Another part of the LHC at CERN has been completed.
This particle accelerator has the potential unlock some big mysteries in physics and cosmology. Pretty exciting stuff.
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
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.
Gudanov - Feb 22, 2006 4:58:19 am PST #8682 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Jesse - Feb 22, 2006 5:01:37 am PST #8683 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Found them! [link]
Topic!Cindy - Feb 22, 2006 5:03:57 am PST #8684 of 10002
What is even happening?
Hell, you don't have to look at a lot of people--just check MY face out. I have way more of all those things than you--plus a plethora of delightful broken capillaries, which give me a lovely "Tip O'Neill" look.Robin, you must have taken my mirror, by mistake.
No, the vast majority of us who look at you have been seeing a cute, vivacious woman who lights up the room with her smile. And even your worst enemies don't have the proximity and time to focus on your flaws the way you're doing. Everyone (except those few with Paris Hiltonesque egos) is their own worst critic when looking in the mirror.Unsurprisingly, I agree with Matt.
Allyson, it's kind of like what Buffy tells Jonathan in Earshot. Nobody is noticing your flaws, because they're too worried about their own, and too busy covering them up. You're a really pretty woman. I have seen you in person and remember how struck I was by your looks. I'm sorry you had to get glasses. I hope you soon get to the place where you like being able to see the world better, and view them as a useful accessory, rather than a new method to increase self-hatred.
Lee - Feb 22, 2006 5:04:32 am PST #8685 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse is my new hero.
flea - Feb 22, 2006 5:06:49 am PST #8686 of 10002
information libertarian
Realization I am whitefonting for those who already have dysfunctional relationships with their mirrors: When you look in the mirror, you are seeing yourself twice as far away as people who look at you see you. Like, if you are 3 feet from the mirror, you are seeing your reflection 6 feet away from you. But other people routinely see you at 3 feet away (or even 3 inches).
And they still love you.
Jesse - Feb 22, 2006 5:10:27 am PST #8687 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse is my new hero.
Woo hoo!
sarameg - Feb 22, 2006 5:14:02 am PST #8688 of 10002
flea, I sometimes think about that. And use it to reassure myself that since my friends don't look all flawed and shit at 2x closer than when I see my reflection, it's really not that bad. Except of course, when it is and I've got that huge siren zit. But then, I don't tend to make note of those on my friends. Except when they put a bob the builder bandaid over one (ok, that was a zit+ babyscratch that kept bleeding, but she gave me permission to point and giggle, cause it was funny.)
sumi - Feb 22, 2006 5:15:52 am PST #8689 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2006 5:18:16 am PST #8690 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it was Bitches where this last came up, but no one looks at me the way I look at myself in a mirror. It's like posing for an unflattering camera. It doesn't capture jack that's useful. You're under weird light, prepped for criticism, not moving, talking, emoting, nothing.
Perkins, a theoretical insent to you.
sarameg - Feb 22, 2006 5:23:21 am PST #8691 of 10002
I like me in a mirror better than me in a photograph. I don't think there's been a picture of me taken in 3 years that I like, but I've managed to avoid letting it bug me. And the pictures of 3 years ago I do like? Are of a slightly cranky, exhausted me holding my newborn nephew. I suspect the latter element is a big influence. Though most of my parents' favorite pictures of me? Are ones in which I was in a snit of some sort. So there must be something flattering about my photographed appearance when I'm cranky. Go cranky!