YAY! cover!
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 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
msbelle - May 30, 2007 4:38:18 pm PDT #16 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Anne W. - May 30, 2007 4:38:45 pm PDT #17 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Hooray for cover!
Amy - May 30, 2007 4:39:16 pm PDT #18 of 10001
Because books.
Wow! That's a great cover -- I like it even more than the one I saw a while back. Yay Allyson!
JZ - May 30, 2007 4:39:59 pm PDT #19 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
New thread! good name?
Most excellent!
ION, Matilda: still cute. Also, very intently working on her wry and quizzical faces. Which just makes the cute more unbearable.
eta: Rocking cover, and such tasty blurbs!
billytea - May 30, 2007 4:40:32 pm PDT #20 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
If you could be any species of penguin, which would you be? Besides Emperor.
Biyi already calls me an emperor penguin (dìwáng qĭ’é, or 'supreme ruler of geese standing on tiptoe, if anyone's interested), so I repudiate your restriction. But who'd want to be one anyway? Is winter in Antarctica that attractive? King penguins get most of the glory and better living conditions. Of course, I'd probably go with Adelie, who also do the Antarctica thing, but they're awfully cute.
Or else those penguins with the weird colored feathers sticking out of their heads.
Rockhopper, macaroni, royal, snares, erect-crested. I think fjordland too.
Fairy penguin? That's a kind right?
Yup, and can be seen on Phillip Island a couple of hours' drive south of Melbourne. Now strictly called the little penguin, or blue penguin in New Zealand.
Full list: emperor, king, gentoo, adelie, little/fairy/blue, chinstrap, jackass/African/black-footed, Magellanic, Humboldt's, Galapagos, rockhopper, macaroni, royal, snares, erect-crested, fjordland, yellow-eyed.
Fred Pete - May 30, 2007 4:41:02 pm PDT #21 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Great cover, Allyson!
And (ETAdd: just outside the) top 20, which is (ETAdd: still)the best I've done in forever.
Cashmere - May 30, 2007 4:41:44 pm PDT #22 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
billytea, what are the really stupid ones we saw in Cinci?
Fred Pete - May 30, 2007 4:42:27 pm PDT #23 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Oh, and latest on Teddy -- took more blood tonight. He wasn't happy, but he didn't seriously try to bite or claw anyone, even when the vet had to poke a second leg to get a proper vein.
9.5 pounds, which means he's stable even if underweight (last June, he was around 11.75). His red blood cells are up, but he's still anemic. His prednisone dosage has been cut in half. The rest of the details should be available tomorrow.
beth b - May 30, 2007 4:43:29 pm PDT #24 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Cover! what a great new thread present!
tommyrot - May 30, 2007 4:45:35 pm PDT #25 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.
TOKYO - A glittering bathtub made of gold worth nearly $1 million has been stolen from a resort hotel, an official said Wednesday.
A worker at Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, south of Tokyo, notified police that the fancy tub was missing from the hotel’s guest bathroom on the 10th floor, according to a local police official who only gave his surname, Ogawa.
The round tub, worth $987,000, is made of 18-karat gold and weighs 176 pounds.
The tub, flanked by two crane statues, has been a main feature of the hotel’s shared bathroom. Visitors can take a dip in the tub, but it is only available a few hours a day “for security reasons,” the hotel’s Web site said.
Someone apparently cut the chain attached to the door of a small section of the bathroom where the bathtub was placed, but not riveted, and made off with the tub, Ogawa said.