This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


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.


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!


Cass - Oct 23, 2006 2:29:20 am PDT #4863 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I love my stuffed bear. Though I generally make the guest bed up with him when people are staying over. It's seems welcoming. Or strange. But I am okay with both of those judgements.

Woke up way too early. Wants to go back to sleep. My hip is thwarting me though. As is realizing I have to take Kittenish to the vet (much later) in the morning.


sj - Oct 23, 2006 2:34:45 am PDT #4864 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

If I go back to sleep after TCG leaves for work, I grab my teddy bear to sleep with.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2006 2:57:39 am PDT #4865 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

Some sad news: Jane Wyatt has passed away.


megan walker - Oct 23, 2006 3:13:22 am PDT #4866 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

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.

There were a lot of things I liked about it, but I realized after a couple of episodes I was never going to get over my dislike of Calista Flockhart. And with The Nine, Ugly Betty, Friday Night Lights, and Studio 60 all still in play, something had to go.


Jesse - Oct 23, 2006 3:28:16 am PDT #4867 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Which CI is this? I forget.

The one where the killer rigs the subway non-turnstile entrance thing (what's that called?) so the guy gets stuck in it, and then stuck in the neck!


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 3:45:51 am PDT #4868 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.

The return of grammar: [link]


Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2006 4:02:28 am PDT #4869 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Well, it's about time.

I did not know there were English teachers who couldn't diagram a sentence.

Can someone explain how the new SAT scores work? I'm irritated that mine are now meaningless. I need those numbers, people.


Sue - Oct 23, 2006 4:04:29 am PDT #4870 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I have an English Degree and I have never diagrammed a sentence. I don't even know what diagramming a sentence means.

Signed, A Victim of a Liberal Late 20th Century Education.


Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2006 4:06:38 am PDT #4871 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

My First Day in Hell

by Jack Handey