Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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.


Kat - Sep 26, 2005 10:33:04 am PDT #977 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Skapetty skippety skip...

Tim's PA introduced me to Nathan as a friend of Tim's. Which is, you know, fine. But Nathan asks where I know Tim from. Why people gotta ask that question? I'm not sure if the answer "the internet" makes me sound weird, or Tim, but it felt weird, so I said (also true, in a virtual sense) "You know that Tim -- he gets around."

You could have said, "I used to live with his friend Allyson. And, you know, named a moon after me."


Jesse - Sep 26, 2005 10:34:25 am PDT #978 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't know if I can deal with my remaining hour and a half of work. My boss has given me a squillion little tasks to do, and I can't finish most of them because of waiting on other people and argh argh argh. I just need a nap.


Kat - Sep 26, 2005 10:37:21 am PDT #979 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

hide behind your desk, Jesse.

I want a book bag. I wonder if I could make one? I think the answer is yes. But do I have time or inclination?


§ ita § - Sep 26, 2005 10:39:42 am PDT #980 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He should let me visit so I can write about it, ita. Dontcha think?

Sure. Fancy Vancouver in the winter?

Is it just me, or is it perhaps not the wisest business strategy to talk about how you want to move beyond your current audience and refer to them with what may be a derogatory term before you've added the new viewers?

Matt, meet the Sci Fi Channel -- Sci Fi meet ...

Basically, they're trying to do something kinda weird, but not properly skiffy. But if they keep airing Mansquito-alikes, well, they have a hard row to hoe.

You could have said, "I used to live with his friend Allyson. And, you know, named a moon after me."

Dude! Good point.


sarameg - Sep 26, 2005 10:40:28 am PDT #981 of 10002

I want a book bag.

What kind of bookbag? It just occurred to me that I use this word as a generic- a conveyor of books, with strap(s) so that a human can carry it, so if there is a style of bag called bookbag, I have no idea what it is.


Vortex - Sep 26, 2005 10:40:41 am PDT #982 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Tim's PA introduced me to Nathan as a friend of Tim's. Which is, you know, fine. But Nathan asks where I know Tim from. Why people gotta ask that question? I'm not sure if the answer "the internet" makes me sound weird, or Tim, but it felt weird, so I said (also true, in a virtual sense) "You know that Tim -- he gets around.

easiest answer? "mutual friends", cause the internet is my friend, yes she is.


Burrell - Sep 26, 2005 10:41:10 am PDT #983 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I am so hungry. Must get lunch NOW.


dw - Sep 26, 2005 10:41:20 am PDT #984 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

A brief bitch about the Seattle-King County bus system.

Our area (Broadview and Blue Ridge) has 60-65,000 people in it. We have five buses to serve the area, most of which run every 30 minutes. We have excellent service to downtown, thanks to having Aurora on the eastern boundary.

Unfortunately, we have gawd-awful service to anywhere else in town. UW is two buses from the house, and all of them feature 20+ minute layovers between buses. 20 minutes to stand in the rain waiting for another bus, while places north of us have direct service to campus or places-not-downtown.

There is a park-and-ride, only at 8am it's already at 100% capacity. They're promising that with the Northgate remodel there will be 1000 more slots available for the P'n'R, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I only rant about this because it took me 1 hour, 20 minutes to get to work this morning, thanks to the buses running ahead of schedule and leaving me with the choice of waiting 30 minutes for another bus that doesn't connect to a non-express that takes 40 minutes to make a journey I can drive in 10, or walking half a mile to another bus stop in hopes of getting a bus to Northgate where I will wait 20 minutes for my normal park-n-ride bus. I chose the Northgate option. I'm just happy it wasn't raining.

The city is spending millions on a "trolley" that will take people from downtown to a so-called "biotech hub" which is already served by three buses from downtown that run every five minutes. It has done squat for my end of town, even PULLING STOPS so that the bus runs faster in OTHER PARTS OF TOWN.

Grr. Must. Fire. Mayor. County. Council. NOW.


Scrappy - Sep 26, 2005 10:41:21 am PDT #985 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

But do I have time or inclination?

Kat, I have one word for you--Dante.


dw - Sep 26, 2005 10:43:58 am PDT #986 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

I want a book bag. I wonder if I could make one? I think the answer is yes. But do I have time or inclination?

Knit or sew? I think Knitty had a bookbag a few issues back.

Yes, I read Knitty and have a penis. I also scratch and like brunette women with breasts and spicy brains. Sue me.