I know, right? Natter, people!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Emily - Jul 14, 2005 4:58:47 am PDT #9731 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 4:59:03 am PDT #9732 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.
My head is too full of gronk to post anything.
Except maybe this.
Gudanov - Jul 14, 2005 5:00:53 am PDT #9733 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I hear you're a hurricane now Emily.
Volans - Jul 14, 2005 5:01:00 am PDT #9734 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Homeland Security staged a series of arrests this morning of Americans who posted "liberal" viewpoints on the internets.
No, actually suicide bombers just took out all the internet servers in northern VA, so the US is off the air - which is why we haven't heard anything about it.
That's not true either. Really, they're all off watching panda-cam.
Kat - Jul 14, 2005 5:01:11 am PDT #9735 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
WHERE IS EVERYONE AND WHY AREN'T THEY POSTING ON THE INTERBUNNY?
Still sleeping.
Kat - Jul 14, 2005 5:03:18 am PDT #9736 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh, you mean This panda cam?
sumi - Jul 14, 2005 5:04:49 am PDT #9737 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Emily, that's right -- how is the hurricaniness going?
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 5:06:36 am PDT #9738 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.
Theodosia - Jul 14, 2005 5:10:13 am PDT #9739 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
If the kitten-eating alligator keeper is "adopting" kittens from private individuals and then using them as cheap feed, he's at least guilty of deception -- the same way that some free puppies from ads in newspapers get turned over to animal experimenters.
Last year I had a really cool conversation with a professional zookeeper who owns a 20' python. He is a vegetarian, and when he can, he feeds his companion animal ( used for demonstrations, not just a pet) rejects from a rabbit fur&meat farm, so a) they aren't pets, b) bought with the understanding as to what they're going to be used for. He will feed live when he can, as he says the python kills more humanely than he can -- one quick hammer-blow with its head. (He says the squeezing maneuver is usually post-mortem even for small constrictors.)
He also says that he asks the rabbit keeper for the mean bunnies. :-)
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 5:10:51 am PDT #9740 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.
Why the voices in your head are usually male
Auditory verbal hallucinations, the "voices in your head" that schizophrenics often hear, are usually male. The reason is that female voices are harder for the brain to spontaneously produce...