Topic Drift Game

[Griffin NoName]

The Monastery is awash with symptoms of lazy moderators and admins who allow the most outrageous topic drifts.

So here the aim is to see how skilled we really are at this art.

Each post MUST take us smoothly from one topic into another. The association between topics must be clear. No sudden arbitary changes allowed. The skill of the drift shall be marvelled at. 

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I'll begin with something topical, quoting from the BBC current online news:


Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame have reached the summit of Everest, the world's highest mountain.

[Aggie]

 

Hmm...  you are starting a new game thread?  I've a mind to start a new game thread based on my habit of wandering through wikipedia.  It'd be somewhere between Mornington Crescent, the Topic Drift Game and Six Degrees of Separation.

Not sure what to call it, though.

[Sibling Chatty]

I've read the playscript of Six Degrees of Separation, but I never saw the film.  Does Will Smith do a really good job in that role? It's what led him from 'singing' to acting (legit, not just clowning on TV as himself) and I've wondered about it.

[Swatopluk]

Don't talk to me anbout steps of separation! Find me a single membrane that is a) available for the forseeable future and b) able to filtrate a microemulsion with a micelle retention >99%. To separate the product from the filtrate is complicated enough but the water retention comes first.

[Griffin NoName]

I don't know about clowning on TV. Seems to me the clowns are the people who run TV and make huge illegal profits from premium rate phone-ins where viewers can vote, when they have already chosen the winner. Nice to see them having to pay the money back and get clobbered with huge fines.

[Aggie]

I wish there wasn't such a premium rate for organic produce, ESPECIALLY when it's common weeds.  I saw some very nice dandelion greens at the organic market recently, and since everything is labeled bilingually here, I pointed out to Christie that dandelions are such a good diuretic that the French name is pissenlit (pissabed is the English folk equivalent).  I'm more interested in eating them as greens, since I'm not prone to water retention; I'd pick them myself but don't trust local sources to be free of pesticide residues.

[anthrobabe]

Hmm...  you are starting a new game thread?  I've a mind to start a new game thread based on my habit of wandering through wikipedia.  It'd be somewhere between Mornington Crescent, the Topic Drift Game and Six Degrees of Separation.

Not sure what to call it, though.

Doctors A's riding the rails big drift game version 6.0

[goat starer]

I was contemplating this thread whilst weeding the garden earlier. The dandelions are terrible now that the sun has come out. I dont know about you but i have no idea how this game is supposed to work. I cant see any relation between half these posts and the previous ones. This is topic jump not topic drift! Its interesting how people can be given a perfectly simple set of instructions and still manage to ignore or confuse them to the point where thay make no sense at all. Take my Grandmother for example. With her it was best before dates on cream cakes. theree is nothing worse than having to spend several hours with an incontinent elderly relative whilst being forcefed stale buns and sour cream.

[anthrobabe]

Dear goat she probably was buying them at the 'day old' bread store. Do you have day old bread stores? I always assumed they were everywhere.
Naturally this situation is the very type of situation for which the game boy was invented. Most elderly relatives, incontinent or not, will have some type of decreased visual acuity. So by its nature of having a small size the game boy is a perfect invention for the otherwise tedious hours. The first game boys were in black and white, color came later.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

But then nintendo invented a big cash cow with those. A little (incompatible) change a year and now you need a new one.

That's why I prefer ... my eReader! (If the PSP had 2 analog controlers...).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Analog controllers-- that takes me back.  I had an ORIGINAL IBM joystick.  Looked like it was a refugee from a tinkerer's garage.  The stick itself came directly from a radio-airplane flight controller's bag o'tricks.  The two (that's all it had) buttons were classic off-the-shelf electronic buttons.  Radio Shack sold them, even.   Small plastic box, cord, and that was it.

Digital came much, much later, long after the mouse was added.

I remember my first PC mouse-- it was attached to the sound card and CD-ROM controller (both quite new).

I remember thinking about my very first CD-ROM-- it had a HUGE--NEARLY "INFINITE" six-hundred and forty megabytes of data.

Huge!

It was larger than my hard drive by a factor of 10 at least.

But the purchase was justified, and included a Sound Card.  Wow!

I spent more on that bundle that I have later spent on whole computers....

Which brings me to the price of computer memory.  It's down-- way down.  I just purchased 2 gig of matched main RAM the other day for $75. 

Amazing.

[Griffin NoName]

It seeems as the price of memory comes down, food prices go up. Soon we will all be eating our computers. But will our stomachs evolve quickly enough? I know mine has been changing drastically over the last few years. Although of interest to me, the details don't seem to be of interest to anyone else. But I suspect if there was a world survey on the behaviour of homo sapiens stomachs a pattern would emerge. Just as brain imaging is becoming more and more frequent, I believe stomach imaging should too.

[Swatopluk]

Over here the bestselling computers are sold in grocery stores (the coffee shops tried but abandoned it again). The electronic markets answered with selling coffee (in sealed packages only or they would be in conflict with the food laws).
Why are those pecolaters there are placed next to called coffee machines, when they can be used for tea too. That#s discriminating against the tea drinkers among us.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

At least tea is a legal infusion. I wish I could buy mate de coca in Bogotá. It can be legally purchased in Peru and Bolivia though.

[Swatopluk]

At least tea is a legal infusion. I wish I could buy mate de coca in Bogotá. It can be legally purchased in Peru and Bolivia though.

Well, I do not know whether I would travel to Bogotá voluntarily. I do not want to reduce my life expectancy too much (or am I mistaken that Bogotá has a huge violent crime problem?)