Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'Get It Done'


What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35  

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.


Jessica - Jun 02, 2005 2:14:55 pm PDT #8845 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Consortium of scientists simulates 'cube of creation'

Scientists have recreated a vast segment of the universe inside a computer and written a brief history of time, black holes and galaxy formation.

The Millennium Simulation - the biggest exercise of its kind - required 25 million megabytes of memory. But it tracked the 14bn-year history of creation in months and now offers a tool to explore mysterious events in galaxies far away and long ago.

The simulated universe represents a cube of creation with sides that measure 2bn light years. It is home to 20m galaxies, large and small. It has been designed to answer questions about the past, but it offers the tantalising opportunity to fast-forward in time to the slow death of the galaxies, billions of years from now.


billytea - Jun 02, 2005 2:50:37 pm PDT #8846 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Where does she think she is? Australia?

Hey! Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the right to vote.

Gay Penguin Dads kids' book. Aww!

Hee. I'm tempted.

I did not inquire as to whether my Bob named John had a secondary sex penis, or if it was named wee bob.

At that point I think he'd have to call it Bobbitt.


Allyson - Jun 02, 2005 2:53:27 pm PDT #8847 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the right to vote.

Did Australia give it or did the women pry it from Australia's manly hands?


Jesse - Jun 02, 2005 2:53:46 pm PDT #8848 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Does Australia have mandatory voting? I think that's what I thought the point there was.


§ ita § - Jun 02, 2005 2:55:48 pm PDT #8849 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jesse is of my mind.


Jessica - Jun 02, 2005 2:59:18 pm PDT #8850 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's not quite Fuckster, but: http://www.shagster.net/


Kristen - Jun 02, 2005 3:00:50 pm PDT #8851 of 10001

I don't suppose we have any accounting folk around here who could answer a question for me...


Kat - Jun 02, 2005 3:01:44 pm PDT #8852 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Well, the original studies were done with dogs.

But wasn't there a follow up study done with people? Some sort of cognitive task and noise and the ability to switch the noise on and off. Also, if I remember correctly, it wasn't Skinner doing the experiments at all but Selig? Silig? Something like that.

It's been too many years since my educational psych classes.

ita! I need help! What were the directions for the beef patties? 375 or 350? and for how long?


Kat - Jun 02, 2005 3:14:43 pm PDT #8853 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Okay, has anyone else had the cappucino flavored kit kats?


billytea - Jun 02, 2005 3:15:39 pm PDT #8854 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Did Australia give it or did the women pry it from Australia's manly hands?

Give it, I think. I don't recall much in the way of suffrage movement confrontations as you saw in Britain, for instance. Edit: well, I doubt it was some blokes in Parliament woke up one day and thought, "this'd make a nice present for the wife", but it seemed less contentious here than elsewhere.