drugstore.com has the blue stuff in the new formulation, but not with pseudoephedrine.
Oh, now that's just mean.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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.
Jessica - Apr 23, 2007 12:40:02 pm PDT #4024 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Apr 23, 2007 12:40:28 pm PDT #4025 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.
This is one of the best SciFi novellas I've ever read (although I haven't read as many as some here have). You can read the whole thing here: Missile Gap by Charles Stross
From Booklist:
“With the dazzling success of his last two novels, including the Hugo-nominated Accelerando (2005), Stross is rapidly establishing himself as one of the preeminent masters of hard sf. Here he takes a breather from weightier fare with a bizarre, nevertheless brilliant alternate-history novella featuring a protracted U.S.-Soviet cold war…Once again, Stross sets the bar high for his colleagues, should they be feeling competitive, in this mind-bending, intriguing yarn.”
Sheryl - Apr 23, 2007 12:45:36 pm PDT #4026 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I'm waiting for the vet to call me back. I switched Boots to the special formula catfood and she has gotten sick 4 times in the last week.(Including at 5:15 am this morning) I don't know what's wrong.
In less scary, but rather annoying news, I picked up the books I requested from ILL only to discover that one of them is due tomorrow. Obviously, it'll be overdue.
Jessica - Apr 23, 2007 12:46:57 pm PDT #4027 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You can read the whole thing here: Missile Gap by Charles Stross
I love that he puts his stuff online for free. (Even if I never got around to finishing the eBook version of Accelerando and wound up buying it in paperback anyway.)
sarameg - Apr 23, 2007 1:04:21 pm PDT #4028 of 10001
It's really annoying that most of my kitchen outlets (and it turns out, half my diningroom ones) are on the same circuit. Fridge+ microwave, or fridge+ toaster oven cycling on close to each other trips the circuits. Happens at least once a day. Running the micro on defrost is almost impossible.
At least the switches are right above the microwave.
sarameg - Apr 23, 2007 1:09:49 pm PDT #4029 of 10001
Oh jeezus. Why do the freight trains suddenly start using their whistle as they pass when I have to have all my windows open (and am about 100 feet away)? They normally never blow it here. Scared the hell out of me plus, deafening.
sumi - Apr 23, 2007 1:56:01 pm PDT #4030 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I just heard on the news that David Halberstam was killed in a car accident.
Jesse - Apr 23, 2007 2:05:26 pm PDT #4031 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Weird -- I just heard a train whistle. The nearest tracks are not that close.
Connie Neil - Apr 23, 2007 2:07:00 pm PDT #4032 of 10001
brillig
The nearest tracks are not that close
Ghost train!
Topic!Cindy - Apr 23, 2007 2:12:39 pm PDT #4033 of 10001
What is even happening?
I just heard on the news that David Halberstam was killed in a car accident.I googled, because I didn't recognize his name. The wikipedia-people are fast:
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 - April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and author. Halberstam graduated from Harvard University with a degree in journalism in 1955 and started his career writing for the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for the Nashville Tennesseean, he covered the beginnings of the American Civil Rights Movement.(and at the end)
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the San Mateo County coroner has confirmed Halberstam's death in a traffic accident approaching the Dumbarton Bridge on April 23, 2007.[1] At the time of his death, Halberstam was working on a book about the Korean War. He lived in New York City.[link]