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 42, the Universe, and Everything  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Feb 13, 2006 12:28:34 pm PST #6945 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

My dad's birthday was Valentine's Day so it remains special to us. I have no plans other than getting kiddy valentines tonight.

Love the CNN page Cheney link. Too much fun!!

Also enjoying the jokes. I am looking forward to the late night comics and Jon. Ah such fun.


flea - Feb 13, 2006 12:33:31 pm PST #6946 of 10002
information libertarian

My two year old's daycare sent a note home tonight that we need to bring valentines and a snack tomorrow for their valentine's party. To which I says "sheesh" on a variety of levels.

A kid got on the bus this afternoon and said, "Cheney shot a guy! I've been saying it all day, and it's still fun!"


§ ita § - Feb 13, 2006 12:37:36 pm PST #6947 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am/was still recuperating, and it felt like he couldn't deal

Other people are a fuckery, aren't they? Or more accurately, one's interaction with them. Dependence, vulnerability, habit, change...it's so fraught.

There is still fallout from the injury, even 15 months later.

Ah, man, that's awful.

have you been sent to a neuropsych yet?

Nope. Setting the headaches aside for a moment (ahh, that feels nice), I've had some vocab lapses and some difficulty remembering people's names. I worked out coping mechanisms for the one back when I concussed in my 20s, and I just ignore the second. And I can feel them both getting better.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 13, 2006 12:37:47 pm PST #6948 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

I've actually been surprised by the relative lack of Valentine's Day schmaltz and high pressure marketing in the media. Ah, Olympics, yet another thing to thank you for.


§ ita § - Feb 13, 2006 12:39:23 pm PST #6949 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Another cool NASA picture:

The Dasht-e Kevir, or valley of desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating.


juliana - Feb 13, 2006 12:46:05 pm PST #6950 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

A kid got on the bus this afternoon and said, "Cheney shot a guy! I've been saying it all day, and it's still fun!"

Hilarious.

Other people are a fuckery, aren't they?

Word.

Ah, man, that's awful.

Meh. I mean, thanks, but it's mostly coping mechanisms like the ones you described. My brain got scrambled - I had to learn new ways to think. I write so. much. more. down now, though. My short-term is for shit.

For msbelle - my date tomorrow night will be at the Monkey Noodle House. I will report back on the tastiness of the monkey noodles.


le nubian - Feb 13, 2006 12:46:48 pm PST #6951 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Of course, I went to the fauxnews Cheney site and put in GWB's name. It is a lot of fun.


§ ita § - Feb 13, 2006 12:52:04 pm PST #6952 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My coping mechanism for forgetting people's names is to say "Oh, fuckit. The guy." It's a really fun mechanism, and I wished I'd adopted it before the injury. Or "the trauma" as it was described in hushed tones by another instructor today.

I don't worry as much about forgetting things like that now because I have no idea if I'm imagining it or not. Or, at least, I'll never know when I get back to normal, because I've been paying so damned much attention. Like cries of "I forget because I'm old!" that make me think "You were this bad 15 years ago. Shut up." It is what it is, and who really needs to remember Steven Weber's name anyway¹? Or that one guy who was on the thing with the guy that was on Angel that one time?

¹:Rhetorical, naturally. Let it slide.


msbelle - Feb 13, 2006 12:58:12 pm PST #6953 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

juliana makes me smile.

I am going home and hopefully sleeping shortly thereafter.


DavidS - Feb 13, 2006 1:09:55 pm PST #6954 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Ahhh, that's a good new tag.

So I just logged into my gmail and saw their chat feature was activated and guess who had a greenlight? Phil!

So I chatted him up, which surprised him considerably, and now he's trying to book our hotel room for us at the Bellagio. That would be arriving Friday April 14, and checking out, Monday April 17.

I also told him that now that he's a celebrity he's going to have to figure out the options to make sure he isn't pestered incessantly by chat requests.