Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.

Jayne ,'Ariel'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


tommyrot - Apr 01, 2005 4:13:57 am PST #2170 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This just in, Gmail now has rich text formatting. This is not an April Fools joke. *hugs Gmail very tight*

Not only that... but Google now owns their very own satelite. Called 'gSat'.

[link]

It's used for taking pictures. So folks can now run out and spell messages before gSat passes over.


sumi - Apr 01, 2005 4:14:24 am PST #2171 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

But which Eyes guy was the Goa'uld capoeira guy? (I know I've misspelled here.)

I love the Cadbury mini-eggs! I had NONE this year. My local Walgreens had Cadbury Cream Eggs, mini-cream eggs and Caramel Eggs but none of the regular mini-eggs. So disappointing.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 01, 2005 4:14:43 am PST #2172 of 10001
What is even happening?

And now, you can degronk with Google Gulp! *g* [link]


tommyrot - Apr 01, 2005 4:15:45 am PST #2173 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So how long before Google turns evil?

It might actually take a while, as I think they have "Don't be evil" in their mission statement.


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 4:20:01 am PST #2174 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How to get a Gulp Cap? Well, if you know someone who's already been "gulped," they can give you one. And if you don't know anyone who can give you one, don't worry ? that just means you aren't cool. But very, very (very!) soon, you will be.

Okay, the room is spinning. Lightly when I'm upright, but very heavily when I lie down. Which really messes with my choice of not-at-work options.

But I'll work from here anyway, and pray this all clears up in less than 10 hours for many reasons, not least of all the incipient nausea and need to do more instructor training.


Fred Pete - Apr 01, 2005 4:20:11 am PST #2175 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

More from tommy's link:

a Saturn, the offbeat brand of choice for aficionados who skew heavily Democratic, by 39 to 11 among last year's car buyers. Mr. Kaus says they appeal to Democrats because they are "clunky, Earth Shoe-like cars."

SATURN owners were also prone to put their Democratic loyalties on display, at least according to a count undertaken by Political Bumpers, which was billed as "an extremely unscientific" project undertaken near the end of the presidential campaign last year.

I've been driving Saturns for over 10 years.... Before that, a Nissan....


tommyrot - Apr 01, 2005 4:29:18 am PST #2176 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Okay, the room is spinning. Lightly when I'm upright, but very heavily when I lie down. Which really messes with my choice of not-at-work options.

Yikes. Are you sick? Or really drunk?

ION - from Wired:

No. 1's in the House
Here's one of those secrets no one ever tells prospective home owners: Watch out for pools of urine. Bradley and Maggie Parker shelled out thousands of dollars to have Ryan Homes build their Ohio dream house. While visiting the construction site, however, the couple stumbled upon rivulets of urine on the floors and more of the same seeping under the walls in various parts of the house. The waste products were apparently left by construction workers who were loath to walk to the nearest portable toilet. "It was so shocking at first," Maggie Parker said. "Then it was an overwhelming feeling of disgust." Ryan Homes refused to give the Parkers their deposit back after the peeved pair decided not to move in. The Parkers have since filed suit.

Ew. Part of me wonders if they made up the urine thing to get out of buying the house. But presumably (if they're filing suit) they'd have documented the urine with photos and what-not.


Sheryl - Apr 01, 2005 4:33:38 am PST #2177 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Where are you headed Sheryl?

Toronto, Laura. We're going to FilKOntario.(a filk con)


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 01, 2005 4:34:05 am PST #2178 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The cynical part of me thinks that urine would be about the easiest thing evah to fake for lawsuit documentation if one were running a scam. They could have a beer bust and then go to the construction site in the middle of the night.


Theodosia - Apr 01, 2005 4:35:27 am PST #2179 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Yesterday, the hotel maid who was making up the room for me asked if I'd heard about Terry Schiavo. I said yes cautiously, because I didn't know if it was a hot button issue for her, but she said that she was happy the poor girl was at rest now, and said that her parents were wrong in trying to keep clinging to her like that. "And fifteen years... you'd think if there was going to be a miracle, there would have been one," she added. So my un-scientific survey of African-American Mid-Atlantic church-going working moms shows that they're more sensible than CNN....