Dag, JZ. That all sounds like Very Little Fun. Except for the new and improved out-and-about thing. That's a good time.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2006 3:05:33 pm PDT #6450 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 3:06:48 pm PDT #6451 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
provided I don't pick up anything bigger than my head and that I go back home and lie down afterwards
Many kettlebells are smaller than your head. FWIW.
JZ - Sep 06, 2006 3:13:34 pm PDT #6452 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Bigger and/or heavier than my head? Not that I'm sure how much my head weighs exactly.
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2006 3:16:47 pm PDT #6453 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.
Not that I'm sure how much my head weighs exactly.
17 pounds three ounces!
amych - Sep 06, 2006 3:16:53 pm PDT #6454 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Your head probably weighs less than a kettlebell, unless you have an unusually strong neck.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 06, 2006 3:19:50 pm PDT #6455 of 10001
What is even happening?
What we are assuming is that ravens are black--which means that all nonblack things are ravens, by definition.
ita, above, did you mean to say, "which means that all nonblack things are NOT ravens, by definition."?
Yup. If I'm really, reeeeeeally lucky, I have just six more days to go, and I'm now officially allowed to leave the apartment and go out and about, provided I don't pick up anything bigger than my head and that I go back home and lie down afterwards.Excellent! Well, that's an overstatement, but it's positive, and a move toward freedom. I wish it was more for you, but I'm glad it's something, JZ.
OTOH, I've just crawled my way out of a three-day bout of severe intestinal distress, I'm down two pounds again, and right now I feel like one of those YouTube kittens with the head-bobbing and the toppling and the utter bonelessness. (Which I also pointed out to the OB, since one of the best ways of dealing with said distress? Physical activity.)Intestinal distress can spook OBs, because it can irritate the uterus.
Are you 33 weeks now?
Jesse - Sep 06, 2006 3:29:46 pm PDT #6456 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
More Suri pictures: [link] (am so glad I don't have to buy the magazine! But I do want to resubscribe to VF.)
JZ - Sep 06, 2006 3:30:04 pm PDT #6457 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
33 weeks as of yesterday.
Intestinal distress can spook OBs, because it can irritate the uterus.
Well, bother the OBs. My uterus is fine, and I wouldn't have had the distress if I hadn't had almost a week of, ah, um, the opposite problem as a result of LYING DOWN 18 HOURS A DAY FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH LIKE THEY TOLD ME TO.
Typo Boy - Sep 06, 2006 3:32:36 pm PDT #6458 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK the article ita linked has confused me.
Dr Esponda gives the example of a negative survey in which respondents are asked to tick the box of one sexually transmitted disease they do not have. e reckons that this would be sufficient to estimate the population frequency of each disease.
OK. I don't get this. You have a survey with the following choices:
1) I don't have the funny syphilis. 2) I don't have lobsters. 3) I am not carrying/did not father the anti-christ.
In a survey of 25,000 peole, 33% select 1, 60% select 2 and 7% select 3.
How does this tell you the prevalence of any or all of the three?
msbelle - Sep 06, 2006 3:39:58 pm PDT #6459 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
YAY for even partially mobile JZ.