'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
There are polls on impeachment.
Why do they bother taking these polls if they're going to taint the results by asking the question in such a ridiculous way. From the link above:
"The poll found that 50% agreed with the statement:
"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by impeaching him."
44% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 3.1% margin of error.
Releasing a little job~ma back into the wild for thems as needs it. I got offered the position in my department that I applied for (what seems months ago, now) and have accepted it.
Yay, Sail! And you were almost convinced you hadn't gotten it, so extra yay!
C'mon, it's 24. Crack out a projection screen and high volume stereo system with Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich playing during their shooting hours.
Heh. And maybe play a little Lyle Lovett between screenings.
Hey, if Howard Gordon is down there tell him I said hello and I keep meaning to send a sympathy card for having to deal with cranky Fury.
C'mon, it's 24. Crack out a projection screen and high volume stereo system with Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich playing during their shooting hours.
Heh. And maybe play a little Lyle Lovett between screenings.
::lightbulb goes off::
I could do a slide show of Haze and Phin.
So on the bus, a guy dropped his (apparently full) Big Gulp.
What exactly is the point of those things, anyway? Buy a damn 2-liter, folks. The cup is a disaster waiting to happen. He was sitting midbus, and Coke rolled forward all the way up to the driver and started dripping down the stairs.
Skipping, ignoring ongoing conversations, in need of hivemind help:
Is "Cyclops" in singular or plural form?
(My brother is translating something, the opinions regarding the one/many are not conclusive, and he needs to know. So he sent me an e-mail: "Ask your buddies at your forum. They'll probably know". And I never even told him about the hivemind!)
[Edit: oh, 8 is twice 4 and 6 is twice 3. It's like my post # can't decide about plural or singular itself. How meta.]
Cyclops is singular -- plural is (iirc) cyclopes.
What exactly is the point of those things, anyway?
The Big Gulp is one of those cold war programs that have outlived their original purpose.
Reagan said there was a Gulp Gap with the Soviet Union: their "5-Year" Gulp was providing nearly 50% more refreshment than our largest Gulps.
Many years and several billion dollars later, we finally have the biggest Gulp, but the Soviet Union is no more. The truly insane thing is that they still went ahead with the Double Gulp program.
Shit, I just thought it was ice.