) (link)

hi dere, phil!

i agree with kevin, laurel, lauren, ally, etc. i mostly think about the fact that i am clumsy and might misstep and fall onto the tracks, though. and yeah, i get mad nervous when ppl are walking past me too closely on the platform (esp when you can't walk in the middle because of a staircase or something). when i drove cars i used to think about going into trees a lot, but never as much about driving off bridges. mostly i think i am too enamored by cool bridges to get that dark.

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

does barcade's qbert have this
-- jw (jo...), February 12th, 2007 8:27 PM
yeah.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i need a drink

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh vodka, my vodka.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

does the PATH count?!?

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Between five and six. Only if PATH counts and it does.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

bad thing about subway superhero dude is that now everybody's like "oh you could survive" so it's totally upped the ante on jumping-in-front-of-train scenarios. when the train starts getting close i usually take 3 steps back both to keep myself from leaping and to keep anyone else from pushing.

what scares me is having a 2-year-old who's obsessed with the subway (throws a fit every time we walk past those globes without descending). right now i keep him strapped into the stroller when we're in the stations but eventually he'll be more free-roaming and will be inevitably fascinated by what-if train-track hypotheses. i anticipate lots of conversations along these lines.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i think children tend to have strong self-preservation instincts. much moreso than teens and adults, i think.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

if he had such an instinct for self-preservation he wouldna scribbled crayon all over the tv flat-screen. (it scrubs off btw, but not easily.) but yeah, here's hoping.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

do you self-conciously model yourself on the father from calvin & hobbes, or is that purely incidental? good job, though.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/9876/hole-dad.jpg

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

what scares me is having a 2-year-old who's obsessed with the subway (throws a fit every time we walk past those globes without descending).

LOLOLL, my kid is 2 and is nuts for trains. let's just say George Carlin is narrating something as i write this.

he's not a jumper yet though.

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I get nervous when kids get anywhere close to the ledge. and seeing maintenence workers on the tracks step aside as a train passes always freaks me out. of course I drive my wife nuts by leaning over and looking down the tunnel to see if a train is approaching...

I am too scared of death to even idly fantasize about suicide.

― mark coleman (lovebug ), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

this all presents nasty little twist on the train as metaphor.

personally, i never think about jumping, being pushed or passing out: yes.

― bb (bbia), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

not a new yorker but i find that even though i'm not suicidal i sometimes have to will myself not to jump in front of the train. i can't explain why. but it's the same thing whenever i see a cop, i have to resist the urge to grab his gun. why would i do that

dude me too. as does my friend.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Will it really help to tense your back against a push-attack? I've just sort of been resigned to my fate.

I babysat for a 6-yr-old who was obsessed with the subway. He was very careful, though, about standing behind the yellow line.

I often wonder why more people don't veer off the road . . . eros v thanatos?

― Matilda Wormwood (Mary ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

my kid is 2 and is nuts for trains. let's just say George Carlin is narrating something as i write this.

-- the kwisatz bacharach (mikeoptin...)

seven words you cant say on tv?

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

no, much worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFEhNZ6QIHU

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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