Oh, speaking of paying attention, I did read the link from earlier about the Christian Coalition, and it seems to me like they're permanently marginalized now, which pleases me no end.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.
Jesse - Nov 28, 2006 4:41:44 pm PST #3490 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
SailAweigh - Nov 28, 2006 4:51:20 pm PST #3491 of 10007
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
To those House lovers out there? Wow. This episode is blowing my socks off.
Jesse - Nov 28, 2006 4:59:04 pm PST #3492 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that was rough.
Jessica - Nov 28, 2006 5:17:34 pm PST #3493 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't tell if I like this House arc or not. On the one hand, yay for shaking things up, but on the other hand can't we ever spend sweeps just treating bizarre and improbable illnesses? Does November always have to be Vicodin Month?
Frankenbuddha - Nov 28, 2006 5:20:15 pm PST #3494 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
FYI for Tom Waits fans, he's on THE DAILY SHOW tonight (and tomorrow's repeats, natch).
sumi - Nov 28, 2006 5:21:04 pm PST #3495 of 10007
Art Crawl!!!
I haven't watched FNL yet -- after Nip/Tuck for me.
Jessica - Nov 28, 2006 5:23:04 pm PST #3496 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Speaking of freaky scientific speculation -- if there aren't parallel universes now, maybe we could make some:
One day (far off, no doubt), it may be possible to go into a laboratory on Earth, create a "seed" -- a device that could grow into a universe -- and then there would have to be a way to get that seed, on command, to safely expand into a separate, infinite, unexplorable but very real alternate universe.
The seed, he suggests, could be a black hole. Not the big black holes that sit near the centers of so many galaxies, but what he calls a "mini black hole." Black holes, he says, don't have to be big. They can, in theory, be very small.
Greene also describes a kind of energy, called a "repulsive force," that might be capable of turning that seed into a new universe. The problem is, no one is yet sure how this force works or why. But Eduardo Guendelman, a physicist at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, and Nobuyuki Sakai and his team at Yamagata University in Japan are working on the problem right now.
amych - Nov 28, 2006 5:29:49 pm PST #3497 of 10007
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
if there aren't parallel universes now, maybe we could make some:
Thanks, but I'm already freaked out enough by CLOAKING DEVICE IN THE NEXT BUILDING OVER at work. Because everyone knows that where there are cloaking devices, there are Romulans.
Jessica - Nov 28, 2006 5:34:09 pm PST #3498 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, but anyone cloaked using our primitive Earth cloaking technology wouldn't be able to see out, so they'd be given away by the way they keep bumping into the furniture.
Sean K - Nov 28, 2006 5:35:05 pm PST #3499 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, for the record, I'd be very uncomfortable with the creation of an alternate universe anywhere near this solar system.
I mean, yes it's called an alternate universe for a reason, but it's also called a BIG BANG for a reason, and I'd prefer to not be anywhere near one, even if I'm in the next universe over.