Jumping in to ask if folks have been following the spelling bee today? Here's the written test: [link] and here's a reporter who's live blogging: [link]
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'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.
Jon B. - May 30, 2007 9:01:43 am PDT #9902 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
brenda m - May 30, 2007 9:02:20 am PDT #9903 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
Ooh! That's one I forgot to change over when my email changed. I've gotten some really good recipes out of that. Plus fun!
Sparky1 - May 30, 2007 9:03:04 am PDT #9904 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Central America
It's very cheap once you get there! The mosquitoes in the Guatemalan jungle, unfortunately, may be my most enduring memory. Fortunately, we kept one of our best travel diaries on that trip, so I can refresh my recollection of some of the better things.
lisah - May 30, 2007 9:04:36 am PDT #9905 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Jumping in to ask if folks have been following the spelling bee today?
There was a super cute story about a boy from Baltimore who is competing there in the Sun today. First representative from a B'more school in 25 years.
sarameg - May 30, 2007 9:08:53 am PDT #9906 of 10001
Hah, I was going to mention that article. I think the last bit was hilarious : [link]
Fellow Friends sixth-grader Spencer Brock cheered his classmate with a sign he drew on cardboard: David Rox!
"It's kind of a joke," he said. "I'm not really that bad of a speller."
Steph L. - May 30, 2007 9:17:57 am PDT #9907 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Dude, I *cannot* stop reading the comments on the LJ news post where people are reacting to the Poorly Planned Paedophilia Purge. It's like a train wreck that ate itself and then burst into flame.
§ ita § - May 30, 2007 9:20:17 am PDT #9908 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm so glad I don't read LJ from work. Or I'd get nothing done but reading that purge stuff. And so soon after fanlib and the MJ statue and the tentacle rape cover!
Dana - May 30, 2007 9:20:28 am PDT #9909 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yeah, I'm on page 14. Of 22.
Jessica - May 30, 2007 9:20:37 am PDT #9910 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Dude, I *cannot* stop reading the comments on the LJ news post where people are reacting to the Poorly Planned Paedophilia Purge. It's like a train wreck that ate itself and then burst into flame.
I gave up after the first few pages - are there comments in there that go beyond the standard "Hi, I've been a paid member since dinosaurs roamed the earth and you suck for deleting my RPG community"?
Dana - May 30, 2007 9:22:42 am PDT #9911 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Er, make that page 23.