Nilly, according to the article, it probably was the equivalent of firecrackers (and yes, that's the word).
Still, after two weeks ago....
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'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.
Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2005 4:00:20 am PDT #1755 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 4:00:51 am PDT #1756 of 10002
move out and draw fire
AP says:
McCracken said he smelled smoke at the Warren Street station, and people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.
"He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack," McCracken said.
"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."
Bollocks! My lunch exploded!
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2005 4:01:09 am PDT #1757 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It seems that the entire tube has been shut down now: [link]
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 4:01:19 am PDT #1758 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Just the three stations and one bus, apparently. No casualties, etc. Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here. They don't know anything, and it seems not so bad.
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 4:03:28 am PDT #1759 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here.
Just trying to gin up more emotional interest in the War on Terror.
And I'm outtie - taking Mal to the vet doctor for his shots. With any luck I'll be able to spring my husband and give him a ride home, since it's 103 ° out there, but as he's been working until 7:30 every night this week...
Nilly - Jul 21, 2005 4:15:40 am PDT #1760 of 10002
Swouncing
Thanks, Fred.
Are you enjoying an exam-fuelled lull right now?
billy, I'm finishing up with that class, and hopefully all the loose ends will be tied today, so that I won't have to think about it until the students' second exam (how do you call that in English, where there is a second exam after the first, for those who failed or couldn't take it on the first time? The Hebrew name is something like "second timing", and I have no idea what is the English equivalent, or even if there is one).
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 4:18:07 am PDT #1761 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If you miss the test, you can take a "make-up" (different kind of make up) exam. But if you fail, I think you just fail, usually.
Nilly - Jul 21, 2005 4:26:17 am PDT #1762 of 10002
Swouncing
you can take a "make-up" (different kind of make up) exam
Thanks, Jesse (funny how the combination of "make" and "up" keeps returning to the conversation).
[Edit: 1+7=6+2]
juliana - Jul 21, 2005 4:44:26 am PDT #1763 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Mmmm, a Nilly-riffic morning, Very nice.
Not-so-nice news about London, though. Stupid terroristic buggers.
sarameg - Jul 21, 2005 4:54:53 am PDT #1764 of 10002
He's, just, well, having a very fluid notion of time. Which, as a physics professor who just finished teaching a class on special relativity, is not necessarily a bad thing, mind you.
This cracks me up.
I swear, this whole waiting for the layoffs to be implemented is tortuous, even for those staying on. Someone teared up in my office the other day. Which, I mean, I get. I sniffled my way home the day I found out about coworker. But...NO CRYING AT WORK PEOPLE. I can be a sympathy crier. STOP THAT.
Plus, with the heat and some other things, I've been running a couple degrees warmer than usual (which mean I actually have the "normal" 98.6) but it is making me feel all yicky. And the cooling at work is all erratic. Which isn't helping.