Not that I'm sure how much my head weighs exactly.
17 pounds three ounces!
Stop means no. And no means no. So . . . stop.
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
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.
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.
Cass - Sep 06, 2006 3:41:53 pm PDT #6460 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
More Suri pictures: [link]The flopsy asleep picture on Tom's shoulder? So darn cute. Parents are freaky and off-putting but a really cute darn pictures.
I just realized that I am leaving town Friday morning. Thus I should, dunno, pack? prepare to leave? do laundry so I actually have clean clothes to pack? eat something? buy my sister some freaking baby presents?
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 3:43:30 pm PDT #6461 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cindy, yes.
TB, yes.
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 3:43:37 pm PDT #6462 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.