It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Natter .38 Special  

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.


Jesse - Aug 29, 2005 10:09:22 am PDT #2082 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was just talking to a woman from Austria the other day, and she was saying last time there were floods there (the other week?), she called home and her mother said, "No, no -- everything's fine here. The floods are on the other side of the country." The woman I know was like, "MOM. I saw a picture online of YOUR BLOCK under water."

Families are classic.

Also, I'm totally going to stab my boss today. He is such a FUCKING JOKER.


DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 10:15:02 am PDT #2083 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Willliams Boulevard in Kenner is flooded north of I-10 to just before the lake levee, officials said.

That's on the west side. So flooding on either side of the Quarter. (And mind, the whole thing is surrounded by water.) That's not so good.


Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:25:59 am PDT #2084 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

WDSU reporter Heath Allen says he is stranded on the second floor of the St. Bernard Parish government building. He said officials are telling him the water is 15 to 20 feet deep on the streets throughout the parish.


tommyrot - Aug 29, 2005 10:30:16 am PDT #2085 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.

From MSNBC:

National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warned that New Orleans would be pounded throughout the day and that Katrina’s potential 15-foot storm surge, down from a feared 28 feet, was still enough to cause extensive flooding.

So the worst of the storm surge is yet to come?


Sue - Aug 29, 2005 10:32:01 am PDT #2086 of 10002
hip deep in pie

The tides would influence the storm surge too, tommyrot.


Emily - Aug 29, 2005 10:32:22 am PDT #2087 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I really like this photo. That's so me. Just a cigarette, a beer... and a portable DVD player. Mine you, I wouldn't be quite so sanguine about that wall of glass I was sitting near.


Emily - Aug 29, 2005 10:34:35 am PDT #2088 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

And I know this is less interesting at the moment, but I thought I'd mention that Netscape's bit on Dr. Swinbourne's logical analysis of the Resurrection has made it to the "What's New" popup. Now the writeup says both "he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father" and "Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true," which seem inconsistent to me. But then again... Netscape News and religion are unmixy things.


Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:35:51 am PDT #2089 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, man.

Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood.


Gudanov - Aug 29, 2005 10:36:09 am PDT #2090 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

"he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father" and "Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true,"

Maybe he was resurrected by somebody else. Maybe somebody named "Eddie".


Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 10:38:14 am PDT #2091 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I am earwormed with "The only living boy in New York":

I can get all the news I need/On the weather report...

And now I'm earwormed with it.

ION, I just had to show incompetent!boss how to (I swear to you) change the font size and leading in a fricking WORD DOCUMENT.