I'm disturbed that each report about the Virginia Tech shootings mentione that the shooter was a legal resident (but not a citizen).
And his permanent residence was the suburb where I live. Ditto at least one of the victims.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.
Fred Pete - Apr 17, 2007 9:24:13 am PDT #3034 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 9:25:50 am PDT #3035 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"
Did we mention here that SF Author Michael Bishop's son Jaime was one of the teachers killed?
megan walker - Apr 17, 2007 9:31:33 am PDT #3036 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Did you know msbelle's brother face-to-face, or online?
Face-to-face. And by face-to-face, I don't mean porn--even though we did live together.
flea - Apr 17, 2007 9:38:29 am PDT #3037 of 10001
information libertarian
Jaime Bishop was at UNC until 2005; the local paper had a big piece on him. Sounds like a wonderful guy.
Ginger - Apr 17, 2007 9:43:51 am PDT #3038 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
We spent a lot of time with the Bishops when he was a kid. Fuck.
amych - Apr 17, 2007 9:44:44 am PDT #3039 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jaime Bishop was at UNC until 2005
Yeah -- I'm kinda fuzzy on who his dad is, but a lot of people I work with knew Jaime well. Dammit.
flea - Apr 17, 2007 9:48:58 am PDT #3040 of 10001
information libertarian
Here's the newspaper article [link] . I wondered if you might know him, amych.
Ginger - Apr 17, 2007 9:49:35 am PDT #3041 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Michael Bishop's novel No Enemy But Time won a Nebula. He lives about 90 miles south of here and came to a lot of Atlanta sf events.
amych - Apr 17, 2007 9:57:08 am PDT #3042 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wondered if you might know him, amych.
I think I might've met him briefly once? But yeah, lots and lots of second-degree connections, between the language people and the technology people.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2007 10:06:03 am PDT #3043 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.
In other sad news not coming out of Virginia or Iraq:
Mayor Itoh of Nagasaki, an outspoken anti-nuclear activist, was shot an hour ago on the street in front of his office. He is in critical condition and he may not survive. The shooter was a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang, which has ties to the extreme right-wing nationalists in Japan.