I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.

Xander ,'Showtime'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


sumi - Jul 30, 2007 5:20:07 pm PDT #1185 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I can see my problem with food. Given the right circumstance I can eat grapefruit, olives, rootbeer and cilantro.

However, I don't believe that the right circumstance would be in some mystery dish that combined all of those as ingredients.

Although, they should totally be in a mystery-box ingredients challenge on Top Chef.


ChiKat - Jul 30, 2007 5:21:57 pm PDT #1186 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Although, they should totally be in a mystery-box ingredients challenge on Top Chef.

I would love to see that.


msbelle - Jul 30, 2007 5:29:23 pm PDT #1187 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

moved from bureaublahblah - BevDog!

I need to go to sleep. I don't really want to, but I need to. maybe I should just shower tonight.


Beverly - Jul 30, 2007 5:37:23 pm PDT #1188 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Backatcha, mizzybelle!

Shower tonight. You'll sleep better. Plus, headstart on morning!


meara - Jul 30, 2007 5:39:07 pm PDT #1189 of 10001

Or, in my case, when I brought meatspace friends into the internet.

Like me! Vortex got me to try TableTalk, way way back in 1999! Thanks, Vortex!!

One of the things that I love about the internet is that no matter where I am, I have a friend in 50 miles. When I first started doing a lot of work travel, I would bring work to do so I wouldn't get bored at night. I quickly stopped doing that because it was useless since I was always meeting/getting reacquainted with people from my threads.

Amen to this also. I've occasionally had bosses/coworkers who were very confused as to why, no matter where we went, I'd be like "Oh, sure, I have friends there!" They always are like "Uh, from school?"

How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.

This is me. I have several feeds on LJ. But every time I do it, i have to figure out/remember how. I've heard of RSS readers but don't know what they are. (I mean, I can figure out what they DO, but I couldn't name one, or work it)


sarameg - Jul 30, 2007 6:18:26 pm PDT #1190 of 10001

It tastes like how I imagine satan's armpit would taste.

Ok, you are crazy! But sane, sleepseeking mom. STILL CRAZY...but I'll never offer you root beer. And not a bad mom. Stop that.

jesseh is a wonderful, cat-seducing (DEVI SLEPT WITH HER OMG), entertaining (and hopefully not lost in the wilds of B'more) houseguest, btw.

paperdol, my so-not-getting-it parents are (now, finally) entertained by your book. They get my life online so much more now(even as I've tried to explain over years and years [apparently, I'm not very articulate], and then as I invite online people to my family home over xmas....they don't quite get it. Love the people entirely, not sure of the connections that they came from.)

From my parents outsider perspective, one of the most powerful to the-do-not-get-its was the Internet Wants Your Daughter.

Though they found something familiar ( I love you, but I'm going to Albertsons ALONE said sara ) in Together, Alone. Which they already knew, but always need reinforcements. Believe me.


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2007 6:37:45 pm PDT #1191 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But rootbeer likes and dislikes are new, msbelle! And I shall not state my preference to keep it fresh for next time.

Your RSS responses sound about where I expected. It's not a commodity, but people who don't understand it are getting value from it. That article struck me as a bit doomsaying. Okay, no, very. My super-scientific poll totally beats it.


msbelle - Jul 30, 2007 6:40:10 pm PDT #1192 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

you, dearheart, are a troublemaker.


tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 6:42:09 pm PDT #1193 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.

plush Anomalocaris [link]

One of my favorite prehistoric... sea creature thingies....


DavidS - Jul 30, 2007 6:59:29 pm PDT #1194 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For the record, Chez Zmayhem not only drinks root beer, but we drink a wide variety of them and rate them and prefer the fancy ones.