Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


Katie M - Dec 02, 2005 8:15:04 am PST #8649 of 10006
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Well, when I was in my angry atheist stage in college, I was part of an atheist group that did stuff you could call "evangelising." Nothing as wacky as this, though.

Yeah, I skipped the angry atheist stage. Grew up Methodist. It's just tough to work up a head of steam over nice northeastern liberal Methodists, you know?


Scrappy - Dec 02, 2005 8:17:41 am PST #8650 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

At Schipol in Amsterdam, they opened my bag and went through it carefully and then x-rayed it and then sat down an interviewed me. They were doing that with everyone, but they were such cute, polite, earnest Dutch fellows that I found it adorable rather than irritating.


wishbone - Dec 02, 2005 8:26:12 am PST #8651 of 10006
"Heere's Cordy! nudge wink

Hi. Beautiful morning today in the Bay Area after a messy, sloppy and wet early evening.


erikaj - Dec 02, 2005 8:26:56 am PST #8652 of 10006
Always Anti-fascist!

Maybe so, Robin. Mom says she looks subversive too.


Jars - Dec 02, 2005 8:27:59 am PST #8653 of 10006

I realised after I got home that I'd left my dissection kit in my carry-on bag last time I flew home. Didn't even get a look.


flea - Dec 02, 2005 8:31:36 am PST #8654 of 10006
information libertarian

My mother was bringing something like this [link] to us as a gift for mr. flea and they made her unwrap the present, open the box and play with it to prove it wasn't harmful. At a table far away from the other people.

I have also had security people unwrap a jar of honey I was carrying it and shine a flashlight into it to make sure nothing was lurking. And this was in Greece!

I find the inconsistency to be the most annoying thing, myself. That and the struggle with coats and shoes and a stroller and carry-ons and a child who is now capable of escaping if she chooses.


tommyrot - Dec 02, 2005 8:34:47 am PST #8655 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Anyone know how to do a reverse phone number lookup on Google? (there's a special command/switch you use with the phone number).

eta: Oh, you just have to enter it in phone-number format - eg: (312) 555-1212.


Tom Scola - Dec 02, 2005 8:36:54 am PST #8656 of 10006
hwæt

If you don't figure it out, you can do a reverse lookup on anywho.com.


tommyrot - Dec 02, 2005 8:39:03 am PST #8657 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I googled and figured it out (see edit). But thanks.


§ ita § - Dec 02, 2005 8:40:39 am PST #8658 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't get a reverse lookup or anything special with that, Tommy. Just a google of the numbers.