Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Impossible scientific wonders rather than hard science (fiction) realities
I like hard science fiction, but I'm not sure how well it could translate into TV and Movies. I do like the touches of real physics that show up from time to time in B5 (ships with rotating sections for gravity, some ships that preserve momentum instead of moving like airplanes), rather than the technobabble that Star Trek falls into. I think Firefly did well in not trying to deal with the science of space travel.
I think you answered your own question.
Wait, people out there actually enjoy repetitive whining??
Shoot, I could get myself paid for that.
I think original Trek was cheerfully illogical, and I enjoyed it in all of its clunky, mod, metaphorical glory. TNG was apologia for the American concept of empire. The rest of them, I don't know, although everything outside of DS9 seemed not to have a unifying theme at all.
Question:
My new loveseat is being delivered tomorrow!!!!
I love my friends for this more than I can say. I love them. I'm writing loveseat haikus.
What's the appropriate tip for the delivery guys? It's an $85 delivery charge, do I tack on 20% and divide it between the two? Give each dude 15%? Hand each dude a twenty?
Give each guy a ten.
I'd say $10 each if they're just delivering, $20 each if they're putting it together.
The so-called Texan Beef Chili I got for lunch has a distinctly Cincinnatian flavor to it. I am pleased.
Yay loveseat! You should take a picture of it before it gets Ruby-fied. I wore black pants today, of a material entirely incompatible with the current state of dog hair in our house.
(I've never tipped delivery guys. I feel like a bad person. I tip movers, though)
The only time I've remembered to tip delivery guys is when they've also hauled something out for me. I do go endure a heavy dose of self-recrimination afterwards, though. That's good, isn't it?
I've never tipped furniture and appliance delivery guys. Pizza delivery I tip. I've never had movers to tip. Every time I move the thought process is, we'll get movers to take care of the heavy stuff and then we just end up renting a truck.
I didn't tip my last set of movers. They'd broken my piano, so I was too busy crying to work out a tip.