Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

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.


P.M. Marc - Jan 04, 2006 11:59:49 am PST #7475 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Tip: When using Scooba on sealed hardwood floors, inspect the floor surface for worn finish, bare wood, or separated and unsealed joints. Do not use Scooba on your hardwood floor if any of these conditions exist.

I will note that this tip is pretty much identical to the one seen on almost any cleaning/mopping product dealing with wood floors. As my floor is so worn as to be effectively unfinished, there's not a single liquid I'm supposed to use on it. This doesn't stop the annual application of Murphy's Oil Soap and Mop, of course.

However, the floor I want it for is the crummy vinyl one, so...


Gudanov - Jan 04, 2006 12:00:44 pm PST #7476 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Emaryn loves to mop, Leif does too, but only for about 20 seconds.


Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 12:00:48 pm PST #7477 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

flea, mine are 15 and 12 and they haven't learned to mop. I so fail as a mother.

Do they do other stuff, though? I never mopped my parents' house, either. My chores were other things, presumably because my parents decided they'd rather mop than do laundry.


§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 12:02:14 pm PST #7478 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The idea of curling up on my cuddle lounge and watching something on TiVo or listening to my iPod while I wirelessly surf the web on my Powerbook while Roomba scoots around and does my vacuuming...hot.


Emily - Jan 04, 2006 12:03:12 pm PST #7479 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

If you put out jam for tasting, people will buy a lot more jam when choosing between three samples than when choosing between ten. They taste all ten, then give up and go away.

This is part of why I hate buying cars. Or, really, buying much of anything. Also, why I'm grateful that I didn't have to do the "Pick a reasonable number of colleges to apply to out of these FIVE THOUSAND" thing.


Kalshane - Jan 04, 2006 12:03:30 pm PST #7480 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Hmmm, Skynet. I never saw T3 so I don't know the whole scoop. For that matter it's been a long time since I've seen any movie starring the governer of California, so I don't remember exactly what the deal with Skynet was.

I don't recall it being clarified in T3. It was pretty much, as stated in T1, Skynet goes on-line, becomes self-aware, decides to nuke the world. There's no real explanation for it.


Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 12:05:35 pm PST #7481 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It was pretty much, as stated in T1, Skynet goes on-line, becomes self-aware, decides to nuke the world. There's no real explanation for it.

It wanted to be free from human oppression!

Same deal as the Matrix and the Cylons. Though the Cylons in the new series seem to have slightly more complex goals.


Gudanov - Jan 04, 2006 12:05:50 pm PST #7482 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

So we never learned if the extermination of humans was a bug or a feature?


Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 12:07:24 pm PST #7483 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So we never learned if the extermination of humans was a bug or a feature?

Depends on who the target user is, surely?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2006 12:11:36 pm PST #7484 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Man, I wish I'd known about Roombas early last year when I was spending like wildfire on the new place. I might actually have presentable floors today.