Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.

'Conviction (1)'


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.


tommyrot - Oct 12, 2006 4:08:36 pm PDT #3437 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.

I think we should all continue to convince Cindy that she won't like the show. Reverse psychology!

Watchers of BSG do not get lots of free cookies, cake and pie!


§ ita § - Oct 12, 2006 4:09:47 pm PDT #3438 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Watchers of BSG do not get lots of free cookies, cake and pie!

I don't have to give mine back, do I?


sarameg - Oct 12, 2006 4:09:53 pm PDT #3439 of 10001

Nilly! You poor thing! I did a double take seeing your name. Nilly doesn't post during my nights! What's got you up way too..late? early?

If the floor starts moving or you see cats leaping printer to printer (my two primary sleep deprivation hallucinations,) go lie down, sweets.


Jesse - Oct 12, 2006 4:10:53 pm PDT #3440 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Poor all-nighter Nilly!


Liese S. - Oct 12, 2006 4:11:14 pm PDT #3441 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Liese, your best bet is to ask a couple of neighbors.

Oh! I have neighbors! I can ask them things!


Nilly - Oct 12, 2006 4:14:37 pm PDT #3442 of 10001
Swouncing

What's got you up way too..late? early?

Late.

A research grant report which is due on Sunday.

I've asked the information I need in order to write it back during September, but the people involved figured that, hey, October is far enough, so there's no need to answer me then, they'll just wait until the last minute and be the last to have their information integrated into the whole report. The only problem was, other than 2 people, they all apparently went with this way of thought, and now, well, I'll get to see if I can stay awake. I'm counting on sleeping on shabbat. And on whining as much as humanly possible.

Well, part of it is my fault - yesterday I went to listen to a Neil Gaiman Q&A at the Israeli science fiction convention and didn't do any work at all. But I don't think that even that is enough to rob me of my whining privilages.


tommyrot - Oct 12, 2006 4:16:43 pm PDT #3443 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.

I don't have to give mine back, do I?

You have to give yours to Cindy. But only if she doesn't watch BSG.


§ ita § - Oct 12, 2006 4:18:17 pm PDT #3444 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nilly, did you say hi to Neil? I hear he was expecting you.

And lo it is the onset of another migraine. This one I will avert with endorphins. I hope.

You have to give yours to Cindy. But only if she doesn't watch BSG.

Curses!


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 12, 2006 4:21:02 pm PDT #3445 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

On the drive homeI heard an advertisement for Nightshade Manor, Memphis' scariest haunted house. If the address (1 mile south of Union on Bellevue) is where I think it is, the place would merit that based on its location alone without the hosts having to place a single cobweb.

On the plus side, anyone that's done enough crack to want to park their car there will be familiar with the neighborhood.


Nilly - Oct 12, 2006 4:26:07 pm PDT #3446 of 10001
Swouncing

did you say hi to Neil? I hear he was expecting you.

I really wanted to, but it was already 10PM by the time it was finished, and he was rushed out, and for some reason I don't think that saying "he's expecting me to say hello!" would have been believed. Sigh. I really wanted to, or to at least try, you know? Oh, well.

He was so wonderful, I could throw large paragraphs on computer screens, if I didn't have to arrange and sum up papers on "Communication Networks: Topology, Dynamics and Applications".