You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


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.


Jessica - Mar 31, 2006 9:26:51 am PST #7655 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

But the article, while not saying so explicitly, seems to be hinting that black implies poor/uneducated.

Yeah, sentences like this:

Studies and mounting anecdotal evidence now suggest that blacks, even some of those at the lower end of the economic scale, are making significant gains.

seem to imply that race is a barrier to internet access even if you're rich and live in a neighborhood with broadband.


Theodosia - Mar 31, 2006 9:27:28 am PST #7656 of 10001
'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'm just almost crazy enough to order these for my backyard! Quick, somebody talk me out of it!


TomW - Mar 31, 2006 9:29:37 am PST #7657 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'm just almost crazy enough to order these for my backyard! Quick, somebody talk me out of it!

Numerous studies have shown animated light-up alligators to be very dangerous. Especially to other, smaller animated light-up animals.

On the other hand: SO AWESOME!


shrift - Mar 31, 2006 9:32:37 am PST #7658 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm just almost crazy enough to order these for my backyard!

Ooh! Get the alligator and put a ticking clock in its belly!


Ginger - Mar 31, 2006 9:32:43 am PST #7659 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Quick, somebody talk me out of it!

Don't look at me. I'm just hoping the flamingo goes on sale.


Theodosia - Mar 31, 2006 9:34:06 am PST #7660 of 10001
'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"

Ooh! Get the alligator and put a ticking clock in its belly!

Sure! Right after Gudanov builds me a play pirate ship for my backyard!

...Come to think of it, that would be pretty cool....


§ ita § - Mar 31, 2006 9:34:56 am PST #7661 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't know enough about black America to know if/why, when adjusted for income and education, internet usage would be less.

Most everyone I know is on the internet. The one guy who, a year ago, said "I don't have e-mail" has been hooked up. But I'm a big city girl, who hangs out with people who might as well have finished university (I can't think of a simple way to put that) if they haven't, and socialises a lot on the 'net.

So what do I know?

I'm fascinated by the stat that English-speaking Hispanics are online more than non-Hispanic blacks or whites. I wonder about the racial breakdown there.

Modern Bachelor Pads. I want there to be a cliché of a bachelorette pad. I wonder what it would look like.

Can't decide what to do for lunch. I brought lunch with, but I still want my time. Maybe sleep again.


Jesse - Mar 31, 2006 9:35:07 am PST #7662 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Theo, I think it's your duty to buy those. The neighborhood has been classed way up lately, and classy is BORING.


Gudanov - Mar 31, 2006 9:37:39 am PST #7663 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

The light up alligator makes me think about my ex-boss's (from two different jobs) new company, Animated Lighting.

[link]

They have some cool stuff, but it doesn't come cheap.


Theodosia - Mar 31, 2006 9:39:24 am PST #7664 of 10001
'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"

Improvements also has a light-up praying mantis. If it was only 30 feet high, I'd definitely buy it.