I'm not getting any notifications from LJ. Again.
And I had all this righteous indignation about that Dennis McGrath post about fan campaigns.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
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.
Allyson - Jul 18, 2007 11:22:32 am PDT #8659 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2007 11:23:27 am PDT #8660 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I really don't need more cake.
Unless it's actual cake, maybe.
So much to do, so little time!
Okay, off to meeting. I'm giving myself more than 30 mins travel time, just in case. Combo of being a pedestrian and being a n00b. Wish me a good sense of direction, and think warmly of me if I never return here.
shrift - Jul 18, 2007 11:25:12 am PDT #8661 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Mine & shrift's beautiful cake, you betcha. Not that we can get at it right now.
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!1! t makes grabby hands
Zenkitty - Jul 18, 2007 11:25:28 am PDT #8662 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
LOLFutures - brilliant!
House spoilers, ho! covers eyes I want to go into this season knowing NOTHING.
The rugby player with the tooth buried in his skull? Now THAT'S the way to play the game!
They are exceptionally sunny and cheerful and loving, but their families and caretakers have to be super-vigilant because they've got no instinct for doubt, skepticism, self-preservation, and they make great targets for everything from bullies to sexual abusers because they're so thoroughly guileless and trusting. They haven't got a mean, conniving, un-sweet bone in their bodies, and they're completely, physiologically incapable of imagining that any human being could ever wish harm on them or anyone else.
Is that how we'll be in the perfect world/heaven? If everyone were like that, would it be a bad thing? (I'm going for yes, but I was born cynical.) The brain fascinates me. I love reading Oliver Sacks and suchlike.
I saw a medical program featuring one such girl and was absolutely amazed that despite the removal of half her brain there seemed to be no discontinuity of her identity or personality. I gather there were symptoms and reduced function issues during the adjustment period, but she was notably still the same person.I believe I saw the same program. I think it only worked so well because she was so young. But still, if the "person" isn't in the whole brain, where is it? How come damage to a tiny part of the brain can change everything about a person, but removal of an entire half can just leave one with a few motor issues.
Then there's the weird cases where the two hemispheres are separated (usually to fight epileptic seizures). It's amazing how little side effects are experienced. And then there's all the interesting research on weird effects of this surgery....Where the left hand literally doesn't know what the right hand is doing? Weird. It's like there's two people in there now, but only one can speak.
I love The Angry Toxicologist!
ita? You're taking pole dancing lessons? boggle swoon
Toddson - Jul 18, 2007 11:27:48 am PDT #8663 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Is pole dancing now a new martial art form? you kill people with teh hot?
Emily - Jul 18, 2007 11:28:52 am PDT #8664 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
My first fic read and it was HORRID.
Oh, Aimee. Don't you know to come to us for the good crack? You can't just take anything you get on the streets.
P.M. Marc - Jul 18, 2007 11:29:18 am PDT #8665 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My first fic read and it was HORRID.
Dude. Don't venture into the wilds without recs.
Especially not THOSE wilds.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 18, 2007 11:29:33 am PDT #8666 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm now envisioning Frank Miller as the mind behind a new martial art: Strip Fu.
Aims - Jul 18, 2007 11:30:28 am PDT #8667 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have learned my lesson re: non-rec'd fic.
Emily - Jul 18, 2007 11:31:51 am PDT #8668 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Man. Livejournal is, like, taunting me.