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Theodosia - Feb 11, 2006 2:19:41 am PST #6471 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Sorry, not watching opening ceremonies or anything here. It was SciFi Friday all the way, which meant we scraped one friend off the ceiling after a particular thing happened on BSG.

Now I must be ridiculously busy this morning, because my best window for grocery-shopping commences in about 45 minutes. Because the Killer Blizzard From Hell!!!1! is scheduled for tomorrow. So I won't be able to go tomorrow morning as usual, and if I linger too long today, the grocery stores will be full of panic buyers....

DXMachina - Feb 11, 2006 2:33:21 am PST #6472 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

if I linger too long today, the grocery stores will be full of panic buyers....

I think it's already too late for that. The media has been whipping people into a frenzy. I went shopping last night, and it was mobbed.

Anne W. - Feb 11, 2006 2:48:39 am PST #6473 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

The media has been whipping people into a frenzy.

I don't remember the weather folk on the news doing this when I was younger. Is it a semi-recent phenomenon, or was I just oblivious as a child (which is entirely likely).

Megan E. - Feb 11, 2006 3:08:16 am PST #6474 of 10002

It think it's part of the growing the Culture of Fear phenomenon.

Theodosia - Feb 11, 2006 3:10:44 am PST #6475 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I think Americans are getting entirely too timid, is what I think. ::waves cane fiercely::

DXMachina - Feb 11, 2006 3:33:56 am PST #6476 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I don't remember the weather folk on the news doing this when I was younger.

Yeah, they did a lot of the same fear mongering, at least here in New England. One of the reasons so many people died in the Blizzard of '78 is that the TV weatherpeople had been predicting massive snowstorms that turned out to be nothing every other week leading up to the storm, so that when the big storm finally hit, no one was listening to the warnings anymore.

flea - Feb 11, 2006 3:45:41 am PST #6477 of 10002
information libertarian

It's raining and gloomy in NC, and I think we're going to cook beef stew and homemade macacroni and cheese (great idea!) and watch luge. Nesting day!

DXMachina - Feb 11, 2006 3:58:03 am PST #6478 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Luge is good, although I do miss the days when the tracks weren't quite so good, when you'd occasionally get a luger getting launched off into space. That was always fun.

Theodosia - Feb 11, 2006 4:02:25 am PST #6479 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Not so much for the luger, though.

DXMachina - Feb 11, 2006 4:03:34 am PST #6480 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I have to say, the opening ceremony was really an interesting combination of beauty, the bizarre, and all around goofiness. I mean, who hasn't wanted to do donuts in a Ferrari in front of a bazillion people.

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