So, what some people will do for high-speed internet access...
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
le nubian - Mar 03, 2006 5:15:59 am PST #1104 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
TomW - Mar 03, 2006 5:16:44 am PST #1105 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I always give a fake name (usually Elizabeth, my middle name) when ordering pizza, etc. Or my husband's. My real name never works.
I would use my middle name, but it's pronounced "Extra Mayo"...
Jesse - Mar 03, 2006 5:16:52 am PST #1106 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Actually "Love Monkey" may not be cancelled after all.
Oh, that would be good! I liked it.
flea - Mar 03, 2006 5:16:52 am PST #1107 of 10001
information libertarian
Speaking of names, my mother emailed me (and my sister, brother and husband) last night to suggest we name the Armadillo after my father. Whom she divorced acrimoniously in 1982, and with whom neither I nor any of my siblings has a close, or in some cases even good/any relationship, and who had a name I wouldn't wish on my kid (Toby). AND whose name would clash horribly with the Armadillo's last name.
My mother is nuts.
amych - Mar 03, 2006 5:23:58 am PST #1108 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Not for the first time, flea, your mother is insane.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 03, 2006 5:24:01 am PST #1109 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Wow, flea, that is weird!
Jesse - Mar 03, 2006 5:24:18 am PST #1110 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Mothers tend to be nuts, don't they?
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2006 5:24:57 am PST #1111 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A conciliatory move, or something? An attempt, even without involving him in person, to include him in the family?
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 5:25:42 am PST #1112 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Dude, maybe this story has already been posted, but whoa...
The AP has a video of the briefing about Katrina that Bush listened to, and he tells the local officials that the feds will be there for them right away. I supposed he probably believed that, but he sure as heck didn't do anything to make it happen. Also, Mike Brown doesn't seem as clueless as he has been made out to be.
I haven't seen much about this story in the regular news, but then my news in mostly cnn.com and I might have just missed it.
Seeing the video is more of a whoa factor than reading about it. They knew the levees were in trouble and they knew that the superdome was likely to become a secondary disaster.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 5:28:00 am PST #1113 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I think of my mother as really nice, but surprisingly formidable. Not nuts at all. I'm not sure what to make of fleaMom's suggestion.