I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


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.


§ 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.


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.


Jesse - Mar 31, 2006 9:51:15 am PST #7667 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Six bucks in Gud-land translates pretty favorably to eight in Allyson-land, I'd say. And for a celebratory (or whatever it was) lunch? People need to get over themselves.

I hate my thesis. FYI.


sumi - Mar 31, 2006 9:53:41 am PST #7668 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Jesse -- I still hate my thesis! And I agree -- $8.00 for a celebratory meal is not that much.


Sue - Mar 31, 2006 9:59:02 am PST #7669 of 10001
hip deep in pie

The headline of this story is a little misleading, and got me waaaay too excited: "Coming soon to a pocket near you: the pink quarter" [link]


Gudanov - Mar 31, 2006 9:59:24 am PST #7670 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

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

Well if you sort of made a ladder frame for the floor of the middle, forming the base. Then you could run some 2x4's angled upward from the ends of the base, then run 2x4's from lengthwise from the top of the angled ones (you'd have to support with yet more 2x4's from the base). Then you could string some 2x4's between the angled ones and another set off two sets of the support. Those last ones could form a place to put some 3/4 inch playwood that would support weight. Put a 4x4 post in the middle (you could use a concrete deck block to anchor it and use some scrap wood to screw it to the ladder frame) to have a mast. Then just box in the sides with plywood and paint. Yeah you could have a play pirate ship that wasn't too complicated to build. It wouldn't look perfect, but not too bad. My only concern would be making the two ends strong enough to support weight on the fore and aft decks. Maybe some well placed thick lag screws would do it.