A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


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.

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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.


Sue - Mar 31, 2006 9:45:11 am PST #7665 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Sorry about the frustration Allyson, although I have to admit to being a little freaked out about paying eight bucks for a hamburger.

Seriously? I mean, most places I go, a burger comes with fries, a little more for a salad. That seems totally reasonable to me.

When you guys hear the term "digital divide" who are you seeing on either side of the rift? Other than, obviously, those all up in technology and those who aren't? Who are the haves and who are the have-nots?

I don't see as racial more than finances and education. In Canada, there's been a lot of talk about the divide between urban and rural access to the internet, where remote and sparsely populated areas don't have the access to as many options or high speed options at all.


Gudanov - Mar 31, 2006 9:49:15 am PST #7666 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Seriously? I mean, most places I go, a burger comes with fries, a little more for a salad. That seems totally reasonable to me.

I was thinking just the burger. Still, it usually is around $6 with fries at a sit-down place.