Well, fuck. January might be off. I've got a query from hell and I can't make sense of the data, much less the metadata. It's still raining.
Should've stayed in bed.
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
sarameg - Oct 06, 2006 9:00:25 am PDT #2438 of 10001
Amy - Oct 06, 2006 9:01:28 am PDT #2439 of 10001
Because books.
The truth is, even if he had life insurance, it's not going to pay out. He committed suicide.
Theoretically it should, unless the policy started within the last two years.
Really? I thought all suicides negated an insurance payoff. But that could just be from watching too many TV shows.
tommyrot - Oct 06, 2006 9:01:49 am PDT #2440 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.
Still more:
Oct. 5, 2006 — The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to "Shoot me first," in an apparent effort to buy time for her schoolmates.
Rita Rhoads, a midwife who delivered two of the victims, told ABC News' Law and Justice Unit that she learned of 13-year-old Marian Fisher's plea from Fisher's family.
What's more, Fisher's 11-year-old sister, Barbie, who survived the shooting, allegedly asked the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, to "Shoot me second," Rhoads said.
"They were amazing," Rhoads said, "absolutely amazing. There was a tremendous amount of calm and courage in that schoolroom."
Gudanov - Oct 06, 2006 9:02:47 am PDT #2441 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
From CNN:
Thousands of Iraqi police officers have been wounded or killed in the last two years, the U.S. commander in charge of police training in Iraq said today. Since September 2004, about 4,000 officers have been killed and 8,000 injured, said Maj. Gen. Joseph Paterson.
Holy sh*t. In a way I'm not surprised, but damn, that's not good.
tommyrot - Oct 06, 2006 9:03:05 am PDT #2442 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.
Really? I thought all suicides negated an insurance payoff. But that could just be from watching too many TV shows.
It depends on the policy. I once worked at an insurance company - some policies had a "suicide clause" and some didn't.
Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2006 9:05:51 am PDT #2443 of 10001
brillig
OK, I haven't felt spiritually inadequate since Mother Teresa died, but the Amish are doing me in with the "I'm not worthy" thing. We should send them on tour of the big corporate churches, but that's kind of counter-intuitive and cruel to the Amish.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 06, 2006 9:11:23 am PDT #2444 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"They were amazing," Rhoads said, "absolutely amazing. There was a tremendous amount of calm and courage in that schoolroom."
Understatement of the century. Holy crap that's something.
OK, I haven't felt spiritually inadequate since Mother Teresa died, but the Amish are doing me in with the "I'm not worthy" thing.
What Connie said.
We should send them on tour of the big corporate churches, but that's kind of counter-intuitive and cruel to the Amish.
I really shouldn't find anything about this funny, but that's funny. Sad, but funny.
tommyrot - Oct 06, 2006 9:14:19 am PDT #2445 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.
DJ kitty! (video): [link]
The sound produced by the kitty messing with the turntable is either fake or off, but still damn funny....
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 06, 2006 9:15:18 am PDT #2446 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It is nice to hear about vocally religious Christians who are actually striving to be Christ-like for a change, isn't it?
Jessica - Oct 06, 2006 9:18:43 am PDT #2447 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne and a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of more than 400 white circuit boards (the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). The circuit boards are tied together with metal rings, individually addressable and linked to a central control unit at the back of the dress. Solar cells are embedded on some of the tiles: they charge the dress during the day, and make it change colors in dimly lit surroundings.