In Natter, after Amych's upthread query re: speed of -ma:

Emily:It is of course notoriously difficult to measure the effects or time-to-impact of -ma, since once the need for -ma is observed the observer is immediately involved in the -ma process.

Nilly: Schrodinger's -ma, of course - once you notice it, you change it.

Gus: We posit that "Good" and "Bad" are two states applicable to –ma and karmic fields. The states are mutually repellent (possibly due to anti-charm). Therefore, good-ma propagates less freely in a bad-karma field. As Emily notes, the good/bad state of the observer may also enter into the describing mathematics.

Cathching up in Natter ...

Toddson: LA-istas, any advice for surviving a grocery strike? we're due for one March 30. le sigh ....

Megan E: Anyone else picturing stalks of celery and boxes of crackers walking around with little picket signs?

Food is people too! Down with eating!

Context? Who cares when the xposts synchronize?

JenP: Are there other buffista birthday twins?

Java Cat: Eros & Psyche, Bauchis & Philomon, and I loved Apollo's sun.

Cass: I am going to shower and change out of my cranky pants into something a little friendlier.

NoiseDesign: Leather, and stockings, and...

Oh wait, sorry, the voices in my head won out for a minute.

More of the Cass and NoiseDesign show, in Bitches:

Cass: What is the appropriate sacrifice for a computer? I never can recall.

NoiseDesign: You have to tie it to an inverted cross and then dance around it naked under a full moon.

Cass: No goats? I thought there were goats...

NoiseDesign: Not since we moved to multithreaded operating systems.

Skyzy in Natter:

I hate to admit, but I was Milton from Office Space at my last company. We kept downsizing and each time we would downsize, I would get moved to a farther corner of the office, away from everyone. Each time I would leave on a business trip, I would come back to find my stapler gone.

And, I had been laid off a year prior to me actually leaving the company (when they finally "fixed the glitch"). Even still, after they laid me off officially, the second time, I got a call from the company asking why I hadn't been to work in over a month and why I still hadn't accepted their job offer (which they sent the week after I was laid off to the office where I no longer worked).

Yay! First COMM!

Elena in Movies:

The only thing that will make a Bewitched movie worthwhile for me is if they suddently switch Darrins halfway through the film without any explanation.

Not exactly sure if it is a spoiler, but just to be on the safe side...

ETA: took out the spoiler font

Not a spoiler. Just funny.

BT: Quiet morning. Quick! Someone say something controversial!

Vortex: My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

BT: Mine just brings on debilitating bouts of lactose intolerance.