Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.

'Safe'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


Theodosia - Jun 22, 2006 8:31:46 am PDT #3350 of 10002
'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"

When I bought my house, I was mentally kicking myself because if I'd just bought a couple years earlier before the market zoomed so much I could have paid half what I did. But then the market continued to rise in price, and now people tell me I'm so smart to be have able to buy when I did. Weird how that works.


Lee - Jun 22, 2006 8:37:41 am PDT #3351 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

have you gotten to the season finale yet? there's some serious pretty there.

Oh my, yes. Shirtless pretty, IIRC.

(I saw it when it first aired)

I went back to sleep for three hours, and now feel well enough to go to work.

yay?


Jessica - Jun 22, 2006 8:42:09 am PDT #3352 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Yeah, I have this:

Neophiliacs are people who love everything new or novel. While most people have some element of this trait in their personality, there are some folks who have an almost unstoppable draw to every whizzy new electronic gizmo. Or maybe they just have to have the latest combination of strappy sandals and hip-hugging jeans.

These neophiliacs are, in effect, every marketer’s dream.

And now a team of researchers have provided these consumers with just about the greatest excuse ever for justifying their expensive compulsion to buy the newest and coolest. They can't help themselves.

It turns out some people may, in fact, be more genetically predisposed than others to wanting the newest toys, gadgets and fashions.

In scientific mumbo jumbo, it seems that genetic differences mean that people produce different variations of a mitochondrial enzyme called monoamine oxidase A. That’s according to research from the Yamagata University School of Medicine in Japan, which was recently published in the scientific journal Psychiatric Genetics and mentioned in the New Scientist magazine.

The researchers found that one form of this enzyme was “significantly associated with higher scores of novelty seeking.” In other words, people who produce that form of the enzyme are more likely to have novelty-seeking traits in their personality than others.


flea - Jun 22, 2006 8:45:02 am PDT #3353 of 10002
information libertarian

I will vouch for having seen S, live and in person. Although, have I seen him since he and amych got married? Maybe not. Maybe they mated and she killed and devoured him...

In yesterday's food convo news, I am now determined to go here [link] at soonest possibility. If any NCistas are interested, we could make a parea out of it (mezes are so much funner in groups).


Volans - Jun 22, 2006 8:45:15 am PDT #3354 of 10002
move out and draw fire

"I love ya baby, but ya gotta understand - it's the monoamine oxidase A in me!"


tommyrot - Jun 22, 2006 8:45:16 am PDT #3355 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yeah, I have this:

Yeah, me too. Except when it comes to cars.


Jessica - Jun 22, 2006 8:47:00 am PDT #3356 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm just hoping this becomes a medically recognized disorder, so that I can get my doctor to write me a prescription for a Treo 700p.


tommyrot - Jun 22, 2006 8:49:20 am PDT #3357 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Maybe I can volunteer for a research study, where they give me all sorts of fancy new toys and then... study me.


Megan E. - Jun 22, 2006 9:10:33 am PDT #3358 of 10002

CRAP! I just saw this headline and story:

Ashcroft arrested at youth club

and so hoped they meant John Ashcroft. Alas, it is not to be.


Calli - Jun 22, 2006 9:11:46 am PDT #3359 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

If any NCistas are interested, we could make a parea out of it (mezes are so much funner in groups).

Usually I'd be all kindsa interested, but things will be fraught with out-of-town family stuff for me soon. Still, it looks very yummy. I love Greek food.