I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Trudy Booth - Jun 22, 2005 12:44:14 pm PDT #3854 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Emily - Jun 22, 2005 12:59:05 pm PDT #3855 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I keep thinking it must be like pixie sticks.
Also, I really wish Tom would change his name to DeLay. I keep being very confused by headlines talking about "Delay on this that or the other thing" and thinking, okay, so it's slow. So what?
-t - Jun 22, 2005 12:59:22 pm PDT #3856 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A Brief History of Wine Glasses
There is no shortage of quality wine glasses. The most famous being Reidel glasses, specially shaped for each variety to put the wine onto the correct area of the tongue to taste the best. Finally, there are ISO wine tasting glasses. ISO stands for International Standards Organisation. The glasses are made to a particular size, shape and standard for a specific use. Made from fine colourless crystal, it's rounded shape and smoothness gives an ideal relationship between surface area and volume. The tapered bowl allows free circulation of wine and the funnelling of its vapours.
Jessica - Jun 22, 2005 1:01:38 pm PDT #3857 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Reidel glasses, specially shaped for each variety to put the wine onto the correct area of the tongue to taste the best.
This, by the way, has been debunked by everyone who's tested it except Reidel's marketing department. Reidel makes very high quality stemware, but buy it for looks, not taste.
Katie M - Jun 22, 2005 1:02:46 pm PDT #3858 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Does she not like Australians?
KATIE'S MOTHER: SherBET! It's sherBET! There's no r!
(Is it actually a spelling variant, then? Though I think she'd still be annoyed; "Duck Tape" drives her crazy.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 22, 2005 1:03:38 pm PDT #3859 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I like the idea of these wine glasses. For once, something unbreakable that doesn't look like a child's sippy cup.
Mr. Broom - Jun 22, 2005 1:06:57 pm PDT #3860 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
NOUN: 1. also sher·bert (-bûrt) A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin. 2. Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice. 3. also sherbert Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
ETYMOLOGY: Ottoman Turkish, sweet fruit drink, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic arba, drink, from ariba, to drink. See rb in Appendix II.
Beer?Beer comes from "[Middle English ber, from Old English b(long e)or, from West Germanic, probably from Latin bibere, to drink.]" The old ariba "to drink" is almost certainly from the same Indo-European source as bibere, so in the long view, the two words come from the same source, but they're about as closely related as Aragorn and Arwen.
also sher·bert (-bûrt)
Wow, I can hear my mother's head exploding from here.My mother says sherbert, whereas I despise it.
Jesse - Jun 22, 2005 1:08:52 pm PDT #3861 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Quick tech support question -- I'm ripping a CD that has a screwed up (folded a little) label on it, which I guess is hitting against the top of the player, and making a terrible sound. Am I hurting the insides?
-t - Jun 22, 2005 1:09:59 pm PDT #3862 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This, by the way, has been debunked by everyone who's tested it except Reidel's marketing department. Reidel makes very high quality stemware, but buy it for looks, not taste.
What I've been told, is if you drink wine from Reidel stemware and know that it's Reidel, and know that Reidel is supposed to make wine taste better, the wine tastes better. If you don't know, though, it doesn't. So it's not a real effect, but the psychological effect is pretty strong.
$55 a glass? I'll stick with the lexan backpacking wineglasses. [link]
Jesse - Jun 22, 2005 1:10:59 pm PDT #3863 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was going to say Hey! Jerry Nadler's my Congressman! But I guess he isn't anymore.
And my aunt's sister-in-law is obsessed with people using the right wine glasses -- she bought my aunt and uncle glasses for several holidays because they kept trying to give her red wine in a white wine glass.