What do you think about the Novel Literature prize being cancelled this year?

I think it's pretty intense, but I support the #MeToo movement so I guess I agree with the decision to put some space between the Nobel Literature Prize and the scandals

Yeah its weird how the prize got cancelled 8 other times but mostly due to war or mayor events, and the last time was about 6 decades ago.

I know!

It really puts things in a global and historical perspective.

Sexual assault and harassment is now being treated similarly to war and other major events.

What do you think of the whole situation?

I think its as important, its not a victimless crime so it must be taken really serious, a point must be made.

I agree.

I hate that it's become a partisan issue, people blaming it on the "sensitivity" of liberal democrats.

Did you know that the Democratic party is the oldest active political party in the US?

I  didnt know that, thout since 1853 its always been either a democrat or republican in power.

Oh I'm not sure I guess.

There's honestly so much flip-flopping between parties that it's hard to keep track of sometimes.

Reagan was originally a democrat, Trump used to be a Democrat...

I don't personally understand why it has to be such a big partisan divide.

There's so many bipartisan issues, why do we need to divide like this?

What do you think?

I also think there are too many interests at hand I think politicians should stick to a party.

You know that 15% of the Tea Party Movements identify themselves as democrats

I did not know that!

And yeah, I think there should be political parties but I think the two party system makes it hard for people not to become less in the middle when there's only two choices.

But on some issues like sexual assault I feel like everyone should support the movement

I think that having two parties only divides people, its either red or blue but both parties actually have good ideas.

Agreed.

I appreciate some of the ideas behind the party that I don't identify with.

That's one of the reasons that the two party system irks me, because I really have to vote ONLY Democrat or ONLY Republican, there aren't that many politicians who clearly support policies from both parties except the smaller parties

Yeah so enough politics, tell me do you listen to the radio?

I don't really listen to traditional radio, I think music streaming platforms have really hurt that industry.

I really only listen to Spotify now.

They have really cool playlists, podcasts, and more.

What about you?

Do you listen to radio, and if so, what type of stations?

I do listen to radio, there is a website with free classic radio dramas, I like that one and I also like Spotify.

It's kind of sad because radio has been around for so long.

In the 1930's, one of the most popular acts was actually a ventriloquist, which is hilarious (in my opinion) because how do people even appreciate the ventriloquism if they can't see the puppet?

I know right lol, one of the requisites is to see the puppet and the human interact, there is also a station that picks Jupiter storms.

That's so cool.

There's another radio station where you can hear the solar activity in the form of sound and it's like music

It sounds interesting but both radio stations seem to be really boring.

Yeah I don't know how long I could listen to something like that.

What about literature, are you a fan of literature?

I like reading, mostly fiction/crime books.

I recently read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and am now reading Gone Girl.

What's the last work of literature you read?

I am a fan of literature, did you know that the fds burned about six tons of censored literature!


Hello there, do you read the bible much?

Good morning, yes I do.
How about yourself?

I don't as much as I used to, but do find it very helpful at times.

I hear that.

I'm into history, so I find it very interesting to read.I read somewhere that Thomas Jefferson used a razor to cut out the parts he found "supernatural".

That is interesting, I never knew that about him.

Do you know who the only US presidents to get sworn in not using a bible?

No, I don't who are they?

I guess it was Teddy Roosevelt and then John Quincy Adams.

Interesting, I wonder what they used instead?

Yeah what would they even be able to use, good question.

Did you know before 1963 it was common for students to be required to read the bible as part of elementary school?

Yes, I wish it would be brought back, too.

I feel we wouldn't have as many of these problems with the children we are seeing today.

Yeah I'm not sure where I stand about religion in public schools.

It has always been a subject of debate I guess.

Well, people can say what they want but more and more we are finding out that the things talked about in the bible actually happened and are real.

Did you know the tower of Babel was likely based on a real building, the Etemenaki in modern day Iraq?

Yeah that is true, and wow!
That is such a neat fact!

People try and knock the bible, but I feel the people in it were just using their limited vocabulary to try and describe as best they could, what was happening and what they saw.

That's why I feel the Apocrypha should be included in the bible.

How do you feel about that?

Yeah I would have to agree, and a lot of things in history in general are just knowledge and stories passed down and hopefully recorded somewhere.

Alot gets lost and twisted in translation.

Take the word apple.

It onlt became known as an apple when the bible was translated into Latin in the 4th century.

That is very interesting to think about all of the words that have been translated, and what different meanings they might have.

It makes you stop and wonder what Eve really bit into or if i's just a metaphor for something.

But that's up to your own interpretation, I guess.

That is very true, and I think some of those stories were told to be open to interpretation in my opinion.

On a different, I read somewhere that Tom Hanks is the highest all time box office earner, with 8.5 Billion dollars in worldwide film earnings.

Did you know that?

Wow, that is super impressive, he is one of my favorite actors as well.

It was nice chatting with you today, I hope you have a good day!


Hello there and good morning.

Are you a religious person?

I myself do not even own the Bible despite having over 5 billion copies sold.

i am not a religious person.
i do not own a bible.
it has sold quite well.
the author must be rich LOL

Yes they must LOL.

Prior to 1963 it was not uncommon for students in the USA to be required to read from the Bible.

the classroom certainly has changed because of court cases and such.

i figure that there is value in religious texts but students should read a range of them

Yes I don't think it should be a part of education especially not elementary education.

elementary is a bit young, but high school students can read texts from world religions and understand their impact on the world.

Thomas jefferson created his own version of the bible, using a razor to cut out the 'supernatural' parts, such as the miracles and the resurrection.

maybe students could experiment the same way.

Yes that is true I agree with you on that.

Apple only became known as an Apple when the Bible was translated into Latin in the fourth century.

Quite interesting I didn't know that.

yes, the language of the bible reflects the history of language and sometime historical places and events.

it is a historical document.

It definitely is he got that right.

The biblical tower of babel was likely named after an actual building so some of it is based off real life situations.

i would love to visit the place and seen the tower that spawned the story.

Teddy roosevelt and john quincy adams are the only two us presidents that did not use a bible at their swearing-in ceremonies.

i guess they used a different document?

Yeah they must've not sure what they use though.

They have also made a lot of movies based on religious fact.

Tom Hanks is actually the highest all time box office star.

tom has got the touch!

he works with very good people too.

i figure that his name alone is worth a lot audience for any film

Yeah definitely my favorite film of his was Forrest Gump.

There have also been some box office flops like the movie Trojan wars.

I have never even heard of it.

neither have i. it must have been terrible LOL forrest gump was based on a book whose author never saw any money from the movie.

That seems unfair.

I think it's funny that the silence of the lambs came out on Valentine's Day.

Not exactly the traditional love story.

no not traditional but love is many things to many people and i guess some couples like to be scared out of their wits

Yeah that is true.

It definitely wasn't a flop like Disney's treasure planet which was one of the most expensive box office flops of all time.

i never saw that either.

disney does not always succeed.

maybe they should have put tom hanks in it LOL

Yeah maybe that would have got them a bit more money.

Disney actually considered shutting down their animation studio after sleeping beauty was the box office failure.

i think that is an extreme response.

one problem, and they turn tail?

seems like an overreaction.

im glad that they didnt stop.

lots of great movies came out after that.

Yes totally agree they have made a lot of good movies not necessarily dramas but good movies nevertheless.

Jim Carrey actually stop making dramas all together because they don't project positivity.


Do you like reading?

I do like reading.

What about you?

Did you hear about the fact that the Nobel literature prize was canceled this year by the way?

Me too, I never knew that, why was that?

It has something to do with the me-too movement.

I don't pay attention to that stuff personally, because it's just depressing

yea sounds like it, that is one person that doesn't get their dream met because of it, it is depressing for sure

How often do you read by the way?

Apparently the FDA burned about 6 tons of books at some point in order to induce censorship, that is scary actually

I read a great deal.That is very scary, it is just words!

How about you

I read sometimes.

I was shocked to learn though that there used to be a literature, music, and painting game in the Olympics, those only stopped in 1952, they seemed so subjective I wonder how they were judged

right that would be interesting to see though.

I wonder if there are old videos.

Did you know Winston Churchill won a nobel prize in literature

No I didn't know that.

I also didn't know that kissing romantically is a invention, it definitely did not exist back in Greek literature apparently

Wow, I would have thought that is where it all began.

They were all about that kind of stuff, or at least I thought so.

Do you listen to the radio much?

I listen to the radio sometimes.

But I mostly listen to YouTube when I'm driving, what about you?

Apparently you can make a radio out of a pencil and a razorblade by the way

I heard about that, they were called foxhole radios from ww2!

I would love to try it

Yes I just wonder how they were made.

I also wonder how we can pick up radio storms from Jupiter on the AM radio LOL that seems crazy to me

Right, I wonder how you even know if you got the right sound and what channel lol

That's a good question because I bet all you can hear is static haha.

Would you ever listen to a radio station that only played news that was red In classical Latin?

Apparently that radio station exist in Finland

I would definitely try it out, it sounds interesting to hear latin as a language

I actually think Latin sounds pretty interesting.

But what I don't think sounds interesting is listening to classical radio dramas, there is a website where you can listen to those online for free, but that doesn't sound interesting to me

At least it is free to try it out.
It was so nice chatting with you!

Thanks you too.

And keep in mind that there hasn't been a president who hasn't been a Republican or Democrat since 1853, we need to work on that!

for sure, that could help us all!
Enjoy your night!


Hi!

Are you familiar with the bible?

It's crazy over 5 billion copies have been sold.

I suppose that's why it's considered the best selling and most influential book of all time.

Yes, I am.

I believe it.

I am surprised that Thomas Jefferson created his own version.

I am as well.

He apparently used a razor to cut out all of the supernatural parts.

Do you think it would be called the "King Jefferson" version?

Ha!

Oh my, I don't know.

There were only two presidents that did not use the bible at their swearing in ceremonies.

Isn't that crazy?

I also can't believe it was common for students to be required to read the Bible in school for their elementary education up until 1963!

Yes, I knew that.

I would have liked to see the biblical tower of babal but not going to Iraq to see something like it!

Agreed.

It would be nice to see but you're right.

It's not worth it.

Did you also know the word apple is known as Apple because the Bible was translated into Latin and the word apple means both evil and apple?

I'll have to remember that next time I eat one.

Ha!

I saw that, I didn't know that either.

Interesting.I'm not surprised Tom Hanks is the all time box office star!

Agreed.

He's a legend for sure!

Maybe Disney should have considered him for Treasure Planet since it ended up being one of the most expensive box office bombs ever.

Ha!

Yes, a better idea.

How about that Trojan Wars That was a real winner.

lol

Yeah that had to be depressing for the filmmakers.

Only a measly  $309 earned on a massive  $15 million dollar budget.

That makes me want to cry just thinking about it.

It certainly was the polar opposite of Silence of the Lambs which made over $270 million at the box office!

True, I was surprised Disney's Sleeping Beauty was a failure and considered shutting down their animation studio!

That is surprising!

What a big mistake that would have been!

Since we're on the subject of movies, did you know Jim Carrey refuses to do dramas now because of his personal belief system.

He feels dramas don't project positivity.

I think that's good for him, honestly!

Yes, I agree, He seems so depressed anyways to me.

Michael Caine makes me laugh why he became an actor.

I saw him an interview, he said one of his tricks is to not blink as much.

lol

That's funny.

Ha!

But truthful it seems.

Speaking of Michael Caine, you know he became an actor because he claimed all the prettiest girls at his high school were in drama class?

That's hilarious!

That's what I meant so funny!

I'm not surprised.

ha, ha, ha ,Hugh Laurie is making a huge amount an episode at $700,000.

Wow!

That must be nice!

He isn't struggling for money, is he?

Ha!

We talked about Michael Caine's high school, but John Hamm actually taught drama at his high school.

Weirdly enough, Ellie Kemper from The Office was one of his students.

It's a small world, isn't it?

Yes, it is.
They all know each other.
The office always made me laugh!

Agreed!

I love both comedies and dramas.

In fact, there's a website that has thousands of classical radio dramas you can listen to for free.

That's amazing!

I've heard about that one.
Free classic radio dramas.
Good chat!
!

So true!

And before I go, in terms of drama and in case you weren't aware of this, the two masks that's associated with drama actually represents the generic division between tragedy and comedy!

I found that interesting.

Well it was great chatting with you.

Take care, friend!


Do you enjoy literature?

I do, actually.

I've wondered how people qualify for a Nobel Prize in literature, but it looks like due to a #MeToo scandal in the academy, there won't be one

I guess the panel of judges have to deem you worthy

I guess there's a different panel for the varying categories, because the award for literature is the only one affected by the reports

Do you know how many nobel prizes there are in total?

I don't, actually.

I guess there are 18 committee members total though

I always thought there were only 6 categories

I think you're right.

Literature covers all the various types of written works.

Winston Churchill's Nobel Prize was in Literature

In any case the metoo scandal was a shame since it canceled out the nobel prize for literature which would mean a lot to most writers

I know.

All because of one guy.

And it seemed to be an ongoing thing he was doing, and it just now is becoming a big deal

Well I won't deny that this one person's actions damaged the integrity of the nobel prize.

Shame on him

And this is the first time in more than 60 years that a prize won't be given

I mean a lot of people stepped down or worked tirelessly to restore their marred repuation

That's really hard on a lot of people.

For about 40 years, literature was part of the Olympic events

I think that is because literature is such a valued art and skill.

I find it hilarious however there is a contest where writers try to come up with the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.

It would be interesting to see the novels on that list and to found out if those sentences have been used in good novels

True.

It would be interesting to see how they recover from those worst hook sentences

Have you ever read any ancient Greek literature?

I guess it's rare to find romantic kissing in those scripts because it's a more recent development

I have read literary works like homer's iliad during my youth, but not much else

I'm glad that's not one of the six tons of literature that the FDA burned as part of US censorship.

It makes me wonder what they didn't want us to read

That is a mystery we will never know.

In any case, it was a pleasure chatting with you.


Do you enjoy literature?

Some, You?

It's a shame that the nobel prize for literature wasn't awarded in 2018

I know it was awarded for everything else.

There was a gold medal won for literature written about sports.

I mean usually they don't if no one deserves it but this time it was due to the MeToo Scandal

That was a cause well worth the reevaluation and well overdue.

Romantic kissing is a recent development and not really mentioned in ancient Greek literature.

Do you think their decisions to withhold the reward sometimes is the right thing to do?

I guess it depends on the circumstances but i lean toward not being fair.

I agree

Did you know Bill Murray voiced the Human Torch in the 70's radio show.

I didn't know bill murray did that.
Did you listen to radio often?

Not really everything's digital now, you know?

I do remember old radio shows though like the Shadow.

What was the shadow about?

It was a Drama Thriller Radio broadcast later made into a movie played by Alec Baldwin.

That sounds pretty cool.

Did you know there is a free website to listen to thousands of classic radio dramas?

No i did not, that sounds pretty cool.

Hey Terry Pratchett was Knighted for his Service to Literature, it was for Comedic Fantasy.

That pretty cool.

Did you know winston churchill won a nobel prize for literature instead of peace?

Wow, that almost seems like an insult.

Back in the day one of the most popular Radio acts was a Ventriloquist act.

Now that's funny!

You would even be able to tell if it is ventriloquism at all lol

Right!

You know they say that Bing Crosby filled more recording time than the allocated time to record music in 1948.

In any case, thanks for chatting.


do you ever read the bible?

No but it was kind of a requirement in school until 1963

Yeah pretty recent.

Did you know Jefferson had its own version of it

Yes he used a razor to cut out the supernatural

Yeah he really did not believe in the supernatural stuff was in there

Yeah.

Do you know why apple is known as such, the fruit?

THat was after the bible was translated from latin because it comes from the word malus which also means evil

Yeah.

Do you know much about the Tower of Babel?

Yes that is supposed to be the etemenanki in Iraq today

Yeah.

Did you know US presidents can choose not to swear in using a  bible?

Yes and Roosevelt and Quincy did that, they did not use one

Yeah.

Did you know it is the most sold book in the world?

Yes it has sold over 5 billion copies by now

Yeah.
Do you like movies?

I love movies Do you know who is the highest grossing actor?

Yes that would be Tom Hanks with $8.5 billion

Yeah that is a lot.

Do you know the budget for the Trojan Wars movie?

Yes over $15 million but they made only $309.

Yeah that was a bummer.

Treasure Planet is the most expensive movie made though

And it was also the biggest flop for Disney too

That is a lot of money going to waste.
Super nice chatting today.


Hi there are you a fan of rap?

Yes I am.

I like how it rhymes and incorporates street vernacular.

Cool!

Rapper Tupac Shakur's music is in the library of congress of "cultural significance".

Interesting.

Well deserved.

Eminem wanted to become a comic book artist instead of a rapper!

That's pretty neat I think.

In 2001 a Michigan judge delivered her ruling in the form of a rap when trying a suit filed against rapper Eminem.

lol

That is kind of funny I wonder if it is on youtube?

Korean rappers invented a new type of freestyle called compliment battle.

I don't know but I'm going to have to look.

That sounds funny throwing compliments back and forth.

lol

Yes it does lol.

Busta Rhymes voiced a Rugrats movie in 1998!

I actually remember hearing that somewhere.

Are you a fan of superheroes?

I don't know too much about them.

lol

I like Superheroes!

There are actually 300 superheroes registered in the US!

That's pretty neat.

There was a comic series about fixing collateral damage caused by superheroes.

Interesting.

They do cause a lot of damage!

Have you heard about the superhero normalman?

He has no powers!

Haha I haven't but that's great!

Marvel comics creator Stan Lee wrote 15 DC comics, re-imagining popular superheroes like Batman and Spiderman.

He was a true visionary.

There was even a superhero series about Garfield and the gang!

That's funny!
Are you an NBA fan?

Yes I like to watch a game from time to time.

Reggie Miller was fun to watch but his sister may have been even better.

I saw that she scored 105 points and broke 8 national records in a game!

Truly an amazing accomplishment.

His career high at that time was 40 points!

That is something!

Physicists proved that shooting my favorite style...the granny style is the absolute best technique to consistently score points from the free throw line!

It's been fun chatting!

Too bad players think it looks stupid!

They could all improve their percentages by using it!

Nice talking with you too enjoy your day!

lol yes.
Have a good day too!


do you like the NBA?

I sure do.
l do you know who Reggie Miller is?

Yeah he is the guy who was shadowed by his sister always

Yeah she broke 8 national records and scored 105 points in a game

Yeah what a family of talents in there really

Yes.
Do you know the player Allen Iverson?

Yes a super famous player who signed that crazy contract with Rebook

Yeah they are paying $800 000 until he turns 55 and then a lump sum of 32 million

Yeah he is pretty much good for life I guess

yes he is ,DO you know what is the granny shot style?

Yesh it is the one scientists say is the best one to score but players to do not use it much

Yeah and only because it looks funny, strange

I know right?

AIr Jordan were initially banned in the NBA court

Yeah but Nike kept paying the fees and Jordan kept wearing them

They must have made so many sales there and it was nothing to pay those fees

Exactly.

Did you know Duncan finished college first and then joined the NBA?

Yeah he was smart, got both the degree and the career in the NBA

Yeah smart guy.
DO you like superheroes?

I sure do.

THere was a comic series to try and fix the damage they cause

Haha nice one.

THere are 300 superheroes in the US that are registered

Have you heard of the superhero Normalman?


Hi, how are you?
Do you like rap music?

Good morning.

Yes I love rap music.

It's essentially a musical form of vocal delivery.

I am not really a fan of rap music.
i prefer melody and harmony.
who is your favorite rapper?

Got it.

I don't really have one.

But Tupac was definitely one of the greats.

His music is in the Library of Congress of cultural significance.

His music was the voice of a generation.

he changed a lot about rap.

he deserves recognition.

too bad he is gone.

Yes you are correct.

Tragic that he died.

Eminem is also a great rapper.

A Michigan judge delivered her ruling in the form of a rap when trying a suit against the rapper.

That is funny.

i guess the judge saw her chance to get down with her bad self.

LOL

Haha yes indeed.

Korean rappers invented a new type of freestyle called compliment battle.

Sounds very nice!

that sounds very nice.
being respectful to others.
i wonder how you win.

Whoever is the nicest maybe?

Eminem didn't always want to become a rapper, he wanted to be a comic book artist!

He loved the superhero Spiderman.

Do you like Superhero's?

I think he would have make a good artist, but he is a better rapper.

i dont really follow superheroes.

Yes true.

There was a comic series about fixing collateral damage caused by superheroes!

That sounds like a terrible job!

fixing up messes, gettting none of the glory.

Yes I agree.

Not the most glorious job.

There are over 300 registered superheroes in the US.

How do you even register become a superhero?

I wonder.
that would be a cool birthday present.
"Hey, here ya go!"

Yes that would be very cool.

There's even a Garfield book series spinoff named pet force which featured Garfield and the gang as superheroes.

Yeah, garfield needs a boost.
not terribly funny.
might be a good superhero though.

Yes I agree with you there.

I like how each comic often has at least one super villain who is often the superheroes archenemy.

Yes, i guess that helps drive the narrative forward.

the conflict between the two gives rise to a story.

Exactly.

It makes victory all that much sweeter.

Stan Lee wrote 15 DC comics reimagining popular superheroes like Batman and Superman.

It was great talking with you this morning.

Yes, i enjoyed chatting!
have a good day.

Bye now!


do you like the NBA?

yes I do.
Do you know who Reggie MIller is?

Yes he is a great players but his sister was always better than him

Yeah she once scored 105 points and broke 8 national records

Yeah what a family of really talented kids

Yeah.

Did you hear of the deal Iverson signed with Rebook?

Yes he is getting $800 000 per year until he is 55

yes and then he gets $32 million after that

Yeah they guy is safe to say that is pretty set for life

Yeah.
Do you know what the granny shot is?

Yes it is the best shot to score but players do not use it much

Yes they think it looks funny.
Do you like superheroes?

I do, there is a series that looks at the collateral damage they cause

Cool.

There are 300 of them registered in the US

Yeah.
Have you heard of the normalman?

Yes that is the superhero that has no superpowers

Cool.

Did you know Stan Lee reimagined superheroes in 15 DC COmics series?

Nice.

There was even a garfield spin off where he and his gans are superheroes

Nice.
Do you like rap music?

I like some of Tupac and Eminem's music, and you?

Me too.
They set the grounds for it.
Nice chatting with you

And same with you.


How are you?

Do you use Facebook?

It's crazy they are valued at 104 billion dollars

I'm great.

I actually don't use Facebook...

I feel like I'm one of the few people that don't.

Even though I'm still in my 20's, I just grew tired of all the drama, political nonsense, etc.

of Facebook.

How about you?

I use it sometimes but not much even though I made a profile 2 years after Mark Zuckerberg founded facebook in 2004

Do you think Facebook will still be popular and relevant 5-10 years from now, or do you think something else will take its place?

Facebook will probably still be around, they are always buying potential competitors websites, too bad Myspace didn't do the same when it could of bought facebook for 75 million

It's funny you mentioned MySpace...

I actually enjoyed using MySpace way more than Facebook.

I was pretty loyal until about 2010 when everyone finally left.

Did you ever use MySpace?

Yea back when I was in High School, I liked the experience better than facebook.

I stopped using it in 2005 though, right when Myspace could of bought facebook

What do you primarily use Facebook for now?

Do you get news information from Facebook or is it simply for fun/social aspects?

Mostly to make smart ass comments to my friends, I don't follow news on facebook, things like that and rewriting a constitution like Finland should be done on a more respectable platform

I agree...

I always enjoyed the social aspect of Facebook and an outlet from the stress of everyday life, but now everything seems to have gotten really political.

Are you concerned with the data sharing incidents Facebook has dealt with recently?

Personally no because I don't share sensitive data but it is troubling how much data they share to advertisers

Agreed...

It seemed like it was somewhat overblown.

It's not like you're inputting your social security number or anything like that into Facebook.

Most of it is information websites could get pretty easily anyway.

How do you feel about Mark Zuckerburg as a leader/CEO?

I heard he want to completely get rid of online anonymity which I don't agree with, plus I don't really like the blue layout he has because of his red-green color blindness

It's funny that the like button is illegal in the german state of Schleswig-holstein...

I actually wish Facebook gave people more options, instead of just like or dislike.

Maybe in Schleswig-holstein facebook is causing a moral panic like novels did back in the 1700s

I wish more people would get off facebook and start reading more novels.

Maybe then someone could challenge the world record for speed reading, which is 4700 words per minute

4,700 words per minute is pretty fast, I wonder how long it would take Anne Jones to read the bible

I bet she could probably read it in a couple days...

I bet she probably already has.

Do you have a favorite book or author?

My favorite book was To Kill a Mockingbird back when I read it in high school

Oh, that is a good one.

I really liked Atticus Finch as a character.

Did you ever see the old black and white movie?

I personally like CS Lewis.

Lewis and Tolkein used to have "you laugh you lose

Yea I saw that film and Starship Troopers lol, I heard Starship Troopers is suggested reading in the US military

I can understand why, it's definitely very good.

Ender's Game is also suggested for many military organizations.

I may have to check that out.
Well I have to go.
Nice talking with you


hey there, do you use facebook?

hey, yes I do have it but I rarely use it myself, what about you?

from time to time.
how about myspace, did you ever use it?

haha I personally didn't but I have friends who did, it's funny that myspace turned down an offer to buy facebook for only 75 million, they must be kicking themselves!

i know that is so much money.

did you know the like button is illegal in some countries?

I saw that I think it was in some German state, I dont' knwo how you can make a literal button illegal on the internet but Germany found a way, did you hear about the burger king facebook promotion?

defriending people?

I wonder what it is in it for them thought.

seems strange.

well if you defriend 10 people you get a free whopper, and that person gets a message saying you only valued them as 1/10 the worth of a whopper haha

hahaha that is funny.
do you like swimming?

well I haven't swam since I was a kid but it is really fun, what about you?

yeah I love it really.

have you heard the dolphin style swim competitions?

haha I have, I guess they tie their hands and feet and swim like a dolphin like that, sounds exhausting!

it does that must be so hard.

At cornell you need to pass a swimming test to graduate.

ya I know that I live in Michigan and we are required in school to pass a swimming test, did you hear about the swim suit that was banned from the olympics?

Really?

No i did not know about that.

I know the US has the most gold medals in the world in this sport.

oh interesting, and ya the swimsuit was so successful that before it was banned, it was used in 94% of races

wow, interesting.

Do you know who introduced the front crawl swimming stroke?

I don't, I have never heard of that swimming move, what do you know about it?

apparently it was so good that they managed to beat the british who only used a breaststroke.

wow that is interesting, do you ever read books?

I mostly do audiobooks personally

I love reading ebooks and books, there is so much to learn.

It was nice chatting with you.


I'm glad there had been a hotline started for street harassment happening.

Too bad you can't just summons Wonder Woman, instead!

Exactly!

Haha, I think this column of Amy's is a good thing where people can ask questions while alerting others too.

She seems to give good advice!

I wonder what she'd say if I told her I wish I could have Wonder Woman's Bracelets of Submission?

What a fantasy...could be dangerous, though, I bet...

Haha, I would love to hear her advice on that one!

I like how she made the man who is having fantasys about a younger woman feel at ease and told him how to handle it, she seems pretty good at her job.

Yes, some people have fantasies that could mean something bad for them in real life...

Right, but I suppose if not acted upon and they are not horrible there is no harm really, our brains are strange things sometimes.

I like fantasy, either in literature or films, like The Lord of the Rings, the Return of the king, or Wonder Woman lol all harmless.

Lord of the Rings is a great fantasy!

I heard it was created out of thoughts stemming from real life happenings around a war.

It is!

Really?

I didn't know that.

Very interesting!

I like funny fantasy too, like the Delorean car in Back to the Future lol, fantasy is fun.

Yes!

That car is amazing...what a fantasy to drive one like it!

I wonder if they will be making another sequel to that movie?

I loved those movies, so funny and interesting too!

I hope they do make another.

They should get the whole cast back together but they are all pretty old now.

That new Mad Max movie was a very interesting one...kinda about cars.

I remember watching the old one, too.

That was a great movie!

I think all films are fantasy in a way, unless it is based on a true story, but one of my favorites is Gone in 60 Seconds.....amazing cars in that movie!

Yeah that is one of the best car movies ever!

Fast and Furious had good trick driving in it...enough to impress Wonder Woman?

I love Fast and the Furious movies!

I own them all on DVD lol....great cars and great cast which I am sure would impress Wonder Woman hahaa, She does have an invisible jet so.....

That would be a good car movie: Combine Fast and Furious with superheroes and give them custom cars!

Right!!

Hahaha, you have the best fantasy movie idea right there!

The cars would be amazing in a movie like that!!

They could make a lot of money selling kids car toys based off of that, I bet!

lol

Definitely!

Huge market!

Maybe they could sell Wonder Womans invisible jet too....they did have a special viewing of it for one day only at the Smithsonian.....

Wow!

I want to see it!

They should make a  thing for kids to draw their own fantasy car and then have it 3D printed, too...I'd want one, too!

Another great idea!

You could let your imagination turn fantasy into reality hahaaa.....there is actually a University to go and study fantasy...you could learn all you could imagine lol!

A University for fantasy?
I love it!
I play a fantasy game called PWI.
How do you qualify for that University?

I do not know how you get in but I am sure you probably have to write a paper and use your best idea's but it would be very cool!

I took a sort of fantasy class when I was in college...mythology.

It was sort of disappointing, though.

I love Mythology, but that was years ago and not in college but it was interesting.

Fantasy is such an interesting thing...it could apply to so much it boggles my mind.

Yes, just Wonder Woman alone could have numerous fantasy movie sequels made.

Exactly, and you can take fantasy back to the earliest days of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, not pretty fantasy but dark and scary.

Daydreaming is fantasy....movies, books, tv, so much!

Dark and scary fantasy was used for kids, too.

I think it was to keep them from doing dangerous things!


Hi, do you play any fantasy sports?

I dont.
i dont really understand them.
do you play?

I play fantasy football.

Did you know there is a fantasy national spelling bee?

i am not surprised.
is there a way to make money off it?
then people will play.

Yes, you can make money off of it.

There's actually a fantasy congress where you draft congressmen and points are based off legislative success.

That is great!

usually i find politics boring.

maybe if there were money in it, i would pay attention!

LOL

Haha.

Did you know a single fold in the brain makes the difference between reality and fantasy?

I wonder if people ever have trouble with that fold.

some people seem to have trouble maintaining the distinction.

Possibly.

Terry Pratchett was knighted for his services to literature.

I havent read his stuff.

i know that he is quite popular and humorous.

Me either.

There was a janitor in Chicago that wrote a 15,145 page fantasy manuscript.

that is a labor of love.

i wonder if it is a good story.

i bet it was a good escape from the grind of being a janitor.

I bet.
Did you ever seen Wonder Woman?

I never saw the movie.
That is the one with gal gadot?

Yes.

It is the highest grossing superhero origin movie.

Wow, i guess i should see it then!

I usually dont go to superhero films because they have a lot of CG effects.

not much story.

Me either.

When Wonder Woman first appeared as a member of the Justice Society, the group had made her secretary.

That is so amazingly sexist, but i am not surprised.

what else would she do?

in those days women got stuck with those jobs.

I agree.
Do you like cars?

I do like cars.
I dont have one at the moment.
Do you?

I love cars as well.
Well, it was good talking to you.
Have a great day.


Have you ever experienced street harassment?

I suppose if you are male, you would not consider it, but as a woman, you might be offended.

Hello there, I don't I really have but I don't live in a big city.

How about you?

Never experienced it.
What do you think one should do?
Report them to the police?

I don't think the police, unless it was a serious offense.

I think just maybe start a social media campaign about that specific area and see if others have had trouble there.

Oh, good idea.

If it is already a problem, it could be an area that is being watched.

It would be smart to tell someone before something terrible happens.

Yeah prevention is usually the best way to avoid being a victim.

Of course, if one is writing a social media letter, it may be a good way to get the word out.

Yeah I think social media is good because people can add what they want and are able to see everything that everyone has to offer to help.

Right.

This will get awareness and create a local group to watch out for each other.

If others are around, a group can be intimidating.

Maybe an attention getting sound could bring in the troops.

That is a really good idea, loud sounds or something like that could work well.

Most women cannot defend themselves, I'm afraid.

Now, if I had my Wonder Woman attitude, maybe I could shake them up.

Ha.

Did you see

Uh oh

Yeah I'm sorry my finger slipped while I was typing.

I was going to ask if you happen to have seen the Wonder Woman film?

I thought that may have been the problem.

No I didn't see it, but I heard that Gal gadot played a good character.

I understand that she was in the Israeli military for two years.

Yeah that is so interesting, I heard she was really good in the movie as well, but I have not seen it yet.

She evidently thought she was auditioning for catwoman, and was awarded the role of Wonder Woman.

She must have been very good.

That is too funny, she must have been.

I guess the lego movie was the first ever to have wonder woman's character in it.

Really?

I don't remember that.

I think wonder woman was a great success in the theater.

It beat out the other superhero original movies at the box office.

Yeah I think you are right, I think they will have a few more Wonder Woman films down the road due to the success.

I'm sure.
Well, It's been fun.
Have a blessed day.


Hello,  do you play any fantasy games?
like fantasy football?

No.

I play actual Football though.

I liked driving games as a Kid, but now that I can drive I don't play them.

Did you know people actually play fantasy spelling bee?

lol

That's quite odd.

I don't usually get into Fantasy.

However I might see the new Wonder Woman movie because I met Gal Gadot once.

wow how did you meet her?
I love her in fast n furious series.

She was at an Israeli Venture Capital conference.

We sat on the same panel.

I was dealing with some car battery tech (electric car) that has Israeli roots.

My first car had French roots.

Cadillac.

Wow that is awesome.

Is she nice?

She seems like a nice person I have seen some interviews.

Yes,  the new wonder woman looks amazing.

It is the highest gross wwi movie!

She's very friendly.

Very respectful.

Really into representing Israel.

She should make a great Wonder Woman, and one that won't settle for secretary of the Justice League.

i think its funny that she didnt even know she was auditioning for wonder woman lol

That's crazy.
But doing Catwoman works for anyone.
Just leave Robin at home.

haha.

Right,  shes a great actress,  she wouldve been good as catwoman as well.

Did you know she served in the Israeli Defense Forces?

I did know that,  she revealed it in an interview I watched.

I wonder if Mcdonalds in Israel gives her free Happy Meals.

I hear they treated WWII soldiers well.

Why would they give her free happy meals?

She didnt really serve in the wwi.

I hear mc donalds invented the drive thru for soliders.

Well, she wasn't exactly playing video games like Jann Mardenborough....although that worked out OK for him

Yeah thats odd that he became professional just from playing a video game.

Crazy.

But South Africa is almost like a real life video game.

Flame throwers to prevent car jackings are legal there.

wow that sounds like they have a serious problem!

Probably more than a few bodies in the trunk of their cars.

BTW, they are called trunks b/c they used to be wooden.

Not unlike a casket

That is really interesting,  its been great talking to you.

Bye.


Youtube or Google, which is your favorite search engine?

Google no doubt

For sure, I like that google has goats eat their grass instead of hiring people to cut it, lol

YouTube is a remarkable technical achievement

I agree, I heard that Gangnam style almost broke youtube when it came out

Yes, that was by far the world-wide leader in hits and watches!

Definitely, the one song I hated most and i think everyone else did was Baby by Bieber, what do you think of the song?

It stinks.

You know a friend is a mechanic, and he says business is down from people fixing their own cars from You Tube videos!

That is my first go to for car troubles, it has saved a lot of money, but that makes sense!

Also training video makers too are down, police created blutube for their videos

Right.

I did not know what a "hamburger Button" was until I read it here.

what is a hamburger button?

A three horizontal line menu button usually at the top of a page

I did not know that and now I can't unsee that lol!

I love the internet!

You can even get it on the top of mt everest!

Yes so true.

I also did not know the evening news calculated travel time by car in how fast android phones are going down the road!

that makes sense, probably so easy.

Almost as easy as reading the terms of service that only 7% of people actually do

Good point.

Google is so big, I understand they have 16 lane highways to their headquarters.

WHAT?

that is a crazy amount, I wonder what traffic looks like, probably better than around here

I do not know.

But that place is tighter than fort knox, that is why I use Drice cloud.

I bet it is.

A single google search requires more computing power than it took to send the astronauts to the moon!

Sorry DRIVE cloud.

I read that.

That is truly amazing.

And a lot of people with slide rules I suppose!

I bet it does!
Good chatting with you!


Do you use YouTube?

I love using youtube, it is my second favorite search engine behind google, how about you?

Its also the second most popular search engine out there, I do use it, Google owns the company so that explains the success of the company

that makes sense!

I never knew Google owned it, I wonder how much they bought it for and when

They bought the comany in 2006 and for a value of $1.65 billion

wow, imagine if they waited and bought it a few years ago, it probably would have been 10x that!

Good investment.

Do you remember gangnam style?

Yeah I remember Gangnam Style, really funny video

for sure and funny dance, it was a craze, it almost broke youtube!

I did hear about that lol, they had to upgrade the count integer only because of that video, I thought that was really funny

for sure, it isn't as good as baby by bieber, that is the most disliked video, i wonder what they did for that ha

I hated that video lol, did you know that Netflix and Youtube make half of the peak traffic in North America

I did not know that, it makes sense.

sometimes I watch them both at the same time lol.

I love the internet!

I love the internet as well, I think its a great invention, has saved my life more than once

For sure lol, I wish I read the terms of service more.

Only 7% of people actually do, I wonder if i sold my soul to the devil!

I know I never do lol, maybe we both did, still a great tool just have to  be more careful with those terms and fine print

for sure, that is where they get you.

I may look at the terms if i ever go to mt everest, they can get interent on the peak!

Woah theres signal there?

that is amazing.

Can you imagine life without the internet?

there would be chaos in the street,

It is 3g!

I couldn't imagine life without the internet, sometimes I wish we could go back to simpler times before kids changed forever

Those were good times, maybe less internet would be a good thing, Im just glad there a copy stored of the whole thing

Me too, that would be good if the apocolypse happened!

It was so nice chatting with you!

It was nice chatting I agree, but I think the apocolypse would be terrible.


Hi, how are you?

Hello, I am good, thanks for asking how are you?

Did you know who Stewart Lupton was?

I had no clue?
You?

No, but it looks like he died really young!

Yeah.

43 is too young, especially since I am only 40!

I need more than 3 years!

It's too bad because it looks like he was another incredible artist that we lost too soon and drugs were again a major factor

ANytime you compare a stage presence to Iggy Pop, there's a ton of talent.

Oh for sure.
So are you an Iggy Pop fan?

A little but I could not understand a lot of the hype.

I knew he was great and I knew I was looking at greatness, I just couldn't get into it.

You?

Yeah was never much of a fan, but my dad at least listened to him a little.

And his photos on music magazines were always interesting to look at it

I'm listening to Jonathon Fire Eater on Spotify now and it's' not bad.

Has like that early 70's sound.

Although it's only the first song on the album.

I think that's why a lot of people liked him and his music, from what I'm reading.

People still revert back to that 70s funk and/or psychedelic sound that made music fun to listen to

Yeah.

The sound is familiar but it's not quite the 70s like zeppelin or the beatles.

Maybe like the doors...

I liked listening to the Doors, my dad listened to them and to Boston, also  the Who.

I like all of those bands a lot.

Those are nice choices.

I wish we had that kind of sound in today's music.

I find myself reverting back to older music.

I cannot think of a great rock band today outside of like the Foo Fighters.

I love the Foo Fighters.

I still think it's so awesome that I used to watch the lead singer play drums for Nirvana back in the 90s, and then to see him be so successful leading his own band!

Which songs are your favorite of theirs?

I love Hero.

But I also think of that awesome football montage from Varsity Blues when I hear it so it also gets me fired up.

Yea.

Hero was great.

I like Monkey Wrench and Everlong, those were great songs too

That Everlong intro is really good.

I recognize it right away.

And if another song has a similar intro, I get sad when it's not everlong.

Yes.

the first song I heard from Foo Fighters was in 1995 or 96 I think, "I don't owe you anything".

Way different style but intense and upbeat.

Much different than Nirvana... Nice chatting with you.


How are you?

Are you into poetry at all?

Poetry comes from the greek term poiesis

I work at a performing arts school.

It's interesting how fame strikes a few people and misses so many others.

Yea, apparently Edgar Allan Poe only received $9 for "The Raven"

Yes.

But how much would that nine dollars be worth today?

Maybe that was his first sale.

I don't know, maybe the $9 would be worth $100 today, still undervalued for an Edgar Allan Poe classic

True.

Some artists are not valued in their own lifetimes.

I guess Stewart Lupton was one of those artists.

Did you ever hear of him?

The name sounds familiar but I'm not quite sure I knew who he was, I read he died at 43 recently

Yeah.

I just read the article but I never heard of him before today.

Sounds like he nearly missed fame.

Yea, his band Jonathan Fire Eater signed a million-dollar record deal and released an album, not too bad

Yup.

And he had the chance to meet other rock icons like Patti Smith.

You know I'd rather have a bunch of money and meet a bunch of famous people like Patti Smith and not be famous

That's a good point.

Live under the radar and avoid the paparazzi.

I like that plan.

Yea, Lupton was able to write music and he enjoyed and perform it, it's like he got all the pros of being a musician and hardly any of the cons of fame

It's still nice to get some recognition.

It would be cool to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And if people recognize you, you can get a free meal every once in a while.

Yes, accolades are good but I don't know if I want a best selling album like Hybrid Theory and tour 320+ days in a year like Linkin Park

Agreed.

I can't beleive Hybrid Theory is the best selling album of the 21st century.

Yea, and how NWA was able to go platnium with Straight Outta Compton despite no touring or airplay

Now taht I think of it... Who buys albums these days?

Everything is available streaming- probably for free somewhere.

Well they still issue Vinyl LPs since 1948

Yes.

And there are die-hard fans that buy it.

I haven't bought a CD or vinyl for like ten years.

No I stick to MP3 mostly, I might go back to the cassette for nostalgia though, Even though they stopped producing those in the 2000s

Brings back memories.
Well...
I'm going to check out now.
Good to talk with you.

Peace bro


Hi, how are you?

Good, just finishing up reading a book.

I would say I was successful because I was able to comprehend what I read.

Nice!
What was the book?

It was Starship Troopers.

Did you know that was the first science fiction novel on the three reading lists of all five US military branches?

HAHAHA... No, I did not know that!
What an open!
Nicely done...

Thank you!

If only I could read faster I could read more books.

For example Anne Jones can read up to 4700 words per minute.

But how many of those words could she comprehend?

I bet it was less than you with Starship Troopers!

Probably so.

I still think that was interesting that was on all five reading lists.

Ender's Game for example was on suggested reading for the Marine Corps.

Speaking of games, CS Lewis and Tolkien held "you laugh you lose" competitions when reading terrible poetry

I don't think I'd be laughing too much just listening to bad poetry.

I would rather read novels, even if they were terrible ones.

For some reason there was a moral panic over novels back in the 1700's.

Teachers would be so happy if we had that moral panic now-a-days!

Like 2 100 year olds when they released their first rap album.

Wow, that would be crazy.

I wonder how much they got paid for that.

Edgar Allan Poe only received $9 for the his "The Raven"

I hope he got some back end points.

I hear John Hader only got like $5K for Napoleon Dynamite.

I didn't know that.

I'm more of a fan of poetry than movies though.

did you know that the Japanese alphabet when recited in order actually forms a poem.

I didn't know that.
What else do you know about it?

Not much more about that, but I do know that Demetri Martin once wrote a 224 word palindrome poem.

Wow, that's crazy!

Like Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" is the best-selling album of the 21st century.

I like Linkin Park.

They are named after a park in Baltimore.

Really?
I had no clue.
I like listening to them at the gym.

Yeah, they are from Baltimore.

I still like Pink Floyd more though.

Like The Dark Side of the Moon, which is still one of the best selling albums.

Nice chatting with you.


Hi there, seen any good videos on YouTube lately?

I watch Youtube daily, am subscribed to many channels.

Did you know it is the second largest search engine on the internet?

Yes, and together with Netflix they make up half of North American internet traffic!

Yes, and they also provide access to content from partners like CBS, the BBC, and Hulu, so they're kind of doing double duty!

Youtube is one of many Internet services owned by Google.

Yes, it's pretty crazy that they only paid $1.65 billion for it in 2006!

Googleplex, the Google headquarters, is located in Mountain View, California since 2015.

They are reorganizing as a corporate entity called Alphabet in which Google will continue to be the company providing their Internet services.

Yes, they used to use goats instead of humans to mow their lawns there.

Goats are awesome, my niece loves them!

They don't get enough attention compared to other farm animals.

I'm sure there are plenty of sites devoted to the underappreciated goats on the internet--you can find anything there!

I'm sure I can spend all night looking at goats online- the Internet is measurably addicting!

Yes, it's kind of crazy that the 3 line horizontal line menu is named after an addicting food, the hamburger haha

I love hamburgers too!

Maybe I'll use one of the online food delivery services to buy a half dozen cheeseburgers.

I am getting hungry now anyway.

I wonder if they deliver to Mt.

Everest--you can get internet access even up there!

I'm sure nobody delivers to the top of Mt.

Everest, though maybe they deliver to base camps at the bottom.

They have to spend a lot of time acclimating at base camp, it's a good thing they have so much entertainment available online to keep them from getting bored.

They definitely have time to read those full terms for services and products, which only 7% of people do.

I'm sure only 7% of those 7% actually understand what they're reading.

I sure don't!

No, not everyone is as smart as the founders of Google, who met while they were pursuing PhDs at Stanford.

I wonder if they could have predicted how big their company would become, seems like a lot of these Internet sites were started by college students.

They certainly were ambitious, although I'm sure other people tried other ways.

Nice chatting!


A lot of people get their music from the internet.

I still buy CD's.

I like to collect music albums.

Really!

What type of music do you collect?

Linkin park's "hybrid theory" is the best-selling album of the 21st century.

Pop music.

I like Rob Thomas, Pink, Linkin Park, etc.

I own hybrid theory by linkin park

Me too!

Reel big fish re-recorded all of their hits for a best of album after losing the rights to their old record label.

That was smart.
Why not?

I love Reel Big Fish.

They have a song, Beer, that we celebrate with for big events like weddings...

I have never heard that song.

I will search the internet now that you mentioned it.

Despite being released over 40 years ago, the dark side of the moon was still one of the best-selling albums of 2014.

Love Pink Floyd too!

I have never heard dark side of the moon either.

Where have I been?

Dark side of the moon came out in like 1967 so if you are young, you can be excused...

You are kind.

Two identical twins from japan released a rap album when they turned 100 years old in 1992.

I'm sure they have passed away by now.

Nwa's straight outta compton was the first album to reach platinum status without the support of airplay or a major tour

That was amazing.

You can reach platinum status via internet now, without the support of airplay or a major tour.

In the 18th century there was a "moral panic" because of the spread of the reading of novels.

What was the reason for the "moral panic"?

Too many smart people.
Like the bizzaro-present...

I see.

Do you know that Starship troopers is the first sci-fi novel on the reading lists of three of the five us military branches?

I question the judgement of those three...

The world record for speed reading is held by anne jones, with a reading speed of 4,700 words per minute

How can someone read those many words per minute?

Perhaps it is "fake news"?

How can they retain it?

I can barely read a few words let alone 4700.

I don't know if it was possible to read the words let alone retain them.

Yeah.

Cs lewis and tolkien held "you laugh you lose" competitions when reading terrible poetry

I've got to run now.
Nice chatting with you.

Ditto!


do you use facebook?

All the time.

Did you know Myspace lost the chance to buy facebook?

Yes that was for $75 million, they could have made billions by now

Yeah I agree.

Did you know the like button is illegal in parts of germany

I wodner what happened there for it to become illegal

Yeah.
Do you know why it is blue?

It is blue because Mark is green red colorblind

Yeah.

Did you hear what they are using it for in Iceland?

Yes they are rewriting the constitution using facebook

Yeah that is being really transparent as a government

Yeah I know.

Did you hear of the Burger King promotion on facebook?

Yes if you unfriend 10 people in there you get a free whooper

I wonder how that promotion went as that is easy to do

Yeah true.
Do you know much about the sun?

I know that in reality it is white but we see it as yellow

Yes that is all because of atmospheric scattering

Yeah.

Dd you know that a lightning bolt is 5 times hotter than the sun?

Yes and the sun produces enough energy in one second to last us half a million years

yeah pretty cool.
Do you know how large is the sun?

One bilionth of the size of the largest star ,amazing.

Nice chat today

yes same here


hi how are you?
did you like this planet of ours?

lol It's quite interesting.
Beats trying to poop in space I guess!

i guess pooping in the final frontier is the final frontier of pooping.

That it is.

I was thinking more of a gold rush type scenario given the cost of $19 million to attach a fridge to a toilet.

Fairly confident I could hook them up for less.

the whole point is to charge as much as humanly possible.

you want to get on that gravy train to space, my friend.

Like, say, chopping down trees?

Kinda odd to envision more than 80% of the planet's forests have been destroyed.

we have been taking and taking.

eventually there will come a point where nothing is left.

we will need to start planting forests of trees that can produce helium.

Woah.

That's interesting.

Most people I encounter are extremely apathetic to the environment.

They're all on board with ideas to improve until it forces a change in routine or causes an additional expense.

yes, we want to preserve things in a way that does not inconvenience us.

soon we will be inconvenienced, no matter what.

We have not been here very long either.

Very true.

Hey, speaking of truth, Netflix and YouTube make up half of North America's peak internet traffic.

Sadly, I contribute to those numbers nightly lol

I believe it.

Youtube is the second largest search engine on the net.

I'm a useless knowledge junkie and stunned I never even considered that.

:D I watched Murder Mountain last night on Netflix.

Luckily I was in prime position to have a lazy binge fest.

I would likely never check out "blutube" on law enforcement vids on YouTube though.

I thnk the cops probably dont let civilians like us on there.

By the way, do you like to travel?

LOL!

Yeah, traveling is fun.

I'm not sure I could survive without a motorized vehicle though.

i would relish the chance to have no cars.

i think macinack would be interesting.

The chance would be nice - The distance I am from work and the grocery would be a nightmare.

If I could work at home and go nowhere I would.

Communting stinks, even if a bus can run 160 MPH.

the dutch really know how to help workers.

i wish that there were more things like that in the US.

They really do!

We have a European consultant in now who is pushing for a 3 day work week in my organization and I would love if she could make that happen.

people would probably use their leisure time to travel.

not just watch YouTube.

Anyway, great chat!

Lol!
Yes, nice chat - Have a great night!

You too!

Off to Google me some Peggy Whitson's bathroom tips!

ok

Hmmmm... Suffice to say this has taken slightly less than 4.5 billion years.

Ya really think the Earth is that old?


hey did you know that the second largest online search engine is actually Youtube?

No I didn't.
I actually thought it was google lol.
YouTube is pretty popular though.

haha ya Youtube is huge apparently, youtube and netflix together make up over half of all internet traffic

That is really cool.

I have heard that police have their own youtube called blutube.

Apparently they share law enforcement videos.

huh interestings, I haven't heard of that, do you listen to music?

what do you think of Justin Bieber

I do listen to Christian Contemporay music.

I can't stand Justin Bieber though.

He is very obnoxious.

ya he is a lot to take in for sure, did you know his video for the song "Baby" has the most dislikes on youtube?

Sort of.

I have heard of many not liking that song at all.

I know many like Psy's Gangnam style especially if you look at the view count.

ya that is crazy, they had to upgrade youtube to properly pressent the view count for that video!

Would you ride a bus that goes 160mph?

The dutch are making one

I'm not sure.

That sounds a bit scary lol.

But still very impressive they have invented that.

Transportation seems to be changing all over the world.

ya, definitely certain places are, japan apparently does have free highways they all have tolls!

That would be so annoying !

Yeah no kidding.

Japan does seem like an expensive country to live in.

There are some places though like Mackinac Island that have banned motorized vehicles and you have to use bikes or carriages.

How crazy is that?

ya that is crazy I've been there, the whole place smells like horses and horse dung!

It's kind of gross actually and i'm allergic to horses haha

How terrible.

Allergies are the worse.

They seem to be getting worse for everyone I think due to the Earth having more and more issues with the environment.

ya I could see that, I know that over 4/5 of the earths forests have been destroyed, that will definitely take a toll

Not to mention our planet is supposed to run out of helium by the end of the 21st century.

Not sure how that will affect the planet.

well I know that they need helium for a lot of electronics, so running out could make all that more expensive, it's wild that when earth was first made it only had a 6 hour day as opposed to now

Yeah that might explain why scientists think of time in billions of years back then.

It is interesting how much things have changed for the earth.

that's true, adn I wonder if the days get longer over time?

Like in a million years, will we have a 40 hour day?

That would be such a long day lol.

Have you heard how the united nations has an official ambassador should aliens ever try to come to earth?

I have!

I bet that guy has really long days because he doesn't do anything!

Like what could he actually do in a day?

I want his job haha

lol I imagine he probably spends his days trying to research ways to be peaceful in a first time meeting or how could be a crazy guy that looks up fake alien information people made up lol.

haha well hopefully he has something good to do!

That could be the easiest job in the world!


Do you use facebook?

Reluctantly, I do.

It's the only social media that I use, though.

How about you?

Likewise lol, reluctantly is a good word to describe it!

Did you know myspace could have bought facebook

They probably regret that, in retrospect.

Who would have known that Facebook would eventually be worth over 104 billion dollars?

Right, that is a lot of money, it would have only costed like 75 million

Pocket change.

:)  My budget is more along the lines of "unfriend 10 people, get a free Burger King whopper," so buying anything for that kind of money is hard to fathom.

lol I am on that budget also.

I unadded 500 friends so I could have whoppers for weeks!

HA!

That was thinking!!

Speaking of good investments, it would be nice to have stock in Amazon.

That's a huge money-making enterprise.

For sure, I wish I was the first buyer at Amazon, they have a building named after them!

That would be cool.

And he only spent $27.95 to get that honor.

I could have handled that.

Unfortunately, I spend way more on Amazon than that now.

Right lol with no buildings named after me.

Did you know amazon owns imdb

I did not know that, but I am not surprised.

Once a company gets so big, it can easily absorb others.

Jeff Bezos is making a profit, but the warehouse workers that put in 7-15 miles a day are truly carrying the load.

Man I should work that in the winter to get my rock hard abs look for the summer!

That is a lot of walking!

It would be hard work, but better than a desk job, I think.

I'm not much of a sitter, by nature.

Staying active is good for ones mental health, I've heard.

That is a good point, I couldn't do an office job.

Too much sitting and getting chubby lol

Exactly.

I see so many people who are face-deep in social media that they just lose all desire to move and stay healthy.

Plus that, they don't really get the sleep they should.

Too much FOMO, I guess.

For sure lol.

They need to get some sun also, the sun is amazing

Yes, yes it is.

Summer needs to get here soon, so we can finally get some sun.

This winter has been brutal.I can totally understand why some people get seasonal affective disorder.

For sure, I am in Iowa and boy it was rough!

It was so nice chatting with you!

Nice chatting with you as well!
May your winter end soon.
:)

I think we see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Enjoy your weekend!


do you shop online at all?

I do, how about you?

Me too.

I prefer to shop on Amazon as it is really convenient

Same here, I have been using Amazon for along time now.

Nice.

Did you know that Jeff built a clock in a mountain?

I did not know that.

Did you ever use Amazon when it was an online bookstore?

I use to have a Kindle but I never did enjoy it.

No not really.

THey named a building after a guy that was the first customer though

That's pretty cool.

So what do you normally look for on Amazon?

I actually buy a lot of books but also household stuff.

And it is nice that they deliver on SUndays too now

Yea that was great when they added that!

I usually use it for electronics as it is the cheapest way to buy most of them.

Yes true.
Did you know they also own Imdb?

I did not know that.
Do you purchase many clothes on there?

Sometimes, they have a good variety of clothes too

Yea, Did you know the guy who makes bullet proof clothing shoots all his employees to test the quality?

Wow that is scary.

Did you know that pilgrims usually wear colorful clothing?

I did not know that, thats interesting .

I know of an African tribe that still wear victorian clothes.

Wow cool.

yes the pilgrims wear black only on special ocassions

I always thought of them wearing black all the time.

Yeah me too actually.

DO you know how people in fashion can tell if you need the clothes tailored?

I assume they look for someone swimming in their clothes?

Just kidding, how?

Hahah, actually they look for collar gaps in your clothes

I never thought about that.

Could you imagine washing your clothes in old faithful?

That would be pretty dangerous.
It was nice chatting with you


Hi, how are you?

Hey.

.how about we talk about anything on this list BUT astronaut poop lol?

I don't know...

I was just saying the other day, "I haven't had a good astonaut poop conversation in a while..."

Haha

Did you know the UN has an official ambassador to aliens?

I actually did know that.

I think it makes sense, at this point.

Better to have a plan in place in advance in case first contact ever happens than to be surprised.

What do they do in their day to day job?

Think?

plan?

I feel like they would not have anything to report to their bosses about... "Any aliens today?"

"Nope."

"Good work."

I'm guessing they probably have a totally different day job and it's just an additional title.

Dang!

I was going to apply for it because it seemed like an easy job...

I guess I will just continue my other job...

Sounds like fun!
I wonder how the UN chooses.
I bet it's popular.
Rota?
Arm wrestling?
Sci-fi trivia contest?

I like to think that all disputes in the UN are solved by Arm Wrestling...

It's how Quatar got the world cup... Little known fact...

Not sure how some of the Secretaries General got their jobs if that's true, tho.

In all seriousness: do you think intelligent aliens exist?

I do not but I am not that self-involved to think there is not the possibility of other life out there.

I think that it's almost certain that there's life that's not intelligent enough to contact us.

Intelligent, technologically advanced life.

.by now, given that we haven't heard from them, I think that logically either they don't exist, or there is some reason they won't talk to us.

Maybe they don't like what they see and they could contact us... Maybe they're too advanced for us and are waiting for us to catch up...

Yes, those are two plausible options.

The last one is like the Star Trek Prime Directive.

Another really ugly option proposed by the Chinese author Cixin Liu is that they're afraid (not of us specifically--of the likelihood that any given technologically advanced species will want to wipe out others).

That is plausable!
Are you into space and the universe?

Yes, to the extent that I can be when I can't do the higher math necessary to really get it.

You?

I really want to be but am not.

I feel like the people into space are really into space and that is contagious!

It can be.

Astronomers are really gregarious and really, really weird.

I had a lot of astronomer friends in college.

Including Brian May (who really did go back to being an astrophysicist after Queen).

WOW!
That's crazy... Nice chatting with you.


hi, do you know much about earth?

I took a college Geology class.

Some believe that a day only lasted 5.5 hours when the earth was first formed

Imagine that.
nowadays we complain the day is short.
what about then

I'm not sure if humans were on the earth yet then.

In comparison, if the entire earth's history were a 24 hour film, only 1 hour and 27 minutes would cover all of human history

we are so insignificant really when you think of it that way.

and sadly we are destroying the forests so fast here

I've heard more than 80% of them, and yet we still have so many trees.

It probably doesn't help that 71% of the earth's surface is water

exactly.

plus all the lakes and river in between.

they say the earth is going to be vritually helium free by 21st century

That will be sad for all the balloons.

Do you ever wonder if there are extraterrestrials?

The UN has an official ambassador for that position just in case

I would like to know if there are any.
Do you travel much?

Since travel can technically done by foot, yes, but mostly within the same city.

I do like to travel on a wider scale even though it doesn't happen as often as it used to

Yeah sometimes it is expensive.

the dutch are creating a bus that can travel 160 mph

Sounds more like a train to me!

King Kalakaua of Hawaii was the first king to travel around the world

I wonder what it was like at that time.

in Japan if you travel through the highways around the country you have to pay $300 in tolls

I hate tolls!

There's an island in Michigan where most travel by carriages or bikes because cars are banned

That must be so peaceful and quiet

I wonder what it's like during winter there.

In a similar way, even though it's not as much ice as Greenland, those in Iceland who don't have cars use flights to travel between towns since there's no public rail system

true.
do you watch videos on youtube?

Every once in a while.

Compared to Google, it's the second largest search engine, but maybe that's why Google owns it now

Yeah they made a good decision buying it for sure.

did you know their view count used to be lower?

It makes sense though.

Leave it to Gangnam Style to change that for them

Yeah that song blew out of proportion.
Nice chatting with you.


Hello there, DO you shop online much?

I do actually and I enjoy shopping on Amazon as it is convenient, and you?

Yes they are amazing and they ship of Sundays now, pretty convenient

Yes that is and all thanks to a contract they signed with USPS

Yes that is true.

ANd Jeff built a clock on a mountain somewhere.

Yes, I hear it is supposed to run for 10 000 years.

WOnder how it is powered

Hmm I wonder too.
DId you know Amazon owns IMDB?

I did not know that.

Have you seen their new font, bookerly ?

I did not know they have a new font, Why is that?

Well the font is there because it is easier to read on Kindles and digital screens

Oh that makes so much sense, good for them.

The first customer there spent less than $30 and got a building named after him

Wow what a gift back from them.

AMazon holds the patent on the 1-click buy so Apple has to pay the license fee to them

Wow they must be making a lot of money with that too, so smart

Yup that sure is.

Do you know what the arrow in the logo represents?

No I cannot say that I do.

I know that their workers walk lots, up to 15 miles a day

Wow that is a lot and the arrow stands for everything, from a to z

Yes I guess it makes sense as they literally have everything in there, whatever you need

Yes that is true.
Do you enjoy reading much?

I love it actually,.
Did you ever read Starship Trooper?

I did and I really enjoyed it.

DO you know who invented Braille writing and reading?

Hmm I know his last name was Braille but do not know much about him otherwise


I love amazon.
I love the Fire TV, and Echo devices

It seems you like Amazon.

Love might be too strong for me but it is a significant part of my life, shopping, entertainment, and now work.

Well working at the warehouse is lots of exercise

I guess now you can lose weight with Amazon!

Do you have one of those echo devices they sell?

I have one but never hooked it up.
I buy food from hole foods a lot

Don't live close enough to one to shop in a Whole Foods, not since they were bought by Amazon.

Used to live next to one in DC and used it all the time.

cool.

I would love to see that clock that bezos built

He built his own clock?

With his money does it have lots of diamonds and expensive bling?

lol I would guess.

It is nice when I get my packages on sunday.

Yes, I was shocked to get my first delivery on a Sunday?

With Amazon we might be able to never leave the house.

So Imdb has been owned by amazon.com since 1998.

Thats why its a imdb option on my firestick

It kinds of make sense when you're watching movies and TV through your Prime account, at the same time you can get all the background information on the show and its actors.

Yes it is very nice.
Are you into clothes ?
I never knew of apples clothing line

You probably have to wear it if you work for them.

I have to wear a lot of cloths this winter, I recall the hot humid days in DC, even a t-shirt and shorts seemed too much.

I also like the Rip curl line of clothes

That means nothing to me unfortunately.

I wouldn't like to work for that bullet proof clothing manufacturer, he shoots all his employees to demonstrate  the effectiveness of the clothing.

That is cool but scary.

There is a store in alabama that only sells clothes, cameras, etc found in unclaimed baggage at airports

Not that keen on second hand clothing.

It about the one purchase I don't get through Amazon, feel the need to try it on before buying.

Ok, Do you like to read ?

Cs lewis and tolkien held "you laugh you lose" competitions when reading terrible poetry

I read a fair bit, not Tolkien or Lewis though.

I don't really have as much time to read as I used to, actually worked in the book industry when I lived in DC, read a lot more then.

It was nice talking with you.
Time for me to read.


Hello.
Do you use amazon a lot?

Hi there, I sure do, their prime service is really helpful.

How about you?

I love amazon.

I think I order something from them at least once every other week.

It is awesome for someone who lives in a rural area without a lot of options.

Yeah that is very true, I never even thought about those that have to drive quite a distance for regular items.

They have really come a long way from just a little online bookstore.

I remember going on there in college looking for books.

Oh yeah good call, I remember buying a $400 book for a computer class and I got it for $40 on Amazon, the front cover no longer existed but who cares!

It would have been really neat to have the distinction of being the first amazon customer.

I guess the guy has a building named after him now.

Not too shabby for only a $27 purchase.

Yeah that is pretty funny to me, I wonder why they would even have that option to purchase, and for that to be the first is so funny.

What do you think of Prime's new sunday delivery contract?

I'm loving getting things on Sundays when I normally would have to wait a extra day or two.

I think that is very cool, I was surprised the first time I got a package and was like, wait it's sunday lol.

The CEO might have some very strange plans and ideas but most of the time he seems to be doing pretty well with how to run the company.

It has gone a long way in 24 years.

Yeah I think he has so much money it is getting to him, to build a clock into a mountain for some reason, I just don't get it.

But they sure have in that amount of time.

Yeah I was wondering why the clock in the mountain.

I guess it will run for thousands of years too.

He is a bit of an odd duck but certainly a business genius.

Oh yeah and I think most of those super smart ones are a bit eccentric.

I wonder if Facebook and Amazon have any contracts for ads.

It seems like whatever I search for on amazon pops up in my ads on facebook.

It is kind of creepy.

Oh yeah they are constantly tracking what items you even look at while browsing around, it can get a bit creepy I feel.

Facebook is another company that started with this little idea and grew into something huge.

I mean it was originally only going to be  social site for ivy league schools and now look at it!

Yeah just like amazon, facebook has grown into something huge!

Do you know why the colors on the page are primarily blue?

Yeah I guess Zuckerburg made it that way because he is colorblind.

Pretty cool work around for something he has to deal with on a daily basis.

Certainly makes it unique and eye catching to look at.

Good call!

I don't think most people know that or would ever even realize that fact.

Well it has been nice chatting with you.

Have a wonderful day.

Yeah same to you, I hope you have a good one!


hi, do you use facebook?

Every day.
how about you?

From time to time.
do you know why it is blue?

Apparently Mark is red-green blind right?

Yeah I think that is the reason.
Did you use myspace?

30% of Americans adults use FB as primary source of news.

Wow that is a lot.
did you hear about myspace?

No what happen to my space?

It went under but it had the opportunity to buy facebook for $75000.

bad decision not buyig it

I bet there kicking themselves now that FB is worth Billions.

Oh I bet too.

Did you know Ireland is using facebook to rewrite the constitution

Yeah and allowing the general public to way in, sounds like a messy situation.

I do not know maybe it works for them.

Did you the like button is illegal n some countries

I heard that some country in Germany i think.

Did you know 1/3 of all divorces in 2011 that were filed contained the word Facebook.

My goodness, that is just too much.

And did you hear about that burger king promotion?

Get a whooper for .99 cent if you activate it at Mc Donald's?

Actually , befriend 10 people and get a free whooper

Sounds like a bunch of hating to me.

FB engineers wanted to originally call the like button the awesome button.

Oh cool, I actually prefer that better.

Speaking of large companies, do you ever shop in Amazon?

Again all the time.

Jeff is trying to take over the world in eCommerce.

For sure, they have grown so much.
nice chatting with you


Hello there, do you use facebook much?

Hello.

Yes, I use Facebook daily.

I had no idea it was blue because Mark is red-green colorblind!

Yeah I think that is very interesting, I don't think most people know why they are always seeing blue when in use.

I wonder if that's part of why he doesn't allow very much customization like Myspace used to.

I bet Myspace regrets not buying Facebook when they had the chance, now!

Looking back at it, I think Myspace should have done whatever they could have to buy or latch on to facebook to survive.

Yeah, they've really gone downhill now.

I guess that's sometimes how it works in business.

Hard to believe Amazon started with just one purchase under $30.

That is crazy to think about, do you know what the actual first ever purchase was for?

I don't, but I would definitely be interested in doing some research to find out.

Especially since the guy got a building named after him, bet he never expected that to happen.

That was it, the building named after him.

What a weird thing to do for the first ever purchase.

Well, I guess he bought a book.

I only ever buy books from trusted sources so I don't think I would have bought it from a company that had never been purchased from before.

But I think it's pretty great they decided to commemorate their first ever customer.

Did you read that Iceland is rewriting their constitution via facebook?

I did!

I've always wanted to visit Iceland so it caught my attention.

What a cool way to do things, and what better way to hear from the current citizens how it should be updated?

I agree, I think it is the best way to run a country by getting the opinions of all of the citizens equally.

Definitely not enough of that happening in America, in my opinion.

Although I think America's just too big to use a platform like Facebook to rewrite the constitution but it's very out of date.

Did you see that a German state banned the use of the like button?

Yes, that is probably true, maybe state governments perhaps.

And yeah I saw that, very crazy for them to stop to that.

I did some research on the side just now and found that fact is completely misleading.

There was a company in Germany that was taking and using people's data before they had even decided to "like" their facebook page, and that's what they banned, that company stealing data to use.

Oh ok, well that makes a lot more sense then.

Stealing data has become a very serious issue in the last few years.

It certainly has.

I guess that's one of the things you risk using things like Facebook, though.

Did you ever hear about the promotion Burger King held with facebook?

I didn't hear about it at the time but it was in the material I read.

I wish I had known, there's definitely ten or so people I could stand to delete.

Yeah I think I would unfriend a few of the so called friends I have.

Well it was nice talking with you today, I hope you have a good day.


Hi, do you live in DC?

No, but I've heard they are supposed to get a massive heat wave.

I read the same thing!

We got to 59 degrees today and it was a heat wave!

It isn't all that humid yet, but it is supposed to get to heat indexes of 100 to 105 Sunday through the beginning of next week.

Whew!

That is hot.

Bad news for people with curly hair!

So true.

Forecast is only calling for a 5 mph breeze briefly, otherwise people will have to sweat it out.

Have you ever read starship troopers?

No.
Can't say that I have.What is it about?

I am not sure but it is on the reading list of 5 military branches.

Must not be too bad.

Althought the movie stunk.

I have to admit I watch a lot of my Tv and movies through Amazon and their streaming apps.

did you know their first customer has a building named after them?

That is fun.

Amazon's ceo Jeff Bezos is an trend setting sort.

Did you hear about the cool clock he build into a mountain?

I guess it is supposed to run for 10,000 years.

I would hate to have to climb a mountain just to change the batteries in a clock so he better have made it last 10,000 years!

I wonder if it spring sforward and falls back on its own?

Good questions.

I think the whole climbing part would be over rated.

I'd rather be a warehouse worker, they may walk 7-15 miles a day, but at least they don't climb mountains.

It's not the climbing that scares me... it's the sudden stop.

I hear you.

You can buy almost anything on Amazon, books, clothes, you name it.

I really enjoy the clothing.

You can get many different textiles when you buy clothes.

Did you know IMDB is owned by Amazon?

No.

I guess I hadn't heard that.

They seem to have their hand in everything theses days.

They also are the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services.

And they bought whole foods.
They are going to own everything soon.

They even have their own low-end house hold products called Amazon Basics.

I use that brand!
Nice chatting with you!


What a really sad story.

Seems like America and dad were just nice people

Yes very sad story.
How are you todfay?

I am well.
Yourself?

Good Thanks.

I cant believe they have no suspects in this.

Agreed.

It seems like the police are tighlipped too.

Yes so sad.
Do you use facebook?

I have an account but I do not use it regularly.

I have been displeased with their data sharing policies.

You?

Well yes I have and use mine everyday but mostly the messenger part

Really?

I do not use that at all.

Do you text or no?

I found texting better than FB messenger.

I text alot also yes.

Can you believe A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the u.s. contained the word 'facebook'.

WOW!

Myspace turned down an offer to buy facebook for $75 million in early 2005

Wow thats amazing I wonder wehat they would do with amazon?

Amazon ceo jeff bezos built a clock into a mountain that should run for 10,000 years.

You have that type of money, right?

LOL Ohh yes I wish

The first amazon.com customer spent $27.95 and got a building named after him

Things like that are so cool.

Yeah... some random dude has his name on a building because he was looking for some random item on the internet.

I sould be so happy to have my name on the building.

I hear that lol I wonder how and who puts these things online.

I am not sure but I would put that on all my resumes and everything I did.

I would lead with that in all my converstations...

Yes thats something I would do too.

Did you know that thes unsets on mars are blue?

WOW!

How strange... On july 11th, 2011, neptune completed its first full orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846

Its been good talking to ya.
Give us a good review.


Hello, do you have a facebook account?

Facebook, the American online social media and networking company from Menlo Park?

I do not anymore.

What about you?

I have an account, although I use Instagram more frequently.

Me too, I like instagram mainly for the memes.

I can't believe Myspace turned down the offer to buy facebook for 75 million in early 2005.

I bet they regret that now, although Facebook's stock dropped by 10% in just one day.

I wonder if that was last year during the congress, hearings, I'm sure no one was hitting the like button for that, even if it were legal in the german state of schleswig-holstein.

Speaking of that button, it was originally going to be called the 'awesome' button.

I am glad that it was not called that because that is too cringy.

Ha, I dont think I would ever be hitting that button, BK had that promotion where every 10 friends you delete you get a free whopper.

Id have a ton of them, I always purged my facebook when I was on it.

Did you know that Mark Zuckerburg suffers from partial colorblindness?

I did not know that, what kind, red-green or some other sort of colorblindness?

Indeed, he suffered from red green colorblindness which is why facebook is primarily blue.

Very interesting, you buy a lot of things from Amazon?

Seems like it is getting too big to be good.

I do, what about you?

Amazon is now a cooperation worth over 1 trillion dollars!

That is so crazy.

They have that clock Bezos built on a mountain to last 10,000 years.

Wow!

The first customer only spent $27.95 and got an entire building named after him!

Really, I would like to see the constitution that Iceland is rewriting on facebook, allowing the public to make suggestions and stuff.

Yes, but every single referendum could cost the government millions if not billions.

It is just too expensive.

I did not know that, I wish I would have invested in them in 2012,  would be rich now.

Burger King had an odd promotion where you get a burger if you unfriend people on facebook.

That was pretty neat, I would have had a lot of whoppers.

Do you know the name of the star at the center of our solar system?

Well, is it not called the sun?
Anyways, thank you for your time!
It was nice chatting with you!

That is true, it is the sun.

It was great chatting with you too, have a great day.

Yes, you too!
Bye.

Take care and have fun!


Hi!

Have you ever been to the capital of the US, Washington D.C?

I have, it's been a long time though, what about you?

I have not but it seems like there's a lot of fun things to do even with children too like the Burning Man exhibit or the Paella Festival, I sure do like paellas.

haha paella is amazing, do you like animals?

I guess over 1.5 million animals have ever existed

I do like animals, I thought it was over 20 qunitillion, I'm thinking thats the unit of measure that comes after trillion?

ya I don't know how many 0's that is haha, I should have studied animals and become a zoologist

Do you like animals?

Maybe if you studied you would be able to tell me whether or not it's true that domesticated animals have white patches on their foreheads.

haha ya I want to know that, also crazy that animals have guaranteed rights in Germany, i wonder what they are

Hmm, animals have rights in Germany?

Isn't the national food of Germany sausages or Bratwursts or something?

I wonder what rights those are.

haha sounds amazing!
do you ever get the hiccups?

Yes, I get hiccups from drinking my drinks too fast or talking while eating, do animals ever get the hiccups?

ya I guess its leftover from when some animals had both gills and lungs, kind of crazy

That would be funny if fishes got the hiccups from ingesting too much water because my kids love listening to the soundtrack of Finding Nemo, though they have never attended any concerts.

haha what concerts have you been to?

I would have loved to go to a Pink Floyd concert back in the day

I have never been to a concert before, not even a Linkin Park concert even though they played 324 concerts from their successful debut album.

ya or the ramones with 2200 concerts in 20 years, thats a lot of concerts!

Wonder if anybody came close to filing a lawsuit for a bad concert like what some people did for Creed's concert.

How do you go about proving a concert was bad?

ha thats a good question, I would be embarrased to be creed though, that definitely looks bad for the band

Yeah, wonder what came about that lawsuit.

Probably just an extortion play.

I mean, that concert has got to be better than the rap album that was released by 100 year old Japanese twins right?

ya I wanted to listen to that, they made it back in 1992!

I wonder how good it is

Sounds like a risky investment unless those twins were related to the executives of the production company.


do you use your phone much?

Yes all the time.
Do you know why NY area code is 212?

Yes because it was easy to dial on a rotary phone

Yeah.
Did you ever use a phone book?

I have and if they get stuck together there is no separating them

Yeah.

the phone cables lay on the bottom of the ocean and are not really that wide

Yes they are only 2.7 inches wide.
Do you have an iPhone or an Android?

An iPhone, do you know how much computing power they have?

Yes more than the nuclear icbm deterrent in the US

Yeah.

Did you now women are more likely to have one than men?

Yeah it seems.

During the presentation fo the first iPhone Jobs had to keep many identical one as they kept crashing

Yeah because they kept running out of ram

Yeah , Did you hear of that game in those phones called send me to heaven?

Yes it is the game where you are supposed to throw the phone into the air as high as possible

Yes so Apple went ahead and banned it as it was a hazard

Yeah Do you know when the iphone first came out?

Yes that was back in 2007 and it is all history from there

Yeah.
Do you like horror movies?

Somewhat.

Did you know you burn more calories watching them?

Yes around 180 of them, good if you are on a diet

Haha I know.

Danny in the SHining did not know he was in a scary movie for a while


Hi!

Do you like animals?

Did you know there are around 20 quintillion on the planet?

I do lilke animals and find them fascinating, 20 quintillion is a big number wow

It really is.

On top of that there are over 7 million different species.

Thats a lot of animals, did you know animals actually have constitutional rights in Germany

I've heard something about that before!

I think that's great so long as it is not taken to far.

I agree with you, domesticated animals develope white patches on their foreheads

Do they really?

I wonder if that is on the fur or on the brain.

Have you heard of the loch ness monster before?

It's never been discovered but Scotland has it listed as a protected species.

I have and its a good thing old nessie is protected, Nessi must be a marvelous beast hope we can see one, one day, if its even real

i hope we can too.

They protected it way back in 1912 for some reason.

Maybe they knew something then that we don't now.

Yeah maybe they do, did you know that hiccips are a holdover evoloutionary trait

No I didn't know that.
What are they a holdover trait from?

From land animals that had both gills and lungs,

Interesting.

On a different note, have you been to any concerts recently?

No not really, I do love concerts by the last time I attentded one was in the year 2001, it was a Linkin Park concert, what about you?

It's been a while for me too.

I like Linkin Park but never saw them live.

I heard that year you went they did 324 concerts.

Yeah 324 concerts in just a year, that is a lot of concerts, I bet it was really demanding

I bet it was.

The Ramones have done 2,263 of them basically touring non stop for over 20 years.

That must also be really demanding thats 113 concerts a year for 20 years straight, a lot of money though,

True.
Unless the band is Creed.
They got sued for a bad concert.

Yeah I heard about that, 4 concert goers actually sued the band, I guess it was a really terrible concert

I've never even thought about suing a band before for how they perform.

Those people most have been highly upset.


Hi there!
Do you know many facts about animals?

Yea, I love animals, I know they are eukaryotic organisms that lack a cell wall

Yes!

lol  There are about 20 quintillion individual animals on earth!

That's quite a lot since the Cambrian explosion that occurred 542 million years ago

Whew!

That is a long time ago.

It has been estimated that there are over 7 million animal species!

That's a ton, and only a few of those have been domesticated and developed a white patch on their foreheads

How interesting!

Hiccups are a holdover from early evolution when early land animals had both gills and lungs.

lol

Pretty cool, I wonder why having gills and lungs caused hiccups

maybe has to do with sucking too much air?

lol  Under the provisions of the 1912 Scottish protection of animals act, the Loch Ness monster is a protected species!

LOL

I guess Scotland really wants the Loch Ness Monster to be real if they are willing to protect it

lol  Do you like going to concerts?

I've only been to a couple, none as bad as the creed concert the fans sued Creed over being so bad

That must have been one really, really bad show.

lol  We're you ever a fan of the Ramones?

Yea, the Ramones are good, plus they've played 2,263 concerts

That's a lot of shows.

Linkin Park once played 324 shows in just one year - 2001.

Wow, 324 shows in one year is almost one show a day, Linkin park must of been exhausted

I bet.

They probably made a ton of money that year that the record company got to keep.

lol

Well Linkin Park's hybrid theory was the best selling album of this century

That would make sense then for all those shows.

Creed played a show so bad in 2002 that 4 concert goers file a lawsuit against the band!

The crazy thing is NWA was able to go platinum without touring or radio airplay

I realized you already mentioned Creed.

lol Sorry.

That was a big album.

I didn't know that they never toured off of it.

It was such a different time then.

People would pass around cassettes to get their friends to listen to new music.

Well I got to go, nice chatting with you