Well, the pharmacy delay means there's no point going back to work. Which was 50/50, but my boss seems to like a Friday pm sweep. Ah, well. At least he did see me.
Nasal narcotics. Weird.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2007 1:52:27 pm PDT #635 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - Sep 14, 2007 1:54:41 pm PDT #636 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Portland doesn't even rate a mention? I ask you, is that nice?
Do you really want to start a discussion about visiting? I could bring up San Jose.
Allyson - Sep 14, 2007 2:00:15 pm PDT #637 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
Oh dear god I am bored.
I mean, I have a bunch of pain in the ass work I'm procrastinating, but it's REALLY BORING pain in the ass work.
But at least I'm not in the sub sub sub basement with the Morlocks. So that's something.
Jesse - Sep 14, 2007 2:16:11 pm PDT #638 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yo, is there any reason not to leave my leftover dinner in the cast-iron skillet to reheat tomorrow?
shrift - Sep 14, 2007 2:17:59 pm PDT #639 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have been released from the dungeon for the weekend. I'm posting from bed!
megan walker - Sep 14, 2007 2:18:04 pm PDT #640 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yo, is there any reason not to leave my leftover dinner in the cast-iron skillet to reheat tomorrow?
Does it contain tomatoes?
amych - Sep 14, 2007 2:18:54 pm PDT #641 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
If the food is acidic (tomatoes are particularly bad), leaving food in cast iron causes big reactions with the acid in the food -- rust on your dinner and all the seasoning gone from your cast iron!
On the plus side, it's not actually unhealthy.
Burrell - Sep 14, 2007 2:20:13 pm PDT #642 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So when your toddler you thought had stomach flu develops a low grade fever and a rash on his cheeks, he actually has fifth, not the flu, right?
Just checking (doc hasn't called back yet). Thanks.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2007 2:20:40 pm PDT #643 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It'll make your microwave explode?
Okay, that drinkable yoghurt was nasty.
There's a guy here trying to return a filled prescription, and is threatening to never shop at Walgreen's. He's returning it because he didn't mean to fill it. I just know the manager's going to cave.
DavidS - Sep 14, 2007 2:20:54 pm PDT #644 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Key points:
If you gave a neuroscientist from 1950 an education in modern neuroscience I have a feeling they'd be pretty shocked by two big ideas that we all take for granted:
1) The brain is a collection of competing parts.* The mind isn't a rational machine, a disembodied blob of intelligence. Instead, our head holds a messy network of different brain areas, many of which do their processing unconsciously. What Adam Smith said about the pin factory is also true of the mind: "It is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades."
2) We are very emotional creatures. Take away our feelings and we don't turn into Spock. Instead, we become pathologically indecisive and amoral. You can't separate cognition from emotion.