@SSteve I think Barney's great and I try to star all posts, watching for vocabulary change. That's the funny addictive part of Barney's experiment maybe. I think Barney goat would be great! Not in a blame way I guess, but still would be fun to see different purple response nuances all month.
@moondrake I don't picture our@Barney as a purple dinosaur. In my mind, he/she/it is more abstract. More like the idea of purple than any particular manifestation of purple. Or maybe not purple at all, really, but just a being that loves purple.
@joelmw@SSteve@moondrake I originally thought Barney was a bot, but I now see Barney as our own Stranger in a Strange Land, who at first spoke only the first two or three words (purple, love, like) he/she had heard. In learning our language, Barney has added to his/her vocabulary, but is obviously extremely attached to his/her original phrases, "I like/love purple." Notice Barney's reaction when I said it. Perhaps his/her reaction was an attempt to further communicate with me? This is a very interesting case and certainly warrants further study.
@bluejester Sheesh, what year did he die? I don't think that's going to turn out well. I don't even trust the technology now. Edited: 1966. So nobody has to look it up.
@parodymandotcom This'd be my preference too. I mean for me. For both of us then. And several other people I know. I'd be happy if some people didn't make the transition with us. Does that make me a bad person?
I think that the whole concept of freezing one's corpse and expecting it to be resuscitated in some future time to be useless. It is profitable for the company doing it, but I don't think we will have advances in medicine to actually do this. Better to leave the money to my heirs.
Nope. Compressed into a canister and shot into space. A quick slingshot around Jupiter should be enough to get me out of the solar system, within a couple decades.
Mummification all the way. But I don't want to burden my family with my remains and sarcophagus. I wonder if I can dictate being built into a wall or something. That way one day in the distant future I can completely freak someone out when they open or remove the wall.
@jimmyd103 That is very true. Plus it's cheaper than @moondrake's option, which I will totally go for if I invent something to be sold "As seen on tv" and make millions before it becomes "As discounted on meh".
@LadyLeela I don't think of my sarcophagus as a burden on my family. I think of it as a comfort to them to have me standing in the corner. They may see it otherwise, but I'm sticking to my theory.
@JonT It costs a lot of money to send stuff into space. I hope you are saving up. Hey, @dave! There's a way to make money from dead people. Collect money from them to shoot their ashes into space. Is someone already doing that?
Barring cyborg immortality, the wish I've expressed to my family is that I be toasted and scattered, so that I will be in death as I was in life. Scattered no where in particular; it all dissipates and diffuses anyway.
I've got a leg up on everyone else. My heart is already as cold as ice.
@capguncowboy Are you willing to sacrifice our love?
@Headly like it is my first priority.
@Headley thanks for getting that stick in my head!
Who is the current goat? He or she is in trouble.
@MsELizardBeth I think it's @JoelMW
@jqubed @MsELizardBeth I didn't put a stick in anyone's head. Except for this guy. He'd kidnapped my little friends.
@MsELizardBeth But listen to this song and it might ease your pain.
@joelmw GAH. Damn typos.
@joelmw You come by the title of goat honestly though, Sir. Nicely done.
@Headly
Purple Barney!
@Barney ... Is there someone trolling as the famous Barney??
@MsELizardBeth We should make Barney the goat one month. That could be lots of purple fun.
I love purple.
@moondrake All the purple goats!!
@MsELizardBeth I love purple.
@moondrake FWIW (which may be next to nothing--well, unless we still have that vote bonus, so still next to nothing), I concur.
@moondrake @joelmw No, no, no! @Barney can't be goat!!! Don't make me use another exclamation point. I'll do it, I swear.
@SSteve But why?!?!?!?!?! She'd be so purple!!!!
@SSteve I think Barney's great and I try to star all posts, watching for vocabulary change. That's the funny addictive part of Barney's experiment maybe. I think Barney goat would be great! Not in a blame way I guess, but still would be fun to see different purple response nuances all month.
@mehjohnson Awww. (purple blush)
@SSteve But we could even do it in real life. "It's not my fault, it was the meh goat which is actually a purple dinosaur, I swear!"
@moondrake I don't picture our @Barney as a purple dinosaur. In my mind, he/she/it is more abstract. More like the idea of purple than any particular manifestation of purple. Or maybe not purple at all, really, but just a being that loves purple.
@joelmw @moondrake @SSteve I LOVE purple.
@barnabee I LOVE, LOVE PURPLE!
@joelmw @SSteve @moondrake I originally thought Barney was a bot, but I now see Barney as our own Stranger in a Strange Land, who at first spoke only the first two or three words (purple, love, like) he/she had heard. In learning our language, Barney has added to his/her vocabulary, but is obviously extremely attached to his/her original phrases, "I like/love purple." Notice Barney's reaction when I said it. Perhaps his/her reaction was an attempt to further communicate with me?
This is a very interesting case and certainly warrants further study.
I plan to be quiescently frozen.
@KDemo I hope so. Being frozen when you are not quiescent is apalling.
@moondrake
@moondrake - In my youth, I used to see that phrase on popsicles, and have waited all my life for an opportunity to use it.
I want to be a corpsicle. But please don't shove the wooden stick up my ass...
Still waiting to see how it works out for ol' Uncle Walt before I make my decision.
@bluejester Walt Whitman?
@christinerenee Disney. Of course, I think they encased him in carbonite...
@bluejester Sheesh, what year did he die? I don't think that's going to turn out well. I don't even trust the technology now. Edited: 1966. So nobody has to look it up.
Is that where they got the phrase suspended animation?
@TerriblyHuang I laughed harder at that then I should have.
@jqubed "Duh, of course!" response made me think of this.
Obligatory:
@bluejester
I had not planned on it, but this weeks weather seems to make it a possibility in my house.
Well, if they don't have flying cars by the time I'm sixty, it's a must. They promised us flying cars.
@PocketBrain
@dave Well, it looks like the boys are in more trouble than a June bug in molasses. And it's pretty thick molasses, too.
To wake up to this?
NO WAY
@jimmyd103 Remember boys and girls, Idiocracy is not fiction - it's a documentary.
Nope, I'm planning to be a nigh-immortal cyborg.
@parodymandotcom This'd be my preference too. I mean for me. For both of us then. And several other people I know. I'd be happy if some people didn't make the transition with us. Does that make me a bad person?
"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
@umbrellacorp Gimme da cash
@umbrellacorp @Outofmymind
I think that the whole concept of freezing one's corpse and expecting it to be resuscitated in some future time to be useless. It is profitable for the company doing it, but I don't think we will have advances in medicine to actually do this. Better to leave the money to my heirs.
No. When the human race kills itself off and the raccoons take over, I don't want to be just another frozen dinner waiting to thaw.
Nope. Compressed into a canister and shot into space.
A quick slingshot around Jupiter should be enough to get me out of the solar system, within a couple decades.
Have to say, I'm a bit jealous of the people who figured out a business model that keeps you paying well after you're dead.
@dave And not much profit on the resuscitation side...
@dave The biggest sector poised to score this business seems to be Kwik-E-Marts.
Mummification all the way. But I don't want to burden my family with my remains and sarcophagus. I wonder if I can dictate being built into a wall or something. That way one day in the distant future I can completely freak someone out when they open or remove the wall.
@LadyLeela Well if you piss off the right people, your wish could become a reality.
@LadyLeela Get enough insurance to build a wing onto the local museum and then donate it with the caveat that you are the main exhibit.
@jimmyd103 That is very true. Plus it's cheaper than @moondrake's option, which I will totally go for if I invent something to be sold "As seen on tv" and make millions before it becomes "As discounted on meh".
@LadyLeela I don't think of my sarcophagus as a burden on my family. I think of it as a comfort to them to have me standing in the corner. They may see it otherwise, but I'm sticking to my theory.
@LadyLeela I have exactly such a product, but I can't think of how to get it into production. I bet it would be a big hit on the ASOTV circuit, too.
Well, I don't want to be like Ted Williams and lose my head over it.
Not unless someone gives me a large bubbling tank and diaphanous dress to wear. https://flic.kr/p/bq26ax
No way. I don't want to live any longer than I absolutely have to.
@SSteve We might just have a different definition of "absolutely have to."
No thanks, burn me up and send my ashes into outer space so I can chill with my star friends.
@JonT It costs a lot of money to send stuff into space. I hope you are saving up. Hey, @dave! There's a way to make money from dead people. Collect money from them to shoot their ashes into space. Is someone already doing that?
@SSteve I'm hoping that by the time I die it'll be a lot cheaper to send stuff into space, it's already a lot cheaper than it used to be.
@JonT
@JonT Well, you can get into temporary orbit for about $2k, which is pretty d nged affordable. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/08/13/sending-your-ashes-into-space-just-got-a-lot-cheaper/ Lauunch into deep space starting at $12,500 http://www.celestis.com/services.asp That would be pretty easy to do using life insurance.
@JonT - Oooh, when your ashes return to Earth's atmosphere, you would be shooting stars. How cool is that?
@KDemo pretty damn cool.
Barring cyborg immortality, the wish I've expressed to my family is that I be toasted and scattered, so that I will be in death as I was in life. Scattered no where in particular; it all dissipates and diffuses anyway.
We are star stuff wherever we may be.
@joelmw A phrase made creepy by putting finger quotes around star stuff. Yes, we're made of "star stuff". Eeeeew.
@Mavyn I don't mind admitting that I'm full of shit. ;-)