Here's the newspaper article [link] . I wondered if you might know him, amych.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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.
flea - Apr 17, 2007 9:48:58 am PDT #3040 of 10001
information libertarian
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.
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.
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 10:27:00 am PDT #3049 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"
Seriously, it was the Internet of its age. There were pneumatic tube delivery systems in many major businesses. Up until a few years ago, Shreve Crump & Lowe's Boston store still had tubes from the registers to the stockroom, and when you ordered something, the saleswoman would fill out a slip and send it off.
Think Brazil with all the tubes over the place....