ita is in her scary place
The Valley?
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2006 8:53:35 am PDT #2109 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
sarameg - Aug 11, 2006 8:54:51 am PDT #2110 of 10001
Dear msbelle's Boss-
msbelle contains all the happiness today. Please excuse her so she can use it properly.
Sincerely, The Cranky One You Really Don't Want to Deal With Today
PS. Smash that stupid caveman while you are at it. He's eating his boogers again.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2006 8:54:53 am PDT #2111 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Simi Valley.
aurelia - Aug 11, 2006 8:56:00 am PDT #2112 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2006 8:56:29 am PDT #2113 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.
Star Trek inspirational posters: [link]
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2006 9:04:26 am PDT #2114 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.
No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:
[link] (Has a big-ass list of ways in which we're far from #1)
"Of the 20 most developed countries in the world, the U.S. was dead last in the growth rate of total compensation to its workforce in the 1980s.... In the 1990s, the U.S. average compensation growth rate grew only slightly, at an annual rate of about 0.1 percent" (The European Dream, p.39). Yet Americans work longer hours per year than any other industrialized country, and get less vacation time.
eta:
The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2006 9:10:50 am PDT #2115 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.
A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms.
Looks sorta like berry pie. Mmmm.... pie.
aurelia - Aug 11, 2006 9:11:35 am PDT #2116 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Did I scare everyong (except tommy) away? The link in my last post is really quite harmless.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2006 9:14:59 am PDT #2117 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
ION, HMOG is it a nice day! Currently 71F with low humidity and forecast to drop into the 50s tonight. And it's supposed to keep going this way for the forseeable future (if you trust extended forecasts). If this is the August we get as a result, I'll take the 2 1/2 days of inferno weather to kick it off. Without a doubt the strangest spring/summer I've even experienced.
Suddenly, I'm a little frightened about what autumn has in store.
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2006 9:17:09 am PDT #2118 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.
Did I scare everyong (except tommy) away? The link in my last post is really quite harmless.
Yeah, it was very disappointing. I mean, it was good.
ION, how do good spellers remember how to spell 'disappointing'? I always wanna type 'dissapointing' or 'dissappointing.'
edit to add more bad spelling goodness.