Am tempted to ask atheist-but-culturally-Jewish roommate to buy me an atheist shibboleth for Christmas.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
shrift - Oct 26, 2007 11:06:09 am PDT #8802 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2007 11:13:15 am PDT #8803 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I have a cassette interview of my grandmother (who died in 2004) and her two living sisters where they talk about their childhood and sing together that I really need to get digitalized. I haven't been able to listen to it since she died (not because I don't have a tape player just it would be too sad for me).
At my Sister's wedding last year, one of my Uncles surprised the family with a forty year old recording of my Grandfather singing Sunrise Sunset that had been found in a box at the church they'd attended as children.
Since none of us had heard his voice in a decade... well, you can imagine the reaction.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2007 11:32:19 am PDT #8804 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am so cranky. I just spent way too long dealing with an annoying person who doesn't seem to know anything and wants me to do her job for her, I hate the new Yahoo mail thingie, I don't know what else, but I'm CRANKY!
Maybe I'll cut out early.
tommyrot - Oct 26, 2007 11:35:13 am PDT #8805 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.
Last week, we had the distinct pleasure of a visit by rock legend Neil Young. Neil is touring the country in a soon-to-be converted 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV named Linc-Volt, spreading the word about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and vehicle-to-grid technology. As part of the trip, Neil and his crew are filming a documentary of their travels and the folks they meet along the way.
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Regarding his vision for the Linc-Volt and its unique potential to draw attention to sustainable transportation solutions to combat climate change, Neil summed it up this way: "Classic Americana from then meeting the Americana of now."
From Mountain View, the journey continues to Wichita, Kansas, where the Mark IV will be converted from a carbureted gas guzzler to a bio-diesel series PHEV. After Neil's fall tour and annual Bridge School Benefit Concert, the Linc-Volt will undergo interior restoration. Then the bio-diesel-electro-cruiser will power on to Detroit; back to its factory in Wixom, Michigan; and then to the east coast.
Huh. No photos of Neil's '59 Lincoln, so you have to google image search to see photos: [link]
Like Neil Young, I have a '59 Lincoln Continental Mark IV, except mine's a black convertible....
sarameg - Oct 26, 2007 11:44:39 am PDT #8806 of 10001
Today has been nuts. Crazy busy broken.
However, I was not the one who accidentally deleted half the contents of /user/local/bin so I think I'm going to call myself lucky.
And Devi's thyroid levels came back within a normal range. Mystery illness, volume II? Sigh.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 11:46:39 am PDT #8807 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm having a really hard time not buying this for a friend. I only promised to not buy me clothes for the next little while...and he does need new T-shirts.
No. Not my job.
tommyrot - Oct 26, 2007 11:48:34 am PDT #8808 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.
Great girl geek T-shirt.
From the link:
Whether this is referring to a server, an Xbox, or, err...a man's package, I'm not quite sure, but surely it should be 'pwnd your box'?!
'Box' can refer to male genitalia?
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 11:50:28 am PDT #8809 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
'Box' can refer to male genitalia?
Well, in England they call cricket groin protection a box, but that's as close as I can get it.
aurelia - Oct 26, 2007 11:51:10 am PDT #8810 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
This bit from 30 Rock last night was the funniest thing that has aired this season: [link]
OMG. If Alec Baldwin always did Tracy Morgan's part I'd have to start watching that show regularly.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2007 12:00:51 pm PDT #8811 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
'Box' can refer to male genitalia?
In my world, it refers to female genitalia.