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Who ate the first piece of chocolate?
Bad Santa did it
I found a candy corn
"...an aspirin?!?!"
RAD!!!
maybee even _raad_...

I’m guessing there’s a portrait of Sosh as Moses behind there

The hair is a dead give away...

…it’s Rev Halofan/Christopher Lloyd/Back to the Future redux.

or Hud with one of his funky throwback wigs

but he’s gone…damn!

it's not gonna be the skanky owner from Major League?
I thought it was a satellite photo of the current storms
I think you are close

It is Rev…with someone…

It looks like a backdrop to a formal portrait.

Mrs. Halofan, perhaps?

I love HalosHeaven!

Do any other sbnation’s come up with these awesome ideas??

Is this one of them sliding squares puzzles??

I wanna play. I wanna play.

believe it or not i tried sliding them when i first saw it...

What a let down…

Good evening, Doctor Falken. Shall we play a game?
Thermonuclear warfare perhaps?

I can’t believe I knew you were quoting War Games. Damn I’m old.

Shouldn't that be *GLOBAL* Thermonuclear Warfare?

Or maybe just Tic-Tac-Toe.

You are correct sir

Forgetting the Global part makes me feel even older.

It’s funny to watch that movie now and see the ’high-tech" computers from those days.

Such as dial-up modems. With acoustic couplers.

Or roadside phonebooths…

With screw-off mic covers in the handset.

Or beer/soda can removable pop-tabs that could be dound lying around in the dirt.

Or analog public phone networks that could generate dial-tone through a simple short.

Or large scale computer systems that require panels full of dozens of blinking light bulbs.

Or jeeps.

or the big black clunky spin dial phones I grew up with

great list btw, S

Those are still easy to come by, and they still work on the public phone network.

I see them in antique stores all the time, Usually about $40 – $120, depending on age, style and greediness of the seller. Even in the past year I know I saw one for sale from the 30’s, with a cotton fabric solid core wire cable. Probably up in Santa Barbara, in one of those shops on State Street.

Ventura, too. They've got a metric assload of antique shops on the cross-streets west of California St.
Just how big is a metric assload?
Slightly smaller than a metric shit ton, and way smaller than a metric fuck ton

You have to ask PhiSlamma for the exact size of the last one.

It's also slightly larger than an imperial assload.
Thanks. That is useful information.
Anytime, opiejeanne. You know we love you!
You'd better, or I'll stop coming here....

…. oh. wait!

The thing about War Games is

that, WOPR aside, it’s considered to be one of the more “technically correct” computer movies.

Too bad for me that Swordfish isn’t… I’d love to have Halle Berry … “encourage” me to crack passwords.

Being the "more technically correct" computer movie is hurdling a pretty low bar.
poinitng out irregularities in a movie to your date

don’t help none in the gettin’ laid department.

beggin' for a...

“the voice of experience?” :P

I'd already been married to Mrs. red floyd for 13 years when that movie came out.
I mean "Swordfish"
is it Gary Busey?
Only if there's bales of cocaine in the next few squares.
Garey Busey did a baseball movie called "Rookie of the Year"

It could be a film clip from that.

Oh man, Im so excited already...

what a great idea.

and i thought my jesus calendar for christmas was sweet!
It already looks like part of Rev Halofan's hair
I see evidence of life on Mars.
I'm almost as excited about the start of spring training

as I am about the new talking sexbot (announced yesterday as available for purchase).
Though at $7000, it’s a bit steep.
Most of us will have to wait for the $300 Walmart version that just belches….
Still, if it can vacuum and do laundry also, my wife might agree to the purchase…

That's just disgusting and I'm seriously offended!

(Let me know when they go on sale).

You should be ashamed of yourself!

(No, really. Let me know)

Why would anybody pay $7000 for the lifetime privilege of having yet another ass to wipe?
You wipe your w---oh nevermind.

TMI.

It's not gonna wipe itself, dude.
I like the mute button option ;)

[the following is for mature audiences only]
but apparently you can have “her” (or “him”…there’s a male sexbot model too…—why do images of Data come to mind suddenly?) programed to talk about stuff like, oh, I don’t know, the Angels chances this year, or whatever, during sex. That might work for some of you (ouch!)

What exactly would it yak about?

like; “How come you never take me anywhere?”

"I wanna go to Palm Springs...."
Its main topic of converstion

would be: "Oh, you are the best; you are so awesome! And honey, you are always right about everything…’
The male version would just say over and over: “I’m sorry, honey. I was wrong. And you look great in that outfit” ( I do love “Lost”…)
After all, YOU get to decide what it says, from I understand.

I'm watching it (Lost) right now (commercial break)

20 minutes in, and I already said “WTF” a few times.

That should be the subtitle of the show

But don’t give anything away—I have to wait…:)

Yeah, it was totally weird.
Well, at least they promise some sense of closure

by the finale…tying up about 300 loose ends should be interesting.
But rumor has it that there may be a whole new Lost show of some sort—a spin off?

Only a few more weeks

Until your in AZ!!! Best part of the year the Angels are my home team for 2 month’s!

I can't wait for ST

my girl is dreading the day baseball starts again.

So is Mrs. red floyd
Psh, you guys are amateurs!!!

I don’t even have a Mrs. Commander_Nate during baseball, that’s how hardcore I am!

Yeah... Hardcore...

That’s why you don’t have a mrs. Commander_Nate. Riiight.

Priorities man, priorities ;)

You gotta understand the kind of chicks I’m typically dealing with. One was over during the World Series and had no idea who Alex Rodriguez was…she thought he was a pitcher.

well you see

my girl stayed with me and watched the entire 13 innings of the ALCS game. Now thats called devotion.

See, now that I could deal with.

I hate A-Rod as much as anyone, but there are some things you should just know as a functioning member of society.

Not knowing these things and then babbling incessantly about Jersey Shore, American Idol, and the latest developments of Miley Cyrus is unacceptable.

Back away

from teenagers. Nate

I guess that's what I get...

For mainly hanging out with sorority chicks in college. Some of the ones that have been out a year or two like me still act that way.

I suppose the fact that all 3 of my roommates are still in college and bring this element around doesn’t help either.

Yeah, BillyMac has that market cornered.
Follow-up

The scary thing is that when I was in B&N, I noticed that Amanda Bynes was on the cover of Maxim.

Crap! I remember when my daughter used to watch her on “All That” and “The Amanda Show”. Her being on the cover of Maxim is Just Wrong

Yea, but she's smokin' hot
Maurice Chevalier is kind of famous for a particularly creepy song about this.
"Thank heavens!

for little girls!" lol
But the key line is “they grow up in the most delightful ways”—makes it a little less creepy and ramps up cuteness factor.
or it’s still just creepy…

BUT....

…in the context of the period into which the pice is placed, “grown up” means 16 years old.

That worked for Polanski

and Poe and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others…

Polonia was our little Polanski, too.
Maybe you'd be interested, Nate,

in one of those $7000 sexbots
Link
www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html
(how do you do one of those “linkie” deals?)

F no! Picking up some random bar skank or a hooker for a 1 night stand is cheaper

And better looking. And you can ask them to leave in the morning, and never speak to them again, etc.

For the link you click the little chain picture and paste the URL into the box. Then you type what you want it to be labeled as between the last two “><” where it says “>”.

* where it says ">< /a>"
lol

and thanks…now I have something else to screw up on this site…

Oh my God!

Cancel my order, that thing is frickin’ UGLY!

Yes, my thoughts too--what's up wi'dat?

I think Nate is right—“random bar skanks” are more attractive…
(o, and sorry about defiling your cool post with this sexbot stuff…I have to live up to my name on occasion…)

It's cool.

We need an “catch-all” area where we can post anything. This can be it for the next 2 weeks.

Is that when Rev gets back?

hoho
(as in the lunatics have taken over the asylum…)

You should have been here the one time I was in charge of a game thread

and it was a boring game.

Don't remember which game it was.

Post Linky, so we can all laugh at how off topic everything was.

It really wasn't that bad

I’m a rebel

im trying to figure out why i posted

“fat man caught dinner”

Well, just ask yourself this, Raaddad

Would you, as a rad dad, purchase this for your son if you had one?

Good question

As to who would actually purchase these and why, well, I would assume older men will buy them for themselves—who else could afford it? Or wealthy wives who want to make their husbands “happy” and who sleep in the other room, if you know what I mean…Apparently they’ve got 20,000 orders already (at least that’s what they say…—could be part of the marketing strategy)
Ever since “Bladerunner” and Dick’s novel (and other archetypal texts), many of us Sci-fi buffs have been waiting for, discussing, teaching about the A.I. android sex slave scenario as something feasible (unlike the flying car), and pondering the actualities of it. Dick’s narrator in Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep? finds the “girl” to be ultimately cold, cruel and “dry,” whereas in “Bladerunner” Deckard runs off with her to parts unknown—but then the film Rachel is definitely not a cold, cruel and dry ‘being’ (love Sean Young…).
People responding to the CNN piece posit the increased sense of aloneness and alienation relationships with sexbots might cause, a sensibility which already pemeates our society. Others remind us that many people are physically unable to have relationships, etc., and could find soul-sustaining pleasure in the sex bots.
But as to your question about purchasing Sexbot Sally for my kid—the answer is no. But I couldn’t afford “her” for myself let alone my son. Still, I’m sure there will be those out there who may add the sexbot to their son’s (and daughters?) exponentially expanding technotoy collection; after all, it would be safer than a girlfriend or boyfriend (or one of your skanky bar skanks)—no STDs, could offer actual ‘training’ besides said bar skanks and the old standby—a Playboy and the left hand, and would involve a lot less aggravation then dealing with teenage girl hell (as Diablo Cody put it: “Hell is a teenage girl”)
And as for my 13-year-old son (who does in fact exist): it would have to look a hell of a lot more like Megan Fox… ;)
(what it looks like in the picture is pretty scary—as WiHa says: “frickin’ UGLY”)

Either way, it looks like we're on our way to becoming 21st Century Digital Boys (and Girls)

The day fully interactive holograms like on Star Trek become a reality is the day birthrates plummet and the global population stabalizes…maybe even declines.

Perhaps some green energy and sustainable development money should be directed towards this goal. ;) Hell, it’s already started in Japan.

good point

maybe that is the solution for over-population.
I think most of us would prefer the Star Trek holodeck and virtual reality chamber shown in Minority Report, rather than a physical robot creature you have to pull out of the closet or something. That’s just a little too creepy…
But what about android baseball players? Hell with steroids…

We could make an Artificial League for them and keep the human MLB

They wouldn’t be allowed to use unauthorized CPU’s or power cells though.

Would they go in the Roid Room in the HOF?

“Roid Room”: a. for ster_oid_ users
                          b. for and_roids_

Both

We’ll have them battle each other as a side attraction to the HOF.

Barry Bonds v. HomerTron 1.0, the first player to homer in each of his first 500 at-bats.

RE: safer than a girlfriend or boyfriend

Uh, unless one of your housemates finds it and has his/her way with it.

"You slept with my roommate Roboette?! You filthy whore!"

/slap

just don't hit the sexbot ("slap")

or she might hit back!
That’s called robo-rage

The wife re-wires the bot, secreting in an electrical short.

The husband dies via electrocution. The murder weapon is a robotic sex toy.

New meaning is given to the term “safe sex”.

screenplay anyone?

might not be such a bad way to go…

By far...

…the longest comment in this post is Raaddad’s ruminations on a sexbot.

Another sure sign of the apocalypse.

Shows you where my head is at...

Afraid my Hud piece is a bit long too…but less tangential.
I’m going to calm down for awhile after today…I promise…
Like you said earlier: it’s addictive…

Looks like George Costanza & Sarah Jessica Parker in that photo

except the sexbot probably has fewer synthetic facial features than Sarah

It looks like

The floor of a shower….

I'd like to buy a vowel...
On a serious note...

does anyone know the list of non-roster invitees to spring training?

I'm not sure that they've announced them yet

Which would be weird because they usually announce them mid to late January. There’s usually a press release on the team site but I couldn’t find anything.

The only thing I can possibly see in the square opened today...

…is a boo-bee. A sort of pathetic looking one but…hey that’s what I see.

Sigmund Freud, call your office!
That is AWESOME!
The answer is obvious

By applying a Pythagorean prediction and extrapolating, it is quite evident the image is DaVinci’s Last Supper.

To more more precise statistically, i should state the first two images suggest with a 95% probability, it is DaVinci’s Last Supper.

(I must confess though, I did not deduce this myself, Rob Neyer has previously posted the results yesterday)

BP disagrees - there's two much color showing

PECOTA says its a Van Gogh.

Now that #14 is revealed...

…I’m guessing it’s an autographed photo of the Rev with someone else (Arte or Salmon).

It's an autographed photo of The Rally Monkey!!!!!
Einstein explaining the Halos greatness
It's Einstein writing this quote to BP and PECOTA:

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I knew I used that quote properly in one of these other threads!!!

That would have been good

but no.

Einstein with Rev's face

and it explains why Halos will go all the way

I think we have a win on the base pic, anyways!
Follow-up.

There are a bunch of Einstein picture generators on the web using this photo.

Spoil-sports
sorry about that, bro...it's eyespy's fault ;)

good one Big D
(but we still don’t know what your message on the board is, WiHa)

It is going to be one of those baby-stealing-Babtists pleading for their release

from prison in Haiti.

clever

but your Octomom stuff kicked butt (though most of us would like to kick her butt)

Smooth move, Floyd

Jeez…

or Einstein attempting to explain his theory about how a 2-5 pitcher with a 4.40 ERA is worth $11 million

…and failing miserably

Is it Jackie Autry holding up her WWE King of the Ring belt?
Is it Octomom explaining pitch/FX ?
Why must you bring her up...

you know what’s coming now.

Octomom complaining that...

she only has 8 kids and cannot field a complete team.

Actually, she's got 14.
not enough for a full team of 25? or not enough to have two teams of 9 to play each other

O-mom

Posing for future sexbot models

I thought that was a sexbot?

Check the 9V battery cover on the right hand, Raad.

It was 44FAN who posted it, so it doesn't count.
Whatever it is...

…it’s an aerial shot. Not to be confused with areola

.org ?

oh man, big daddy

they killed off your Einstein and sexbot goof! Can you mail it to me?

jesus is the orginal rally monkey

but even more red at the rallys

Wait ...

Is Einstein only predicting the Angels win 78 games??

That guy isn’t as smart as he looks (well, maybe only as smart as he looks).

Anybody who wears a rival's Jersey is a Traitor !!!

Can’t wait for Hunter and Morales to pound John Lackey’s butt on the mound !!!

Off topic just a little?
"pound John Lackey's butt"

really

On the mound no less

I dunno

Considering the discussion of a certain robot above, it maybe be a bit more on topic than you initially thought.

Mariners = 78

That’s my new guess.

A's =78
With Arturo doing the writing
Ah

I think we have a weiner

Mr. Einstein, you get an "F" because you didnt show your work
I think...

…the lower right is a scratch out of “PECOTA”, and the balance is the number of wins & ranking of all 4 teams in the division.

And is WiHaloFan really projecting the Angels with 101 wins? Or 91?

You, sir,

get a cookie

101 win season!!!! Nice.
If pitchers and catchers report Feb 17..

when do Mathis and Bulger report??

Oh no you di'int!
Oh god one more day
That is Arturo Mor-einstein ... disproving the theory of pecota.
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
pic

zomg! looks like arte trying to impersonate einstein!

apologies to downing rules btw

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