Theo! You're the bestest and the super dooperest, also perhaps the wallet getting backingest. also, you tie with lori for the pandaiest.
I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?
Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
msbelle - Nov 10, 2005 12:29:48 pm PST #2868 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Burrell - Nov 10, 2005 12:30:46 pm PST #2869 of 10006
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
msbelle better watch it or she'll be the superlativiest, and no one will quite believe her when she doles out the compliments.
msbelle - Nov 10, 2005 12:31:56 pm PST #2870 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
unpossible.
sarameg - Nov 10, 2005 12:32:07 pm PST #2871 of 10006
no one will quite believe her when she doles out the compliments.
Hey, she already calls me that c-word. Like that's remotely believable.
And with that, off to storm Home Depot.
Atropa - Nov 10, 2005 12:35:20 pm PST #2872 of 10006
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
msbelle better watch it or she'll be the superlativiest, and no one will quite believe her when she doles out the compliments.
Bah. We will always believe what msbelle says.
msbelle - Nov 10, 2005 12:35:43 pm PST #2873 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
it is possible that cute is in the eye of the beholder, but my vision is perfecto, so neener.
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2005 12:38:02 pm PST #2874 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
msbelle is the neenerest, that's for sure.
One of the krav students is an acupuncturist, and most of the instructors go see him, so I set my appointment up with him on Saturday. The receptionist seemed quite excited to hear I was from krav. World==small.
Aims - Nov 10, 2005 12:41:59 pm PST #2875 of 10006
Shit's all sorts of different now.
All this "est" is reminding me of a song from Noggin.
"Jams are the jelliest, rain's the umbrelliest..."
msbelle - Nov 10, 2005 12:42:36 pm PST #2876 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jilli gets to dance on the good person side of the room. And while I didn't say it earlier, that Dana woman, she's not wrong.
DavidS - Nov 10, 2005 12:49:07 pm PST #2877 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Spy Stuff!
1982 -- Soviet gas pipeline. Operatives working for the Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian computer system purchased to control the trans-Siberian gas pipeline. The Soviets had obtained the system as part of a wide-ranging effort to covertly purchase or steal sensitive U.S. technology. The CIA reportedly found out about the program and decided to make it backfire with equipment that would pass Soviet inspection and then fail once in operation. The resulting event is reportedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in the planet's history.
Eep!
1985-1987 -- Therac-25 medical accelerator. A radiation therapy device malfunctions and delivers lethal radiation doses at several medical facilities. Based upon a previous design, the Therac-25 was an "improved" therapy system that could deliver two different kinds of radiation: either a low-power electron beam (beta particles) or X-rays. The Therac-25's X-rays were generated by smashing high-power electrons into a metal target positioned between the electron gun and the patient. A second "improvement" was the replacement of the older Therac-20's electromechanical safety interlocks with software control, a decision made because software was perceived to be more reliable.
What engineers didn't know was that both the 20 and the 25 were built upon an operating system that had been kludged together by a programmer with no formal training. Because of a subtle bug called a "race condition," a quick-fingered typist could accidentally configure the Therac-25 so the electron beam would fire in high-power mode but with the metal X-ray target out of position. At least five patients die; others are seriously injured.