Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


amych - Oct 12, 2006 6:14:35 pm PDT #3459 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Live TV is weird. It stops the show right in the middle to show these other little shows that are, like, total non-sequiturs and only about 30 seconds long and really anvilly. And it doesn't let me fast forward past them.


Nilly - Oct 12, 2006 6:37:20 pm PDT #3460 of 10001
Swouncing

The sky is beginning to do a sort of "hmm, maybe black isn't my color after all" sort of thing, an "um, maybe blue is the new black?" accompanied by "this blue?" and "maybe that blue?" and a tiny bit of "oh, other colors!".


tommyrot - Oct 12, 2006 6:43:18 pm PDT #3461 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.

Live TV is weird. It stops the show right in the middle to show these other little shows that are, like, total non-sequiturs and only about 30 seconds long and really anvilly. And it doesn't let me fast forward past them.

Yeah. How did cavepeople actually survive without TiVos for their television?


dcp - Oct 12, 2006 6:46:49 pm PDT #3462 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

"oh, other colors!"

Sometimes, if you're lucky, it does this.


Nilly - Oct 12, 2006 6:55:31 pm PDT #3463 of 10001
Swouncing

Oh, my, dcp, that's gorgeous.

We don't have a single cloud in the sky here (a scorcher, again, they say), so that is especially lovely, since I hadn't seen these kinds of colors for a while up there.

And with that, I'm logging off. I have to go by the apartment, and later will be back here. Wanna place bets on whether I sleep or not? And if I do, for how long? And if I don't, how many minutes before I break anything? Oh, and there should be a bonus question there, too, only I can't think of one right now because if I do, the first thing I'll break will probably be my swindling imagination.

Night, all, I guess, right?


shrift - Oct 12, 2006 7:46:10 pm PDT #3464 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

heading towards O'Hare from downtown Chicago. (eta: Bush was in Chicago today.)

IF ONLY I'D KNOWN, I would have armed every non-Bush-supporter downtown with pie.


DavidS - Oct 12, 2006 8:08:32 pm PDT #3465 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Huh. I didn't realize that Amber Tamblyn was Russ Tamblyn's daughter.

signed,
Still Connecting All The Dots


P.M. Marc - Oct 12, 2006 9:24:57 pm PDT #3466 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Dr. Jacoby!

Signed,
All Dots Lead to Fandom, Eventually, If You're Me.


esse - Oct 13, 2006 12:29:39 am PDT #3467 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Morning! Nilly, I hope your all-nighter went okay.

I am too tired to be at work.

Regarding dishwashers: with four people living in an apartment designed for two people, plus our varying entourages, a dishwasher is a necessity. Now, the trick is getting any of us to actually *run* it, which generally occurs only when we realize that we don't have any clean dishes left.

Regarding BSG: It's entirely the fault of Steph that I started watching in the first place. She had the miniseries and the entire first season and was like, "You want?" I rarely pass up media, much to my woe and lack of time, but I copied it and eventually got around to watching it right before the second season started. It's intense, and probably wouldn't be my first choice of fandomy show, but you can't beat it for a hot-ass cast and interesting themes. Now, I have the premiere eps on my computer but haven't watched them yet. That's on the table for this weekend. Though I need to watch the last two webisodes too. I don't usually watch clip/catch-up episodes. If I need to know what's going on, I go online first to get the general lay of the land and then get the back catalogue of episodes/media. The only shows I've ever went into without seeing the episodes previously were Farscape, and by that point I knew enough about the show from what everyone here was saying that it was pretty easy to get into (though I got the back catalogue at the same time and started watching seasons 1 and 4 simulataneously), and NCIS, which doesn't really require explanation.

Amusingly, I think *Steph* still hasn't watched the BSG episodes she has.


Theodosia - Oct 13, 2006 2:08:47 am PDT #3468 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Timelies!

Once again, Chumley fell for the "pill left amongst the very delicious cat treat crumbs" trick. He's too dumb to even wonder why he's being praised for gobbling down his treats.