I had a whole section about civic pride.

Mayor ,'Chosen'


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.


billytea - Oct 22, 2006 7:45:49 pm PDT #4853 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BF or not, I sleep with two stuffed animals. They just happen to be alive.

So Drew's one of them, which cat are you counting?


aurelia - Oct 22, 2006 7:53:08 pm PDT #4854 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

That is bizarre. The folate in Vegemite is naturally occuring in the yeast, isn't it? Our lawmakers need to read up on nih factsheets instead of listening to lobbyists.

. There is no health risk, and no UL, for natural sources of folate found in food. >[link]

Only pets get the open door treatment during bathroom activities.

Is anyone else watching Brothers and Sisters? So far it's my fave of the new shows. It's like a mix of Six Feet Under (minus the bodies and f-bombs) and Thirtysomething with a really great exploration of a complicated family dynamic.


Lee - Oct 22, 2006 7:55:27 pm PDT #4855 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm home. YAY.

My vacation is over. BOO.


aurelia - Oct 22, 2006 7:56:40 pm PDT #4856 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

You may find something fun at work tomorrow, Lee.


Lee - Oct 22, 2006 8:11:52 pm PDT #4857 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

YAY FUN


bon bon - Oct 22, 2006 8:18:34 pm PDT #4858 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Damn, and now this L&O:CI I taped earlier started with a New Yorker's nightmare! Yikes.

Which CI is this? I forget.


Hil R. - Oct 22, 2006 8:22:59 pm PDT #4859 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Is anyone else watching Brothers and Sisters?

I am. I'm really liking it. Though they seriously need to cast some blond guys, or guys who don't all look generically good-looking -- they've got like five characters where I have to squint at the screen to tell which is which. Though that could just be me.


Atropa - Oct 22, 2006 8:30:56 pm PDT #4860 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Glad I'm not the only very-single one here who sleeps with a plush animal.

Er, not single, but If I don't have at least Clovis and Prudence in the bed, I don't sleep. In fact, lately it's been Clovis (who sits on the pillow above my head), Prudence, and Prudence's new sister, Constance. Pete does not mind the bunnies, thank goodness. But then again, if he did mind them, I probably wouldn't have married him.


aurelia - Oct 22, 2006 8:37:54 pm PDT #4861 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

they've got like five characters where I have to squint at the screen to tell which is which.

Most of them are actors I'm already familiar with, so I'm not having any trouble with that.


Emily - Oct 22, 2006 10:16:25 pm PDT #4862 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

It'd be something I'd have to think about doing

Which is, I think, what one might (or at least I might) do if someone said, let's do an experiment in which you walk along and throw the ball "straight up in the air." It's not that I'm overthinking it, exactly (or at least not for fun), as that this is an experiment that the textbook expected me to do with students. Only whether the students throw the ball up normally or try to do something, as you say, forced and ill-calculated, is pretty much going to be influenced by what they expect to get out of it. Add to that that the science teachers were in disagreement over what was supposed to happen, and I'm just as glad we scrapped it. But I wanted to check with y'all anyway, and I was right. Shhh.

Now back to the eternal mystery of subtracting negatives. No, wait! To bed!