Harry the Penguin Pirate.
That's actually Sid the wily dairy gnome with an invisibility cloak.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2005 7:47:27 am PDT #4852 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Gudanov - Aug 02, 2005 7:49:29 am PDT #4853 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
That's actually Sid the wily dairy gnome with an invisibility cloak.
I appreciate the backup even if Frankenbudda subscribes to that other gnomist sect.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2005 7:49:40 am PDT #4854 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.
That's actually Sid the wily dairy gnome with an invisibility cloak.
Only during those times when Harry is recharging his freeze ray.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2005 7:49:52 am PDT #4855 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Man, I just don't know what to believe any more.
juliana - Aug 02, 2005 7:50:49 am PDT #4856 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I, for one, welcome our new spaghetti penguin gnome overlords.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2005 7:52:12 am PDT #4857 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How reliable is it that people even see popups?
These aren't web popups. They're a random window extolling virtues of some sort. It's not like I'm going to read the whole thing.
Made my chiro appointment for today, and cancelled the ortho. I need my spine cracked something awful. I don't know what's happening to my skeleton, but my joints are very cranky recently.
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2005 7:55:38 am PDT #4858 of 10002
brillig
Apparently, "a really good reason" does not mean "scientific studies say so," or anyway not at first.
Part of the problem is that too often the scientific studies get discredited quickly, or they're twisted in the media, or they're revealed to have been biased from the start. In my diabetes class, the instructor was chugging her diet Coke and said, "Research revealed that all the tests done on the dangers of aspertame were funded by the Sugar Council. Draw your own conclusions."
People don't trust studies anymore. "Eat more carbs!" Huh, why are so many people getting so fat and having blood sugar problems? "Oh, you're eating the wrong carbs!" Hardly anyone has been taught how to think anymore, that was one of the classes deemed extraneous to a curriculum designed to train people to make money.
bon bon - Aug 02, 2005 7:56:12 am PDT #4859 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My thinking on intelligent design is that it is a way of saying that science is not allowed to have unresolved questions.
Tell that to Gödel!
Pix - Aug 02, 2005 7:57:48 am PDT #4860 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
I am so glad I'm not a science teacher right now. English can have its own censorship pitfalls, but at least I don't have to worry about someone telling me I have to teach the Bible alongside all that heathen literature.
(Though it may be worth noting that I have, in fact, been accused of teaching evil pagan propoganda. Bless Me, Ultima caused quite an uproar one year. But witches they were persecuted love the earth and wicca good and I'll be over here.)
Nutty - Aug 02, 2005 8:01:36 am PDT #4861 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hardly anyone has been taught how to think anymore, that was one of the classes deemed extraneous to a curriculum designed to train people to make money.
So, you're saying, now is the time to investigate my opportunities in the growing field of confidence swindling??
Actually, it's not that people can't think any more, it's that, it didn't used to matter as much. When the big swindle is a guy with a cart full of patent medicines, who shows up yearly, you're in a lot less danger of being swindled than if you short stock options in the 21st century.