The official name for calico is tortoiseshell with white.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
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 - Sep 05, 2007 12:06:23 pm PDT #8568 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Sep 05, 2007 12:06:59 pm PDT #8569 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Still in the process of resuming work.
See, it's clear when you put it like that.
Lee - Sep 05, 2007 12:19:51 pm PDT #8570 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
At least Lee seems firm in her opinions.
Pfft. Just see if you get a seat in my fort.
Toddson - Sep 05, 2007 12:20:08 pm PDT #8571 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
huh ... I always used tortoiseshell to mean the ones that are varying shades of brown/tan/gold - tweedy, as Susan put it - and calico to mean lots of white with black and orange patches (they're almost always female).
In completely unrelated news, my office is miserably hot and humid, even with a fan going. bleah.
Zenkitty - Sep 05, 2007 12:20:29 pm PDT #8572 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
x-posted from Technology, because I want as many opinions as possible:
Someone tell me if I'm in danger from my apartment. I turned on a lamp, and the bulb blew out with a bright blue spark (fairly new bulb), at the same time my APC unit beeped, and my computer shut down but didn't turn off. When I tried to shut the computer off, the APC beeped again. I tried to turn on another little lamp, but it won't come on. The red light on the surge protecter it's plugged into is off. I tried pressing the switch to off and then back to reset and nothing happened. I went to turn on a different lamp (it's quite dark in here) and it too blew out with a blue spark. I don't know what that means but it probably isn't good.
I've unplugged everything on that circuit except the surge protecter and the APC, which are plugged in behind the huge metal filing cabinet and I can't easily reach them. The computer only turned off when I unplugged it from the APC.
What do I do? How serious is this?
signed, Frightened by Electricity
SuziQ - Sep 05, 2007 12:30:24 pm PDT #8573 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Don't need a pillow fort. I get to go home. NOW. Wheeeee.
::Poof::
Lee - Sep 05, 2007 12:35:02 pm PDT #8574 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
wench
DavidS - Sep 05, 2007 12:35:08 pm PDT #8575 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Odd request - anybody have any decent pictures of me?
I need something to accompany my Oxford American article, and my photobucket is relatively empty.
Theodosia - Sep 05, 2007 12:35:18 pm PDT #8576 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Zen, sounds like a call to the caretaker/apartment owner is in order! It's probably some sort of crossed wire in the wall -- can you get down to the circuit breakers/fuses?
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2007 12:37:59 pm PDT #8577 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Zen, I'm afraid I have no idea.
Top 10 evillest people. I have no intention about debating who deserves what rank. What I think is the saddest thing about every entry is that they spread their influence beyond the reach of their own hands. So all that evil? There were middlemen. That turns my stomach more than the dreams of despoiling of ten men--the hundreds or thousands that for one reason or another carried the actions out.
In cheerier news, I've only seen one of their ten most controversial movies (#2) and it's one of my favourites of all time. Seen it on the big screen a bunch of times. The list was very informative. I mean, I guess I always figured that Birth of a Nation and Deep Throat had plots--I just hadn't paused to wonder what they were.
God, I love lists. I should back away from that site.