ION, I love the video for Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" on so many levels. I love the fact that Mary can get Terrence Howard to play her boyfriend in a video.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Jesse - Apr 06, 2006 4:48:12 am PDT #9066 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Apr 06, 2006 4:50:44 am PDT #9067 of 10001
I played laser tag with a friend's 12 year old stepson a few years ago. Well, and about 14 other strangers. It was at this amusement parkish place (you know, bumper-tubes, minigolf, scooters, video games.) It was kinda fun. They had this room set up all space-y with obstacles and stations you had to defend. Dark and noisy. C got a little bent out with me because in situations like that, the things I am not are competitive and serious. Of course, he was also annoyed with the glee with which I played minigolf badly.
TomW - Apr 06, 2006 4:58:00 am PDT #9068 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."
We used to play laser tag a lot at my first job. My team used to annoy a lot of the other teams. They would play every week, practice all the time and take it very seriously. We would turn up once a month or so and wipe the floor with them. It was fun.
I was never sure how that worked. I don't *think* we were cheating.
There was also the time that somebody persuaded a team of the mathematicians to play. That got ugly. Confused fish, meet barrel.
sarameg - Apr 06, 2006 5:00:14 am PDT #9069 of 10001
There was a team of developers who used to play paintball against their managers. Apparently after one of the first layoffs, it got kind of ugly and was discontinued.
TomW - Apr 06, 2006 5:03:16 am PDT #9070 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."
Tiktaalik - Fossil of an intermediate form between fish and land-dwelling reptile. Aw, it's cute and paleontologically significant!
flea - Apr 06, 2006 5:04:19 am PDT #9071 of 10001
information libertarian
We had a workplace event last summer where we hired a dunk tank and you could buy shots ($ to charity) to dunk most of the upper-level administrators. It was the best workplace event EVER. People kept hiring the softball-playing ringer; everybody got dunked many times.
tommyrot - Apr 06, 2006 5:12:05 am PDT #9072 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.
I've never played lasertag or paintball. I have this irrational fear that if I played paintball, things would end up like this: [link]
edit: image is rather disturbing....
TomW - Apr 06, 2006 5:13:41 am PDT #9073 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."
While I'm linking to the BBC, UK's first case of bird flu, [link] about ten miles from where my mum lives.
I would also like to stress that although we drove through Cellardyke about a week before the bird was found, we did not stop at the harbour and we did not have *any* suspicious test-tubes with us. Not at all.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 06, 2006 5:15:48 am PDT #9074 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
yikes, Tom.
Dana - Apr 06, 2006 5:20:23 am PDT #9075 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Why is half of the internet broken today? Even Yahoo Mail is giving me attitude.