@candiedisilvio1 The dog was Pickle. There was a 10mins fluff piece on the news a few weeks ago about it. The only thing I remember about the game is that the dog’s name was Pickle.
@metaphore Pickle ball is a sport played in a racquetball court.
I’m making an educated guess here so don’t believe what I say next. Pickle ball plays with a big paddle like you would with table tennis but much larger. So instead of strings, you have a flat surface. The ball doesn’t bounce much. I think it is a racquetball with a small air hole in it to cause minimal bounce.
I saw a couple guys playing it at my gym and it seems easy but these were expert racquetball players and they tell me that it’s much harder. I believe them since they are the top racquetball players in the gym.
Moby Dick is about a crazy old sailor who obsesses about a particular whale, and eventually gets himself and the rest of his crew killed chasing it. Plus there are millions upon millions of entirely unnecessary words narrated by someone called Ishmael.
@PlacidPenguin Included where? I don’t see any other messages from you on this thread. Oh wait… you must have meant the other thread that was the headliner one. I hadn’t looked there. Will go there now and look.
I’m not saavy enough to figure out how to take a video of the ebook that’s on my phone whilst uploading a clip.
But I’m reading Hidden World by Graham Masterton. Pretty okay so far, about a girl that hears people in the walls of her house, and goes in there to investigate.
Audiobooks and I are bff. I just finished The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, and it was friggen amazing. It’s about a boy who has an infant brother, that has many health issues and may not live long. So the wasps from the nest outside his house start telling him they can fix the baby. So friggen good, and exceptionally creepy.
Literally just finished A.I.Destroyer by Vaugh Heppner. Two Sentence report:
An alien A.I. gets too big for it’s britches and decides everything not A.I. should be destroyed. We humans disagree.
A secret organization starts killing diplomats who work with or for NATO. Apex predator and counter-espionage expert Scot Harvard has to figure out who’s behind this plot before there’s all out war.
Earth and humanity are introduced into a very established, complex inhabited galaxy where they are technologically backwards but the strongest, toughest, and most dangerous sophonts around. The galaxy has few other sapient predators, and humanity has to find its way being both a highly feared species, and a most desired prey.
@Limewater I haven’t read that in forever. But there’s so much new stuff to read that I don’t re-read as much as I used to (though I did plow through E. E. Smith’s Skylark series again earlier this year.
Listening to The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It’s like other books of hers I’ve listened to.
@jst1ofknd
@Kevin Apparently it’s Pickle’s ball cuz the guy that invented the game stole his dog’s ball to play with.
@metaphore So they play ball with a pickle because the ball that he stole from his dog was a pickle. I’m so confused…
@candiedisilvio1 The dog was Pickle. There was a 10mins fluff piece on the news a few weeks ago about it. The only thing I remember about the game is that the dog’s name was Pickle.
@metaphore @Kevin I went to a pickleball thing at the county rec center. It’s pretty much tennis for people that don’t like to run. It was kind of fun.
@metaphore is it a kids game?
@Kevin @metaphore More of a senior citizen’s game.
@metaphore Pickle ball is a sport played in a racquetball court.
I’m making an educated guess here so don’t believe what I say next. Pickle ball plays with a big paddle like you would with table tennis but much larger. So instead of strings, you have a flat surface. The ball doesn’t bounce much. I think it is a racquetball with a small air hole in it to cause minimal bounce.
I saw a couple guys playing it at my gym and it seems easy but these were expert racquetball players and they tell me that it’s much harder. I believe them since they are the top racquetball players in the gym.
@cengland0 @metaphore I watched a video and they use tennis nets.
Sometimes squash is played similar to raquetball.
@Kevin
Moby Dick is about a crazy old sailor who obsesses about a particular whale, and eventually gets himself and the rest of his crew killed chasing it. Plus there are millions upon millions of entirely unnecessary words narrated by someone called Ishmael.
I like these clipisodes. New videos are fun.
@bramby2
@medz it DOES smell like rich mahogany!
so flair for the participants? cc @shawn
Oh look, there I am!
This was the article I showed:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151223-if-you-think-penguins-are-cute-and-cuddly-youre-wrong
@PlacidPenguin OK so what you are telling us is that you are a depraved and promiscuous penguin who fights a lot and kidnaps babies?
@Kidsandliz
Did you not see the reaction images which I included?
@PlacidPenguin Included where? I don’t see any other messages from you on this thread. Oh wait… you must have meant the other thread that was the headliner one. I hadn’t looked there. Will go there now and look.
@Kidsandliz
In the video.
@PlacidPenguin Oh. I didn’t watch the video. (She goes to watch video). Now I see.
Serves me rightGoat’s fault.I’m not saavy enough to figure out how to take a video of the ebook that’s on my phone whilst uploading a clip.
But I’m reading Hidden World by Graham Masterton. Pretty okay so far, about a girl that hears people in the walls of her house, and goes in there to investigate.
Audiobooks and I are bff. I just finished The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, and it was friggen amazing. It’s about a boy who has an infant brother, that has many health issues and may not live long. So the wasps from the nest outside his house start telling him they can fix the baby. So friggen good, and exceptionally creepy.
@LemonTheCat Gonna give The Nest a try based on your review - so, thanks!
@pitamuffin awesome!! I hope you enjoy. You’ll have to let me know how you like it!!
The President is Missing. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it’s pretty obvious there’s going to be a movie, which just as obviously won’t be as good.
Literally just finished A.I.Destroyer by Vaugh Heppner. Two Sentence report:
An alien A.I. gets too big for it’s britches and decides everything not A.I. should be destroyed. We humans disagree.
I recently read Brad Thor’s new book Spy Master.
A secret organization starts killing diplomats who work with or for NATO. Apex predator and counter-espionage expert Scot Harvard has to figure out who’s behind this plot before there’s all out war.
@mehbee Considering our current government this sounds like it could be non-fiction.
@cinoclav @mehbee you fuckers need to figure this shit out. we’re in fine shape.
@cinoclav @therealjrn I’m going to assume that wasn’t directed at me.
@cinoclav @mehbee Nope
This is an online story being built, not yet complete. Aka Jenkinsverse.
Deathworlders
Earth and humanity are introduced into a very established, complex inhabited galaxy where they are technologically backwards but the strongest, toughest, and most dangerous sophonts around. The galaxy has few other sapient predators, and humanity has to find its way being both a highly feared species, and a most desired prey.
@duodec I’m kind of disappointed to see these do not appear to be related to “Deathworld” by Harry Harrison.
@Limewater I haven’t read that in forever. But there’s so much new stuff to read that I don’t re-read as much as I used to (though I did plow through E. E. Smith’s Skylark series again earlier this year.