I saw Kibo on Friday
Dean Lenort
appears to be considerably greater than what I recall from the great moon
explosion ARKPLE of '99. Also, while I've read things that have led me to
believe that Kibo has been coloring his hair in funky colors on this
occasion he appeared to be completely hairless! Holy follicle madness!
It was rather odd seeing Kibo sitting in a clean room in east central
Florida when I'm given to understand from this chat room that he's
generally based in Boston. But as I walked into this large room there was
Kibo sitting on a large mobile platform near the wall. Kibo didn't say
anything to me or to anyone else while I was there, but that could have
been because of something done by the Japanese guys that were pushing a
large rack of electronics away from Kibo's proximity as I walked up.
Perhaps Kibo has the flu or something as there were ropes around Kibo's
perimeter to keep people from getting too close.
Oh well, maybe Kibo will have something to say the next time around.
--
Dean Lenort | You know, if there's one thing that science
dean....@att.net | needs more of, it's unlabelled graphs of random
| squiggles drawn by spastic chimps. -- K.
Louis Nick III
> That's right, I saw Kibo on Friday and I must say that Kibo's weight
> appears to be considerably greater than what I recall from the great moon
> explosion ARKPLE of '99. Also, while I've read things that have led me to
> believe that Kibo has been coloring his hair in funky colors on this
> occasion he appeared to be completely hairless! Holy follicle madness!
>
> It was rather odd seeing Kibo sitting in a clean room in east central
> Florida when I'm given to understand from this chat room that he's
> generally based in Boston. But as I walked into this large room there was
> Kibo sitting on a large mobile platform near the wall. Kibo didn't say
> anything to me or to anyone else while I was there, but that could have
> been because of something done by the Japanese guys that were pushing a
> large rack of electronics away from Kibo's proximity as I walked up.
Take pictures while Kibo is upright. There's always a chance some
rocket scientist will remove a bunch of bolts from his cradle without
logging it or telling anybody, and then he'll lean over to change the
batteries in his shoes or something and he'll fall down go boom, and
pictures of the result will be forwarded forever along the email crap
backbone of NASA scientists (by which I mean a catch-all term for
engineers, administrators, and robots that do science).
Stash some of his posts aboard-- just hot-glue them to cabinets and
stuff. Give him fair warning of the terrible secret of space, too.
-LAN3
I got nuthin'.
Whosetitanelbow
berichtnieuws...news:eji2pv4h38sk5ss9m...@4ax.com:
> It was rather odd seeing Kibo sitting in a clean room in east central
> Florida when I'm given to understand from this chat room
We just have an area politician who calls our local news listserv an
"internet-based chat room network". Talking about maybe 20-30 messages in a
busy week.
--
"of course this explination cannot be consider the final or
official word on this confusion, and the hope was the confusion
would eventually be displaced or resloved." -- Manley Hubbell
James Kibo Parry
>
> It was rather odd seeing Kibo sitting in a clean room in east central
> Florida when I'm given to understand from this chat room that he's
> generally based in Boston. But as I walked into this large room there was
> Kibo sitting on a large mobile platform near the wall. Kibo didn't say
> anything to me or to anyone else while I was there, but that could have
> been because of something done by the Japanese guys that were pushing a
> large rack of electronics away from Kibo's proximity as I walked up.
>
> Perhaps Kibo has the flu or something as there were ropes around Kibo's
> perimeter to keep people from getting too close.
I'm still trying to start the rumor that the only reason they named
the space station module after me was because I won a wasabi-eating
contest, not something about how easy it is for an on-line poll to
go horribly wrong.
Of course, I cheated by eating the kind of wasabi sold in the United States.
The kind which does not actually contain any wasabi, just horseradish
and green pond slime, because the Japanese government has forbidden them
to export any of the real stuff, even if the packages are labelled in
Japanese. Check the ingredients at your local Asian grocery store --
all the imported wasabi is fake. To get the real stuff, you have to
go to Japan, or Seattle, because the only real wasabi farm in America
is in the state of Washington.
Anyway, that's all I know about space stations. That, and Mir smelled funny
because they forgot to open the doors once a day to air it out.
-- K.
I can't wait until I can move
into my space station module and eat
that cool astronaut food, like
White Castles that come in little
silver toothpaste tubes that look
like they could be filled with
toxic Bubb-A-Loons but just contain
yummy White Castles.
Whosetitanelbow
berichtnieuws...news:kibo-22100...@10.0.1.2:
> To get the real stuff, you have to
> go to Japan, or Seattle, because the only real wasabi farm in America
> is in the state of Washington.
Takes two years for the real wasabi to grow to a harvestable size. Takes
two seconds to put green food color on horseradish.
The Avocado Avenger
> Dean Lenort (dean....@att.net) wrote:
> > Perhaps Kibo has the flu or something as there were ropes around Kibo's
> > perimeter to keep people from getting too close.
>
> Of course, I cheated by eating the kind of wasabi sold in the United States.
> The kind which does not actually contain any wasabi, just horseradish
> and green pond slime, because the Japanese government has forbidden them
> to export any of the real stuff, even if the packages are labelled in
> Japanese.
Hey, that explains the wasabi at the local All Chinese Buffet. Which
has pizza and sushi and dim sum and other Chinese cuisine. Any idea
what the green pond slime is? And does this stuff taste anything like
real wasabi?
> White Castles that come in little
> silver toothpaste tubes that look
> like they could be filled with
> toxic Bubb-A-Loons but just contain
> yummy White Castles.
I'd just like to say that my local Walgreen's has a small fridged
foods section where they kept boxes of White Castles. I was pleased to
witness the phenomenon of seeing two shelves of White Castles - one
plain and one with cheez - turn into one shelf of cheez White Castles
and no plain ones were ever seen again. That's just not right.
Stacia
indignant
James Kibo Parry
>
> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) wrote:
> >
> > To get the real stuff, you have to go to Japan, or Seattle, because
> > the only real wasabi farm in America is in the state of Washington.
>
> Takes two years for the real wasabi to grow to a harvestable size. Takes
> two seconds to put green food color on horseradish.
Wow, you spill paint slowly. I could dye a whole bucket of stuff green
in half a second, even by accident! I suppose if it had been up to you,
the movie "The Andromeda Strain" would be six hours long instead of just
seeming like it, especially the part where they try to figure out how two microscopic spots of green paint could get inside the satellite.
And now that we know how you spill green paint, please don't tell us
about "pea green paint", or I'll have to chase you to the horizon at
triple speed while Bill Clinton plays a song whose title would be an
awesome Scrabble word if he had been brave enough to pass that law making
proper nouns with a space in the middle legal in Scrabble.
-- K.
"YAKETYSAX" might be the
best Scrabble word I've
mentioned pretending to
play today, but when it
comes to words I've
actually played, in high
school people refused to
play "Hangman" with me
after I chose these three
secret words: "STRENGTHS",
"RHYTHMS", and "SYZYGY".
Never play a word game
against Kibo unless you
want to be a LQQZER.
James Kibo Parry
>
> I'd just like to say that my local Walgreen's has a small fridged
> foods section where they kept boxes of White Castles. I was pleased to
> witness the phenomenon of seeing two shelves of White Castles - one
> plain and one with cheez - turn into one shelf of cheez White Castles
> and no plain ones were ever seen again. That's just not right.
They recently opened a Walgreen's and a Stop & Shop up the hill from me,
and the Walgreen's has only stocked the cheez-flavored ones, but the
Stop & Shop has White Castles with and without cheez. However, they've
jacked up the price so that the cheez-free ones cost just as much as
the cheez ones -- FOUR DOLLARS AND NINETEEN CENTS for six. It's no wonder
the good kind tend to disappear, given that nobody's going to want to
buy them at that price. For the price of those six White Castles, you
could buy a real hamburger! (Or half of one, if you're at Cheers.)
This new plaza also has a Citizens Bank. Unfortunately, because all
these stores were opened in 2003, they're all "fun 'n' friendly" in
that super-cloying 2003 retail way. The Citizens Bank has the word
"hello" printed on its front door in giant lowercase letters, like
the store thinks it's running MacPaint. And the Stop & Shop not only
has only about half the floor space devoted to groceries (it's a relatively
small supermarket, but it has to have a Dunkin' Donuts counter and a
large, unvisited florist department anyway) but at the exit there's a
really disturbing sign saying something like "Thank you for choosing
Stop & Shop today". This sign is a four-foot-square slab of translucent
cherry-red plastic, with a faint, ghostly image of a shopping cart
etched into the back of it. It's like if the Blob engulfed someone
who was shopping and digested the person but not the metal cart.
It's very disconcerting to see this big red weird propaganda square
staring at you on the way out.
And like all other new supermarkets (such as the giant Prudential Shaw's)
they put in a Coinstar machine, but didn't realize they'd need to have
a separate phone line installed just for it, so for the first few weeks
the Coinstar machine was unusable. (And it still is much of the time,
because they don't empty it often enough. Memo to all businesses: If you
can't take any more money because your money box is full, either figure out
how to empty the box, or devise a competent business plan that doesn't
prevent people from giving you money when they want to.)
-- K.
And memo to White Castle Inc.:
You could put the cheez slices
in a separate little packet
inside the box, and then we
could all enjoy them with or
without cheez as we pleez.
Kevin S. Wilson
Parry) wrote:
>And like all other new supermarkets (such as the giant Prudential Shaw's)
>they put in a Coinstar machine, but didn't realize they'd need to have
>a separate phone line installed just for it, so for the first few weeks
>the Coinstar machine was unusable.
Do you mean the change-counting machines? What does it need a phone
line for?
--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"You can safely ignore Kevin in order to
maximise life's experience." --A. Loon, in alt.religion.kibology
James Kibo Parry
>
> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) wrote:
> >
> > And like all other new supermarkets (such as the giant Prudential Shaw's)
> > they put in a Coinstar machine, but didn't realize they'd need to have
> > a separate phone line installed just for it, so for the first few weeks
> > the Coinstar machine was unusable.
>
> Do you mean the change-counting machines? What does it need a phone
> line for?
So that it can phone home to (a) inform headquarters that it needs its
coin box emptied within the next several weeks and to (b) check that Congress
hasn't decided to switch the sizes of pennies and quarters. Duh!
-- K.
I think they also need to
be able to shut the thing
down remotely in case it
goes berzerk and starts
turning people upside down
and shaking them.
Mark Hill
> Wow, you spill paint slowly. I could dye a whole bucket of stuff green
> in half a second, even by accident! I suppose if it had been up to you,
> the movie "The Andromeda Strain" would be six hours long instead of just
> seeming like it, especially the part where they try to figure out how two microscopic spots of green paint could get inside the satellite.
>
> And now that we know how you spill green paint
HOMER MAD! HOMER SMASH! GET REVENGE ON WORLD!