Well then, I volunteer to be your librarian consultant.
You are a saint. I will insent you later today.
I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Cordelia ,'Showtime'
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Shir - Oct 12, 2010 9:37:49 pm PDT #15210 of 25501
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Una - Oct 13, 2010 8:15:13 am PDT #15211 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
thanks, le nubian! I'll try that.
Polter-Cow - Oct 13, 2010 10:54:22 am PDT #15212 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did some testing, and, yep, Comcast is also delaying any e-mail with a livejournal.com URL in it by five minutes. Not forty-five, unfortunately, so I can't explain the extra forty minutes that started happening a couple weeks ago. When this started happening a year ago, they claimed not to be filtering anything from the lj-notify@livejournal.com address, so I'm not sure.
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2010 11:37:50 am PDT #15213 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A company that sells conversion kits so you can use your old typewriter as a computer keyboard: [link]
Last week I stumbled upon the USB Typewriter etsy shop and my jaw dropped! Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor process that turns any manual typewriter into a keyboard for your computer! He sells ready to purchase typewriters or you can buy a kit and do it yourself! I think these would be awesome for hotel/B&B lobby computers or electronic guestbooks at a shop... something memorable to catch your eye! Or if you're a modern Angela Landsbury, use it for writing a book the semi-old school way!
eta: They also sell completed typewriters. This one is pretty:
Typewriter Computer Keyboard -- Royal Junior -- Works with iPad
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2010 8:25:30 am PDT #15214 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously, Mr Jobs? Are you giving them computers too?
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2010 8:27:07 am PDT #15215 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They'll get computers the next time they're trapped underground for a month....
brenda m - Oct 14, 2010 8:28:05 am PDT #15216 of 25501
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
the next time they're trapped underground for a month....
Which actually won't be any big deal, what with the iPods and all.
SuziQ - Oct 14, 2010 9:00:13 am PDT #15217 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
In defense of the iPod - that was one of the things that was sent down to them along with speakers to provide something to breakup the boredom. They would send it topside when the batteries needed to be recharged.
Spidra Webster - Oct 14, 2010 9:01:28 am PDT #15218 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Really? I read that they'd asked for iPods but that the rescue team had decided not to send them down because they worried that the guys would put their headphones on and kind of isolate from each other.
§ ita § - Oct 14, 2010 9:03:59 am PDT #15219 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The articles I've read are reporting like they haven't gotten them yet.