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.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 12:02:14 pm PST #7478 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Trudy Booth - Jan 04, 2006 12:14:35 pm PST #7485 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Its wrong for me to want a Scooba in an apartment as small as mine. I realize this.
But the white linoleum is a PITA to keep clean. If I had a little robot going every day...
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 12:16:50 pm PST #7486 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How To Get A Human Being On The Phone
Cheat sheet guide to many common automated phone menus (banks, stores, utilities, etc).
Handy and on-topic!
shrift - Jan 04, 2006 12:18:45 pm PST #7487 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Fay's reaction to the news about Sharon reminded me that the new Star Wars novel is titled: Star Wars: Dark Lord.
DARTH VOLDEMORT.