Oh lovely. Going through my mail I find a letter from a doctor I went to once. Identity theft within the practice. Now, I went to them YEARS ago, but now have to keep an eye on this crap.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
sarameg - Dec 27, 2006 4:37:07 pm PST #8283 of 10007
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 5:11:09 pm PST #8284 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Always keep an eye on that crap!!
Nice that in their 10 minutes on Gerald Ford, the local Fox news managed to reassure us that he really did love New York, even after the famous "Ford to NY: Drop Dead" headline, AND they showed a clip of Chevy Chase. Also, the current President will be going to the funeral, so that's nice.
Edit: In other celebrity death news, you'll all be relieved to learn that BBKing's in Times Square has booked Chaka Khan to take James Brown's place on New Year's Eve. THANK GOODNESS.
This is why I don't watch local news.
esse - Dec 27, 2006 5:31:40 pm PST #8285 of 10007
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Kyrgystan still has nuclear arms capability leftover from its Soviet Days. Azerbajin has some of the most awesome open-air architecture in the world. Armenia has surprisingly palatable food, Kazakstan is essentially a large field, and Latvia and Lithuania still don't know what to do with themselves, though by god they are trying.
(This is what I learned from working with the International Centre students. And The West Wing.)
tommyrot - Dec 27, 2006 5:58:00 pm PST #8286 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.
Kazakstan also has the space industry stuff - or do they just launch the rockets there?
esse - Dec 27, 2006 6:07:44 pm PST #8287 of 10007
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I think it's just a launching area, from it's central Asian location that offers a good direction for orbital contact with the ISS.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 27, 2006 6:32:00 pm PST #8288 of 10007
"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
Jesse, I amwith you on the pigging out. Dinner tonight was 5 stalks of asparagus and a strawberry away from being 100% fat. Though I suppose no one goes to a French restaurant with healthy food in mind.
Kat - Dec 27, 2006 6:32:53 pm PST #8289 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kazakhstan, much like LA, is mostly made of up of a huge basin surrounded by mountains on 3 sides. It has terrible smog and a huge radiation problem that is the result of being an area where they did a lot of nuclear testing.
It also has one of the most beautiful all-wood (seriously, no metal nails or screws used) churches I've ever seen in Almaty.
I liked it there a lot.
Jesse, are you home yet?
tommyrot - Dec 27, 2006 7:34:56 pm PST #8290 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.
Is it morally wrong to participate in a group effort to overload the server of a site that you find reprehensible?
What if you really want to hear a sermon podcast at the site?
A bunch of people at Digg are trying to overload the server for GodHatesFags.com
Digg discussion: Make GodHatesFags pay for their bandwidth
I think it's wrong to try to silence them, but OTOH they are making podcasts, etc. of their message available to everyone on the internets....
Kalshane - Dec 27, 2006 7:49:57 pm PST #8291 of 10007
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
What are people doing for New Year's Eve?
I'm hosting my annual low-key New Year's Party, which came about as a way to not spend my New Year's sitting around at home alone. Most of my friends have other, more exciting parties to go to, but I get a handful of folks every year.
This year, my girlfriend is finding a bunch of recipes for fun non-alchoholic drinks so she and my other pregnant friend will have something other than juice or water to drink. It will be odd not having the aforementioned friend drinking this year. Someone else will have to play drunken photographer with my camera, I suppose.
The only sucky part is that I have to work on New Year's Day, though thankfully my shift doesn't start until 11am. I expect I'm going to be incredibly tired that day.
Vortex - Dec 27, 2006 8:13:06 pm PST #8292 of 10007
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
What are people doing for New Year's Eve?
I have four parties to go to (I'm sooooo popular) One's in butt-ass Virginia and has a "theme" I love these people, but the theme parties have got to stop! OTOH, I will be wearing a tuxedo outfit and it's a James Bond theme, so that will be cool.
Two others are random groups of friends, one's expendable if I get to running behind (not that the friend's expendable, it's just that it will be a mob scene and he'll be drunk, so he might not even notice if I make it or not)
Final party is closest to my house and is with my gay boys. So, will have a boy to kiss at midnight, it just wont' mean anything.