4Frontiers wants to open a small human settlement on Mars within 20 years.
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
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.
Jessica - Sep 19, 2005 11:58:37 am PDT #8957 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Topic!Cindy - Sep 19, 2005 11:59:12 am PDT #8958 of 10002
What is even happening?
I suspect this means The Boston Globe is next, because the NYT owns it. Damn.
msbelle - Sep 19, 2005 12:04:07 pm PDT #8959 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
am not dead. carry on.
welcome back.
happy days.
need minions.
dw - Sep 19, 2005 12:06:58 pm PDT #8960 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Shares of Blockbuster fell nearly 10 percent Friday to a 52-week low of $4.60 amid reports that customers are shying away from traditional DVD rentals and are gravitating to online services like NetFlix or are preferring to buy DVDs at retail chains like Wal-Mart and Best Buy, which sometimes offer DVDs for sale at "loss-leader" prices.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Late fees from hell, zero inventory, and the most annoying undertrained staff of a video store.
Scarecrow has been doing quite well with the video rental thing as Blockbuster bleeds.
Blockbuster management has also been criticized by some investors for its policy of effectively doing away with late charges.
Except they didn't -- it's something like "if you don't return it in time, you buy it, but we'll give you most of the money back if you return it." And that's hurt them. Meanwhile, Netflix is killing them with the "keep it as long as you want, return for a new movie" policy that makes them a nice chunk of cash, all while Costco is selling $11 DVDs and people build their video libraries.
Blockbuster is facing extinction, and soon.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2005 12:07:11 pm PDT #8961 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This pic makes it look like her swayback is even worse.
Apparently one of my co-workers started a conversation with her mouth entirely full of food and during talking spat a bunch of it onto her audience's arm. Apparently she wiped it off and kept on going.
Now, I'm not sure what she should have done otherwise, but that seems entirely inadequate. Died of humilation? Cried? Quit? Prostrated herself? Something.
tommyrot - Sep 19, 2005 12:08:15 pm PDT #8962 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.
4Frontiers wants to open a small human settlement on Mars within 20 years.
And I'd like to be king of all Londinum and wear a shiny hat.
bon bon - Sep 19, 2005 12:08:32 pm PDT #8963 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
She has swayback? That picture is not flattering at all. Is there a cure for swayback?
Topic!Cindy - Sep 19, 2005 12:10:13 pm PDT #8964 of 10002
What is even happening?
This pic makes it look like her swayback is even worse.
Pregnancy does that too, both in appearance, and in reality. I don't love her dress, but she looks lovely, pregnant.
Apparently one of my co-workers started a conversation with her mouth entirely full of food and during talking spat a bunch of it onto her audience's arm. Apparently she wiped it off and kept on going.
Now, I'm not sure what she should have done otherwise, but that seems entirely inadequate. Died of humilation? Cried? Quit? Prostrated herself? Something.
1) Prostrated
2) Cried
3) Died
In that order. Quitting is redundant after dying.
Cass - Sep 19, 2005 12:10:56 pm PDT #8965 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
and admitted in print that they'd swallowed the republican party line like a big, stupid flounder.Heh.
Netflix is killing them with the "keep it as long as you want, return for a new movie" policyI use Blockbuster's version of this (I like the free in-store rentals. That I have used exactly once. So apparently I like knowing that I have them more than actually using them.) but as soon as they crank up my fee, Ima go to NetFlix.
askye - Sep 19, 2005 12:12:48 pm PDT #8966 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Netflix also has that nice feature where you can set up different queues for family members (or for yourself I guess if you want to separate the kinds of dvds you rent). I did this for Mom...it comes to my house and then she watches them. Or it. So far she still has teh same dvd from a month ago.