FWIW, moose don't do well in captivity, rarely lasting beyond a year or two, and no one knows for sure why.
It's the exploding magic tricks. "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Tom Scola - Oct 09, 2006 12:00:37 pm PDT #2826 of 10001
They pay me in WOIMS
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2006 12:01:57 pm PDT #2827 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.
that trick never works
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2006 1:14:20 pm PDT #2828 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.
An amazing picture of a 767 apparantly suffering from a compressor stall. Compresor stalls are fairly common and rarely cause major trouble besides a shutdown of the affected engine, but they sometimes produce dramatic tongues of flame out the back of the engine, as you can see in this picture.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2006 1:18:58 pm PDT #2829 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, well, it was worth being scared of.
I got laid off.
Let me start by saying that if you hug me, I will kill you. While the mere act of killing may make me happy, consider if you are willing to make that sort of sacrifice for our friendship.
The industry I worked in got pinched really hard recently, and although they've been playing it close to the chest internally even the news-avoidant me saw the doom-auguring articles in the papers. They laid a roomful of folks off at the same time, including one other guy from my department. Some very high-ranking guys have gone too, in the same initiative.
Mostly random they say. Makes sense--less money for projects, need fewer project managers. And my boss says she just found out a few hours before I did.
So...there's that.
I have a few month's worth of money to cushion me.
I just don't want to spend it.
Recruiter was the first call I made--who knows what will happen. Thing look better in IT than they did in the industry in which I was working, if that makes sense. Horizontal vs. vertical.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 09, 2006 1:19:47 pm PDT #2830 of 10001
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
So what are you doing for your birthday this weekend?
It looks like I'll be babysitting my dad, as Mom's church league retreat seems to be continuing its streak of scheduling for the most inconvenient date possible.
amych - Oct 09, 2006 1:20:01 pm PDT #2831 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Holy crap, ita. Best of luck with the search.
Lee - Oct 09, 2006 1:20:04 pm PDT #2832 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
No hugs, but I am sorry to hear that.
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2006 1:20:38 pm PDT #2833 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.
Oh god, that's terrible.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 09, 2006 1:21:12 pm PDT #2834 of 10001
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Yikes! That's a crappy way to start the week out, ita.
erikaj - Oct 09, 2006 1:21:19 pm PDT #2835 of 10001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I'm sorry to hear that, ita. Go forth and beat the shit out of the job market.