Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


Burrell - Jan 04, 2007 7:33:40 pm PST #180 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

College! The DH's current plan is, if I'm still teaching college, the kids go where I'm teaching so we get a break on tuition.

Maybe it should be a sponsor my child's day care drive instead. Because the day care I like is over $1200 per kid per month.

Daycare kills the paycheck, doesn't it?


Kat - Jan 04, 2007 7:38:00 pm PST #181 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

You'll end up with kids named Cingular Wireless and Ford F-150.

Well Cingular Wireless's nickname could be Cin (if girl) or Ira.

Ford is a perfectly acceptable boys name.

I'd worry more about 3Com or Qualcomm.


aurelia - Jan 04, 2007 7:46:19 pm PST #182 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

ita, Happy Birthday!

I'd worry more about 3Com or Qualcomm.

Q could work. I got nothing for 3Com though.


Burrell - Jan 04, 2007 7:55:05 pm PST #183 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Kat, you cracking me up.


Liese S. - Jan 04, 2007 8:01:09 pm PST #184 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

It'd be okay. The problem would come when you had to keep changing the kid's name every other month when a new version of the product came out.


Scrappy - Jan 04, 2007 8:11:25 pm PST #185 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

So, back from my Most Excellent Evening. Guess what I was doing--skating with a Buffista. Wiach Buffista, you may ask? I won't tell her name, but she defines AWESOME.

Let the jealousy begin.


Maria - Jan 04, 2007 8:12:31 pm PST #186 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I'm sufficiently jealous. Are we allowed to guess?


Lee - Jan 04, 2007 8:25:40 pm PST #187 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Could it be someone with a birthday today?


§ ita § - Jan 04, 2007 8:28:18 pm PST #188 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

A co-worker had a relative who lived alone and died by slipping in the tub and cracking their skull. It took several days for someone to realize she was missing/dead and find her body.

This would be me, except when I missed a day of krav they'd send the cavalry over.

Kat, your kids will be teased mercilessly anyway, or be the teasers. The names will have little to do with which side they fall on.

There was cake. Also a little singing. Nice cake, though. Chocolate. And a candle. I haven't blown out a candle on my birthday in a gazillion years.


Maria - Jan 04, 2007 8:32:03 pm PST #189 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Hooray for cake! I had a two-bite carrot cake this evening in your honor, and because I wanted it. It sounds like your birthday was perfectly pleasant.