Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.

Riley ,'Help'


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 - Mar 25, 2005 6:14:23 am PST #341 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.

from Wired:

Bloodsuckers on the Run
On land or in the air, vampire bats move with grace and speed. The flying bit's no surprise, but treadmill tests that revealed the bats' hidden talent for running shocked the scientists who made the discovery. "It's not often in science that you have the eureka moment like we did," says researcher Daniel Riskin of Cornell University. "I'll always remember just looking over at my co-author ... and we just started laughing." The vampires use their wings in tandem to run, just as when flying, but not all bats can run: Some "just smack their wings against the ground and freak out" and can't move on the ground at all, Riskin said. Now just imagine if those little bloodsuckers could get hold of some tiny running shoes....


sarameg - Mar 25, 2005 6:14:53 am PST #342 of 10001

(How the guy managed to get the cat to sit still for more than a minute I don't know.)

I've got one that moves during maybe 3 hours during the day. A big lump. Of course, when he's moving, he's playing push things off.

I want a nap.


Jessica - Mar 25, 2005 6:19:42 am PST #343 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

treadmill tests that revealed the bats' hidden talent for running

Okay, where do I sign up for the job that involves putting bats on treadmills? That sounds like much more fun than logging tapes.


DavidS - Mar 25, 2005 6:24:20 am PST #344 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I want to see film of the running bats.


Susan W. - Mar 25, 2005 6:25:03 am PST #345 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

A guide to when Passover, Easter, etc. fit in the calendar: [link]

Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Usually this falls within Passover, but not on the years the Jewish lunar calendar gets an extra month added to keep it in synch with the solar year.


Steph L. - Mar 25, 2005 6:25:12 am PST #346 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Okay, where do I sign up for the job that involves putting bats on treadmills?

I hear that putting the tiny little Nikes on their little batfeet can be a pain in the arse.


juliana - Mar 25, 2005 6:26:37 am PST #347 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

treadmill tests that revealed the bats' hidden talent for running

This amuses me so much.....


Laura - Mar 25, 2005 6:30:19 am PST #348 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Usually this falls within Passover, but not on the years the Jewish lunar calendar gets an extra month added to keep it in synch with the solar year.

I say we all agree to a new calendar where every month has the same number of days and everyone's holidays fall on the same day. One a month would be nice, perhaps 15 months per year. The name of the month would reflect the holiday being celebrated that month. Like Christmukah could be a month.


Lyra Jane - Mar 25, 2005 6:32:33 am PST #349 of 10001
Up with the sun

The O.C. basically bored me last night. I just do. not. care. about Trey. Excellent Julie Cooperage, though.

And I'm trusting in Joss on who should be cast as WW. (Read, I'll care when I see a trailer for the movie, and not before.)

Also, Happy Purim and a (peaceful? blessed? not sure what adjective I want.) Good Friday.


§ ita § - Mar 25, 2005 6:35:39 am PST #350 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ER was fun last night. That's why I can't quite kick the habit. Though, after reading the blackfont around the whitefont here, I was panicked that Gallant was going to buy it -- I actually fastforwarded through the closing montage because I had to know if the copter blew up in his face or something.