I remember my cousins telling us the name of the steer we were being served for dinner.
I fell down and got confused. Willow fixed me. She's gay.
BuffyBot ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 39 and Holding
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.
aurelia - Oct 07, 2005 7:20:17 am PDT #4190 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Sue - Oct 07, 2005 7:20:17 am PDT #4191 of 10002
hip deep in pie
One of my cat's is sweet but dumb, but he's so shy that no but me really gets to see the sweet part. (Or the dumb part, either.)
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 7:21:45 am PDT #4192 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Has anyone seen "A History of Violence" and if so, thumbs up or down? Looking for something to see tonight and this is the only thing at the theater we want to go to that might have broad enough appeal to the group.
I think it was probably very good, but I had a very negative reaction to it. I wouldn't call it enjoyable.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2005 7:22:25 am PDT #4193 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Emily, you don't mean Goedel Escher Bach?
Tai Chi involves, unsuprisingly perhaps, chi. Getting your chi in order cures a lot of ills, according to philosophy. And helps you kill people. Also unsurprisingly, I get twitchy when arts get so dramatically bowdlerised.
People need to die. We're supposed to be shooting a skit for work, and 2/3 of the department has mysteriously disappeared. I want to vanish too, dammit. Maybe do some work, or something.
Vortex - Oct 07, 2005 7:23:10 am PDT #4194 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
is the only thing at the theater we want to go to that might have broad enough appeal to the group.
Wallace and Grommit!
sarameg - Oct 07, 2005 7:24:33 am PDT #4195 of 10002
We're supposed to be shooting a skit for work, and 2/3 of the department has mysteriously disappeared.
I don't blame them! Ikes. Last time I had to do skits was probably college czech and THANK GOD that's over.
Theodosia - Oct 07, 2005 7:24:58 am PDT #4196 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
A quick Google says goats average 2.5 liters of milk per day, which I'll translate to a half-gallon and change. I'm betting that would be right in line for a family with three kids (human kids).
Theodosia - Oct 07, 2005 7:28:05 am PDT #4197 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Friends of mine had a small farm where they kept horses and a small flock of sheep, but one year they tried pig-keeping. They named the pigs "Breakfast," "Lunch," and "Dinner," which kept their ultimate fate front and center.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 7:28:23 am PDT #4198 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When I was dabbling in Tai Chi, it was made very clear from the beginning that we were learning a martial art. It was also made clear that, as beginners, we really shouldn't try to use it outside of class unless our attackers were moving veeeerrrryyyyy sllloooooowwwwllllyyyy.
The moves were mostly defensive, but they were often defensive in a "and if someone approaches you this way, doing this will let you use their own strength to break their arm." Slow doesn't necessarily mean gentle.
I have no idea how it's taught to children.
bon bon - Oct 07, 2005 7:31:15 am PDT #4199 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oh, oh! This will totally not be interesting to at least 9/10 of the people here, but I found a book yesterday which purports to explain Godel's theorem to the non-specialist, and so far (read three chapters in bed last night) so good!
Incompleteness? I finished that recently; it's pretty good. Although going online explained the theorem to me better.