(Who all sat at my table? We were pretty rowdy.)
Phil-the-Gambler, and Gary, and Kim's cool arty friend Cathy.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
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.
DavidS - Jul 31, 2005 11:40:57 am PDT #4451 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 31, 2005 11:47:41 am PDT #4452 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh! I forgot to post yesterday that I'm now the proud owner of a new white 2005 Chevy Cobalt sedan. Finally traded in the Cavalier after 175,000 miles. Goodbye, greater-than-recommended-amount 401K contribution!
In other news, David Cross is currently dressed like Phil on Celebrity Poker.
tommyrot - Jul 31, 2005 12:25:55 pm PDT #4453 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.
Cool. The Cobalt is supposed to be much better than the Cavalier, which was getting rather long in the tooth.
P.M. Marc - Jul 31, 2005 12:34:17 pm PDT #4454 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
Phil-the-Gambler, and Gary, and Kim's cool arty friend Cathy.
See, I *thought* Phil and Gary were at the table, but I wasn't sure. I do remember thinking, "Hey, I'm at Hec's Storytime Table!"
DavidS - Jul 31, 2005 12:38:39 pm PDT #4455 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I do remember thinking, "Hey, I'm at Hec's Storytime Table!"
Hmmm, well I do tell stories about you all the time.
eta: For example, at our lunch with the columnist Jon Carroll we talked about you. Which prompted him to talk about Susannah McCorkle (the jazz/caberet singer who committed suicide) - who he was friends with in college.
sumi - Jul 31, 2005 12:49:38 pm PDT #4456 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Loner 44%
Geek 25%
Stoner 19%
Drama nerd 13%
Goth 13%
Prep/Jock/Cheerleader 6%
Punk/Rebel 6%
Ghetto gangsta 6%
Not too surprising.
Of course, it strikes me funny that Matt's cobalt is white.
Jesse - Jul 31, 2005 1:06:46 pm PDT #4457 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And, there's my case for cremation.
In my mother's family, they bury the cremains (favorite word!) under the family headstone, so you can have both.
Consuela - Jul 31, 2005 1:10:11 pm PDT #4458 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
at our lunch with the columnist Jon Carroll
You had lunch with Jon Carroll? Cool.
I need to scare up the link to his "don't hate what you love" column, which was marvelous.
DavidS - Jul 31, 2005 1:19:00 pm PDT #4459 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You had lunch with Jon Carroll? Cool.
It was! JZ's dad bought a lunch with Jon at a charity auction about three years ago. We only just cashed it in a couple weeks ago.
tommyrot - Jul 31, 2005 1:28:24 pm PDT #4460 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.
Long Wikipedia article on the next generation of US manned space vehicles - the Crew Exploration Vehicle, which will carry humans to the moon and Mars.
NASA hopes to follow this schedule in development of the CEV:
- 2006 - (March) NASA selects one team to build CEV.
- 2006 - (July) Engineering review of CEV design
- 2008 – 2010 - First unmanned flight of CEV in Earth orbit.[26]
- 2011 - (June) First manned flight of CEV in Earth orbit.
- 2015-2018 - First unmanned flight of Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM).
- 2016-2018 First manned flight of LSAM.
- 2018 - First manned lunar landing with CEV/LSAM system.
- 2020 - Start of planning for Mars missions
The whole program should cost the same (or slightly more) than NASA is currently spending on operating the Shuttle - i.e. retiring the Shuttle by 2010 will pay for most or all of it.