Best wishes, Jim and Penny!
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 01, 2005 5:11:03 am PST #2192 of 10001
What is even happening?
Topic!Cindy - Apr 01, 2005 5:11:21 am PST #2193 of 10001
What is even happening?
I am *so* not drinking the water, here.
Vortex - Apr 01, 2005 5:26:05 am PST #2194 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
hey, what's that site where you can look up when shows are coming out on DVD?
Jessica - Apr 01, 2005 5:32:38 am PST #2195 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
amych - Apr 01, 2005 5:34:18 am PST #2196 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Amazon April Fool's?
The reader reviews are hi-larious.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 5:38:01 am PST #2197 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
TV Shows On DVD, Vortex.
sumi - Apr 01, 2005 5:39:28 am PST #2198 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
This (from that Salon article linked to above) made me think "aha!":
The press also downplayed references to a 2000 trial at which Schiavo's extremely conservative Roman Catholic parents conceded that even if Terri had told them she would never want to be kept alive with a feeding tube, they would not have honored that request (an acknowledgment that goes a long way toward explaining their actions in the case). For the most part, the press portrayed Schiavo's parents, Terry and the hospice protesters as simply being overly concerned and vaguely conservative. And nothing more.
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2005 5:43:11 am PST #2199 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The book, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, is real, and something of a classic in the field of cryptography and computer science, although it's somewhat obsolete nowadays.
It's notoriously difficult to produce random numbers on a computer that are truly random and unpredictable. If you were doing an experiment or some sort of encryption that required some sort of actual randomness, the book was quite useful.
Connie Neil - Apr 01, 2005 5:43:23 am PST #2200 of 10001
brillig
The bit about them not pulling the tube no matter what is also in this week's Newsweek article. Anna Quindlan's column says she understands Michael's refusal to divorce Terri and let her parents take over care. Quindlan says it would have been a "gutless betrayal" for him to walk away and ignore Terri's wishes. The article says the first nursing home got a restraining order against Michael because he was butting into her care too much, but the nurses are quoting as saying, "He's a bastard, but if I were sick like that, I'd like him for my husband."
bon bon - Apr 01, 2005 5:52:25 am PST #2201 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Tom comes in with the obscure knowledge! I am impressed.