I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.

Anya ,'Get It Done'


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.


Kat - Jul 14, 2005 6:08:05 am PDT #9776 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The contrast between that and the near-psychotic level of rails and warnings you see in major national parks here really struck me.

I love that! It was also really striking to me when we were in Grand Staircase-Escalante, how Disneyfied the parks are. It GSE, you can go anywhere, flood plains, slot canyons whatever. you're on your own. Which I admire.

Go BLM/national monument land.


Sue - Jul 14, 2005 6:08:30 am PDT #9777 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Can't remember what it was, does anyone have a clue?

Birds?


DXMachina - Jul 14, 2005 6:08:48 am PDT #9778 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

IIRC, from conversations with Victor and Thessaly, ferrets are legal in MA.


tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 6:09:21 am PDT #9779 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.

List of domesticated animals: [link]

That list doesn't include humans.


msbelle - Jul 14, 2005 6:10:36 am PDT #9780 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

so, a building collapsed on 100 & Bway? anyone know of this?


DXMachina - Jul 14, 2005 6:10:50 am PDT #9781 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Will someone who doesn't understand gravity actually comprehend a warning label?

Gravity is just a theory. School districts prefer to teach "intelligent attraction" these days.


Sue - Jul 14, 2005 6:12:18 am PDT #9782 of 10001
hip deep in pie

so, a building collapsed on 100 & Bway? anyone know of this?

It was under demolition:

[link]


flea - Jul 14, 2005 6:13:34 am PDT #9783 of 10001
information libertarian

My understanding of a domesticated animal, from a scientific/archaeological perspective, is that morphological changes in the animal have occurred due to human contact. So, for example, the modern farm cow is a lot different from the wild cow ancestors of the steppes. Mink that are kept at a fur farm may have a human-productive use, but they are morphologically unchanged from wild mink and are not domesticated by this definition.


Nutty - Jul 14, 2005 6:13:43 am PDT #9784 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I have a photo of the sign down on the cliffs in northwest San Francisco, warning about sudden waves that might wash people away.

I do believe Victor's and Thessaly's ferrets are on the lam from the Mass. State Police. Or more to the point, they couldn't buy them in Mass., but nobody stopped them from being imported from elsewhere. Just like fireworks!

"Object is not immune to the laws of physics"?

Every office I've worked in, that has a TV, has it on a tall wheely stand with those Universal Language Pictures on the side, of a guy pulling it from and having the TV fall on his head. So, not only are warnings like that necessary, they already exist.


tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 6:14:28 am PDT #9785 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.

Gravity is just a theory. School districts prefer to teach "intelligent attraction" these days.

Gravity? Please. If gravity exists, why can't we see it? Since we can't see "gravity," attraction between objects obviously must be caused by magic, some sort of supreme being, angels, Satan, or the Harry Potter books.