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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.


Calli - Jul 28, 2005 9:03:58 am PDT #3745 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

A nice rare steak, perhaps, with a dollop of pâté fois gras covered in bacon?

Mmmmmmm. I just got back from a fairly decent sushi lunch. Reading this shouldn't make me hungry.

And yet.


Scrappy - Jul 28, 2005 9:04:33 am PDT #3746 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Morton's is very old school steakhouse, all about the seared meat, the crisp white tablecloths and the attentive wait staff.


bon bon - Jul 28, 2005 9:06:42 am PDT #3747 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Porn star -- you so rarely hear "porn actor" -- seems like stars are a dime a dozen. Why's that?

Who acts in porn? There's your answer, right there.

ION, I hate getting research projects with a short deadline, feeling like a failure when you don't find anything, and hearing, "yeah, didn't think there was anything to find, just wanted to make sure!" This one time everyone conspired not to tell me that four people had researched the same topic for a week, just so I wouldn't go into it thinking there was nothing to find.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 28, 2005 9:07:33 am PDT #3748 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Morton's is very old school steakhouse, all about the seared meat, the crisp white tablecloths and the attentive wait staff.

I've been to the one in Boston for lunch. Fork-tender filet mignon. Mmmmm, that's good cow.

On a related note, I sat there horrified as person after person I was with ordered their steaks and filets medium-well to well. shudder I can't even go medium on a REALLY good steak. I can't really do rare either, but a good, medium-rare steak or filet? Homer drool noise!!!


§ ita § - Jul 28, 2005 9:08:21 am PDT #3749 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Who acts in porn?

Very good point.

I wouldn't go into it thinking there was nothing to find.

Fresh eyes! Fresh eyes! Time-tested thinking, here.

Okay -- at least ten more minutes before I can consider heating up my paltry lunch.


sarameg - Jul 28, 2005 9:08:58 am PDT #3750 of 10002

That's kinda evil, bon.

I've run across a project here that has me snarling. I have to stay all vague about it for various reasons, but...SNARL. It's a big fuckyou-type thing.

Sigh.


Jesse - Jul 28, 2005 9:09:45 am PDT #3751 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This reminds me that apparently a friend of mine came across some pornographic pictures of a hot classmate on the internet, and he's never sent them to me!!


Connie Neil - Jul 28, 2005 9:09:58 am PDT #3752 of 10002
brillig

Why is rare stake called "rare"? "well done" is relatively self-explanatory, but I don't understand how "rare" = "closer to the uncooked end of the scale than the well-cooked end."


P.M. Marc - Jul 28, 2005 9:10:34 am PDT #3753 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

ION, I hate getting research projects with a short deadline, feeling like a failure when you don't find anything, and hearing, "yeah, didn't think there was anything to find, just wanted to make sure!" This one time everyone conspired not to tell me that four people had researched the same topic for a week, just so I wouldn't go into it thinking there was nothing to find.

Oh, I freakin' hate projects like that. Not shockingly, they go on in the web/IT world, too. "See if you can get X to do Y."

It's almost always with an unsupported in house tool, and it's always wishful "maybe if one more person tries" thinking from the manager.


Lyra Jane - Jul 28, 2005 9:10:54 am PDT #3754 of 10002
Up with the sun

A nice rare steak, perhaps, with a dollop of pâté fois gras covered in bacon?

You would have had me if you stopped at "perhaps." As described, it's just too much muchness for me.