Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.

'Serenity'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

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.


sumi - Jul 20, 2005 4:38:51 am PDT #1402 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

They had to! My cousin Chris married a woman named Kristin. Their kids are Lauren and Sean.

Meanwhile I have a friend who's name begins with an "S" - as does her mother's and both of her sisters'. Meanwhile, one of her sisters married a man whose name begins with a "J". He comes from an entire family of "J" names. They have two daughters -- one is a "J" and the other an "S".


brenda m - Jul 20, 2005 4:41:07 am PDT #1403 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yeah, I know a family where the parents are J and S, and all the kids (five) are J, S, S, S, J. But not cutesy names, and not J=boy, S=girl or anything.

eta:

My cousin Chris married a woman named Kristin.

Oh yeah, there was a Gene and Jean on my block growing up.


Nora Deirdre - Jul 20, 2005 5:09:39 am PDT #1404 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I'm depressed - and have been for some time - about the state of women's rights and privacy, and I'm not optimistic about the future.

It comes down to, the majority of the country elected this man, gave him this power. A majority of the country created the Republican power in Congress. I guess I'm just not in the majority thought of the country right now, and I just feel - since election day- beaten down and done.

Eight months later, I still got no fight. It's the will of the people, right?


Gudanov - Jul 20, 2005 5:10:42 am PDT #1405 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Does anyone know much about John Roberts? I know he's 50 and definitely willing to overturn Roe v. Wade, but I don't know much else.


sumi - Jul 20, 2005 5:12:44 am PDT #1406 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Well, he was a corporate attorney and he certainly looks very corporate.


Jesse - Jul 20, 2005 5:15:38 am PDT #1407 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

There's a link up there to a bio site about him.

I think this is the most fucked-up time in this country in my lifetime, which is kind of freaky, but slightly reassuring, in a way. I mean, it always swings back eventually, right?


Volans - Jul 20, 2005 5:19:33 am PDT #1408 of 10002
move out and draw fire

What's Google doing? Alternatively, can anyone tell me how to get to www.google.com without my ISP tacking .gr onto the end of it?

And sadly, I'm sure Congress will be too busy being all up in other people's parenting (regarding the "porn" in Grand Theft Auto) to get in the way of a bad Justice appointment.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 20, 2005 5:20:38 am PDT #1409 of 10002
What is even happening?

www.google.com
Can you google it? Seriously. Maybe go through a google (gr) cache of google (sans gr).

eta,

What if I link you?

Google: [link]


Jessica - Jul 20, 2005 5:22:52 am PDT #1410 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Raq, there should be a "Go to Google.com" link right under the search box, which will take you to the American version of the site.

[edit: And it looks like once you've clicked that link, Google will remember you, and set .com as your default Google. Which is nice, as the UK-centric results it gives me are not always useful.]


flea - Jul 20, 2005 5:23:06 am PDT #1411 of 10002
information libertarian

I know a couple who have named their two daughters after their initials. Avery Kate and Rowan Grace - note the fashionable gender ambiguous first names and one-syllable classic middle names. I find it funny because I don't think of these people as very yuppie/trendy, except for what they named their kids.

I also know a Chris and Christina couple, which I imagine is fairly common, name popularity being what it is.

I am sad to report that I can't get too worked up about the fucked-up state of the world anymore. The world, and our country, had always been pretty fucked up. I don't know whether this is cynicism based on studying history, a defense mechanism against depression, or both. Probably both.