OK folks, time for an informal poll. @jont, @hollboll and @mehcus want to skip out of work and bring us along! They will Periscope wherever you want them to go. Suggestions?
@marklog@galmaegi specializes in customer support for our Korean friends. She's in a lot of the office videos and periscopes, so I'm not sure how you've missed her.
@mfladd As a kid my family lived just outside Boston, but we spent our summers up in Tyngsboro. Our uncle and his pals rented a cottage on the lake but only used it on weekends, so we got to use it during the week. Obviously not on the ocean but we were probably kinda sorta neighbors too.
@editorkid tyngsboro is just west of Lowell. I went to college in Worcester (wister, not wor-chester people) Oceans are nice, but I prefer lakes. So sweet! So are you a Boston sports fan (please say, yes)
@mfladd Wister not wo-s'ter? I won't make any jokes about the way people say things... :) I mean Vermont has enough... How would you think they pronounce Charlotte? Not like you think... not like a woman's name but more like it's spelled if the last 2 letters are silent.... shar-lot. Also I miss living in places where there was more... choices and 24 hour places... Yet having a child I'm happy to be somewhere more save.
@sohmageek It's very easy to know who is not from mass by how they pronounce many of towns. But, you are right. - it is probably the same for most states. I would love to live in Vermont. We are getting very use to not having the extreme winters though.
@mfladd the past 2 winters have been pretty tame. Not so for Boston last year. But Chittenden county at least has been not really dumped on. Southern Vermont was closer to a regular winter up here. One of the nice things is people know how to handle snow. I remember being just outside of DC. There was a light dusting. Just enough for it to stay on the ground but not enough to to make ice or anything. So many accidents and closures.
@sohmageek don't even get me started about people being unable drive in the snow where I am. You are right, a dusting and there are cars off the road everywhere. We had a storm last year that dropped about a foot of snow on the ground and the schools were closed for a WEEK! I find it funny coming from New England.
@jml326 I lived there from 1994-1996, Fayetteville (smallest elementary school I've ever seen...) then the other side of chambersburg closer to MD. Then we moved to VT. :) My mother used to work in Radio... Mix 95 was the chambersburg station I think.
@marklog I'll ship it tomorrow morning... Been far too busy. At least they're getting fairly aged! @JonT and company won't be drinking green beer this time!
I know you guys are going to the zoo, but maybe next time: The Eight Track Museum - 2630 E. Commerce Street Dallas, Texas 75226 (http://eighttrackmuseum.com/home.html)
You have to call ahead, but it is worth the suggested $10 donation.
@Pavlov Have you just been... everywhere?? You're like god, but more - I don't know - mortal, I guess.
I used to think you were awesome. But lately you make me feel so... inferior. (<---Need a sad, droopy font. Like letters with bad posture and acne.) :(
@pepsiwine Nope - but I've been a lot of places. I typically just don't join in when people talk about places still on my bucket list.
And a lot of the places I go are . . . weird. I wouldn't spend an hour at the zoo in Dallas (unless I was getting paid to film it) but I'd spend all day talking 8-tracks.
I grew up in the middle, went to school on both coasts and have travelled extensively for work.
But even though I've travelled a lot, I don't yet qualify for the TCC - maybe someday, but I have a way to go.
I wonder if they have a club for people who have never visited another country and never even left the mainland United States? There's surely got to be only like, 5 of us left that could join THAT elite little organization.
Sorry, I'm a Debbie Downer tonight. I'm throwing myself a little pity party because I've always wanted to travel - anywhere, everywhere, domestic, foreign, you name it, I find it all fascinating - and yet I'm probably half through with my life and I haven't even traveled to some of the more "basic" places: (No NYC, or Yellowstone, or Area 51, or Wyoming, or Bill Murray's house...)
@Pavlov What would you say is the most awesome place you've ever been? Some place that just really left you amazed, inspired, overcome with emotion....
@pepsiwine so... I love to travel too but never can get it all together to just travel :) my first trip out of the country was to Canada on my first wedding anniversary. To the shock of just about everyone that it took me 15 years to travel 2 hours north. I've only been to 6 or so major cities and a few were just to have a stay in larger hospitals. Large cities can really freak me out due to lack of exposure to them. Driving in LA definitely does that to you. Craziest driving I've ever seen!
@mfladd Did you see that rant by Garfunkel, where he says HE created a monster in Simon when they got famous because of him? Really? Garfunkel was the brains behind Simon and Garfunkel?
@KDemo Ooh, good idea. They need to show us Venice before it disappears underwater, and take the Hobbit tour in New Zealand, and attend Carnival in Brazil, and...
I think the auto-selected picture for this thread wins the destination.
@TaRDy I wish I could tell you that it was auto-selected.
Woot offices. DO NOT TELL THEM YOU ARE COMING.
@Starblind this would be hilarious. If you are going to select the idea that gives you the most viewers, you've found it.
Sorry that I left you out, @galmaegi. I don't know who you are!
@marklog @galmaegi specializes in customer support for our Korean friends. She's in a lot of the office videos and periscopes, so I'm not sure how you've missed her.
@marklog
@marklog Upper right in this pic.
@Starblind Is she always that blurry?
@parodymandotcom She is so radiant that if photographed straight on she appears as brilliant light. Ooo.
@Starblind I should have realized.
@Starblind - Unfortunate juxtaposition.
Vermont so they can stop selling Vermont American tools!
@sohmageek and can I just say living most of my life growing up in MA. I frick'in love Vermont. The fall foliage is amazing.
@mfladd Yes... Wait... you're that close to me???
@sohmageek Not anymore, I am MD now. I grew up next to the NH border along the ocean. My mom still lives there.
@mfladd Damn... I used to live in Chambersburg PA. So... we basically were right next to each other just years apart? :P
@mfladd As a kid my family lived just outside Boston, but we spent our summers up in Tyngsboro. Our uncle and his pals rented a cottage on the lake but only used it on weekends, so we got to use it during the week. Obviously not on the ocean but we were probably kinda sorta neighbors too.
@editorkid tyngsboro is just west of Lowell. I went to college in Worcester (wister, not wor-chester people) Oceans are nice, but I prefer lakes. So sweet! So are you a Boston sports fan (please say, yes)
@sohmageek Chambersburg is about 3.5 hrs drive from where I live now.
@mfladd Wister not wo-s'ter? I won't make any jokes about the way people say things... :) I mean Vermont has enough... How would you think they pronounce Charlotte? Not like you think... not like a woman's name but more like it's spelled if the last 2 letters are silent.... shar-lot.
Also I miss living in places where there was more... choices and 24 hour places... Yet having a child I'm happy to be somewhere more save.
@sohmageek It's very easy to know who is not from mass by how they pronounce many of towns. But, you are right. - it is probably the same for most states. I would love to live in Vermont. We are getting very use to not having the extreme winters though.
@mfladd the past 2 winters have been pretty tame. Not so for Boston last year. But Chittenden county at least has been not really dumped on. Southern Vermont was closer to a regular winter up here. One of the nice things is people know how to handle snow. I remember being just outside of DC. There was a light dusting. Just enough for it to stay on the ground but not enough to to make ice or anything. So many accidents and closures.
@sohmageek don't even get me started about people being unable drive in the snow where I am. You are right, a dusting and there are cars off the road everywhere. We had a storm last year that dropped about a foot of snow on the ground and the schools were closed for a WEEK! I find it funny coming from New England.
@mfladd Well, when I was a sports fan, I was a Boston sports fan. I still have the '04 Series on my old Tivo, if that counts.
@editorkid Yes, that one especially does!I just had to have my Directv Genie dvr switched out - bye bye Patriots Superbowl :(
@sohmageek
Chambersburg?!?! I lived there from 1990 untill 1994. I was stuck in corpus christi.
@jml326 I lived there from 1994-1996, Fayetteville (smallest elementary school I've ever seen...) then the other side of chambersburg closer to MD. Then we moved to VT. :) My mother used to work in Radio... Mix 95 was the chambersburg station I think.
Car wash. No car.
UPick Farm.
Karaoke
Dr. Pepper museum
Brewery tour
@Trillian only if they fly down the beer contests winner(s). By the way, @grum, HURRY THE FUCK UP.
@marklog I'll ship it tomorrow morning... Been far too busy. At least they're getting fairly aged! @JonT and company won't be drinking green beer this time!
@marklog The way things are going Focal Banger may be easier to get... :( Which IMHO is better then heady topper :)
@sohmageek this doesn't have to be a one time thing! Im in it for the long haul. You send me what you can get, i will send you what i can get.
I know you guys are going to the zoo, but maybe next time: The Eight Track Museum - 2630 E. Commerce Street Dallas, Texas 75226 (http://eighttrackmuseum.com/home.html)
You have to call ahead, but it is worth the suggested $10 donation.
@Pavlov Be sure to ask about their 500 sealed Rutles tapes!
@Starblind They have multiple sealed original shipping cartons of them.
@Pavlov Have you just been... everywhere??
You're like god, but more - I don't know - mortal, I guess.
I used to think you were awesome. But lately you make me feel so... inferior. (<---Need a sad, droopy font. Like letters with bad posture and acne.)
:(
@pepsiwine Nope - but I've been a lot of places. I typically just don't join in when people talk about places still on my bucket list.
And a lot of the places I go are . . . weird. I wouldn't spend an hour at the zoo in Dallas (unless I was getting paid to film it) but I'd spend all day talking 8-tracks.
I grew up in the middle, went to school on both coasts and have travelled extensively for work.
But even though I've travelled a lot, I don't yet qualify for the TCC - maybe someday, but I have a way to go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_Century_Club
@Pavlov So jealous.
I wonder if they have a club for people who have never visited another country and never even left the mainland United States?
There's surely got to be only like, 5 of us left that could join THAT elite little organization.
Sorry, I'm a Debbie Downer tonight. I'm throwing myself a little pity party because I've always wanted to travel - anywhere, everywhere, domestic, foreign, you name it, I find it all fascinating - and yet I'm probably half through with my life and I haven't even traveled to some of the more "basic" places: (No NYC, or Yellowstone, or Area 51, or Wyoming, or Bill Murray's house...)
I'm so deprived!!!
@pepsiwine I feel ya, I've never been to Bill Murray's house either.
@Pavlov What would you say is the most awesome place you've ever been? Some place that just really left you amazed, inspired, overcome with emotion....
@pepsiwine I answered that just the other day, interestingly, in this thread: https://meh.com/forum/topics/kensh
Read my reply to KDemo.
Wherever you go sweetie, there you are. It isn't the scenery.
@Pavlov -
Still in awe of your amazing experience and brilliant narrative.
@pepsiwine so... I love to travel too but never can get it all together to just travel :) my first trip out of the country was to Canada on my first wedding anniversary. To the shock of just about everyone that it took me 15 years to travel 2 hours north. I've only been to 6 or so major cities and a few were just to have a stay in larger hospitals. Large cities can really freak me out due to lack of exposure to them. Driving in LA definitely does that to you. Craziest driving I've ever seen!
Next April/May, Scarborough Faire.
@parodymandotcom Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme?
@curtise I couldn't resist
@mfladd Did you see that rant by Garfunkel, where he says HE created a monster in Simon when they got famous because of him? Really? Garfunkel was the brains behind Simon and Garfunkel?
Water Park. Is there still a Wet-n-Wild down there?
@pitamuffin perv.
@pitamuffin Sort of. It's Six Flags Hurricane Harbor now
Karaoke bar!
(Went to a Korean bar in Hawaii and only got half the experience- had the soju, but the karaoke room was taken at the time).
@dashcloud Uh, I know everything about it. I'm afraid to reveal it with everyone here.
Speaker dock factory! On a Friday!
@thismyusername Yeah. I mentioned this during the Zoo trip (on Periscope) yesterday. Six Flags over Texas is pretty decent.
@thismyusername I wish I could dance like that.
I think they should do a meh tour bus! Continental states all of them.
@sohmageek to stop and visit all the mehmbers ?
@ceagee I'm hoping. And they could personally hand us fukubukuros
Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Oh, and show us the top of the Eiffel Tower.
(Trying to get you guys some perks).
@KDemo Ooh, good idea. They need to show us Venice before it disappears underwater, and take the Hobbit tour in New Zealand, and attend Carnival in Brazil, and...
@parodymandotcom - Sounds like somebody has a bucket list.
@KDemo @parodymandotcom and take a mehmber along.
tractor supply - great way to kill a hot afternoon
@cranky1950 ohh chick cam.
Planning ahead -- Black Friday sales sleepover lines.
State Fair of Texas to taste test all the latest fried foods.
The man, the legend -- @poppiart. Track him down, take a look inside his warehouse, see if he ever talks to people below his social level.
Tomorrow is the Sausage Fest at Main Street Garden
Each month a live Periscope interview with the new goat. Without letting said goat know exactly when they'll be there.
I think the Kimberly-Clarke Factory in Irving, Texas. Apparently they make things like Huggies and Scott Toilet paper there... :)
@sohmageek I went there on business once!
Oh, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth! Maybe they can get us all some money at a discount.
Next year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. Live stream from a parade float made out of - holy shit - 30,000 speaker docks.