I went up to SF with Alibelle this weekend to have dinner with G&J
Ahem! I may be lurky this month, but I'm still here!
I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sparky1 - Feb 07, 2005 12:22:45 pm PST #4682 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
Kat - Feb 07, 2005 12:23:50 pm PST #4683 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It is. It's one of those unexplained mysteries, like how humpbacks mate or how they give birth (neither of which have been observed). And how long they live. estimates used to be that the lived about 40-60, but now evidence seems to support that some whales that are closely related (bowfin) live to well over 100 and possibly 200 or more years.
If any of this is wrong, it's second hand from the naturalist on the boat.
Kat - Feb 07, 2005 12:24:21 pm PST #4684 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not cute!
pfft. so cute. get over it.
Betsy HP - Feb 07, 2005 12:32:48 pm PST #4685 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It's one of those unexplained mysteries, like how humpbacks mate or how they give birth (neither of which have been observed).
Whoo! Medieval people believed the weasel gave birth through the ear. Maybe we can switch that legend over to the whales.
Kat - Feb 07, 2005 12:34:17 pm PST #4686 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Whale ears? Small. Whale babies? the size of a Volkswagon Bug.
OH! But in related info: Whale ears do have amazing ear wax, since it never falls out. It creates a two-toned rings (like a tree ring) that they were originally using to calculate their age, though inaccurately it seems.
Betsy HP - Feb 07, 2005 12:36:27 pm PST #4687 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
So? We assume stretch ears.
Kat - Feb 07, 2005 12:39:42 pm PST #4688 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
shudder. poor momma whales.
Kat - Feb 07, 2005 12:41:42 pm PST #4689 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In other news: I'm having a porto's fruit tart right now and it's fucking awesome. the cuban cake? NSM. But the tart = the yum.
And the carmel eclair seems promising.
Why yes, I am still on vacation.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 12:50:55 pm PST #4690 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm eating a half-chocolate cheesecake with a cakey crust.
It's okay. I had to scrape nuts off the top. Boss¹ has just come by and tsked (closed captioning has recently shown me I've been pronouncing 'tsk' wrong. am chagrined) because there are to be treats in our meeting, it seems.
I can never remember all my questions at once -- traffic school mentioned, repeatedly, the idea of signalling the driver behind you by flashing your brake lights twice. Is there some magic way to do that without, oh, slowing down?
¹: She has removed all my Oxford commas from the project plan. She'd better give me treats.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 12:55:34 pm PST #4691 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wish I had cheesecake. I will resist!
Actually, I figured out what might be the perfect afternoon non-snack earlier: A small coffee with one squirt of French Vanilla coffee, the rest decaf, half-n-half, and a little sugar. (Well, sweet-n-low.) Not too French Vanilla-y, not too sweet, not too caffinated, just right.