Today is dragging like it's hauling a dead body into an event horizon.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
shrift - Jul 28, 2005 7:18:38 am PDT #3651 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Topic!Cindy - Jul 28, 2005 7:21:23 am PDT #3652 of 10002
What is even happening?
Sure beats a truckload of shit.
Ha!
Nutty - Jul 28, 2005 7:24:32 am PDT #3653 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Today is dragging like it's hauling a dead body into an event horizon.
OMG is it a universal time-space continuum thing, and not just "We've secretly switched her real coffee with something that tastes remarkably like, but with completely inert caffeine molecules."
Dear universe: I noticed.
Connie Neil - Jul 28, 2005 7:27:44 am PDT #3654 of 10002
brillig
The IRA has declared it will cease using violence as a tool. [link]
I wonder if the London bombings had anything to do with it. Maybe they realized they were in danger of being lumped in with Al Qaeda, or maybe it was "Well, this is dumb, we are all Christians here" (though I wonder how the IRA justified possibly offing Jews and Buddhists and whomever). Maybe it was a bit of Anglo-Saxon-Celt unity.
-t - Jul 28, 2005 7:28:08 am PDT #3655 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Baby opossums are so cute!
And adult opossums are so not.
This is probably true of many animals, but it's been brought home to me by the many opossums that have wandered through my parents' yard over the years.
joe boucher - Jul 28, 2005 7:30:50 am PDT #3656 of 10002
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Here's a catchy headline (whitefonted just to add to the fun): When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse -- What's a Reporter to Do?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 28, 2005 7:38:39 am PDT #3657 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
As I took her out for her walk at 6 this morning, what did I see in the yard but an opossum with two babies on her back! All so very cute and fluffy and staring right at us with bright black eyes.
I saw one of those on the stairs of the building in Brookline where I was living in a basement apartment (there were two down stairs flanking a front entrance - it was on the other set of downstairs). Freaked me right out because I couldn't figure out what the hell it was. I ticked off the list - not a skunk, no; rattish tail, but the face is all wrong; not a racoon with that tail, nope. Finally I realized.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2005 7:41:51 am PDT #3658 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wait. What? I would have figured that most men having sex with animals were pitching, not catching. (Re: Joe's dead guy, not the various possums.)
-t - Jul 28, 2005 7:43:51 am PDT #3659 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I had the same reaction, Jesse. Then I just figured that the urge to bestiality was too far beyond my ken for me to really have expectations of what would be going on.
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2005 7:46:45 am PDT #3660 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 most realistic (eta: human-looking) robot ever: [link]
Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1.
She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner.
She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.
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Professor Ishiguro believes that it may prove possible to build an android that could pass for a human, if only for a brief period.
"An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said.
"More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her. Consciously, it is easy to see that she is an android, but unconsciously, we react to the android as if she were a woman."
That would be... freaky.