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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 22:43:23 GMT -5
This is awesome - these people have created a map of the entire world or close to it, with every 3-meter-by-3-meter square identified by a unique 3-word identifier. It's Google Maps with an overlay showing the three-word name of the square that the pointer in the center is pointing to. It seems to always start at "kicks.pasta.steer" in Brooklyn NY but you can move it around easily if you've used Google Maps: map.what3words.com/Right now it looks like I'm sitting in "pools.goal.stored". "anthems.enabling.harvesting" I am a bit worried who or what is being harvested and what anthem might enable that though... -M
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 3, 2016 23:45:57 GMT -5
Alex Toth's Hot Wheels series is one of the rare instances of a car chase being successfully translated to the comic book pages. It's a shame he never drew a Rockford Files comic book...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 3, 2016 23:50:42 GMT -5
Alex Toth's Hot Wheels series is one of the rare instances of a car chase being successfully translated to the comic book pages. It's a shame he never drew a Rockford Files comic book... At least James Garner appeared in comics here
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Post by berkley on Mar 4, 2016 0:18:43 GMT -5
I think I would be in relay.critic.adopts - but since this is a six-story + basement apartment building, so are the people in the corresponding rooms on the three floors above and the three below me.
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Post by wickedmountain on Mar 4, 2016 0:27:38 GMT -5
Hi everyone was kinda a rough start of this year for me but things are better now . I'm bored at the moment though ughhh :/
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Mar 4, 2016 1:52:51 GMT -5
This is awesome - these people have created a map of the entire world or close to it, with every 3-meter-by-3-meter square identified by a unique 3-word identifier. It's Google Maps with an overlay showing the three-word name of the square that the pointer in the center is pointing to. It seems to always start at "kicks.pasta.steer" in Brooklyn NY but you can move it around easily if you've used Google Maps: map.what3words.com/Right now it looks like I'm sitting in "pools.goal.stored". My front door="negotiates.polymer.fishnets"...may well be a portent of arriving home tonight...
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 4, 2016 2:34:32 GMT -5
Unfortunately the best comic store in the state is also the furthest away from me. Tonight was the first time I made it in about a year. But it was a good night.
I went in hoping they'd still have some things that had gone out of print before I got around to them in my reading. Fourth World vol. 2 (They didn't have it, but I bought 3 and 4 anyway), Starman vol. 3 (They had it in hardcover. I had 1 and 2 in softcover and like consistency), Archie: Married Life 1 + 4 (I had given away my book 1. They had literally every other Married Life book, so I snagged 5 and 6.
I took the opportunity to pick up Beanworld vol. 1 and Brooklyn Dreams.
Then asked the comic store guy for recommendations. He handed me Beasts of Burden. We talked about modern Image and he put Roche Limit and Low into my hand.
He also recommended Phonogram, but I passed. I hadn't been overly wowed by Wicked + the Divine. And Young Avengers had a cool hip feel, but I don't know if it resonated with me. So I passed.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 4, 2016 10:29:28 GMT -5
This is awesome - these people have created a map of the entire world or close to it, with every 3-meter-by-3-meter square identified by a unique 3-word identifier. It's Google Maps with an overlay showing the three-word name of the square that the pointer in the center is pointing to. It seems to always start at "kicks.pasta.steer" in Brooklyn NY but you can move it around easily if you've used Google Maps: map.what3words.com/Right now it looks like I'm sitting in "pools.goal.stored". Well, that will certainly suck away your time. I now have names for my living room, bedroom, garage, work, my wife's work, and the kids' workplaces. Near as I can tell, my desk at work is in "towels.spaceships.thuds".
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Post by Mormel on Mar 4, 2016 10:47:41 GMT -5
I didn't bother checking beyond my old address in Amsterdam by putting in my street name and house number, and I got "submits.enter.play".
Well, it looks like I can start at that warehouse job three weeks from now. There were about 15 people in total at the introduction, and four of them were former co-workers of mine (that's a smalltown rural area for ya).
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 4, 2016 11:33:59 GMT -5
That's quite interesting Rob. I live at alarm posts paints and have no clue as to why That would be really interesting - "alarm.posts.paints" is in the middle of the Thames estuary in southeast England. I think you might live at "alarm.post.paints" in Yorkville on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Post by Mormel on Mar 4, 2016 11:41:51 GMT -5
Oh noes, Ish! He's onto your secret underwater supervillain headquarters! Evacuate and relocate!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 11:49:36 GMT -5
*sigh* Clueless Boss just had to be informed that "articulate" is not only a verb but also an adjective (&, with the addition of -ly, an adverb).
That's why I dasn't unclutter my desk here at work. I'd be too tempted to pound my head against it to the point of losing consciousness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 12:06:48 GMT -5
As for the 3 words thing ...
I reside at silly.pothole.lung. I work at upsetting.gurgled.roofless.
I think we just discovered where Guided By Voices &/or The Fall get a good chunk of their song titles.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 4, 2016 12:55:25 GMT -5
That's quite interesting Rob. I live at alarm posts paints and have no clue as to why That would be really interesting - "alarm.posts.paints" is in the middle of the Thames estuary in southeast England. I think you might live at "alarm.post.paints" in Yorkville on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. My area only deserves one post? What do I pay my taxes for?
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 4, 2016 13:44:10 GMT -5
I'm suddenly distressed by the thought that Alex Toth's Hot Wheels will probably never be reprinted. We've all thought that about certain properties, but they'll get reprinted if the $$ can be worked out.
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