Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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.


Aims - Aug 22, 2006 8:20:28 am PDT #3928 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.

How do you know that??

(No kidding. How do you think she'd feel if all of a sudden they reclassified the belt color in Krav and she back to being orange or whatever. She'd have a fit. I'm telling you, Pluto's gonna take off and fuck up our orbit.)


lisah - Aug 22, 2006 8:20:49 am PDT #3929 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Happy Birthday bon bon! Yay celebrating birthdays with great food!!


Nilly - Aug 22, 2006 8:22:21 am PDT #3930 of 10001
Swouncing

Jessica!

Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.

I think the whole thing is so cool (not only because I got to TA about Newton's universal gravitation law on the very day the whole thing was published. Not even because I got to explain gravitation as HoYay, though I didn't use the exact expression, of course).

How the way we describe the universe is something that we make up. The universe, just like ita said, doesn't care. It would spin and roll and do whatever it does regardless of how we list it, try to interpret it, get used to calling it names or change those names. And yet, it is important, to us, at least. It doesn't only shape our understanding of the world around us, but also helps us learn how to master it, to use those facts adn rules we learn in order to play with them, to build things based on them, to study even further.

Oh, my, I'm such a geek.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2006 8:24:14 am PDT #3931 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How do you know that??

Pluto lurks and told me in email.


lisah - Aug 22, 2006 8:24:20 am PDT #3932 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

How the way we describe the universe is something that we make up. The universe, just like ita said, doesn't care.

so true. I have a quote from EM Forster above my desk:

As soon as one realizes that the universe is neither for us nor against us one feels steadier."


Scrappy - Aug 22, 2006 8:24:59 am PDT #3933 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Happy Bon Day! I love your funny, fascinating, incisive and ultra-spicy brains.


amych - Aug 22, 2006 8:25:21 am PDT #3934 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Oh, my, I'm such a geek.

Yes, and it's wonderful.


beth b - Aug 22, 2006 8:26:58 am PDT #3935 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

happy birthday bon bon!


Aims - Aug 22, 2006 8:27:09 am PDT #3936 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Oh, my, I'm such a geek.

We love it, as amych says.


Nilly - Aug 22, 2006 8:31:57 am PDT #3937 of 10001
Swouncing

I love you guys, too! t /Willow in Doppelgängland