Yo -- did I skim past the fact that Britney had her baby?!?!?!?!??! [link]
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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 - Sep 14, 2005 12:10:40 pm PDT #7666 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aims - Sep 14, 2005 12:10:52 pm PDT #7667 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I second that vote.
Kathy A - Sep 14, 2005 12:11:52 pm PDT #7668 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
From Salon:
Wait, wait we take it all back. We mocked Dick Cheney earlier today for getting snippy about how he had to cut short his vacation to deal with Hurricane Katrina. But it turns out that we were maligning the vice president unfairly. It turns out that he -- or at least his office -- was working all along.
According to a report in the Hattiesburg American, Cheney's office placed calls to the Southern Pines Electric Power Association on Aug. 30 and Aug. 31, insisting that the agency immediately repair two electrical substations that supply power to Atlanta-based Colonial Pipeline Co., a company that pumps gasoline and diesel from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast.
Southern Pines complied with the order from Cheney's office, the paper says -- taking a risk that the repair work would knock out power throughout its system and delaying by at least a day efforts to restore power to two rural hospitals and a number of water systems in Mississippi.
Neither Cheney's office nor Colonial Pipeline would respond to questions from the paper about the vice president's directives.
Gudanov - Sep 14, 2005 12:12:50 pm PDT #7669 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I vote that Cheney should be less self-censoring, in the interest of liberals who wish to be amused by his cranky potty-mouth.
I really don't think it would change anyone's opinion about him.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 14, 2005 12:13:11 pm PDT #7670 of 10002
What is even happening?
Help...
Ben has science homework. One of the questions on the page is:
Find out what happened to the following hurricanes:
Franklin:
Gert:
Dennis:
I'm here [link]
I'm having no luck.
This [link] seems to imply Franklin remained a tropical storm, but other google hits seem to imply otherwise.
I'm frustrated with the teacher's lack of instructions, because she gave the kids no indication of where they are to look for this information, and the question provides no context to help figure out what sort of information she's expecting to see. I can only imagine how the mothers who don't use the internet are feeling right now.
Ginger - Sep 14, 2005 12:15:16 pm PDT #7671 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Try this page, Cindy: [link]
dw - Sep 14, 2005 12:16:58 pm PDT #7672 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Try this link; they're all 2005 storms: [link]
Jessica - Sep 14, 2005 12:18:04 pm PDT #7673 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I really don't think it would change anyone's opinion about him.
No, but I would find it funny. Isn't that enough?
TomW - Sep 14, 2005 12:18:31 pm PDT #7674 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Wikipedia also has info on the 2005 hurricane season: here.
Gudanov - Sep 14, 2005 12:20:05 pm PDT #7675 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
No, but I would find it funny. Isn't that enough?
You misunderstood me. I don't see why he needs to censor himself. Heck, with his voice and the way he talks out of the side of his mouth, he's already almost a self-parody.