Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

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.


Cybervixen - Apr 02, 2007 7:42:38 am PDT #183 of 10001
Queen of the Drive-By

Man, I want babies. You can't possibly stay depressed for long when there is an ever present adorable chatterbox in your life. Kids always have such interesting ways of seeing things.


sumi - Apr 02, 2007 7:44:21 am PDT #184 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

CV - both of my brothers got married in September and they had really lovely weddings. It's a good month for a wedding.


Cybervixen - Apr 02, 2007 7:53:06 am PDT #185 of 10001
Queen of the Drive-By

My one concern about September is that I already bought my dress, and it is very much a summer dress, not a fall dress. But whatever, I don't know why I care. I'm not following tradition in many other aspects of the wedding, so I don't know why I care about the dress. Like people are going to be whispering, "Sleeveless? In September? What WAS she thinking???"


tommyrot - Apr 02, 2007 7:57:09 am PDT #186 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.

Huh.

Hallelujah! Apple and EMI just announced that they will be selling DRM-free Apple songs through the iTunes Music Store. The songs will cost 130 percent of the price of the existing crippled songs, and you'll get to choose. Weirdly, Apple seems to have sold this move to EMI by saying that the DRM-free version will be a "premium" offering for audiophiles who want higher-quality music.

...

Jobs, who stressed the need for higher-quality music with the rise of high-fidelity home speaker systems, called EMI's move "the next big step forward in the digital-music revolution--the movement to completely interoperable DRM-free music." He added that "Apple will reach out to all the major and independent labels to give them the same opportunity" and suggested that half of iTunes' music tracks will be available in both DRM-loaded and DRM-free form by the end of 2007.

"EMI is pioneering something that I think is going to become very popular," Jobs said when asked if other music labels would likely add DRM-free music to their iTunes catalog.

"What we're adding is a choice--a new choice--and people can choose whichever one they want," Jobs said regarding Apple's decision to make available two levels of sound quality and DRM restriction. Nicoli cited internal EMI tests in which higher-quality, DRM-free songs outsold its lower-quality, copy-protected counterparts 10 to 1.

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For me, paying extra would be worth it just for the better sound quality....

eta:

In iTunes, music will be sold in a 256 kilobit-per-second AAC format.

Awesome!


Liese S. - Apr 02, 2007 8:16:21 am PDT #187 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Why do life-sucking clouds always come from the west?

Err, whoops. Sorry, that was probably me.

Unless you're in California. Or, you know, Vancouver. But for everyone else, it was probably me.


Kat - Apr 02, 2007 8:18:52 am PDT #188 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

That is Liese taking up Nilly's refrain.


shrift - Apr 02, 2007 8:19:12 am PDT #189 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Network outages have hit the midwest, or at least they have if you're me. This means I can't do any work, and instead get to stew in my own emo.


Allyson - Apr 02, 2007 8:22:41 am PDT #190 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Last week here. Butterflies in my stomach. I have so much cleaning up and packing to do.


Ginger - Apr 02, 2007 8:24:05 am PDT #191 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Like people are going to be whispering, "Sleeveless? In September? What WAS she thinking???"

There's a rule about sleeveless?


Kathy A - Apr 02, 2007 8:29:32 am PDT #192 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

CV!! Hi!! My sister is getting married a week after you, but since she's in Vegas and not Maine, her sleeveless dress won't raise any eyebrows.

I'm waiting for the cross-stitch supplies I ordered to be delivered, so I can get started on her wedding present (one of those "United in Marriage [Man] and [Woman] on [Date]" things).