Monthly Archives: October 2017

USS Shiloh.

The only question is with what. Currently, a railway bridge is slightly favored over Godzilla and Hokkaido.

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

If BDB or Dime report they can host earlier than 9PM Eastern, I’ll update.

Jam a topic in the comments below and let people read up if you like.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it!  Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
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Well, it was not actually lunch but dinner. I was on a motorcycle trip to Hokkaido. In my opinion the best way to go was on a ship from Maizuru to Otaru.  Here are pictures inside the ship. The ship takes 20 hours and leaves at midnight.

As anyone who has waited to drive on to a ferry knows you wait in line. Unlike a car you talk to the other riders in the motorcycle line. Next to me was an old guy on about 150 cc motorcycle. He said in his younger days he traveled around Hokkaido on a bicycle … Continue reading →

Just a quick note while I’m at work to say thanks for joining!  Look around — most folks here are on US time, but there a re a few tucked into odd corners of the world.  There’s a chat thing which you can now access — it’s really bare-bones, and you can’t even see who is on — it literally *just* does chats.

Privacy here is respected but not enforced — that is, it’s the internet — nothing is ever truly offline once it’s online.  Just the same, I put out a good faith effort to keep things tidy.  Any poor hygiene is at least not intentional :-)

Introduce yourself!  As much or as little as you choose to share.

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This is a hot can of milk tea from a vending machine. The name of this product is 白の贅沢 which means White Luxury. Down at the bottom of the can is a blue tilted rectangle with a gold map of Hokkaido, the Northern Island of Japan. The best milk comes from there. Only the finest for this Sock.

Was it okay for me to enjoy this tea? In the future should I bring tape to cover up … Continue reading →

The elites are having their bonfire of the vanities on full display- Harvey, Paddock, Take A Knee, Pwerto Reeco and so on.

While the bubble bubbles, another business owner asked for help, so I went to see if I could assist a glazier, bleeding cash.

I get to live in a different world, where real folks do real things and try to build a business despite the sound and fury from the media.

All the noise just fades away and I see people worried about their life’s work slipping away, wondering how they got where they are.

I listen, ask a few questions, listen more and decide I just might be more good than harm in this particular case.

It all comes down to trust. So the guy … Continue reading →

This is the link. (The video in the link is NSFW.)

People fail to realize when you saw off the branch for others one should not go out on a limb.

1, 2, 3 … “This is different because these people offended MY beliefs.”

The name of the coffee shop is Bedlam. Hmm … No, even I don’t want to make a joke on such low hanging fruit. (No pun intended but I don’t feel like changing the idiom.)

What I wonder is, why is this breaking now? If it’s just Hollywood eating its own, why, bon appetit.

But the fact that Nasty Lady Ashley Judd is the lead actress in the plot makes me wonder who the investors are.

And will they change the statuette, do you think?

You may have heard they had a referendum over in Catalonia recently about leaving Spain. The central government was, um, somewhat opposed to allowing anyone to vote. In spite of that, lots of people turned out and almost all of them voted to get out. The cops gave some citizens a wood shampoo. And folks in the US talk about police brutality.

I posted this at the other cafe also.