I've seen clouds like that in a couple of places. Usually before all hell breaks loose. Odd that they actually aren't associated with preceding storms. I guess I was just lucky. Or something.
Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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.
sarameg - Jun 28, 2005 6:10:47 am PDT #5032 of 10001
Tom Scola - Jun 28, 2005 6:18:15 am PDT #5033 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Finger Lakes.
That's the best you all can do?
Jesse - Jun 28, 2005 6:19:38 am PDT #5034 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey! It worked for my parents -- last July 4th, we're in the car with a family friend, they say "We're trying to figure out somewhere to drive for vacation," the friend said, "Finger Lakes!" And they went and loved it. What more do you need? Finger Lakes.
tommyrot - Jun 28, 2005 6:21:21 am PDT #5035 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.
In'eresting.
One straight forward example of what paleopathologists have learned from skeletons concerns historical changes in height. Skeletons from Greece and Turkey show that the average height of hunger-gatherers toward the end of the ice ages was a generous 5’ 9" for men, 5’ 5" for women. With the adoption of agriculture, height crashed, and by 3000 B. C. had reached a low of only 5’ 3" for men, 5’ for women. By classical times heights were very slowly on the rise again, but modern Greeks and Turks have still not regained the average height of their distant ancestors.
I did not know this.
-t - Jun 28, 2005 6:23:11 am PDT #5036 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
Interesting. I have often said this, but I was just spouting off.
Connie Neil - Jun 28, 2005 6:24:49 am PDT #5037 of 10001
brillig
Plus agriculture leads to overpopulation, because you need people to tend the fields.
Lee - Jun 28, 2005 6:29:36 am PDT #5038 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I need to figure out where I'm going on vacation this year.
San Francisco.
Duh.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2005 6:30:20 am PDT #5039 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Madagascar.
Fred Pete - Jun 28, 2005 6:32:36 am PDT #5040 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
One for the Word Mavens, subcategory "verbing weirds language."
In a seminar this morning, a speaker said about a matter that they'd "think-tank it."
Yes, "think-tank" is now a verb.
Jesse - Jun 28, 2005 6:37:49 am PDT #5041 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No it is not.