Sex with robots is more common than most people think.

Spike ,'Lineage'


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.


Jesse - Jul 19, 2006 4:30:45 pm PDT #7600 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

A couple of months ago I accidentally went to a bar where someone had been killed outside a few months earlier. When my friends pointed that out, I did not mention that was probably why I thought of it.


billytea - Jul 19, 2006 4:30:53 pm PDT #7601 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

And from the land of billytea, I saw a kookaburra, a shingle-back skink [link] (a skink - I love that name), and a stick insect. The skink was cool - it's defense from predators is that its tail is shaped like its head, so it rolls up into a ball with its head (that picture doesn't really show it well) in and tail out to trick its predator into going for its tail, while the skink escapes with it head in tact and grows a new tail.

When I visited the Cape May Zoo in NJ, I was very pleasantly surprised when I heard a kookaburra singing out at the other end of the zoo. Very homey sound.


Cass - Jul 19, 2006 4:53:26 pm PDT #7602 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Ooh, I never actually get puffy, just tingly.
Just a little tingly. Lips puff a bit, throat tingles and maybe puffs a tiny bit. I feel it and take a Bene and all is well.

Why are drupes all so delicious if they want to hurt me?

The most useful site evah.
I use it more than Snopes even. Which is kinda sad.


Holli - Jul 19, 2006 5:20:32 pm PDT #7603 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

I have no idea of the murder stats for College Park, but my hometown had a really awful murder when I was 9-- a man and his three daughters were killed by their house painter. The father was a friend of my dad's, and the youngest daughter used to baby-sit for my sisters and me.

The creepiest part, though? The father was a podiatrist, like my dad (it's how they knew each other), and all the newspaper headlines just said "Potomac podiatrist and three daughters killed." So all my parents' friends thought it was *our* family, and for weeks after it happened were calling the house to make sure we were all still alive.

So that's my one scary local crime story. Go team childhood in the 'burbs!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 19, 2006 5:50:13 pm PDT #7604 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'm not sure if Memphis has hit 100 murders in 2006 yet (93 was the last statistic I heard), but we seem to be in the midst of a rash of them.


erikaj - Jul 19, 2006 6:15:24 pm PDT #7605 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

We have a sniper and a serial rapist working our city right now...and it's not... But I'm not that worried. Tired of watching news anchors play at "self-defense" but not very afraid.(they both work at night, on the other side of town.) We have been envisioning Local ita-type Kicks Baseline Rapist In "Nads for a couple days, though. Stuff I read, and "Night of The Dead Living" says that summer is often the worst.


Cass - Jul 19, 2006 6:25:02 pm PDT #7606 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

We have a sniper and a serial rapist working our city right now
I saw that and wondered about your reaction, erika.

And then I went off on a tangent. So I forgot to ask.


Scrappy - Jul 19, 2006 7:20:16 pm PDT #7607 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Hey, Buffistas! I am home from Minneapolis, where I had a week of attending and/or running lots of meetings. It was a good and productive visit--my best yet. I also had my first mojito. I don't usually like any sort of mixed drink, but OMG the yum!


Lee - Jul 19, 2006 7:35:11 pm PDT #7608 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Welcome home, Robin!


Aims - Jul 19, 2006 7:38:12 pm PDT #7609 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Welcome home, Robin! My brother lives in Minneapolis and loves it there. How did you like it?