'The Message'
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.
In WTF news, I stopped at Walgreen's on my way and was handed a box of 100 syringes without question, then had to sign for my Claratin D.
Here in Maryland, insulin and needles are non-script. You can stab anything! Most places still ask if you have an insurance card, but most places have stopped asking me that after the third time I told them it was for my cat.
My cats are both trying to convince me to take a nap. They've had outdoors time and have been fed, and now they're stretched out on my bed. It's after 7! If I fall asleep now, I'll never sleep through the night! Evil feline tempty-pants.
more powerful than a dozen vegans!
Hey, digesting all that celery and kale takes a lot of energy!
It would hurt like whoa for a little while (that will seem a lot longer), but it would clean out the cut nicely. And might stop the bleeding, though I hope that's already happened by now.
Awesome! I am applying medicinal whiskey directly to the mouth!
Obama was in my building today! Not that I saw him - see above re meetings - but I did hear the guards talking about it while I was racing from my office to a conference room at the hotel next door.
Shrift! Wanna meet up for a drink after work on Thurs or Friday?
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So that spacecraft that's heading towards Pluto passed Jupiter on Feb 28th. Here is a picture it took: [link]
This dramatic image of Io was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, just about 5 hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. The distance to Io was 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) and the image is centered at 85 degrees west longitude. At this distance, one LORRI pixel subtends 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) on Io.
This processed image provides the best view yet of the enormous 290-kilometer (180-mile) high plume from the volcano Tvashtar, in the 11 o'clock direction near Io's north pole.
Cool - it look like a fountain. A 180 mile high fountain.
eta: Picture of Jupiter's rings, which are rather faint: [link]
I might be going to a play on Friday, but Thursday is good.
I'ma need a drink in the worst way by Thursday, so that works.
Random cool photo - Northern lights seen from an airliner at 30,000 feet: [link]