RIP Ann Richards. She was so kick-ass.
Figuring everything out has got to be really tiring, SA. Yay for coffee.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
'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.
Jesse - Sep 14, 2006 3:09:12 am PDT #7993 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
esse - Sep 14, 2006 3:14:41 am PDT #7994 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Figuring everything out has got to be really tiring, SA.
In some ways it really is. It's not that things are that different; they're just different enough that I have to ask or research how to do something or where to buy something, where I have that huge bank of cultural knowledge about the US pre-existing. Which is why I'm glad I took the week off from going out!
tommyrot - Sep 14, 2006 4:43:39 am PDT #7995 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.
Xena has an official name.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto's planetary demise has been given a name: Eris.
The christening of Eris, named after the Greek goddess of chaos and strife, was announced by the International Astronomical Union on Wednesday. Weeks earlier, the professional astronomers' group stripped Pluto of its planethood under new controversial guidelines.
sarameg - Sep 14, 2006 4:59:35 am PDT #7996 of 10001
They keep playing the silver foot quote on the radio. The odd thing is it enrages me every time. Why? Because she later used it to describe Clayton Williams after his vile comparison of rape and bad weather and it makes me hate the man all over again.
I also find it amusing that I recall Texas gubenatorial campaigns better than New Mexican ones.
Strega - Sep 14, 2006 5:04:31 am PDT #7997 of 10001
A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto's planetary demise has been given a name: Eris.
Awesome. Hail Eris!
Connie Neil - Sep 14, 2006 5:06:57 am PDT #7998 of 10001
brillig
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
Ha! Do any of *your* gods have a planetoid?
edit: Jupiter etc. doesn't count, unless you're a devotee of the old Roman gods.
tommyrot - Sep 14, 2006 5:11:15 am PDT #7999 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.
They named Eris's moon too.
I still say we should have started an online campaign to name the moon 'ita.'
eta:
Eris' moon also received a formal name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness.
Nutty - Sep 14, 2006 5:18:00 am PDT #8000 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness.
If they find more moons, will they be named Dyslexia and Dyscalculia?
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2006 5:20:27 am PDT #8001 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dyspepsia.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2006 5:26:53 am PDT #8002 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Okay. (1) I am a little bit hungover. (2) The annoying beeping coming from the server room behind me cube HAS NOT STOPPED SINCE YESTERDAY. (3) Ugh.