Grand Prairie and Mesquite are the land of the Calvins in my area (pissing and praying). Here in the city, it's mostly political affiliated. In my neighborhood there's some older hippy stuff, maybe some Kinky for Governor closer to SMU. Plano, Frisco and much of the northern metro area- wouldn't be caught dead with bumper stickers, unless they're of the "my kid is smarter/better/goes to a snootier private school than yours" variety.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
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.
Daisy Jane - Jan 30, 2007 9:30:55 am PST #6923 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Steph L. - Jan 30, 2007 9:31:51 am PST #6924 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ZEUS IS GOD
READ THE ILIAD
Ahahahaha! I would SO put that on my car!
Gudanov - Jan 30, 2007 9:32:52 am PST #6925 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
ZEUS IS GOD
READ THE ILIAD
Well, Troy did turn out to be a real place.
Cashmere - Jan 30, 2007 9:34:30 am PST #6926 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
juliana - Jan 30, 2007 9:35:30 am PST #6927 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
ZEUS IS GOD
READ THE ILIAD
LOVE.
Daisy Jane - Jan 30, 2007 9:36:58 am PST #6928 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Daisy I think the idea was more -- it's the law that Bundy be killed but he wasn't (Bundy stayed on death row for about a decade if I remember right)
Well, he exhausted his appeals and was hoping to manipulate the government into giving him a stay of execution for details of his crimes, but he was executed on schedule.
Atropa - Jan 30, 2007 9:51:26 am PST #6929 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Pete refuses to put bumper stickers on the car. Not even a Gothic Charm School Alumni Association one, drat him.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 30, 2007 10:18:15 am PST #6930 of 10001
"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
There are several variations on the vegetarian side which tend to imply you're half a notch from cannibalism if you eat meat.
If self-righteous in-your face vegans tasted as good as sirloin, I'd be willing to remove the half notch.
tommyrot - Jan 30, 2007 10:21:19 am PST #6931 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An article on that guy who memorized pi to 22,514 digits: [link]
It may seem to defy logic, but Ramachandran believes that a savant’s genius could actually result from brain injury. "One possibility is that many other parts of the brain are functioning abnormally or sub-normally. And this allows the patient to allocate all his attentional resources to the one remaining part," he explains. "And there's a lot of clinical evidence for this. Some patients have a stroke and suddenly, their artistic skills improve."
That theory fits well with Daniel. At the age of four, he suffered a massive epileptic seizure. He believes that seizure contributed to his condition. Numbers were no longer simply numbers and he had developed a rare crossing of the senses known as synesthesia.
"I see numbers in my head as colors and shapes and textures. So when I see a long sequence, the sequence forms landscapes in my mind," Tammet explains. "Every number up to 10,000, I can visualize in this way, has it's own color, has it's own shape, has it's own texture."
For example, when Daniel says he sees Pi, he does those instant computations, he is not calculating, but says the answer simply appears to him as a landscape of colorful shapes.
"The shapes aren't static. They're full of color. They're full of texture. In a sense, they're full of life," he says.
Asked if they’re beautiful, Tammet says, "Not all of them. Some of them are ugly. 289 is an ugly number. I don't like it very much. Whereas 333, for example, is beautiful to me. It's round. It's…."
"Chubby," Safer remarks.
'It's—yes. It's chubby,' Tammet agrees.
Theodosia - Jan 30, 2007 10:21:51 am PST #6932 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I have an OSV oval sticker -- if Old Sturbridge Village had an airport, it would definitely be official -- and a small sticker for my yoga studio. On my old car, I had a Darwin fish.
I forget what NPR commentator remarked that her rear bumper "looked like a graveyard of lost causes."