I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.

Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'


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.


DXMachina - Jan 26, 2005 10:51:37 am PST #912 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

what is the brandname of the ultra-expensive gas stove that basically stays hot all the time? I think it's made in England.

Betsy would know. I recall that she has the stove lust. I think it was French or Swedish, though.


brenda m - Jan 26, 2005 10:52:40 am PST #913 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

It's an Aga. And I want one, for no good reason at all.


Steph L. - Jan 26, 2005 10:52:42 am PST #914 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

what is the brandname of the ultra-expensive gas stove that basically stays hot all the time? I think it's made in England.

Aga?

Arrrrgh! Brenda beat me by TWO seconds! Damn you, wee Brenda! You win this time!


-t - Jan 26, 2005 10:52:45 am PST #915 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

what is the brandname of the ultra-expensive gas stove that basically stays hot all the time? I think it's made in England.

It's not Viking? Those are made in Mississippi.

When I lived in Chico, it was common knowledge (so, possibly not true at all) that about one person a year died on the train tracks that ran through town. I can certainly remember one who was just a drunk kid who couldn't quite make it home one night and lay down on the tracks. There was no derailing or anything.


brenda m - Jan 26, 2005 10:54:32 am PST #916 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

By the way, I have a Rio MP3 player that I don't use at all. Don't know what the memory is, probably smallish. Free to a good home if someone wants it.


Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 10:54:40 am PST #917 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But I ripped all my CDs way before I got one, so I guess my barrier to entry was low. Once you have ripped, though, it's not much work. And the ripping effort is on par with playing the CD once -- so your ROI appears pretty quickly.

The ripping CDs thing... I dunno. I don't play CDs off my computer, usually. But maybe I should, and get with the ripping and burning and whatnot. And then there's all the fiddling and playlists and blah blah. I don't mind just playing CDs.


Narrator - Jan 26, 2005 10:55:10 am PST #918 of 10002
The evil is this way?

Allyson -- You work at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Don't you? Did you see this story about a book about the JPL?


Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2005 10:57:19 am PST #919 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Vikings are the expensive American commercial-turned-residential stoves. Agas are the British ones that are always on, which makes more sense given the British climate and household heating. I think you can get coal-fired Agas, or could until recently.


tommyrot - Jan 26, 2005 10:59:18 am PST #920 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

It seems like Metra trains kill several people each year here. Some are suicides and some are accidents. It's not unknown for pedestrians and bicyclists to try to cross the tracks near a train station in front of a train, not realized that the train is an express train that's going 70 mph instead of a regular train that's gonna stop at the station.


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 10:59:28 am PST #921 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

there's all the fiddling and playlists and blah blah

There's no mandatory fiddling, honest. I fiddle and playlist because I like the idea of playing all the LotR soundtracks in one shot, in sequence, or having all the 80s music I like in rotation for a whole week.

But you don't have to. You can play by album just like before, or by artist or genre without playlisting or fiddling at all.

50% of the conversations I've overheard between strangers today have been about the not!suicide. One of them seemed to be between lawyers who will be working on the case. Not sure in what capacity -- them talking about the company's exposure in the case made me think that Metrolink might be their client.