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 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.


brenda m - Jul 15, 2005 5:36:49 am PDT #224 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

Canada was ahead in debit card purchasing, IIRC, since I used it before I left in 93, but it didn't pick up in MI until some time after I got there.

Late 80s, even. It was all over Ontario, anyway. It definitely took a while longer to catch up in the States.


Laura - Jul 15, 2005 5:37:22 am PDT #225 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

It looks like Emily is visiting Jamaica. [link]


tommyrot - Jul 15, 2005 5:38:30 am PDT #226 of 10002
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 simplest widgets are just HTML and Javascript (and maybe some XML). So it seems to me that simple widgets should also run in Windows, either in a browser window (widgets can run in a browser window on the Mac) or as an Active Desktop thingie.

I've never tried this, though.

eta: come to think of it, many widgets use an OS X graphic API call (or something) to draw the graphic portion of a widget....

Yes, I know this should be in Tech....


Jessica - Jul 15, 2005 5:40:41 am PDT #227 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Jessica, now would be a good time to listen to "Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him"!

Heh. Actually, I'm just debating whether or not it would be tempting fate to take a shower. With the way today's going, the UPS guy's guaranteed to show up as soon as I've gotten naked, so I think I'll wait.

I don't like using my debit card for shopping because it forces me to keep too close track on how much money I have. With cash, the money's already gone from my account, and with credit, it's not due until the end of the month. Debit purchasing is unsettlingly instant to me.


sarameg - Jul 15, 2005 5:42:04 am PDT #228 of 10002

recon...hahaha...cile...hahaha...whoa...excuse me....HAHAHAHA.

if it is any consolation, it is STILL of by some random amount under a dollar. Used to be $7 something but that mysteriously went away.

I'm a wee paranoid when it comes to money.


Sue - Jul 15, 2005 5:45:18 am PDT #229 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Season 1 of Remignton Steele is coming out on DVD!

[link]

I always liked this season best, before Doris Roberts was allowed to annoy me.


brenda m - Jul 15, 2005 5:45:45 am PDT #230 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

With cash, the money's already gone from my account, and with credit, it's not due until the end of the month. Debit purchasing is unsettlingly instant to me.

I like the instantaneousness (is that a word? instantaneosity?) because it makes me keep closer track. My new card bugs, because they charge a fee for debit transactions with the PIN but not for charge transactions. That day or two before it reflects in my account is what makes me nervous.


-t - Jul 15, 2005 5:45:55 am PDT #231 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

wOO-HOO! I am 35 on today's fastest NYTimes online X-word solvers! 35!

I might have to stop doing this, I'll never beat that.


Steph L. - Jul 15, 2005 5:47:19 am PDT #232 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Heh. The Telltale Heart, as told via road signs.


tommyrot - Jul 15, 2005 5:47:47 am PDT #233 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Excellent anti-Bush cartoon: [link]

It's not funny 'cause it's true.