I'm thinking of taking Friday off for my birthday (which is Thursday, but I'm not thinking of taking Thursday off), but I'm not sure I can because AnotherAlaskan is out of town and I have another co-worker with the same birthday as me who has already put in for Friday off. Still, I'm happy with today.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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.
libkitty - Mar 27, 2006 1:07:42 pm PST #6484 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Burrell - Mar 27, 2006 1:30:53 pm PST #6485 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
msbelle, how nerve-wracking. You are so FIT for parenthood, although I have to admit right now I'm ambivalent on the subject. I'm still too tired to function properly and hence am not really advocating parenting, but then I think about this morning. The only thing that made me happy this morning was hugging my babies when they woke up.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 27, 2006 1:45:46 pm PST #6486 of 10001
"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
Other than all the raw meat we obviously evolved teeth for?
Oh, and all the stuff we cooked using the fire we discovered/invented.
I think they qualified their hypothesis with "before we discovered fire," but yeah, I'm with you in doubting that homo erectus suddenly magically developed canines after learning that cooked meat tastes better.
tommyrot - Mar 27, 2006 1:53:03 pm PST #6487 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There is every reason to believe that proto-humans ate insects, eggs, small animals and carrion with great delight, just as baboons and chimps do now. It's silly to think that they had a diet resembling the one endorsed by the raw food movement.
Some scientists theorize that proto-humans (does that mean "early homo sapiens"?) ate a lot of shellfish.
juliana - Mar 27, 2006 1:55:15 pm PST #6488 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
You're going to get your wish. They are already growing meat in the laboratory, so we will soon be able to buy chicken created without the bothersome and wasteful bones and, you know, chicken, attached to it. Imagine huge vats of RNA and amino acids, self assembling into giant chucks of chicken tenders. This is our future.
How very Neuromancer.
lib, please pass on my best wishes for AnotherAlaskan and family. Also, Happy Seward's Day!
libkitty - Mar 27, 2006 2:13:23 pm PST #6489 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Will do, juliana. Thanks! And a very Happy Seward's Day to you to, even if you are in California now.
One hates to honor Seward by doing housework, but I fear I must do a bit of that. At least I didn't yesterday!
Jessica - Mar 27, 2006 2:13:45 pm PST #6490 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also, also, Alize is spectacularly nasty (and stank).
Oh, totally. But they were the show's main sponsor, so...
They are already growing meat in the laboratory
From what I've read, the tissue cultures that have been grown so far don't quite qualify as "meat" in the culinary sense. But someday!
DavidS - Mar 27, 2006 2:14:52 pm PST #6491 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They are already growing meat in the laboratory,
Vegetarian JZ and Vegan Jen are both quite excited by the prospect of vat-grown bacon.
Rick - Mar 27, 2006 2:21:13 pm PST #6492 of 10001
From what I've read, the tissue cultures that have been grown so far don't quite qualify as "meat" in the culinary sense.
Yes, but to be fair, neither does fast-food chicken tenders.
juliana - Mar 27, 2006 2:25:02 pm PST #6493 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
One hates to honor Seward by doing housework, but I fear I must do a bit of that. At least I didn't yesterday!
You totally should clean your fridge & freezer.