Ha ha -- guess what I'm doing right now? If you guessed "rebooting my cable box, like I've had to do every day since I got it last week," you're right! I hate this fucking thing. Tonight's good times is suddenly no channels at all. The next time I'm in town over the weekend, I might just bring it back, because this is BULLSHIT. And it takes like five minutes to reboot.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Jesse - Sep 18, 2007 3:09:48 pm PDT #1479 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2007 3:11:18 pm PDT #1480 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.
If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain....
Online couple cheated with each other
A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the internet are divorcing.
Sana Klaric and husband Adnan, who used the names "Sweetie" and "Prince of Joy" in an online chatroom, spent hours telling each other about their marriage troubles, Metro.co.uk reported.
The truth emerged when the two turned up for a date. Now the pair, from Zenica in central Bosnia, are divorcing after accusing each other of being unfaithful.
"I was suddenly in love. It was amazing. We seemed to be stuck in the same kind of miserable marriage. How right that turned out to be," Sana, 27, said.
Adnan, 32, said: "I still find it hard to believe that Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years".
Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2007 3:11:21 pm PDT #1481 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Now I feel bad for giving bad advice.
megan walker - Sep 18, 2007 3:25:02 pm PDT #1482 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
On the other hand, it's possible the first one is cheap not because they can quick offload into a storage unit, but because some portion is covered.
Is it possible the second figure is higher because it's a) harder to deliver to a residence and b) includes the month rental for the storage unit?
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2007 3:28:35 pm PDT #1483 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.
harder to deliver to a residence
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you pay more just for that.
meara - Sep 18, 2007 3:29:30 pm PDT #1484 of 10001
Is it possible the second figure is higher because it's a) harder to deliver to a residence and b) includes the month rental for the storage unit?
Oh, the month rental is a separate (daily) fee, which I'm fine with (even if it's fairly expensive, as storage spaces go). And my point is, the delivery to residence should be included in the "moving from point A (DC) to point B (seattle)" cost, no? (Granted, the "loading back into a van to deliver it" I would expect to cost additional. But it was noted as being loading AND delivery, so...I suspect they're adding funny)
Jesse - Sep 18, 2007 3:33:55 pm PDT #1485 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
meara, that sounds crazy, and I have no idea. But good luck?
Now I feel bad for giving bad advice.
Who, to me? You never gave bad advice! It's just Time Warner screwing me over. I missed the first ten minutes of Beauty and the Geek before I noticed!
Ailleann - Sep 18, 2007 3:35:55 pm PDT #1486 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Online couple cheated with each other
It's like You've Got Mail, the crappy version...
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2007 3:38:33 pm PDT #1487 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just finished frosting my cake with about-just-the-right-amount-of-frosting. At which point it occurred to me it's a better test if they have a number of different recipes out there, isn't it?
Mine's a bit too sweet for my taste, but so far perfectly edible with tea. I should go make me some.
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2007 3:41:14 pm PDT #1488 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.
Uncanny valley warning!
Remember a year ago or so when ita linked to this unnerving video of a robot "pack mule"?
Now the robot has a sibling - "Little Dog":
eta: The Make blog described it well:
You probably remember Boston Dynamics' BigDog, the four-legged robotic packmule, the video of which went viral last year. Here's the latest BD creation, LittleDog. It's astonishing, when a robot becomes this adept, ambulatory, how organic it seems, life-like. The robot: it plans. And there's something uniquely unsettling about that.