<![CDATA[Forums - Issues]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:30:10 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Jury Stories]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8892 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:25:19 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8892
The whole thing went really fast. When we were doing orientation in the Jury room of the Madera Superior Court, the judge was already asking for us to come up to his courtroom. We spent the rest of the day doing Voir Dire to impanel the jury. It took forever. While waiting to be seated I played the time honored game of picking who was going to get kicked off the jury. There was one guy who was on trial already and knew the defense attorney. There were a couple of people who very familiar with the circumstances of the defendant. I was picked second to last as the alternate. The final alternate wasn't chosen until Wednesday and then we jumped right into trial.

It was a drunk driving case where no one ever witnessed the defendant driving the vehicle. The Sheriff department rolled up on him as he was changing a flat tire because his car blocked the road. He was arrested and determined to have a blood alcohol level of .2. He claimed he had one 32oz corona about 3 hours before the blood test. Defense and prosecution stipulated to the fact he was drunk. The case hinged on whether he actually drove the car. The defendant claimed his girlfriend was driving the car, not him.

The girlfriend was the first witness. I use the term girlfriend loosely. She barely knew the defendant. According to her they were just hanging out for the first time. They had gone to Reno to a casino and were on their way back to Modesto when they go their flat tire in Madera. At the time the defendant thought they were in Sacramento. Now would be a good time to look at a map. I had tons of questions about their travel but nothing was brought up at trial.

The defendant had the keys to the car in his pocket. The defendant's phone was in the pocket in the driver's side door. When the girlfriend was put in the driver's side seat, she could barely reach the pedals. We saw video footage from the CHP officer's body cam and read transcripts where the defendant said "I pulled the car over" or "I was going to drop my girl home" or "I hit the curb". But the defendant also said multiple times my girlfriend was driving.

And that was the case. Who drove. If it was the defendant, he was drunk driving. If it was the girlfriend, the defendant goes free.

The one time girlfriend didn't seem pleased to be thrown under the bus in this case. She testified her and the defendant were doing at least five shots of Hennesy. The only inconsistency in her testimony was she said the police pulled them over rather than coming up to them after they had stopped to change the tire.

This also happened in 2020, so it's been awhile and I wonder what took so long for this to get to trial.

If I was on the jury, I would have voted to convict. But the jury, in their wisdom, came back undecided. The trial continues without me.


I think I did have one of the best moments in the court, though. No one wants to be there so I think the judge goes out of the way to be personable. He and the Prosecutor both were keen to ask personal questions during Voir Dire. If you mentioned a particular hobby, they did a couple of follow ups. They liked to ask about families and jobs. When they got to me, I got to say I was working on a Qigong martial art that focused on the groin. I was trying to be delicate. I did mention the title was Iron Crotch. And the judge kind of stopped and processed that information and said "I don't know if I want to ask any questions about that". I told him not to be afraid. He moved on to other subjects.

Although, it was over a 100º outside, I could have worn a jacket in the courtroom. It was freezing. My knees were not happy going up the stairs to the courtroom multiple times. On the first day, security confiscated my metal spoon, that I brought to eat my lunchtime yogurt, because utensils are not allowed in the courthouse.]]>
The whole thing went really fast. When we were doing orientation in the Jury room of the Madera Superior Court, the judge was already asking for us to come up to his courtroom. We spent the rest of the day doing Voir Dire to impanel the jury. It took forever. While waiting to be seated I played the time honored game of picking who was going to get kicked off the jury. There was one guy who was on trial already and knew the defense attorney. There were a couple of people who very familiar with the circumstances of the defendant. I was picked second to last as the alternate. The final alternate wasn't chosen until Wednesday and then we jumped right into trial.

It was a drunk driving case where no one ever witnessed the defendant driving the vehicle. The Sheriff department rolled up on him as he was changing a flat tire because his car blocked the road. He was arrested and determined to have a blood alcohol level of .2. He claimed he had one 32oz corona about 3 hours before the blood test. Defense and prosecution stipulated to the fact he was drunk. The case hinged on whether he actually drove the car. The defendant claimed his girlfriend was driving the car, not him.

The girlfriend was the first witness. I use the term girlfriend loosely. She barely knew the defendant. According to her they were just hanging out for the first time. They had gone to Reno to a casino and were on their way back to Modesto when they go their flat tire in Madera. At the time the defendant thought they were in Sacramento. Now would be a good time to look at a map. I had tons of questions about their travel but nothing was brought up at trial.

The defendant had the keys to the car in his pocket. The defendant's phone was in the pocket in the driver's side door. When the girlfriend was put in the driver's side seat, she could barely reach the pedals. We saw video footage from the CHP officer's body cam and read transcripts where the defendant said "I pulled the car over" or "I was going to drop my girl home" or "I hit the curb". But the defendant also said multiple times my girlfriend was driving.

And that was the case. Who drove. If it was the defendant, he was drunk driving. If it was the girlfriend, the defendant goes free.

The one time girlfriend didn't seem pleased to be thrown under the bus in this case. She testified her and the defendant were doing at least five shots of Hennesy. The only inconsistency in her testimony was she said the police pulled them over rather than coming up to them after they had stopped to change the tire.

This also happened in 2020, so it's been awhile and I wonder what took so long for this to get to trial.

If I was on the jury, I would have voted to convict. But the jury, in their wisdom, came back undecided. The trial continues without me.


I think I did have one of the best moments in the court, though. No one wants to be there so I think the judge goes out of the way to be personable. He and the Prosecutor both were keen to ask personal questions during Voir Dire. If you mentioned a particular hobby, they did a couple of follow ups. They liked to ask about families and jobs. When they got to me, I got to say I was working on a Qigong martial art that focused on the groin. I was trying to be delicate. I did mention the title was Iron Crotch. And the judge kind of stopped and processed that information and said "I don't know if I want to ask any questions about that". I told him not to be afraid. He moved on to other subjects.

Although, it was over a 100º outside, I could have worn a jacket in the courtroom. It was freezing. My knees were not happy going up the stairs to the courtroom multiple times. On the first day, security confiscated my metal spoon, that I brought to eat my lunchtime yogurt, because utensils are not allowed in the courthouse.]]> <![CDATA[Death of a LiEphone…]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8890 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:30:25 +0000 Drunk Monk]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8890
Just now I printed out a bunch of maps and passes for the next two days because I can’t trust my phone. Cant have it crapping out on me again like Friday. I am jn the market for a new one - leaning towards the iPhone Air because it has a titanium case and I can lighten up on the military grade cases I’ve been using for so long given mynlifestyle) 

So I’m starting this thread to complain (which is what the D00M4M is all about really, amirite?) and post some uncorrected posts just to see if my dying liephone comes up worth anything creative.]]>
Just now I printed out a bunch of maps and passes for the next two days because I can’t trust my phone. Cant have it crapping out on me again like Friday. I am jn the market for a new one - leaning towards the iPhone Air because it has a titanium case and I can lighten up on the military grade cases I’ve been using for so long given mynlifestyle) 

So I’m starting this thread to complain (which is what the D00M4M is all about really, amirite?) and post some uncorrected posts just to see if my dying liephone comes up worth anything creative.]]> <![CDATA[Greg vs PGE]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8881 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:25:25 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8881
About the time I bought the back-up battery I noticed a change. My balance was starting to decline rather than gradually increase. I was also notified that I would have a bill come August called the True-up bill. I'm not exactly sure what that means. I guess I'm signed up for a minimum charge and what accrues over that is all paid in August. My True-up has always been zero. 

I was thinking the new charges might have to do with the new battery back-up. Maybe when those were installed, some switch was thrown that didn't send juice to the grid. But according to my control panel on the batteries, it showed I was sending plenty of juice to the grid.

I went online and looked at my yearly bill and all it showed was me buying energy from the grid for the last six months. Blue bars mean I buy from the grid.

[Image: yearView.png]

Now, that can't be right. According to my app for the batteries, I sent 789KwH to the grid and I bought 183KwH from the grid. I bit the bullet and called PG&E in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. I talked to a young lady and she had me go to myPage on the PG&E website that gives really granular detail on my bill. We looked at the month of March and this is what I saw.(Pic Below) Green is what I sold. Blue is what I bought. Just looking at the chart all I could think was how was it possible I owed PG&E money. There are way more green bars than blue bars. And the green bars are big. I was raising my voice to the girl, not yelling but more agro, for her to explain to me how I owed if the green was so much bigger than the blue. If you hover your cursor over the bars on the website, you are given the actual amount of energy for each day. Each bar corresponds to a single day. Naturally I added them all up and I got 466 KwH sent to the grid and 29.2 KwH used from the grid. Like I said. I felt like I'm on crazy pills. 466 is much bigger than 29, right?



[Image: march.png]
The young lady put me on hold for a minute to go ask a question. That's when I did the addition while she was gone to show I had sold more energy than I bought according to the chart on her website. She came back to say I can't really go by the monthly chart. I needed to go to the hourly chart and look at the hourly numbers. Fine. Let's go to the daily. For reference I pulled up Mar 15 as an average day.

[Image: mar15.png]

Once again, I saw a lot of big green bars and a bunch of small blue bars. I did the hover. I got the numbers. According to PG&E's own chart, I sold 25 KwH and I purchased 6 KwH. I asked her to explain. She sent me to the bill where it said I only sent 192 KwH to the grid and purchased 249 KwH from the grid, which is why my bill showed a deficit to which I owed money. I needed to pay for those 57 KwH. The next chart is another day that shows green but in a smaller amount.
[Image: mar23.png]

Again, I did the math and it says I sold 19 KwH and bought 15 KwH. All the green bars showed this. Every day I was selling more than I was buying except for those three days. The crazy pills were really starting to kick in. What wasn't I seeing?  The woman from PG&E kept to the company line that their numbers showed I owed. I felt like I was uncovering some weird conspiracy. It's starting to look to ease my mind, I might have to go through every day and show the actual discrepancy between bought and sold, which is a completely crazy idea. But I am leaning towards it.

Regardless, I do believe the charts on the page are misleading. On the monthly bar graph, each day should show blue and green on each bar and the pop up should both bought and sold amounts, because that is how they are doing their calculations. At the moment, the numbers shown on the monthly don't accurately reflect what is going on.

Another problem is one my representative briefly mentioned but we never focused on and that I think that is where the big discrepancy lies. When I sell my money to the grid, PG&E uses the wholesale price. When I buy from the grid, I get the retail price. I can only assume I am paying much more for energy than I am buying. It would be better if the price for buy and sell were the same.

Still feeling crazed. Still feel like a mistake is happening somewhere and I just can't find it. Probably time to get a cork board, a bunch of yarn, some thumbtacks, and make a design to connect all the clues.]]>
About the time I bought the back-up battery I noticed a change. My balance was starting to decline rather than gradually increase. I was also notified that I would have a bill come August called the True-up bill. I'm not exactly sure what that means. I guess I'm signed up for a minimum charge and what accrues over that is all paid in August. My True-up has always been zero. 

I was thinking the new charges might have to do with the new battery back-up. Maybe when those were installed, some switch was thrown that didn't send juice to the grid. But according to my control panel on the batteries, it showed I was sending plenty of juice to the grid.

I went online and looked at my yearly bill and all it showed was me buying energy from the grid for the last six months. Blue bars mean I buy from the grid.

[Image: yearView.png]

Now, that can't be right. According to my app for the batteries, I sent 789KwH to the grid and I bought 183KwH from the grid. I bit the bullet and called PG&E in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. I talked to a young lady and she had me go to myPage on the PG&E website that gives really granular detail on my bill. We looked at the month of March and this is what I saw.(Pic Below) Green is what I sold. Blue is what I bought. Just looking at the chart all I could think was how was it possible I owed PG&E money. There are way more green bars than blue bars. And the green bars are big. I was raising my voice to the girl, not yelling but more agro, for her to explain to me how I owed if the green was so much bigger than the blue. If you hover your cursor over the bars on the website, you are given the actual amount of energy for each day. Each bar corresponds to a single day. Naturally I added them all up and I got 466 KwH sent to the grid and 29.2 KwH used from the grid. Like I said. I felt like I'm on crazy pills. 466 is much bigger than 29, right?



[Image: march.png]
The young lady put me on hold for a minute to go ask a question. That's when I did the addition while she was gone to show I had sold more energy than I bought according to the chart on her website. She came back to say I can't really go by the monthly chart. I needed to go to the hourly chart and look at the hourly numbers. Fine. Let's go to the daily. For reference I pulled up Mar 15 as an average day.

[Image: mar15.png]

Once again, I saw a lot of big green bars and a bunch of small blue bars. I did the hover. I got the numbers. According to PG&E's own chart, I sold 25 KwH and I purchased 6 KwH. I asked her to explain. She sent me to the bill where it said I only sent 192 KwH to the grid and purchased 249 KwH from the grid, which is why my bill showed a deficit to which I owed money. I needed to pay for those 57 KwH. The next chart is another day that shows green but in a smaller amount.
[Image: mar23.png]

Again, I did the math and it says I sold 19 KwH and bought 15 KwH. All the green bars showed this. Every day I was selling more than I was buying except for those three days. The crazy pills were really starting to kick in. What wasn't I seeing?  The woman from PG&E kept to the company line that their numbers showed I owed. I felt like I was uncovering some weird conspiracy. It's starting to look to ease my mind, I might have to go through every day and show the actual discrepancy between bought and sold, which is a completely crazy idea. But I am leaning towards it.

Regardless, I do believe the charts on the page are misleading. On the monthly bar graph, each day should show blue and green on each bar and the pop up should both bought and sold amounts, because that is how they are doing their calculations. At the moment, the numbers shown on the monthly don't accurately reflect what is going on.

Another problem is one my representative briefly mentioned but we never focused on and that I think that is where the big discrepancy lies. When I sell my money to the grid, PG&E uses the wholesale price. When I buy from the grid, I get the retail price. I can only assume I am paying much more for energy than I am buying. It would be better if the price for buy and sell were the same.

Still feeling crazed. Still feel like a mistake is happening somewhere and I just can't find it. Probably time to get a cork board, a bunch of yarn, some thumbtacks, and make a design to connect all the clues.]]> <![CDATA[Great Ideas Start Here]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8808 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:19:35 +0000 thatguy]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8808
STROLLER DERBY
Like a demolition derby, but with strollers. Little tikes in protective gear. Death Race 2000 style strollers, moms with Roller Derby-esque nicknames like: Bad Mamma Jamma

--tg]]>
STROLLER DERBY
Like a demolition derby, but with strollers. Little tikes in protective gear. Death Race 2000 style strollers, moms with Roller Derby-esque nicknames like: Bad Mamma Jamma

--tg]]> <![CDATA[NTTG 2026]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8728 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:18:52 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8728
I'm burning. I'm burning for you. Burn level is still at 1000' so I am good to go. Probably the last burn day until we get some more moisture.]]>
I'm burning. I'm burning for you. Burn level is still at 1000' so I am good to go. Probably the last burn day until we get some more moisture.]]> <![CDATA[Yeti Blood Oaths]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8508 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:23:06 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8508

Quote:The Pillar, a journalistic outfit covering the world of Catholicism, recently published a wild story about a group of Denver-based seminarians that, in early 2024, went on what should’ve been a wholesome ski trip with their vice rector. It grotesquely morphed into a midnight initiation ritual featuring a yeti costume, a bloodied cloth, taped mouths, a fake dagger, and a whole lot of screaming.

Seminarians were woken up in the dead of night and led, one by one, into a trailer where they were greeted by Fr. John Nepil, a senior seminarian, who was dressed as a yeti. After a mock ritual involving “grizzly blood” and ominous warnings like “if you enter into this family, there’s no going back,” seminarians reemerged with bloodied hands and taped mouths.


Sounds like a nightmare, but Nepil insists that it was just all in good fun. C’mon, guys! I wasn’t actually going to blood oath you dressed as a yeti! It was a goof—a common yeti blood oath goof!

FAKE YETI BLOOD OATH BROKE A SEMINARY IN DENVER

Videos of the “ritual” circulated. It became immediately apparent to everyone who watched them that it wasn’t so much a harmless prank as a surreal nightmare that those people should not have been subjected to. 
The archdiocese launched an investigation but determined that no canonical crime had occurred. It reassigned Nepil—but only briefly. Despite being removed as a formator, he resumed his duties as vice rector until the end of the year and remains on the faculty.

Despite what the archdiocese of Denver called “a deeply imprudent and inappropriate prank,” Nepil got a slap on the wrist, punished with only a cool-off period where everyone was told to take five before being thrown back into the mix with each other.
As if the story up to this point wasn’t surreal enough, the archbishop later called in an exorcist who “prayed over them, and they made a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.” 

Everyone agreed that it was just a misguided, albeit harmless, prank that had gone awry. But just to be safe, they brought in their friendly neighborhood exorcist to expunge any evil spirits that the yeti blood oath might have left behind. You know, just in case. 
You can’t be too careful with yeti blood oaths.
]]>

Quote:The Pillar, a journalistic outfit covering the world of Catholicism, recently published a wild story about a group of Denver-based seminarians that, in early 2024, went on what should’ve been a wholesome ski trip with their vice rector. It grotesquely morphed into a midnight initiation ritual featuring a yeti costume, a bloodied cloth, taped mouths, a fake dagger, and a whole lot of screaming.

Seminarians were woken up in the dead of night and led, one by one, into a trailer where they were greeted by Fr. John Nepil, a senior seminarian, who was dressed as a yeti. After a mock ritual involving “grizzly blood” and ominous warnings like “if you enter into this family, there’s no going back,” seminarians reemerged with bloodied hands and taped mouths.


Sounds like a nightmare, but Nepil insists that it was just all in good fun. C’mon, guys! I wasn’t actually going to blood oath you dressed as a yeti! It was a goof—a common yeti blood oath goof!

FAKE YETI BLOOD OATH BROKE A SEMINARY IN DENVER

Videos of the “ritual” circulated. It became immediately apparent to everyone who watched them that it wasn’t so much a harmless prank as a surreal nightmare that those people should not have been subjected to. 
The archdiocese launched an investigation but determined that no canonical crime had occurred. It reassigned Nepil—but only briefly. Despite being removed as a formator, he resumed his duties as vice rector until the end of the year and remains on the faculty.

Despite what the archdiocese of Denver called “a deeply imprudent and inappropriate prank,” Nepil got a slap on the wrist, punished with only a cool-off period where everyone was told to take five before being thrown back into the mix with each other.
As if the story up to this point wasn’t surreal enough, the archbishop later called in an exorcist who “prayed over them, and they made a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.” 

Everyone agreed that it was just a misguided, albeit harmless, prank that had gone awry. But just to be safe, they brought in their friendly neighborhood exorcist to expunge any evil spirits that the yeti blood oath might have left behind. You know, just in case. 
You can’t be too careful with yeti blood oaths.
]]> <![CDATA[Bank Fraud Resolution]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8473 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:39:08 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8473
I am glad that is over. Time to go buy more pallets.]]>
I am glad that is over. Time to go buy more pallets.]]> <![CDATA[Threads]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8447 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:35:32 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8447 <![CDATA[Lynch Castle Estate Stories.]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8286 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:07:21 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8286
Well, guess what is happening on Monday? E-waste curbside pickup. The pile on the curb is going to be massive. I even brought a bunch of stuff from home in anticipation of having someone else come by to pick up my personal e-waste. It makes me happy.

What doesn't make me happy? Elder sister spying on me through the cameras. She saw I brought a necklace home for the Queen and asked that it be returned until she has had a chance to look at. Granted, that is her right. But still. I'm a little bit cranky at the thought of the cameras being used against me. Although, I've gone and put a picture of my mother in front of each one.

I'm about to go clear out a shelf section in the garage that is nothing but my father's old business folders.]]>
Well, guess what is happening on Monday? E-waste curbside pickup. The pile on the curb is going to be massive. I even brought a bunch of stuff from home in anticipation of having someone else come by to pick up my personal e-waste. It makes me happy.

What doesn't make me happy? Elder sister spying on me through the cameras. She saw I brought a necklace home for the Queen and asked that it be returned until she has had a chance to look at. Granted, that is her right. But still. I'm a little bit cranky at the thought of the cameras being used against me. Although, I've gone and put a picture of my mother in front of each one.

I'm about to go clear out a shelf section in the garage that is nothing but my father's old business folders.]]> <![CDATA[Nose to the grindstone 2025]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8263 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:11:21 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8263
I got up at 4 for a very quiet dog walk. I will dog walk 2 when it gets a bit brighter. Then it will be a tedious day of aligning titles to the right frame. That project should only take three or four days.]]>
I got up at 4 for a very quiet dog walk. I will dog walk 2 when it gets a bit brighter. Then it will be a tedious day of aligning titles to the right frame. That project should only take three or four days.]]> <![CDATA[Mortality Updates]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8181 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:33:43 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8181
On the drive home, I started getting group text chats about a different classmate whose husband fell off a ladder and landed on his head over the weekend. They took him off life support today and he passed away.

I thought we agreed no more dying?]]>
On the drive home, I started getting group text chats about a different classmate whose husband fell off a ladder and landed on his head over the weekend. They took him off life support today and he passed away.

I thought we agreed no more dying?]]> <![CDATA[Pleasant "day in the life" from Yeti liked peeps]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8161 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:33:18 +0000 Drunk Monk]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8161
Lessee now, since my last post on the Sheltering in Place thread (post 4755 but who's counting? http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...4#pid73604):

Saturday morning was a return to Kung Fu practice after a few weeks off. I remembered my forms well enough, even practiced them from a slightly freshened perspective, but gassed out early. Then I went to San Rafael for a birthday party of 2 Kung Fu cousins. It was a long ride, but I had to show face. One was my partner in crime who did the choreo for AtLA. The other showed me his impressive collection of antique swords and other assorted weapons. It was a potluck and I brought Toki. Some weird chick was hitting on me hard, trying to get me to 'crash at her pad' instead of the long drive home. It was flattering but also annoying.

Sunday was yoga and work. Monday was more work. 

Tuesday was work then Santana at Shoreline.

Wednesday work plus a telemeet with Immortal Comics. That went well. We're going an unexpected direction - tabletop game development. 

Thursday was work then Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Hamlet.

Friday was yoga, work, and the TotW:WI screener (online) and launching this thread. 

Tomorrow the Kung Fu Academy is closed. I have a telemeet with the lightsaber group. 

I need to write this weekend.]]>
Lessee now, since my last post on the Sheltering in Place thread (post 4755 but who's counting? http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...4#pid73604):

Saturday morning was a return to Kung Fu practice after a few weeks off. I remembered my forms well enough, even practiced them from a slightly freshened perspective, but gassed out early. Then I went to San Rafael for a birthday party of 2 Kung Fu cousins. It was a long ride, but I had to show face. One was my partner in crime who did the choreo for AtLA. The other showed me his impressive collection of antique swords and other assorted weapons. It was a potluck and I brought Toki. Some weird chick was hitting on me hard, trying to get me to 'crash at her pad' instead of the long drive home. It was flattering but also annoying.

Sunday was yoga and work. Monday was more work. 

Tuesday was work then Santana at Shoreline.

Wednesday work plus a telemeet with Immortal Comics. That went well. We're going an unexpected direction - tabletop game development. 

Thursday was work then Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Hamlet.

Friday was yoga, work, and the TotW:WI screener (online) and launching this thread. 

Tomorrow the Kung Fu Academy is closed. I have a telemeet with the lightsaber group. 

I need to write this weekend.]]> <![CDATA[chatGPT and DALL-E]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7439 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:55:29 +0000 cranefly]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7439
How will DALL-E (currently at version 2) impact artists?]]>
How will DALL-E (currently at version 2) impact artists?]]> <![CDATA[Shut Up and Write]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7357 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:11:35 +0000 cranefly]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7357
LCF and I went to a SUAW yesterday on Middlefield at a coffee shop.  But I wasn't focused very well.  I kept thinking of TQ.  The whole hour and a half I kept thinking of TQ.  We were seated outside in a very good spot, but sitting near us, and not part of SUAW, was a young couple.  Well, not a couple.  She was married to someone else, and he was newly divorced.  He was telling about all the problems he was having with his ex, and she was offering advice, or just lending a compassionate ear.  Their conversation wandered. covering relationships of other friends.  It was a major soap opera.  And their voices were loud.  We could have moved, but ours was a very good table.  LCF suffered the worst of it, because her hearing is more acute than mine.  Still, it's surprising how much I heard.

And I kept thinking of TQ.  Of TQ sitting there where we were, armed with her stenographer equipment, and taking it all down.  Then, after an hour and a half, getting up and walking over to those two and saying, "Excuse me, I'd like to read something back to you."  Then launch into a verbatim account of everything they'd said for the last hour and a half.  I even imagined them bailing, jumping in their respective cars to flee, but TQ, unfazed and relentless, following one of them to climb in the back seat to continue the account.

As for my writing, my standup routine is coming along very nicely, thank you very much.]]>
LCF and I went to a SUAW yesterday on Middlefield at a coffee shop.  But I wasn't focused very well.  I kept thinking of TQ.  The whole hour and a half I kept thinking of TQ.  We were seated outside in a very good spot, but sitting near us, and not part of SUAW, was a young couple.  Well, not a couple.  She was married to someone else, and he was newly divorced.  He was telling about all the problems he was having with his ex, and she was offering advice, or just lending a compassionate ear.  Their conversation wandered. covering relationships of other friends.  It was a major soap opera.  And their voices were loud.  We could have moved, but ours was a very good table.  LCF suffered the worst of it, because her hearing is more acute than mine.  Still, it's surprising how much I heard.

And I kept thinking of TQ.  Of TQ sitting there where we were, armed with her stenographer equipment, and taking it all down.  Then, after an hour and a half, getting up and walking over to those two and saying, "Excuse me, I'd like to read something back to you."  Then launch into a verbatim account of everything they'd said for the last hour and a half.  I even imagined them bailing, jumping in their respective cars to flee, but TQ, unfazed and relentless, following one of them to climb in the back seat to continue the account.

As for my writing, my standup routine is coming along very nicely, thank you very much.]]> <![CDATA[Eugene lives matter]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7221 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:21:47 +0000 Drunk Monk]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7221
There's Popeye

(02-21-2019, 09:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Almost as annoying as Eugene the Jeep in Popeye.

WTH man...


There's Tangled

(12-02-2010, 11:04 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Back to Tangled, the 'prince' (thief really) is named Eugene.  But he changed his name to Flynn Rider because he didn't like Eugene.  My kid and my mom thought that was hysterical.  More on the 'Eu' name prefix on the Dawn Treader thread.


There's Martial Law

(09-17-2020, 10:33 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: There was also a snitch named Eugene. Eugene’s get such a bad rap.


There's Preacher

(08-01-2016, 03:22 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: It gets better.  And I don't just say that because there's a character named Eugene.  With an ass for a face.  


There's Shazam

(10-20-2019, 07:52 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I do have one semi-complaint. Eugene. WTH man.  Why are characters named Eugene always nerds?  And this kid was Asian, with a reggae hat (although that seemed unintentional). He was a videogamer, which I am not, so it wasn't that close to the mark, but still...really?  I would've been rather upset with him had the film not ended up like it did.


There's iBoy

(01-25-2021, 11:30 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: The most annoying villain was named Eugene. 


And now She-Hulk

(10-06-2022, 07:59 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Hold the phone…

Another nerdy Eugene?!?

Wtaf?!?!?!
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There's Popeye

(02-21-2019, 09:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Almost as annoying as Eugene the Jeep in Popeye.

WTH man...


There's Tangled

(12-02-2010, 11:04 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Back to Tangled, the 'prince' (thief really) is named Eugene.  But he changed his name to Flynn Rider because he didn't like Eugene.  My kid and my mom thought that was hysterical.  More on the 'Eu' name prefix on the Dawn Treader thread.


There's Martial Law

(09-17-2020, 10:33 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: There was also a snitch named Eugene. Eugene’s get such a bad rap.


There's Preacher

(08-01-2016, 03:22 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: It gets better.  And I don't just say that because there's a character named Eugene.  With an ass for a face.  


There's Shazam

(10-20-2019, 07:52 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I do have one semi-complaint. Eugene. WTH man.  Why are characters named Eugene always nerds?  And this kid was Asian, with a reggae hat (although that seemed unintentional). He was a videogamer, which I am not, so it wasn't that close to the mark, but still...really?  I would've been rather upset with him had the film not ended up like it did.


There's iBoy

(01-25-2021, 11:30 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: The most annoying villain was named Eugene. 


And now She-Hulk

(10-06-2022, 07:59 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Hold the phone…

Another nerdy Eugene?!?

Wtaf?!?!?!
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