Oh my dear Gus. You were meant for an earlier time.
What was your rate of slope? I'd like to know how you extrapolated the numbers.
(I'm genuinely curious, and not trying to be argumentative in the least.)
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Maria - Apr 21, 2005 9:53:11 pm PDT #7985 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Gus - Apr 21, 2005 10:26:45 pm PDT #7986 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
What was your rate of slope? I'd like to know how you extrapolated the numbers.(I'm genuinely curious, and not trying to be argumentative in the least.)
4.2% of GNP per annum
This all goes on in my head. It is fun in here, in my head.
Gus - Apr 21, 2005 10:48:11 pm PDT #7987 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Just in case anybody was wondering, I would do Rosario Dawson , Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel all at once.
As a human being, I am a poor example.
Stephanie - Apr 22, 2005 1:38:10 am PDT #7988 of 10001
Trust my rage
Is Gus gone?
If so, here's my chance....
We bought our NC house having given the bank $300. We pay about what rent would be, so except for that $300, it appears to cost us what renting would.
We paid $1000 down for our house in CO and sold it for 25K more than we owed after 2 years. Since the rent/mortgage deal was about the same there, I've always looked at that as the best $1000 investment ever.
DH bought a home in AZ, lived there a year, rented it for 6, sold it for 40K more than we owed. Of course, there were way more variables on that one.
I don't know that I would call this a local phenomenen, but you do have to buy a home in the right place.
Nilly - Apr 22, 2005 2:09:52 am PDT #7989 of 10001
Swouncing
Poking head from the computer at my parents (I'm already there for washing dishes, folding laundry and the like Passover), to wave hello at everybody (remember me? I used to do more than skipping around here, once), and to send beth belated birthday wishes with an apology, because I didn't have any computer access on her birthday on the 18th, and to post, again according to the Buffista Calendar, that it's Betsy HP's birthday, so lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year for her.
Have short Fridays and great weekends, everybody. And a happy minimum-stressed Passover to whomever celebrates it!
DXMachina - Apr 22, 2005 2:27:35 am PDT #7990 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Happy Birthday, Betsy!!!
Stephanie - Apr 22, 2005 2:33:53 am PDT #7991 of 10001
Trust my rage
Since we have often talked of "taking back your faith" around here, I thought I'd post this from the NY Times this morning: [link]
As the Senate battle over judicial confirmations became increasingly entwined with religious themes, officials of several major Protestant denominations on Thursday accused the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist, of violating the principles of his own Presbyterian church and urged him to drop out of a Sunday telecast that depicts Democrats as "against people of faith."
amych - Apr 22, 2005 2:46:37 am PDT #7992 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Have a happy Passover, Nilly!
Lee - Apr 22, 2005 2:50:17 am PDT #7993 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday, Betsy!
Happy Passover, Nilly!
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2005 3:13:00 am PDT #7994 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Happy Birthday, Betsy!