You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.

Willow ,'Empty Places'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

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 - Jun 22, 2005 11:53:08 am PDT #3828 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

Is there such a thing as too much ice cream??

Nope. I just had a double scoop hot fudge sundae and it wasn't nearly enough.


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2005 11:53:13 am PDT #3829 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

As someone still determined to finish a pint at a sitting, yes, so far there is too much ice cream.

Emily!!1! I just went to Cook's Illustrated to see what they had to say on the topic, and they agree with you.


Emily - Jun 22, 2005 11:53:35 am PDT #3830 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Yesss! Validation!


Gudanov - Jun 22, 2005 11:54:06 am PDT #3831 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Oddly, my wife doesn't like ice cream. I've never really understood this.


sarameg - Jun 22, 2005 11:59:34 am PDT #3832 of 10001

Is there such a thing as too much ice cream??

Yes. More than a spoonful.

(severe pain will make it so.)

Sometimes I miss it. Mostly not.


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2005 11:59:41 am PDT #3833 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

my wife doesn't like ice cream

Does she like s(/he|o)rbe(/r?/)t?


Typo Boy - Jun 22, 2005 12:02:46 pm PDT #3834 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Oddly, my wife doesn't like ice cream. I've never really understood this.

No need to understand. Accept it, eat her share and move on.

Word says the following is a sentence fragment: "Cans have numerous disadvantages as packaging forms."

It looks like a sentence to me. Am I on crack or is Microsoft?


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2005 12:04:03 pm PDT #3835 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Am I on crack or is Microsoft?

It's probably not sure what's a verb and what isn't.


Nutty - Jun 22, 2005 12:07:00 pm PDT #3836 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Microsoft notoriously can't parse homonyms. Also, it stumbles on complex sentence structures, like nested dependent clauses. Not that I have any incredibly irritating experience with that.


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2005 12:12:43 pm PDT #3837 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I figure if I can't tell pretty quickly, I'm okay ignoring the Word squiggles. As long as the software doesn't disable my print function.

My last wine glasses were so ugly that I accidentally threw them in the trash when I moved a few months ago. I can't work out what was wrong with them exactly (other than heft -- I know they lacked proper heft), so it's making it hard to web-shop replacements. Cutlery and dishes, I have elaborate rules for, but so far good/bad with wine glasses is like erotica/porn.

I mean these look great, but they also look like every other wine glass. These sound like the kevlar of wine glasses -- what are the technical considerations when shopping for glassware?