Well, lady, I must say-- You're my kinda stupid.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


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.


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.

[link]


Stephanie - Apr 17, 2007 10:06:12 am PDT #3044 of 10001
Trust my rage

Mandalit del Barco, Lakshmi Singh, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, Snigdha Prakash. I love how they say their names, but seeing them written out is weird.

Ditto. Other than the first one, I didn't recognize them until I said them out loud. It's weird how much Bob Edwards' or Michelle (or is it Nichelle?) Norris' voices are burned into my brain.


brenda m - Apr 17, 2007 10:09:59 am PDT #3045 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Plei, Raq, others? Is there a good source for baby accessories in black, instead of cupcakes and rainbows? Coworker keeps getting looked at funny by shop people.

(Today, it was some sort of support thing that goes around your waist to relieve some of the strain of holding the baby? )


tommyrot - Apr 17, 2007 10:21:43 am PDT #3046 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 in the 1900 Ladies Home Journal predicting the way the world might be in the year 2000. Fascinating to see what they got correct, and what they... didn't. What was with the 1900 obsession with pneumatic tubes anyway?


amych - Apr 17, 2007 10:22:59 am PDT #3047 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

What was with the 1900 obsession with pneumatic tubes anyway?

They knew the internet was coming.


tommyrot - Apr 17, 2007 10:25:06 am PDT #3048 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. The article predicted television and "wireless telephones." I think that's the earliest prediction I've seen for either.