Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

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.


Jessica - Nov 14, 2006 12:05:54 pm PST #234 of 10007
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Nora, from way back:

OMFG!

(totally work safe)

Bwah! Misused acronyms are the best.

(I somehow mentally added a "not" to your "totally work safe" disclaimer, and neglected to click until I was catching up on my blogs just now, and realized that the OMFG link I was about to post was very probably the same one you'd already posted...)


Ailleann - Nov 14, 2006 12:13:07 pm PST #235 of 10007
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

it's a Yamaha (which is a good name, they even make grand pianos), and that it has 88 keys.

This sounds more to me like what they call an "electric piano," which are quite nice and would definitely be fine for new students. You won't get quite the feel as a "live" piano, but it's got its benefits.

Though I'm surprised at the "reconditioned, but at KMart" part.


Hayden - Nov 14, 2006 12:14:04 pm PST #236 of 10007
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Would the sound still be infinitely richer with a spinet piano, Corwood?

I think so. I use a decent synthetic piano sound for recording, but it still sounds boxed on a good pair of headphones. And the naked ear is more sensitive in an acoustic setting.


Kathy A - Nov 14, 2006 12:20:06 pm PST #237 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My brother and SIL had a Yamaha electronic piano setup in the basement for the kids when they started music lessons, and when my niece showed real talent and enthusiasm for the instrument, they ended up getting a spinet piano for the living room and selling the Yamaha. She's still playing it five years later, as well as her cello and voice lessons, so it was a good investment.


JohnSweden - Nov 14, 2006 12:56:46 pm PST #238 of 10007
I can't even.

I think I'm a post-adult. I felt kinda adult when I had a wife, a 3 bedroom house in the burbs, a 3 hour commute, my career was going somewhere and we had Sunday dinner with my parents. Now I live alone, have a condo up the street from my office, a job that pays the bills and my parents live two thousands miles away. I go to live music, thai food, drinking sessions or movies on five minutes notice and I don't even have house plants. It's like being in college without the learning anything interesting part.


Ginger - Nov 14, 2006 1:09:27 pm PST #239 of 10007
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I guess I was acting more like my notion of adult when I was married and working for a big company, but I always felt like an imposter adult. Even owning a house that young was kind of a lark, in that the downpayment on our first house was a second mortgage secured by our cars. Now I live alone and stay out late drinking and listening to live music, something I never did when I was younger.


Allyson - Nov 14, 2006 1:11:48 pm PST #240 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Heh.

I found myself infuriated by this. And then laughed.


brenda m - Nov 14, 2006 1:14:34 pm PST #241 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I guess she took that picture back in 1994 as well. Also, the fact that you can get her program as a podcast makes me laugh and laugh.


tommyrot - Nov 14, 2006 1:15:22 pm PST #242 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

In 1994, I began to study Internet addiction and over the years realized the growing impact of cyberspace on children and families.

In 1994? She was ahead of her time....

I don't have time to look through the site - is it a Christian thing?


brenda m - Nov 14, 2006 1:21:26 pm PST #243 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Nah, doesn't look like. Seems bordering on sane, actually. Though I did find this gem in the "addictivity quiz":

10. How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of the Internet?

Sooothing thoughts of the internet. I'ma have to keep that one, for sure.